Top Photos: Aug. 24, 2016
A rescued woman is carried away on a stretcher following an earthquake in Amatrice, Italy. The magnitude 6.2 quake struck at 3:36 a.m. and was felt across a broad swath of central Italy, including Rome where residents of the capital felt a long swaying followed by aftershocks. (Massimo Percossi / AP)
A man cries as another injured person is helped in Amatrice, central Italy, where a 6.2 earthquake struck just after 3:30 a.m., Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. (Massimo Percossi / AP)
A broken crucifix hangs inside the damaged church of Santa Maria della Misericordia in Accumoli, central Italy, after a magnitude 6.2 quake struck in the early morning hours. (Andrew Medichini / AP)
Rescuers work in the night at a collapsed house following an earthquake in Pescara del Tronto, central Italy. (REMO CASILLI / Reuters Photo)
Members of the Bellows Falls Fire Department stand in front of their station as they pay respect to Justin Beebe, a “Hotshot” who was killed Aug. 13 battling a wildfire near Great Basin National Park in Nevada, as his ashes return home to Bellows Falls, Vt., early Wednesday. (Kristopher Radder / AP)
The ancient Sulamuni temple is seen shrouded in dust as a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Bagan, Myanmar. The quake killed at least one person and damaged pagodas in the ancient city of Bagan. (SOE MOE AUNG / AFP/Getty Images)
Video grab composite of the Airlander 10 making a bumpy landing at Cardington airfield in England during its second test flight. Hybrid Air Vehicles says it is trying to figure out what caused the rough landing of the 302-foot Airlander 10 during its flight Wednesday in Bedfordshire, north of London. (Lee Cordell / AP)
Philemoen Williams of Madison, Mississippi, waits in line to enter a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in Jackson, Mississippi. Trump continues to make his pitch for support among minorities. (Jonathan Bachman / Getty Images)
Nelson Tejeda, a Miami-Dade County mosquito control inspector, pours water from a planter where he found mosquito larvae in the Miami Beach neighborhood as the county fights to control the Zika virus outbreak. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
An explosion rocks a collection of buildings as seen from the Turkish Syrian border city of Karkamis in the southern region of Gaziantep following air strikes by a Turkish Army jet fighter on the Syrian Turkish border village of Jarabulus during fighting against IS targets. (BULENT KILIC / AFP/Getty Images)
Firefighters pour water on burning buses during a fire at the Puyallup School District bus garage in Puyallup, Washington. (Joshua Bessex / AP)
The Octobot is an an entirely soft, autonomous robot developed at Harvard University that looks like a tiny octopus, and is designed to mimic that slithery creature to get through cracks and tight places, making it ideal as a rescue robot. It’s squishy like Silly Putty, wireless, without a battery and is made for pennies by a 3-D printer. (Ryan Truby, Michael Wehner, and / AP)
An artist’s impression of a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. Proxima b is a little more massive than the Earth and orbits in the habitable zone around Proxima Centauri, where the temperature is suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface, making it habitable to life. (M. KORNMESSER / AFP/Getty Images)
Two men take a series of selfies as they sit on the ledge of a high-rise building in an activity called “rooftopping” in Hong Kong. (ROMEO GACAD / AFP/Getty Images)
A Humboldt penguin jumps off a scale during the annual animal weigh-in at London Zoo in London, U.K. (NEIL HALL / Reuters Photo)
People swim during the annual public Lake Zurich crossing swimming event over a distance of 4,921 ft. in Zurich, Switzerland. (ARND WIEGMANN / Reuters Photo)
A Kashmiri man rows a boat on Nigeen Lake in Srinagar. Indian-administered Kashmir has been in the grip of almost daily anti-India protests and rolling curfews sparked by the killing of a popular rebel leader, Burhan Wani, in a gunfight with government forces. (TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP/Getty Images)
The Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights illuminate the night sky in Erikslund village at Vaesternorrland County in Sweden. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP/Getty Images)