PICTURES

Every August, the Grand Place in Brussels is covered with a colourful carpet of flowers.

Artillery shells hit separatist-held city of Donetsk for the first time, killing at least one.

More than two months' worth of rain fell in two hours on Long Island, causing flash flooding.

Unrest over the police shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

A look back at the life and career of legendary actress Lauren Bacall.

Medical authorities around the world are gearing up for Ebola appearing in their country.

Hindus throw offerings into the crater of Mount Bromo, but locals try to catch them.

Riot police and protesters clash after unarmed black teenager Mike Brown was shot by police.

More than 30,000 Iraqi Yazidis who were trapped on Mount Sinjar have reached safety.

Martial arts students create intricate formations as they are suspended over stadium in Nanjing.

IBTimesUK presents a gallery of photos of Yazidi Kurds at Iraq's Lalesh temple.

Protesters set fire to heaps of tyres and clash with armed riot police on the Maidan.

Getty Images photographer Kevin Frayer visited Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people.

Youngsters from around the world can now spend their summers at a camp in the secretive state

Firefighters are battling the largest forest fire in Sweden's modern history.

Xiong Zhengfen, 88, rescued from earthquake debris as death toll jumps from 410 to 589.

Residents return to Gaza, where whole blocks have been destroyed by Israeli shelling.

Prince William and Kate Middleton go to Belgium, while Harry unveils an arch in Kent.

Getty Images photographer Christopher Furlong visits Ypres on the centenary of WWI.

Hundreds of lederhosen-clad men compete in the alpine sport in Garmisch-Partenkircen, Southern Germany.

Israel and Hamas accuse each other of breaking UN-brokered ceasefire.

At least 25 people were killed and 267 injured when gas blasts ripped through a city in Taiwan.

Photo montage of the 61 IDF soldiers killed in the Gaza conflict - average age 22.

The First World War was the first conflict captured on camera in colour

The Duke Lemur Centre database contains 48 years of data on lemurs and is now available online.

Child labour and donkeys employed at a coal mine in Punjab Province, Pakistan.

More than a million women were added to the British workforce during World War One

British photographer Rebecca Bathory travelled around the former Soviet Union and its occupied satellite states to capture abandoned facilities.

Israel struck symbols of Hamas control in Gaza in the heaviest bombardment of the conflict.