Today in Pictures, Aug 10, 2017

Beams in a plasma globe in a museum in Switzerland, a rainy day in London and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Aug 10, 2017, 11:15 AM

Beams of light in a plasma globe at the EBM Elektrizitaetsmuseum museum in Muenchenstein, Switzerland on Aug 9. PHOTO: REUTERS

A US supporter at the World Athletics Championships in London Stadium, Britain, on Aug 9. PHOTO: REUTERS

A boy enjoying the waves at sunset on an embankment of the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Crimea, on Aug 9. PHOTO: REUTERS

A pedestrian in central London on Aug 9, PHOTO: AFP

Protesters in the United States at a demonstration at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to mark the 72nd anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. An estimated 50 protesters were arrested by the police for illegal assembly. PHOTO: AFP

An aerial view of yachts in the Skutsjesilen competition, a traditional boat race, near Sneekermeer, The Netherlands, on Aug 9. PHOTO: AFP

A one-week-old baby bonobo with its mother at Planckendael zoo in Mechelen, Belgium, on Aug 9.
PHOTO: REUTERS

Migrants sleeping on a beach in Ventimiglia, Italy, near the French border. Since the beginning of 2017, more than 117,000 people have made the perilous Mediterranean crossing into Europe from north Africa, with more than 96,000 of them arriving in Italy and some trying to cross into France from there. PHOTO: AFP

A devotee helps his friend climb a wooden pole in the Deopokhari festival in Khokana, Nepal, on Aug 9. During the annual festival, a live goat is thrown into a pond and the team of devotees that retrieves the animal first wins. PHOTO: REUTERS

When a rainbow appears in the mist of a public fountain in Vienna, Austria, it is time for a selfie. PHOTO: REUTERS

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