


A pedestrian shelters from the rain beneath a Union Jack umbrella as they walk near the Big Ben clock face at the Houses of Parliament in central London. The result of Britain's June 23 referendum vote to leave the European Union (EU) has pitted parents against children, cities against rural areas, north against south and university graduates against those with fewer qualifications. London, Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU but Wales and large swathes of England, particularly former industrial hubs in the north with many disaffected workers, backed a Brexit.

A group of protesters wave Mexican flags on the hillside above the Trump International Golf Links minutes before the arrival of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, north of Aberdeen, Scotland. Trump hailed Britain's vote to leave the EU as "fantastic" shortly after arriving in Scotland on Friday for his first international trip since becoming the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

A marching band makes its way past a rainbow flag flying from a building as the LGBT community celebrates Pride in London.

A vehicle burns at the scene of a suicide bomb attack outside a hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. At least 14 people were killed when gunmen stormed a hotel in Somalia's capital and took an unknown number of hotel guests hostage, police and medical workers said Saturday, before security forces hunted down the attackers and ended an hours-long assault that began with an explosives-laden vehicle blowing up at the hotel gate.

Lt. Dennis Feazell, of the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources, rows his boat as he and a co-worker search flooded homes in Rainelle, W. Va., on June 25.
A federal disaster declaration was approved for three of the hardest-hit counties in flood-ravaged West Virginia after a historic deluge killed at least 24 people there.

Members of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) carry the coffin of a fellow fighter during a funeral in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane on June 24 for eight fighters who died in an assault in Manbij against ISIS. The U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab forces pushed further into the Islamic State group stronghold of Manbij, seizing a key road junction and grain silos overlooking the city, a monitoring group said. The city lies close to the border with Turkey and is a key staging post on the jihadists' supply line to areas under its control in eastern Syria and neighboring Iraq.

Spectators watch as a Long March 7 (CZ-7) rocket lifts off the launch pad in Wenchang in southern China's Hainan Province on June 25. Saturday's launch was the first flight of the 174-foot rocket, which also carries a scaled-down version of a new Chinese re-entry capsule for human spaceflight.


Flames from the Erskine Fire engulf a home near Weldon, California, on June 24. The wildfire began near Lake Isabella on Thursday amid temperatures in the 90s and a staggering lack of humidity.
Friday in Pictures: June 24