WORLD:SDM WORLD

　　SOUTH KOREA 　　Anti-war activists attend a rally in Seoul on August 20 against the start of joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises codenamed Ulchi Freedom Guardian. More than 80,000 soldiers from the two allies took part in the 11-day drill
　　
　　THE UNITED STATES
　　A woman takes a picture of a recently erected memorial marker commemorating the first kiss of U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama in the Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, on August 16
　　
　　ITALY
　　A tiger licks a block of ice in downtown Rome’s Bioparco Zoo on August 21 as heat waves hit Europe
　　
　　MYANMAR
　　Vendors sell fish on a roadside in Yangon on August 20. In a report issued that day, the Asian Development Bank said strong economic growth could lift Myanmar to the rank of middleincome nations by 2030 if the country overcomes a host of reform challenges
　　
　　BRITAIN
　　Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, speaks from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on August 19. The Ecuadorian Government has granted Assange asylum, believing his concerns for unfair trials and political persecution are legitimate
　　
　　SOMALIA
　　Members of Somalia’s new parliament place their hands on copies of the Koran while taking their oaths in Mogadishu on August 20. With the swearing-in of the parliamentarians, the war-torn Horn of Africa country moved from a long-drawn transitional period to a permanent form of government