A Palestinian child is vaccinated against polio, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on September 4, 2024. (Photo by Ramadan Abed/Reuters)





Palestinian students sit on the rubble after attending a class in a tent set up on the ruins of the house of teacher Israa Abu Mustafa, as war disrupts a new school year, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 4, 2024. (Photo by Hatem Khaled/Reuters)





Schoolgirls sing the national anthem on the first day at school in a cadet lyceum in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, September 2, 2024. Children and students went to school despite the fact that Kyiv was hit by massive Russian missile barrage early in the morning, causing fires, damaged buildings and infrastructure objects. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





People light candles during a vigil in memory of slain hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin in Jerusalem, Israel, Sunday, September 1, 2024. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)





A young cadet takes a nap at the first lesson in a cadet lyceum on the first day at school in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, September 2, 2024. Children and students went to school despite the fact that Kyiv was hit by massive Russian missile barrage early in the morning, causing fires, damaged buildings and infrastructure objects. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





People wade through flood waters after collecting relief materials in Feni, in south-eastern Bangladesh, on August 24, 2024. Nearly 300,000 Bangladeshis were taking refuge in emergency shelters on August 24 from floods that inundated vast areas of the low-lying South Asian country, disaster officials said. The floods were triggered by heavy monsoon rains and have killed at least 42 people in Bangladesh and India since the start of the week, many in landslides. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP Photo)





Colin Donnelly, 5 of Evesham, does pull-ups while attending Evesham Township Police's National Night Out event held outside of the Evesham Municipal Complex on Tuesday, August 27, 2024. (Photo by Chris Lachall/USA TODAY Network)





Marcelina, 10 months old, for Poland, reacts watching a Wheelchair Fencing Women's Sabre Cat. A competition, at the 2024 Paralympics, Tuesday, September 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo)





Bolivia fans wait for the start of a FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifying soccer match against Venezuela at the Municipal de Villa Ingenio stadium in El Alto, Bolivia, Thursday, September 5, 2024. (Photo by Juan Karita/AP Photo)





Palestinian students attend a class in a tent set up on the rubble of the house of teacher Israa Abu Mustafa, as war disrupts a new school year in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on September 4, 2024. (Photo by Hatem Khaled/Reuters)





A young boy sheds a tear as he mourns at the site of the fire that killed over 70 people in the Usindiso building, during the one-year anniversary commemoration outside the destroyed building in Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 31, 2024. (Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Reuters)





Pixie Howitt,left, Jada-Jo Branney and Darcey McKechnie, pupils at the Dance School of Scotland, pose alongside works in the exhibition Discovering Degas: Collecting in the Time of Sir William Burrell, in Glasgow on September 3, 2024. (Photo by Wattie Cheung/The Times)





Henry Horner plays next to a Triceratops made of 149,542 bricks, that took 415 hours to build, on display at the Iconic Bricks: Dinosaurs! event at Sewerby Hall in Bridlington, East Yorkshire on Monday, September 2, 2024. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images)





A nurse administers Polio vaccine drops to a young Palestinian patient at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 31, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas militant group. The World Health Organization said Israel had agreed to at least three days of “humanitarian pauses” in parts of Gaza, starting on August 31, to facilitate a vaccination drive after the territory recorded its first case of polio in a quarter of a century. (Photo by Jihad Al-Sharafi/AFP Photo)





A group of children hold African and Chinese flags perform during a reception at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, 04 September 2024. (Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/EPA)





In this handout picture released by the Vatican Press Office on September 5, 2024 Pope Francis blesses a child as he arrives for a meeting with beneficiaries from charitable organizations, during his apostolic visit to Asia, at Indonesian Bishops' Conference headquarters in Jakarta. Pope Francis's gruelling tour of the Asia-Pacific got into full swing on September 4, with the 87-year-old appearing in good health and strong spirits as he met Indonesia's president. (Photo by Handout/Vatican Media via AFP Photo)





Manjui Indigenous children eye the camera while playing in the Abisai community in Mariscal Estigarribia, in the western region of Paraguay known as the Paraguayan Chaco, Wednesday, August 28, 2024. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





Children hold life-sized school kit props reading messages like “Re-Write our Future” or “Back to Parliament : Ramp up renewables, restore nature and reduce energy bills” as part of a “Back to School, Back to Parliament” rally organise by Mothers Rise Up outside of the Palace of Westminster, home to the Houses of Parliament, in central London, on September 2, 2024. Members of Parliament return to Westminster on September 2, 2024 after the summer break. (Photo by Henry Nicholls/AFP Photo)





A boy carrying a plastic bag with bread and eggs, rides his bike through a flooded road after heavy rains brought by Tropical storm Yagi, locally known as Enteng, in Baras, Rizal province, Philippines, on September 2, 2024. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





First-graders attend the traditional ceremony for the first day of school in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Sunday September 1, 2024. Zaporizhzhia schoolchildren celebrated the traditional first day of school near the frontline. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)