Today in Pictures, Aug 14, 2019

Chaos at Hong Kong airport, stabbing at CBD in Sydney, Australia, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Aug 14, 2019, 09:57 AM

A tourist (C) gives her luggage to security guards as she tries to enter the departures gate during another demonstration by pro-democracy protesters at Hong Kong's international airport on August 13, 2019. PHOTO: AFP

A woman is taken by ambulance, as police officers investigate a scene following reports of a stabbing in Sydney, Australia, August 13, 2019. PHOTO: AAP VIA REUTERS

Firefighters extinguish a fire in Kampar, Riau province on Indonesia's Sumatra island on August 13, 2019. PHOTO: AFP

Environmentalists block the rails and stop a train loaded with new Volkswagen cars that has left the Volkswagen (VW) plant in Wolfsburg, northern Germany, on August 13, 2019. PHOTO: DPA VIA AFP

Fans cry outside an hospital in Abidjan on August 12, 2019, after Ivorian singer DJ Arafat, star of the "coupe-décale" and one of the most popular Ivorian artists, died at the age of 33 following a motorcycle accident overnight. PHOTO: AFP

A sinkhole is seen along a street in the city of Amiens, northern France, on August 13, 2019. PHOTO: AFP

Moonflowers Of Mid-Autumn is a luminescent outdoor art installation featuring 250 stalks of sustainable glow-in-the-dark flower sculptures at the lawn of Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall in Balestier, August 13, 2019. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/KEVIN LIM

Palestinians sit and take pictures on the rocks by the Mediterranean in Gaza City on August 13, 2019, as people celebrate during the third day of the Muslim religious holiday of Eid al-Adha. PHOTO: AFP

A long exposure shows stars behind a tree during the annual Perseid meteor shower near the town of Mitzpe Ramon, southern Israel, August 13, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS

A boy competes in mutton busting at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., August 13, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS

A two-day old male baby pygmy hippo plays in the water at the Taipei Zoo on August 12, 2019. PHOTO: AFP

Chelsea's Cesar Azpilicueta chats with a child during training ahead of the UEFA Super Cup 2019 football match between Liverpool and Chelsea at Besiktas Park stadium in Istanbul on August 13, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS

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