Thursday: the day in photos

A firefighter with the Lathrop-Manteca Fire District talks on his radio as a spot fire burns through trees and brush in Concow, Calif., where firefighters continue to battle a brush fire that threatens backwoods towns and the city of Paradise. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)

Sept. 16, 2014 8:33 AM PT

A relative mourns during the funeral of three Turkish policemen in Istanbul, Turkey. Four armed men attacked the police checkpoint in front of the U.S. Consulate on Wednesday. Three policemen were killed, two others wounded and three attackers were killed during the clash. (Togla Bozoglu / EPA)

An Iraqi hugs the body of a man killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad that also injured five people. (Karim Kadim / Associated Press)

Relatives carry the body of Salim Al-Hamedi during his funeral at Zawaydeh village in the Gaza Strip. Israeli troops shot and killed Al-Hamedi, 18, along the country’s border with Gaza in the first deadly incident since the two sides reached a cease-fire last month. A faction of the militant group Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said Al-Hamedi belonged to its ranks and vowed revenge. (Hatem Moussa / Associated Press)

A girl stands in a house damaged by fire in recent clashes in Tripoli, Lebanon. The Lebanese army boosted its forces in the northern city to try to shore up a cease-fire after four people were killed in gun battles between rival sectarian factions. (Ramzi Haidar AFP/Getty Images)

An Afghan woman begs with her two children in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Ahmad Masood / Associated Press)

A woman adjusts the flags of Georgia and the United States before a press conference in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi after talks by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. (Zurab Kurtsikidze / EPA)

Ventorrillo fighting bulls run through the streets of the northern Spanish city of Pamplona. On each morning of a centuries-old festival, bulls are released at 8 to run from their corral over a 902-yard course to the bullring, where they face matadors in afternoon bullfights. (Rafa Rivas AFP/Getty Images)

A reveler is dragged by a bull calf in the bullring in Pamplona. The festival of San Fermin, held since 1591, attracts tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights. (Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press)

A calf jumps over a crowd of revelers at the bullring in Pamplona. (Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press)

U.S. runner Curtis Carr jumps through the water in the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase at the 12th IAAF World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. (Hamish Blair / Getty Images)

In Australia, young Zambian pilgrims sing and dance after a service at Melbourne’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral to celebrate an upcoming World Youth Day in Sydney that will include a visit by Pope Benedict XVI. (William West / AFP/Getty Images)