Photos of the Day: A Bowhead Whale and Servicewomen

Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Aerial view of Mount Arafat, where thousands of Muslim worshipers gather during the hajj; about 2.5 million Muslims are expected to attend this year’s pilgrimage. The Day of Arafat is on Monday, one day before to the festival of Eid al-Adha

Photograph: Sedat Suna/EPA

Paravur, India

A van makes its way down a flooded road on the outskirts of Kochi in the southern state of Kerala. Receding flood waters left Indian troops and rescuers with the grim task of hunting for bodies left by the worst monsoon in a century, as the death toll rose above 400

Photograph: Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images

Kangwon province, North Korea

South Korean Lee Keum-seom, 92, left, weeps as she meets with her North Korean son Ri Sang Chol, 71, during the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at the Diamond Mountain resort. Dozens of elderly South Koreans crossed the border into North Korea on Monday for heart-wrenching meetings with relatives most haven’t seen since they were separated by the turmoil of the Korean war

Photograph: AP