World in focus - best photos for August 30, 2015

A photo taken during the night of August 30 in Boeschepe, northern France, shows lightning through a stormy sky. Philippe Huguen / AFP

Mayada Al-Sayed of the Palestinian Territories receives medical assistance after finishing the women’s marathon at the 15th IAAF Championships in Beijing. Dylan Martinez / Reuters

Athletes run past a portrait of Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square as they compete in the final of the women’s marathon athletics event at the 2015 IAAF World Championships at the “Bird’s Nest” National Stadium in Beijing. Fred Dufour / AFP

A Lebanese anti-government protester plants a national flag into the barbed wire barrier that blocks the road to a government building during a demonstration in Beirut. Thousands of people staged the largest of the demonstrations that began last week over rubbish piling up in the streets. Hassan Ammar / AP

A Syrian family arrive in an inflatable dinghy at Kos ferry port after crossing from Turkey on Sunday in Kos, Greece. Migrants from many parts of the Middle East and African nations continue to flood into Europe before heading from Athens north to the Macedonian border. Dan Kitwood / Getty

A boy walks past houses destroyed by a mudslide caused by the rains from Tropical Storm Erika in Montrouis, Haiti. Erika left at least 20 people dead when it swept over the tiny island nation of Dominica, officials reported, as the system barreled through the Caribbean. Hector Retamal / AFP

A protestor offers prayers on the second day of a demonstration demanding Prime Minister Najib Razak’s resignation and electoral reforms in Kuala Lumpur. Tens of thousands of Malaysians swarmed central Kuala Lumpur on Saturday to call for the prime minister’s ouster over corruption allegations and demand broader reforms, defying warnings by police who had declared the rally illegal. Mohd Rasfan / AFP

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev raise their cups for a toast during a breakfast at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi on Sunday. Ria Novosti / Yekaterina Shtukina / AFP

Israeli border policemen detain a Palestinian during a protest against what organisers say is land confiscation by Israel to make way for the controversial barrier in the West Bank city of Beit Jala, near Bethlehem on Sunday. Mussa Qawasma / Reuters

At sunrise, illegal migrants cross the railway tracks linking Serbia and Hungary, near Roszke, 180 kilometres southeast of Budapest. Zoltan Mathe / EPA

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