A firefighters runs as wildfire intensifies in the village of Sidiro and Yannuli in Evros, Greece on August 31, 2023. Efforts to extinguish wildfire continues. (Photo by Ayhan Mehmet/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Asbjørg Nesje from Norway is a participant and trains in front of the Opera House in Oslo, Norway, on August 25, 2023, one day before the 2023 World Championship in Døds Diving (Death Diving). According to the organisers, Døds is “a form of extreme freestyle diving from heights jumping with stretched arms and belly first, landing in a cannonball or a shrimp position”. (Photo by Javad Parsa/NTB via AFP Photo)





Israelis gather for the 34th consecutive week to protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, August 26, 2023. The large banner depitcts Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, with Hebrew that reads: “let the country burn”. (Photo by Tsafrir Abayov/AP Photo)





A dressed cat is held by its owner as they participate in the Cat Fashion Week held at a shopping mall in Banda Aceh, northern Indonesia, on August 12, 2023. (Photo by Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP Photo)





Pakistani girls sing national songs during a ceremony marking Pakistan's 76th Independence Day at the founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah's mausoleum in Karachi, Pakistan on August 14, 2023. (Photo by Sabir Mazhar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Models gather for the defile on the catwalk in front of the Opera House during the parade of models and designers during the opening of the World Nomad Fashion Festival in Bishkek on August 10, 2023. (Photo by Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP Photo)





A soldier guards a polling station during a snap election in Quito, Ecuador, Sunday, August 20, 2023. The special election was called after President Guillermo Lasso dissolved the National Assembly by decree in May to avoid being impeached. (Photo by Carlos Noriega/AP Photo)





Young Maasai men confront a Maasai elder as part of the ceremonial activities during the Eunoto ceremony in a remote area near Kilgoris, Kenya on August 18, 2023. Hundreds of young Maasai take part in the Eunoto ceremony, a rite of passage that marks the transition from Moran (young warrior) to adulthood as junior elders. This ceremony is held by every clan once in a generation -every 8 to 10 years- and marks a new age-set. Eunoto, Enkipataa and Olng'esherr are the three main Maasai rites of passage that have been inscribed since 2018 on the Urgent Safeguardiang List of Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





The Italian carnival troupe La Compagnia del Carnevale and VIA University College Aarhus in procession at Smukfest Music Festival in Skanderborg, Denmark on August 3, 2023. (Photo by Mikkel Berg Pedersen/EPA/EFE)





A golf course in Fagernes is flooded on August 11, 2023 after extreme weather with heavy rain hit south-east Norway. (Photo by Ole Berg-Rusten/NTB via AFP Photo)





American artistic gymnast Simone Biles warms up prior to the Core Hydration Classic at Now Arena on August 05, 2023 in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)





Media representatives interact with an exhibition during the opening of the IKONO Museum in downtown Budapest, Hungary on August 31, 2023. (Photo by Marton Monus/EPA/EFE)





Fans in Wembley in London, Britain celebrate on August 16, 2023 as Ella Toone scores the opening goal of the World Cup semi-final against Australia, with the game finishing 3–1. (Photo by Peter Cziborra/Reuters)





Bride Gianina Ciorba (back R), 21, and her groom Gheorghe Stefut, 24, are driven in a vintage car outside a Greek Catholic church where the young married couple received the priest's blessings in Tarsolt village near Aliceni, Romania on August 20, 2023. Every year at the end of August, the otherwise deserted streets and restaurants in Tara Oasului, a region in northwestern Romania, are flooded by locals who emigrated to the West a long time ago. They come back briefly to get married according to old local tradition or just attend such a wedding, held in a spectacular fashion. The bride wears a flamboyant costume which can weigh up to 25 kilograms. (Photo by Daniel Mihailescu/AFP Photo)





Artists perform as “living pictures” during the show of the Roncalli Circus in Luebeck, northern Germany on August 16, 2023. The smell of sawdust and popcorn fills the air. The clowns, acrobats and magicians are all in place. As the audience are guided to their seats inside the big top, all the classic elements of the circus are there – except one. The live animals have been replaced by holograms. (Photo by Axel Heimken/AFP Photo)





Cedric Marika, grandson to the late Dr. Yunupingu and leader of the Gumatj dancers, performs during Garma Festival at Gulkula on August 04, 2023 in East Arnhem, Australia. The annual Garma festival is held at Gulkula, a significant ceremonial site for the Yolngu people of northeast Arnhem Land about 40km from Nhulunbuy on the Gove peninsula in East Arnhem. The festival is a celebration of Yolngu culture aimed at sharing culture and knowledge which also brings politicians and Indigenous leaders together to discuss issues facing Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The gathering takes on a special significance in 2023 with a constitutional referendum on the Voice to Parliament to be held later in the year. (Photo by Tamati Smith/Getty Images)





A woman fans herself at a bus stop in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, August 9, 2023. Spain is experiencing several days of extreme summer heat with the national AEMET weather agency saying temperatures will continue to rise until Friday at least, with some areas of the southern Andalusia region hitting 44  C (111 F). (Photo by Paul White/AP Photo)





A competitor falls off the “gostra”, a pole covered in lard, during the celebrations of the religious feast of St. Julian, patron of the town of St. Julian's, Malta on August 27, 2023. (Photo by Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters)





English singer-songwriter Declan McKenna performs at the Reading Music Festival, England, Sunday, August 27, 2023. (Photo by Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP Photo)