Today in Pictures, Aug 14, 2020

Perseid meteors over Austria, an elderly model group in Beijing, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Aug 14, 2020, 01:02 PM

A digital stacked combination of long time multiple exposures shows satellites and Perseid meteors crossing the sky over a chapel near the town of Herrnleis during Perseid meteor shower, Austria, Aug 12, 2020. The Perseid meteor shower occurs every year in August when the Earth passes through debris and dust of the Swift-Tuttle comet. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

Members of an internet celebrity model group "Glamma Beijing" (from left, Lin Wei, 65, Sun Yang, 64, Wang Nianwen, 74, and Wang Xinghuo, 70, wearing traditional Chinese dresses walk across a street during a video shoot, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Beijing's Central Business District (CBD), China, Aug 13, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

Dark clouds as seen from the eastern side of Singapore on Friday, Aug 14, 2020. ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG

Villagers watch the eruption of Mount Sinabung as seen from Karo, North Sumatra on Aug 13, 2020. Indonesia's Mount Sinabung erupted again on Aug 13 with a string of blasts that sent plumes of ash two kilometres into the sky, triggering a flight warning and fears of lava flows. PHOTO: AFP

Soldiers of the Brazilian Armed Forces disinfect the balcony around the Christ The Redeemer statue at the Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug 13, 2020, amid the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic. PHOTO: AFP

A child cools off under a public fountain, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, during hot summer weather at a park in Tokyo, Japan Aug 13, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

The pack rides during the second stage of the 72nd edition of the Criterium du Dauphine cycling race, 135 km between Vienne and Col de Porte near Sarcenas on Aug 13, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

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