A look at the best news photos from around the world.
1A mahout rides an elephant at Tad Sae Waterfall outside Luang Prabang, Laos.
2President Barack Obama looks stands at Turtle Beach to speak to the media as he tours Midway Atoll in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
3Refugee schoolchildren walk with their mothers on the first day of the new school year at one of the UNRWA schools at a Palestinian refugee camp al Wehdat, in Amman, Jordan.
4Protesters clash with riot police during a rally to demand a referendum to remove Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela.