Today in Photos (Aug. 24)

View a gallery of photos from around the world on Monday, Aug. 24, 2015.

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Mon., Aug. 24, 2015

A crane lifts a section of the Hawker Hunter jet that crashed into a highway Saturday after it failed to pull out of a loop maneuver during the Shoreham Airshow, near Shoreham, England, about 75 kilometers (45 miles) south of London, Monday Aug. 24, 2015. Police said the death toll in the crash will probably rise as emergency workers probe wreckage on the freeway where the plane went down, plowing through cars on the road and exploding in a huge fireball.

Matt Dunham Associated Press
A young migrant woman from Syria looks from a window onboard a train towards Serbia, at the new transit center for migrants on the border with Greece, near southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, on Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Thousands of migrants have poured into Macedonia and board trains and busses that are taking them a step closer to the European Union. Police are letting the migrants pass across the border Monday, directing them to the new transit center for migrants near the border line.

Boris Grdanoski Associated Press
Lebanese activists protest in front a concrete wall installed by authorities, and quickly covered with graffiti, near the main Lebanese government building a day after violent anti-government protests, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Organizers of the "You stink" protests that have captivated the Lebanese capital postponed anti-government demonstrations set for Monday evening after a night of violent clashes with police during which dozens of protesters and police officers were wounded.

Hassan Ammar Associated Press
Roberto Gonzalez, a former worker for Unicom and Conempa, Paraguayan contractors that helped build the Itaipu Dam, walks with others to the Labor Ministry wearing symbolic crucifixes in Asuncion, Paraguay, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Ex-dam workers like Gonzalez are demanding compensation benefits after the dam was completed in 2007. The Itaipu hydroelectric dam straddles the Brazil-Paraguay border on the Parana River, and its construction started in 1975.

Jorge Saenz Associated Press
Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli, right, greets Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Sangakkara after the second test cricket match between Sri Lanka and India in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Sangakkara bid farewell to international cricket Monday ending his illustrious 15-year career.

Eranga Jayawardena Associated Press
Cadets march in central Khreshchatyk street during military parade marking Ukraine's Independence Day in the capital Kiev, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Speaking at the parade, President Petro Poroshenko said Ukraine would continue to increase its troop numbers in order to fend off the attacks of separatist rebels. (Mikhail Palinchak, Pool Photo via AP) ORG XMIT: XEL113

Mikhail Palinchak Pool Presidential Press Service