God will reward you, he said. You must be an angel since you care for flowers. – Victor Hugo.
More than 173,000 pots of plants and herbs form a flower carpet in front of the city hall in Antwerp, Belgium. To celebrate the 450th anniversary of the Antwerp city hall, artist Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven selected 31 different species to create a design of large geometric figures in bright sixties colors. The carpet measures 60 by 30 meters. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert / AP)A man carries a girl as Syrians fleeing the war pass through broken-down border fences to enter Turkish territory illegally. (Bulent Kilic / AFP via Getty Images)Workers wearing protective gears spray antiseptic solution as a precaution against the spread of MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, virus at an art hall in Seoul, South Korea. (Lee Jin-man / AP)A pond with plants in the shape of an @ symbol. The farmer planted three kinds of water plants in order to purify the water on his land, in Jiaxing, China. (ChinaFotoPress)Tigers, lions, a hippopotamus and other animals escaped from the zoo in Georgia’s capital after heavy flooding destroyed their enclosures, prompting authorities to warn residents in Tbilisi to say inside. (Tinatin Kiguradze/ AP)Two Palestinian children look out of a window on a wall painted with a mural by German artist Akot in Gaza, Palestine. The mural is on the walls of houses destroyed during the 50-day Israeli offensive last July and August. (Wissam Nassar / Xinhua Press via Corbis)Dancers take part in a Corpus Christi religious ceremony in Lima. Hundreds of people participate in Corpus Christi Catholic processions during the month of June in different regions of the country. (Paco Chuquiure / REUTERS)Volunteers help in the construction of an artwork called Plastic Bags by Cameroon-born artist Pascale Marthine Tayou at the De Meelfabriek, part of the art exhibition Global Imaginations, in Leiden, Netherlands. (Jerry Lampen / EPA)Demonstrators clash with police during a march by students and professors to present a proposal for education reform, in Santiago de Chile, Chile. (MARIO RUIZ / EPA)Rescuers and civilians help to bring people out of a building after a reported barrel bomb attack by government forces on the central al-Fardous rebel-held neighbourhood in Aleppo, Syria. (Karam Al-Masri / AFP via Getty)An Indian firefighter pours water over his face to cool off as they tackle a factory fire in north Calcutta, India. According to police and media reports, 10 fire engines fought close to four hours to extinguish the blaze. (PIYAL ADHIKARY / EPA)Barcelona’s players celebrate from an open-top bus during celebration parade in Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona were crowned kings of Europe for the fifth time after beating Juventus 3-1 in a pulsating Champions League final at the Olympic Stadium on Saturday, capping their magnificent season with a title treble. (Albert Gea / REUTERS)Officers of the Irish Navy ship Le Eithne rescue migrants in the middle of the Mediterranean sea. (AP)Bottles of confiscated illegal alcohol are destroyed during a pre-Ramadan anti-alcohol and narcotics campaign at a police station in Jakarta, Indonesia. The government conducted raids at unlicensed liquor stores and destroyed the liquor in a pubic display before the holy month of Ramadan. (Zulkarnain / Xinhua)
