A farmer holds on as he is dragged through the mud alongside his speeding oxen while competing in the traditional plow race in Dervan, India, August 22, 2024. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





A street performer interacts with a member of the public, outside Covent Garden Market, in London, Saturday, August 3, 2024. (Photo by Alberto Pezzali/AP Photo)





Police officers detain a woman during a protest in Nottingham, England's Market Square Saturday August 3, 2024, following the stabbing attacks on Monday in Southport, in which three young children were killed. (Photo by Jacob King/PA via AP Photo)





College girls decorate their hands with henna to celebrate the Hindu festival of Teej at Shahzada Nand college in Amritsar, India on August 3, 2024. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





(L-R) Gracen Grainger, Miss South Carolina USA, Bella Whitlock, Miss Kansas USA, Christell Foote, Miss Tennessee USA, Alma Cooper, Miss Michigan USA, Kenzie Halsey, Miss North Carolina USA, Marizza Delgado, Miss New York USA and Najah Ali, Miss Nevada USA walk onstage during the 73rd annual Miss USA Pageant at Peacock Theater on August 04, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)





Trip Hamilton paddles his friends Brandin Gates, second from left, Mallie Taylor, second from right, and Ellie Combs, right, all from Charleston, S.C., in a canoe down Ashley Ave. in Charleston as Tropical Storm Debby approaches, Tuesday, August 6, 2024. (Photo by Mic Smith/AP Photo)





Tropical storm warning signs are up along U.S. 74/76 on August 7, 2024, as Tropical Storm Debby continues to move up the southeastern coast. (Photo by Ken Blevins/Star News via USA TODAY Network)





Fans of US singer Taylor Swift – swifties – fix their beaded bracelets at the Swiftie Tree in Cornelius Strasse street in Vienna, Austria, on August 8, 2024. A 19-year-old Islamic State sympathiser planned a suicide attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna designed to kill many people, the country's intelligence agency said. Austrian authorities detained two suspects for allegedly plotting to attack this week's Vienna concerts by the star, which organisers cancelled at the last minute. (Photo by Alex Halada/AFP Photo)





Contestants in the Iowa State Fair's longest beard contest line up on Tuesday, August 13, 2024, in the Pioneer Building at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines. (Photo by Cody Scanlan/The Register via USA TODAY Network)





A scuba diver displays India's national flag at a marine aquarium on the eve of the country's Independence Day celebrations in Chennai on August 14, 2024. (Photo by R.Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





The pack of riders (peloton) compete during the 4th stage (out of 8) of the third edition of the Women's Tour de France cycling race, a 122.7 km between Valkenburg and Liege, on August 14, 2024. (Photo by Julien de Rosa/AFP Photo)





People look at animated kites soaring over the sky on the third day of the Tamil Nadu International Kite Festival on the outskirts of Chennai, India on August 17, 2024. (Photo by R. Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





A photo taken during the night from August 22 to 23, 2024 shows lava and smoke erupting from a volcano near Grindavik on the Icelandic peninsula of Reykjanes. A new volcano erupted on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland on August 22, 2024, spewing hot lava into the air in the sixth eruption to hit the region since December 2023, authorities said. (Photo by Ael Kermarec/AFP Photo)





Evan Gershkovich, who was released from detention in Russia, speaks on a mobile phone after disembarking from a plane at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S., August 1, 2024. (Photo by Kevin Mohatt/Reuters)





Supporters of the hostages being held in Gaza release 300 lanterns into the sky to mark 300 days since the deadly October 7 attack, amid the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict, at a beach in Tel Aviv, Israel, on August 1, 2024. (Photo by Ilan Rosenberg/Reuters)





US singer H.E.R. takes to the stage during the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis, in the outskirts of Paris, on August 11, 2024. (Photo by Franck Fife/AFP Photo)





Lava, steam and ashes spew from a crater of the Mount Etna volcano early on August 4, 2024 in Sicily. (Photo by Giuseppe Distefano/Etna Walk via AFP Photo)





Presidential regiment soldiers perform during the Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival in Red Square, backdropped by the St. Basil Cathedral, in Moscow, August 23, 2024. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





People walk on the 'Swiftie Steps' ahead of a Taylor Swift concert, following the cancellation of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna because of a planned attack, at Wembley Stadium in London, Britain on August 15, 2024. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)