Today's top images - 09/08/2013

A man with a Syrian flag arrives in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. (AFP)

Spanish matador El Juli performs a pass to a Domingo Hernandez bull during a bullfight as part of the Rice feria in the Arles Arena, southern France. (AFP)

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal plays a point against France's Richard Gasquet during their 2013 US Open men's semi-final match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on September 7, 2013. (AFP)

Faithful pray during a vigil in the Sacre-Coeur Basilica in Paris. (AFP)

Pope Francis leads a mass in Saint Peter Square at the Vatican. (AFP)

Turkish students spread as police fire tear gas during a protest outside the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. (AFP)

A young protester shouts slogans during a demonstration against a possible US military strike on Syria in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon. The boy's face reads in Arabic, "At your service, Syria". (AFP)

A Syrian soldier prepares bullets for a machine gun in the Syrian Christian town of Maalula. (AFP)

A Transportation Security Administration officer holds a rifle while participating in a color guard before a farewell ceremony for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano at the Ronald Reagan Building September 6, 2013 in Washington. (AFP)

Horticulturists dye heather in a field on September 6, 2013 in the eastern French town of Bischoffsheim. (AFP)

An elderly Palestinian woman sits on a street in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on September 6, 2013. (AFP)

A model walks the runway during the Max Azria fashion show at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2014 collections in New York. (AFP)