Photos: Children of the world

A child waits for Red Bull drivers in the paddock area during the second practice session of the Japanese F1 Grand Prix at the Suzuka circuit.  (Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Brian Alonzo, 8, has his hair cut at a “Back-to-School” giveaway at the Fred Jordan Mission in Los Angeles.  (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)

Boy wearing revolutionary guard uniform reacts as he stands with his friend in front of tank at war exhibition held to mark anniversary of Iran-Iraq war in southern Tehran.  (Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters)

A woman walks past children playing in a village, as seen from a bunker of U.S. soldiers from Task Force “No Fear” Alpha Company, 2-27 Infantry “The Wolfhounds” in Combat Outpost Pirtle King in Ghaziabad district in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan.  (Erik De Castro/Reuters)

A Fenerbahce fan holds a baby as she watches the Turkish Super League soccer match between Fenerbahce and Manisaspor at Sukru Saracoglu stadium in Istanbul.  (Stringer/Reuters)

Jewish settler children hold Israeli flags during a protest at the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba.  (Baz Ratner/Reuters)

Tear runs down face of one-year-old boy Asho as he takes refuge with his family in camp for flood victims in Badin district of Pakistan’s Sindh province.  (Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)

Palestinian girls walk past a graffiti at Dehaishe refugee camp in Bethlehem.  (Ammar Awad/Reuters)

Child drags her school backpack as Spanish police officers stand outside a public primary school in Madrid.  (Susana Vera/Reuters)

A Palestinian boy herds sheep in the northern Gaza Strip.  (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

Three-month-old infant lies on a piece of tarp at a camp for flood victims in the Badin district of Pakistan.  (Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)

The daughter of a traveller swings on scaffolding outside the Dale Farm traveller site, near Billericay in southern England.  (Luke MacGregor/Reuters)

Residents carry their children while crossing on waist deep flood waters brought by Typhoon Nesat, locally known as Pedring, that hit the Tanza town of Malabon city, north of Manila.  (Stringer Philippines/Reuters)

France’s Imanol Harinordoquy plays with rugby school children during a training session in Auckland.  (Jacky Naegelen/Reuters)

Children look out from the back of a delivery truck as they evacuate their shanties after flood waters brought by Typhoon Nesat, locally known as Pedring, hit Baseco  (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)

Children play in flood waters in front of their house in Phnom Penh. The death toll from flooding in Thailand since mid-July has risen to 158, while 61 people have died in neighbouring Cambodia in the past two weeks, authorities in the two countries said.  (Samrang Pring/Reuters)

A baby of migrant workers from Myanmar, with traditional tanaka paste on its face, sleeps in a hammock at their accommodation at the port town of Mahachai, near Bangkok. Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers from Myanmar and other neighboring countries escape poverty to search for prosperity in Thailand but human rights groups are expressing concerns that the rights of many of those workers are being violated.  (Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)