Best Photos of the Day

This file photo taken on July 26, 2016 shows the "Pokemon Go" app on the screen of a mobile phone, next to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The global Pokemon Go craze has prompted a slew of complaints, from memorial sites arguing it's disrespectful to play there to whole countries imposing a ban on the smartphone game. But is it really possible to declare a place a no-go zone for people hunting the cartoon monsters?. Thomas SAMSON / AFP

An artist paints the scene during the men's beach volleyball qualifying match between Latvia and Cuba at the Beach Volley Arena in Rio de Janeiro on August 9, 2016, during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Leon NEAL / AFP

Pilgrims and devotees celebrate a mass after the procession of the Black Virgin at the cathedral "Notre Dame du Puy" during the Feast of the Assumption on August 14, 2016 in Le Puy-en-Velay, central France. The Cathedral of Notre Dame du Puy is one of the oldest Marian sanctuaries in Europe, since pilgrims have been coming here since the fifth century. The Black Virgin is venerated especially on the 25th March, the day of the Annunciation, and on the 15th August, feast of the Assumption, when her statue is carried in procession by thousands of people through the streets of Le Puy en Velay. PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP

People bow as they pay their respects to the statues of former North Korean leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il, at Mansu hill in Pyongyang. Ed Jones / AFP

In this picture taken on July 26, 2016, a Tibetan Buddhist monk takes a picture with his smartphone at the Jiana Mani stones piles in Xinzhai village near Yushu. NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP

People pass by closed shops as they walk down the Istiklal avenue on August 12, 2016 in Istanbul known for centuries, as the main commercial artery running through the heart of Istanbul, attracting thousands of people every day for shopping, entertainment or historic sightseeing. Following a string of deadly attacks and the failed coup of July 15, Istiklal Avenue now faces an uncertain future, its shops boarded up and visitor numbers plummeting, its identity rapidly changing. But for Beyoglu mayor Ahmet Misbah Demircan, Istiklal Avenue will never lose its dynamism, with the current recession an unfortunate "reality" but only a temporary one. OZAN KOSE / AFP

Bubble Eye goldfish swim in a fishbowl during a press preview of the 2016 EDO Nihonbashi Art Aquarium exhibition in Tokyo on July 7, 2016. The 10th anniversary of the festival will start on July 8 and will continue until September 25, displaying some 8,000 goldfish in various special art exhibits. TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA / AFP

A visitor walks past political cartoons displayed by over 100 Myanmar cartoonists during a three-day exhibition focusing on a message of peace, in Yangon's central Mahabandoola Park on August 13, 2016. Myanmar cartoonists are enjoying a renaissance as democracy returned to the country following the historic November 2015 election where for several decades they have suffered poverty, fear and censorship, working with little margin for error under the military junta. Romeo GACAD / AFP

A couple visits the photo and audiovisual exhibition called "Fidel", dedicated to Cuban former president Fidel Castro in Havana, on August 12, 2016. Next August 13 marks Fidel's 90th birthday amid a strong popular reverence for the ex-guerrilla and his former comrades-in-arms. YAMIL LAGE / AFP

A devotee places offerings of food for his ancestors at a local temple during Yu Lan or Hungry Ghost Festival in Hong Kong on August 14, 2016. The festival, celebrated in the seventh lunar month of the Lunar New Year calendar among communities in southern China, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan, marks the belief that the "Gates of Hell" are opened to let out the hungry ghosts who then wander in the land of the living while foraging for food. TENGKU BAHAR / AFP