Wednesday Aug. 5, Our World In Pictures
MYANMAR — Houses Barely Standing in Flood Waters: Children look out from their half-submerged house in Nyaung Tone, Ayeyarwaddy Delta on Wednesday. Friendly nations and international relief organizations are mobilizing to give disaster assistance to the country, where 69 people have died and another 260,000 been affected by widespread flooding fed by more than a month of heavy monsoon rains and a cyclone.
FRANCE — Revelers Play Traditional Instruments in Procession: Musicians perform wearing traditional red scarves and white outfits in the narrow streets of Bayonne during the Bayonne Festival, or “Fetes de Bayonne”, on Sunday. The annual festival includes five days of celebrating culture and tradition, and attracted about one million people, mostly from European countries, this year.
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.