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Published Aug. 19, 2014, 6:40 p.m. ET

US President Barack Obama and his daughter Malia walk to Marine One prior to departing from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, August 19, 2014. Obama returns to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts to continue his summer family vacation following a 2-day return to Washington for meetings after spending last week on the island. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

President Barack Obama walks with daughter Malia to Marine One in Washington. Getty

LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 19: Workers clean the East-facing clock face of the Elizabeth Tower of the Houses of Parliament on August 19, 2014 in London, England. Workers are cleaning the four faces of the Great Clock, some 60 meters above ground, which contains the Big Ben bell. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Workers clean Big Ben in London. Getty

Tracer bullets ricochet off their targets as Japanese Ground Self-Defence Force tanks fire their machine guns during a night session of an annual training exercise at Higashifuji training field near Mount Fuji in Gotemba, west of Tokyo, August 19, 2014. Japanese battle tanks, helicopters and elite troops stormed the foothills of Mount Fuji Tuesday in a first-of-its-kind display of the tactics and equipment the nation's military could use to defend or retake islands in and around the East China Sea. REUTERS/Yuya Shino (JAPAN - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Bullets ricochet in an army exercise in Gotemba, Japan. Reuters

A Palestinian fighter from the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, gestures inside an underground tunnel in Gaza August 18, 2014. A rare tour that Hamas granted to a Reuters reporter, photographer and cameraman appeared to be an attempt to dispute Israel's claim that it had demolished all of the Islamist group's border infiltration tunnels in the Gaza war. Picture taken August 18, 2014. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A Hamas fighter gestures in an underground tunnel in Gaza. Reuters

Members of Ukrainian self-defence battalion "Donbas" attend a ceremony to bless their battalion's flags in Mikhailovsky Cathedral in Kiev August 19, 2014. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY RELIGION)

Members of a Ukrainian self-defense battalion bless flags in Kiev, Ukraine. Reuters

A Syrian refugee woman carries her son as she walks at Azraq refugee camp near Al Azraq area, east of Amman, August 19, 2014. The camp, which has a capacity to accommodate 50,000 people, has so far received around 10,498 refugees, according to a senior external relations officer at the United Nations. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A Syrian refugee carries her son in Al Azraq, Jordan. Reuters

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend a protest against the jailing of a Jewish seminary student who failed to comply with a recruitment order, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood August 19, 2014. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM - Tags: CIVIL UNREST RELIGION)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest in Jerusalem. Reuters

Palestinians flee their houses at the scene of what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City August 19, 2014. A two-year-old Gaza girl and a woman were killed in an Israeli air strike on Tuesday, making them the first Palestinian deaths in the conflict since the breakdown of a truce earlier in the day, Palestinian health officials said. Israel said it ordered retaliatory raids when militants violated a truce by firing rockets at Israel. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)

Palestinians flee their homes from an Israeli strike in Gaza. Reuters

A woman dressed as Mini Mouse speaks during a rally in support of organizing costumed characters in New York's Times Square August 19, 2014. After a spate of arrests and bad publicity, the costumed characters who pose for tourist photographs in New York's Times Square in the hopes of a cash tip have formed an association to preserve a livelihood that has come under increasing scrutiny. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: TRAVEL SOCIETY CIVIL UNREST)

A woman in a Minnie Mouse costume speaks at a Times Square rally. Reuters

Kurdish fighters stand guard close to positions held by Islamic State militants near Mosul in northern Iraq August 19, 2014. Sunni Muslim fighters led by the Islamic State swept through much of northern and western Iraq in June, capturing the Sunni cities of Tikrit and Mosul as well as the Mosul dam, which controls water and power supplies to millions of people down the Tigris river valley. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY)

Kurdish fighters stand guard in Mosul, Iraq. Reuters

BERLIN, GERMANY - AUGUST 19: Police officers with protective face masks prepare to enter a job center after reports in the building of a suspected case of a carrier of the Ebola virus on August 19, 2014 in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin, Germany. A 30-year-old woman was taken away by ambulance to Charite hospital from the unemployment office after she showed symptoms of the disease. Less than a week earlier, the country's foreign ministry had urged its citizens in several West African countries to leave the areas after outbreaks there leading to the deaths of over 1,100 people, although tests of suspected incidents of the illness in Germany have so far come back negative. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)

Police respond to a suspected Ebola case in Berlin, Germany. Getty

NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 19: United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon attends a wreath laying ceremony to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad, on August 19, 2014 in New York City. 22 people were killed in the car-bombing attack during the height of the U.S. war in Iraq. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

United Nations Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon bows at a wreath-laying in New York. Getty

ST. LOUIS, MO - AUGUST 19: People raise their arms while chanting, "Hands up, Don't Shoot", as they stand nearby to where St. Louis police say officers shot and killed a 23-year-old man who was wielding a knife and refused to drop it on August 19, 2014 in St Louis, Missouri. Violent outbreaks have taken place in Ferguson since the shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer on August 9. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Protests continue in St. Louis, Mo. Getty

A tourist couple kisses next to bullet holes, which remain from the fight for the liberation of Paris, mid August 1944, along the wall of the Tuileries Garden at the place de la Concorde in Paris, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. The French capital is holding commemoration events all week marking 70 years since Allied troops freed it from Nazi occupation on Aug. 25, 1944 during World War II. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

A tourist couple kisses near bullet holes from the Liberation of Paris. AP

Dupura Akhtar, cooks inside her flood-affected house in Ashigarh village, about 70 kilometers (44 miles) east of Gauhati, India, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2014. Heavy rainfall for the past few days has affected several districts of Assam state, flooding dozens of villages and displacing thousands. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

A girl cooks in her flooded house in Assam, India. AP

A tornado approaches Genoa, Italy. AP

A member of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force launches a hand-held anti-tank rocket during an annual live firing exercise at Higashi Fuji range in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

A member of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force launches a rocket during an exercise in Gotemba, Japan. AP

A city of Phoenix official blocks a closed section of road as flash flood waters overrun Skunk Creek through the Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014, in northwestern Phoenix. Flooding from heavy rain in the Phoenix area has forced authorities to close several major roads, including a portion of Interstate 17 about 25 miles north of the city. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Skunk Creek floods in Phoenix. AP

The day in photos

The day in photos