Today in Pictures, Aug 12, 2020

A panda cub born in Taipei Zoo, Japanese Village in Malaysia, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Aug 12, 2020, 03:15 PM

A handout photo made available by the Taipei Zoo shows giant panda Yuan Yuan cudding its baby Rou Rou at the Taipei Zoo on Aug 12, 2020. China donated a male and female pair of giant pandas, Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan to the Taipei Zoo in 2008. Yuan Yuan delivered a female cub, Yuan Tzai, in 2013 and gave birth to her second baby Rou Rou on June 28, 2020. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

Visitors wearing traditional Japanese-themed attire take pictures in the Japanese Village, which showcases a series of Japan-inspired attractions spread across a garden landscape on a hilltop, in Malaysia's Pahang state on Aug 11, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

Employees react during the opening of American restaurant Shake Shack, at the shopping area of Sanlitun, in Beijing, China, Aug 12, 2020. Shake Shack, a US fast-food restaurant chain based in New York, opened its first restaurant in Beijing. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

A villager cleans volcanic ash from his roof at Naman Teran village in Karo, North Sumatra, on Aug 11, 2020, a day after the eruption of Mount Sinabung (background). PHOTO: AFP

A man paddles a boat next to a submerged home in a flooded area due to recent monsoon rainfalls in Dhamrai, Bangladesh, on Aug 11, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

In this aerial image from a drone, damaged grain bins are shown at the Heartland Co-Op grain elevator on Aug 11, 2020 in Luther, Iowa, USA. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds said early estimates indicate 10 million acres, nearly a 1/3 of the states land used for crops, were damaged when a powerful storm battered the region a day earlier. PHOTO: AFP

A fire burns as back burning is used to create a firebreak to stop the progress of a fire at a tract of the Amazon jungle in Apui, Amazonas State, Brazil, Aug 11, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

A woman has her haircut done along a street in Beijing, China, on Aug 10, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

A seagull carries a protective face mask at the port of Dover, Britain, Aug 11, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

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