Malaysian students wave their national flags during rehearsal for Malaysia Day celebrations at Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia will celebrate its 55th National Day on August 31. (AP)

Homes are flooded as Hurricane Isaac hits in Braithwaite, Louisiana. (AP)

A soldier looks on as supporters of the ruling MPLA party attend its last rally for the parliamentary elections in Camama, outside the capital Luanda. Angolans will go to the polls on Friday to elect lawmakers and their president. (Reuters)

Racing pigeons are being released from their racing boxes as they start their flight from Alnwick to their home lofts across Yorkshire and Humberside in northern England. (Reuters)

Revelers play with tomato pulp during the annual ‘tomatina’ tomato fight fiesta in the village of Bunol, near Valencia, Spain. (AP)

Palestinians put a huge key on a truck, know as ‘the key of return,’ which was exhibited at the seventh Berlin Biennale, in the West Bank refugee camp of Aida near Bethlehem. The key symbolizes what the Palestinians call their ‘right of return’ to properties lost during the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation. (AP)

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is carried in a ‘pa’ata’ by students from St. Joseph’s Primary School during the opening ceremony of the Pacific Islands Forum in Avarua on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. (AFP)

A fireman looks at his colleagues as the finish to extinguish a fire which destroyed 10.000 square meters of a building at the slaughterhouse in Corbas, near Lyon, France. (AFP)

Kyrgyz riders play the traditional Central Asian sport Buzkashi also known as Kok-boru or Oglak Tartis (‘goat grabbing’) in Bishkek. Mounted players compete for points by throwing a stuffed sheepskin into a well. (AFP)

A convict consoles his son while being taken to prison after a court verdict in a 2002 religious violence case, in Ahmadabad, India. The court in western India found 32 people guilty of charges ranging from murder to rioting for their part in the deadly religious violence. (AP)

A dancer is suspended mid-air by a crane during her performance of ‘La Argentina’ in Singapore which is hosting international acts during it’s Night Festival. ‘La Argentina’ is a performance which aims to bring viewers back to Buenos Aires in 2010 during the celebration of the Bicentenary of Argentinean Independence.(AP)