World in Photos Gallery

Researchers have found evidence of the world's oldest Italian wine in a large storage jar from the Copper Age which indicates that winemaking in the region began as early a fourth millennium BC. The discovery, detailed in Microchemical Journal, could dramatically predate the commencement of winemaking in Italy.

World's oldest Italian wine found

South Sudanese refugees wait in line for food in Omugo refugee settlement camp in northern Uganda.

South Sudanese refugees in Uganda

The kitchen of Bernie Kearney's destroyed home is seen, after a landslide carrying a boulder and her car (seen at the kitchen window) came through the house, during torrential rains in Urris, County Donegal, Ireland August 24, 2017. Torrential rains in northwest Ireland, described by the country's weather office as a once-in-a-century event, triggered a landslide that sent a car flying through the wall of a house earlier this week.

Irish woman escapes landslide that threw car through kitchen wall

A man looks out from inside an apartment where some windows have been broken by typhoon Hato in Macau.

Pictures show the devastating aftermath brought by Typhoon Hato

A multiple exposure image shows the solar eclipse as it creates the effect of a diamond ring at totality as seen from Clingmans Dome, which at 6,643 feet (2,025m) is the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, U.S. August 21, 2017.

Breathtaking photos of solar eclipses captured around America

Afghanistan on Saturday marked the 98th anniversary of its independence from British occupation. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday morning laid wreath at the Independence Minaret in the Defence Ministry compound, Tolo News reported.

Afghanistan celebrates 98th Independence Day

A U.S. Marines' member takes part in parachute drops during their joint exercise with Japan Ground Self Defense Force, named Northern Viper 17 at Hokudaien exercise area in Eniwa, on the northern island of Hokkaido, Japan.

U.S. and Japan hold joint military drills

Newborn babies are seen at an intensive care unit of a maternity hospital in east Mosul, Iraq. Al-Khansa Hospital in East Mosul may be a shell of its former self but it is still the city's main government-run maternity facility. Last month alone, despite severe shortages of medicines and equipment, it delivered nearly 1,400 babies.

New life amid the ruins of Mosul's maternity hospital

Instagram: The emerging photo gallery (August 19 is World Photography Day)

Damage is seen done to the face of a statue of Confederate commander General Robert E. Lee at Duke University's Duke Chapel in Durham, North Carolina, U.S.

Ripple effects of Charlottesville

A still image from video shows a police cordon on a street in Barcelona.

Van plows through crowd in Barcelona

Parsi New Year 2017: Wishes, greetings, SMSes to wish your loved ones Navroze Mubarak

Parsi New Year 2017: Wishes, greetings, SMSes to wish your loved ones Navroze Mubarak

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