Today in Pictures, Aug 31, 2015

Europe's migration crisis continues and forest fires burn across Spain. These, and more from around the world, in Today in Pictures.

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Aug 31, 2015, 10:55 AM

Migrants walking along in the sunset after crossing into Hungary from the border with Serbia near Roszke, Hungary, on Aug 30, 2015. About 100,000 migrants, many from Syria and other conflict zones in the Middle East, have taken the Balkan route into Europe this year, heading via Serbia for Hungary and Europe's Schengen zone of passport-free travel. Photo: Reuters/Bernadett Szabo

A view of a forest fire at Cualedro in Galicia, Spain, on Aug 30, 2015. The fire has already burnt 2,000ha. Photo: EPA/Brais Lorenzo

Protesters, one wearing a Bersih headband and another a Guy Fawkes mask, standing behind the Malaysian flag as they march towards Merdeka Square along Jalan Tun Perak on Aug 30, 2015, in rally organised by the Bersih movement calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Razak. Photo: The Straits Times/Mark Cheong

A man walking in front of an unfinished mural of Pope Francis in New York, New York. The mural is being painted in preparation for the Pope's visit to the United States, including New York, Philadelphia and Washington DC, in September 2015. Photo: EPA/Justin Lane

Contestants preparing in the restroom before the Most Muscular Man - Tanzania competition in Tanzania's capital, Dar es Salaam, on Aug 30, 2015. Photo: AFP/Daniel Hayduk

Russian specialists assembling the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft at an assembling department at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Aug 30, 2015. Photo: AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev

Turkish Stars, the aerobatic team of the Turkish Air Force, performing a manoeuvre during a ceremony marking the 93rd anniversary of Victory Day in Ankara, Turkey, Aug 30, 2015. Photo: Reuters/Umit Bektas

A cyclist passing before the supermoon in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain, on Aug 29, 2015. The supermoon marks the point at which the Moon and the Earth are the closest to each other during the whole year. Photo: EPA/Carlos de Saa

Jaromir Joo, owner and trainer of circus animals, going for a walk with his tiger Taiga in Letovice, Czech Republic, on Aug 30, 2015. Photo: AFP/Radek Mica

Ashton Eaton of the US wearing a cooling hood as he rests on the track during the Pole Vault of the Decathlon event during the Beijing 2015 IAAF World Championships at the National Stadium in Beijing, China, on Aug 29 2015. Photo: EPA/Diego Azubel

A child slipping off the "gostra", a pole covered in grease, during the celebrations for the religious feast of St Julian, patron of the town of St Julian's, outside Valletta, Aug 30, 2015. In the traditional "gostra", young men, women and children have to make their way to the top of a pole and try to uproot one of the flags to win prizes Photo: Reuters/Darrin Zammit Lupi

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