Isis, a standard poodle, performs during a show for the Border City Barkers Agility Club at the Woofa-Roo Pet Fest at the Libro Complex in Amherstburg. (Dax Melmer/The Windsor Star) The day’s best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world. Take a look through, and let us know which you think are the best examples of the diversity of our planet.
Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community cross the Syria-Iraq border at Feeshkhabour border point, in northern Iraq, Sunday. Kurdish authorities at the border believe some 45,000 Yazidis passed the river crossing in the past week and thousands more are still stranded in the mountains. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)
A supermoon rises above a Jesus Christ statue in front of the Holy Cross church in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
Palestinians inspect their house after it was hit by an Israeli military strike in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)
Spectators watch as a diver Sali Riza Grancina, winner of the competition, performs the winning jump from the Ura e Shenjte bridge during the traditional annual high diving competition, near the town of Gjakova, 100 kms south of Kosovo capital Pristina. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
Iranian Revolutionary Guards prevent the media from approaching the wreckage of a passenger plane crash near the capital Tehran, Iran.. An Iranian passenger plane crashed Sunday while taking off from an airport near the capital, Tehran, killing tens of people onboard, state media reported. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Gaza Alexios, walks past destroyed graves, hit by an Israeli strike, at the cemetery of the St. Porphyrios church in Gaza City. There are approximately 2,500 Christians among an overall Palestinian population of more than 1.7 million in Gaza. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
This picture taken on August 9, 2014 shows students from Tagou martial arts school performing during a rehearsal of the opening ceremony of Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu province. (AFP/Getty Images)
This picture taken on August 9, 2014 shows students from Tagou martial arts school performing during a rehearsal of the opening ceremony of Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu province. (AFP/Getty Images)
The full moon descends behind the Nossa Senhora da Penha Church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In this time of the year the orb is at the closest point to the earth. Experts name this phenomenon the supermoon or perigee. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)
People sail on a boat as lava from the Stromboli volcano flows into the sea, on August 9, 2014. Stromboli, one of Europe’s most active volcano, is part of the seven-island Eolian Archipelago just off Sicily in southern Italy. (GIOVANNI ISOLINO/AFP/Getty Images)
An Ethnic Chinese priest stands in front of statue made of paper of Chinese deity ‘Da Shi Ye’ or Guardian God of Ghosts set of fire by devotees during the Hungry Ghost festival in Kuala Lumpur. The festival, celebrated in the seventh lunar month of the Chinese new year calendar among communities in southern China, Malaysia, Singapore, HongKong and Taiwan, marks the belief that the ‘Gates of Hell’ are opened to let out the hungry ghosts who then wander in the land of the living while foraging for food. During the festival, food offerings are made while paper money and joss sticks are burnt outside homes to keep the spirits of dead ancestors happy and to bring good luck. (MAMANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images)
A wounded Ukrainian woman receiving treatment after shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Fighting raged Sunday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk despite a request from the pro-Russian rebels there for a cease-fire to prevent a “humanitarian catastrophe.” One person was killed and 10 injured in shelling that started early Sunday morning and continued into the day, city council spokesman Maxim Rovinsky told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Iraqi Yazidis, who fled their homes a week ago when Islamic State (IS) militants attacked the town of Sinjar, gather inside a building under construction where they found refuge on August 10, 2014 in the Kurdish city of Dohuk in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region. (EAHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
Pedestrians dash through a sudden downpour along the Millennium Bridge, with St. Paul’s Cathedral in the background, as the remnants of Hurricane Bertha sweep across parts of the country, London. (AP Photo/PA, Jonathan Brady)
A woman holds her newborn baby as she stands inside a bomb shelter in a maternity hospital during shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on August 10, 2014. Artillery pounded the surrounded main rebel bastion of Donetsk in east Ukraine Sunday as the West warned Russia that any attempt to send “humanitarian” troops into the conflict-torn region would be deemed “unacceptable.” Shelling meanwhile continued throughout the night and into Sunday in Donetsk, a one-million strong city that rebels now say has been surrounded by Ukrainian forces. (DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/Getty Images)
An injured Palestinian man from the Al-Elaa family sits inside his house after it was hit by an Israeli military strike in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)
A Palestinian man standing in a crowd of onlookers reacts to watching a soap factory go up in flames moments after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a fresh 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza, accepting an Egyptian invitation to resume talks to end fighting that has killed more than 2,000 people. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)
Protestors confront police during an impromptu rally, to protest the shooting of Michael Brown, 18, by police in Ferguson, Mo. Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. Brown died following a confrontation with police, according to St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar, who spoke at a news conference Sunday. (AP Photo/Sid Hastings)
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