A model displays a Spring/Summer design by Amaya Arzuaga during the Madrid’s Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, in Madrid, Spain. (AP)

First graders take part in a ceremony marking the start of classes at School No. 507 as part of the traditional opening of the school year known as ‘Day of Knowledge’, in Moscow, Russia. (AP)

Southern Sudanese people arrive in a barge at the port in Juba, August 31, 2012. According to the International Organization for Migration, approximately 895 people arrived in the latest batch of people to return to the South, following the secession in July 2011 when the South Sudan became an independent state. (Reuters)

Customers browse dates laid out for sale on vehicles during the Festival of Dates at Buraidah, north of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Reuters)

Supporters of former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed clash with soldiers during a protest in Male, Maldives. (Reuters)

Residents head back home on a boat after a tsunami alert was lifted following a 7.6 magnitude undersea quake in Guiuan, on Samar island in central Philippines. (Reuters)

Assunta Legnante of Italy wears an eye mask during the Women’s Discus F11/12 classification final at the Olympic Stadium during the London 2012 Paralympic Games. In the F11 category the competitors are completely blind and have a guide when competing. (Reuters)

A Syrian Air Force fighter jet launches missiles at El Edaa district in country’s northwestern city of Aleppo. (Reuters)

A Thai Muslim villager looks at birds in cages taking part in an international bird-singing contest in the southern Yala province, Thailand. (Reuters)

A boom surrounds flooded railcars ts a chemical plant in Braithwaite, Louisiana, USA, in the aftermath of Isaac, August 31, 2012. Isaac is now a tropical depression, with the center on track to cross Arkansas and southern Missouri, spreading rain through the regions. (AP)

A full moon is seen behind tree branches in Skopje, Macedonia. (AFP)