Returnees travel home in mini-vans after former members of the al-Qaida-linked insurgents al-Shabaab vacated the area in the Bakara neighborhood of Somalia's capital Mogadishu. (Reuters)
People take cover as police clash with dozens of stone-throwing Kurdish protesters during a rally in Istanbul, Turkey. (AP)
Russian children look at balloons rising into the sky, as they wait for the start of the first school lesson on the Day of Knowledge in Moscow. (AP)
Workers stand on a cherry picker in front of a banner with a large mobile phone as preparations for IFA, the world's largest trade fair for consumer electronics and electrical home appliances, continue in Berlin, Germany. (AP)
Slovakia's Dana Veldakova makes an attempt in the final of the Women's Triple Jump at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea. (AP)
A Bichon Frise dog, dressed in Ukraine's top division soccer club's Shakhtar Donetsk t-shirt, sits in a fan shop on their home ground, Donbass Arena, in Donetsk. (Reuters)
