Palestinian children haul jerrycans of water collected from a distribution point in Gaza City, August 12, 2025, amid scorching temperatures. (Photo by Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo)





Children play at a fountain to cool off at a park as the Japanese government issued a heatstroke alert in Tokyo and other prefectures due to a heatwave in Tokyo, Japan, on August 4, 2025. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Children play before a circus performance during their mid-year winter break, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2, 2025. (Phoot by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





Students pose for a group photo with their teacher during a Quran class at the Abdullah Ibn-Masoud religious school, on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, May 26, 2025. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





Children play inside floating balloons in the Cismigiu park in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, August 2, 2025. (Photo by Andreea Alexandru/AP Photo)





Pope Leo XIV interacts with a child, on the day he holds a general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, on August 6, 2025. (Photo by Remo Casilli/Reuters)





Maria Claudia Tarazona comforts her son Alejandro during the funeral service for her husband, presidential hopeful and opposition Sen. Miguel Uribe, who died from wounds sustained when he was shot at a political rally, in Bogota, Colombia, August 13, 2025. (Photo by Fernando Vergara/AP Photo)





Paediatricians Mariana Rosendo (L) and Thais Pires, wearing princess costumes, play with a patient at the paediatric ward of the Getulio Vargas State Hospital (HEGV) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 5, 2025. Paediatricians at the Getulio Vargas State Hospital are using princess costumes and electric toy cars to help children ease the hospitalization experience at the Penha Circular neighborhood, north zone of Rio de Janeiro. (Photo by Mauro Pimentel/AFP Photo)





Pilgrims participate in the candlelight procession in honour of Our Lady of Fatima during the International Anniversary Pilgrimage at the Sanctuary of Fatima in Fatima, Portugal, 12 August 2025. The International Anniversary Pilgrimage in August celebrates the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima to the young shepherds. (Photo by Paulo Cunha/EPA)





Hindu women belonging to the Dogra community swing a child as part of a ritual as they pray for the long life of their sons during Bacch Dua festival in Jammu, India, Tuesday, August 19, 2025. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





An Indian student with peace messages written on her face and hands takes part in a “Hiroshima Day” peace rally in Mumbai, India, 06 August 2025. Students and social activists gathered in Mumbai to mark the 80th anniversary of the nuclear bombing in Hiroshima. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA)





Three year old Archie listens to grade one bands as they prepare before entering the arena at the World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green on August 15, 2025 in Glasgow, Scotland. Top pipers and drummers from around the globe do battle for the coveted title of World Champions 2025. (Photo by Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)





Twelve-year-old Kelia Gallina of French Polynesia after surfing in Heat 1 of the Elimination Round at the Lexus Tahiti Pro on August 8, 2025 at Teahupoo, Tahiti, French Polynesia.(Photo by Brent Bielmann/World Surf League via Getty Images)





Parachutes drop humanitarian aid over the Rafah area, as residents face starvation due to the blockade imposed by Israel, in Rafah, Gaza, on August 09, 2025. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Sister Bernadeta Dvernytska of the Order of Saint Basil the Great attends to the bruised knee of a girl who is part of the church community, at the order's monastery in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on June 1, 2025. This community of Ukrainian Catholics tends to people exiled from occupied territory, Church members deliver humanitarian aid to Ukrainian troops and villages near the frontline and nuns offer comfort to families and especially children fleeing the war. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





An Afghan girl drinks water from a hand pump at Fayzabad district in Badakhshan province on August 5, 2025. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP Photo)





Children play in a portable swimming pool, offering respite from the summer heat for residents who are unable to afford travelling to the beaches along the Mediterranean Sea to cool off, during a heat wave, in Manshiyet Nasser shanty town, Al-Duwayqa, in Cairo, Egypt, on August 11, 2025. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





Relatives of the Palestinians, who died as a result of the Israeli army attacks on Gaza City mourn as the dead bodies were taken from the al-Shifa Hospital for burial in Gaza City, Gaza on August 19, 2025. (Photo by Saeed M. M. T. Jaras/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A girl holds a placard as activists take part in a rally in front of the U.S. embassy ahead of the upcoming meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to raise awareness about the plight of thousands of prisoners of war still in Russian captivity, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine on August 15, 2025. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)