Children cool off in a fountain, amid a heat wave reaching past 36 degrees Celsius, in Shanghai, China, 27 June 2025. (Photo by Alex Plavevski/EPA)





A child looks at Lego toys at Legoland Shanghai Resort on its grand opening day, amid an orange alert for heat in Shanghai, China on July 5, 2025. (Photo by Go Nakamura/Reuters)





A Palestinian man carries a wounded child after an Israeli strike on a residential building in Gaza City, Friday, June 27, 2025. (Photo by Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo)





A rescue worker evacuates two children from the site where a missile launched from Iran struck in Haifa, Israel, Sunday, June 22, 2025. (Photo by Baz Ratner/AP Photo)





An internally displaced Somali child is screened before vaccination at the Save the Children centre, at the Tawakal 2 camp in Baidoa, southwest Somalia, on June 24, 2025. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





A child poses with face painting during the event in Canning, West Bengal on June 15, 2025. For generations Bahurupi artists from West Bengal have been practicing in the art of face painting. Using their painting techniques they can easily metamorphose into different characters during a performance, which often represents tribal myths. These traditional artists scrape a living from their performances, relying on the generosity of audiences for their income. (Photo by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)





Girls dance as they take part in a celebration on the traditional Ivana Kupala (Ivan the Bather) holiday, the ancient tradition, originating from pagan times, marked with grand overnight festivities during which people sing and dance around campfires, believing it will purge them of their sins and make them healthier, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the village of Vytachiv in Kyiv region, Ukraine on June 21, 2025. (Photo by Alina Smutko/Reuters)





A Palestinian girl waits next to a queue at a food distribution point in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on June 23, 2025. The Israeli blockade imposed in early March amid an impasse in truce negotiations had produced famine-like conditions across Gaza, according to rights groups. (Photo by Eyad Baba/AFP Photo)





Children cool off on a hot day in a public fountain in Vilnius, Lithuania, Thursday, July 3, 2025. (Photo by Mindaugas Kulbis/AP Photo)





Children cool off in the water from the fountain at Seoul Forest in Seongdong-gu, Seoul on June 4, 2023. (Photo by Koh Woon-ho)





A Palestinian boy waits next to a queue at a food distribution point in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on June 23, 2025. The Israeli blockade imposed in early March amid an impasse in truce negotiations had produced famine-like conditions across Gaza, according to rights groups. (Photo by Eyad Baba/AFP Photo)





Brothers Leo, 2, and Raphey Almeida, 3, explore on June 25, 2025 a neon-painted T-Rex named King Rexford the Great by artist Laura Alp, part of a vibrant dinosaur trail at Furzey Gardens in the New Forest, UK featuring 50 prehistoric installations among the plants. (Photo by Simon Czapp/Solent News)





A child looks through a window at Legoland Shanghai Resort on its grand opening day on July 5, 2025. (Photo by Go Nakamura/Reuters)





Children cool off under water sprinklers as they attend a ceremony to mark Ashura, the holiest day on the Shi'ite Muslim calendar, in Tehran, Iran on July 6, 2025. *Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)





Children use foam sheets to float in a waterlogged street after heavy monsoon showers in Kolkata on July 8, 2025. India's annual monsoon season from June to September offers respite from the intense summer heat and is crucial for replenishing water supplies, but also brings widespread death and destruction. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





A girl holds up a sign before Lewis Capaldi performs on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, Britain, on June 27, 2025. (Photo by Jaimi Joy/Reuters)





A Pakistani boy sits on a cart amid rainfall in Karachi, Pakistan, 27 June 2025. Heavy monsoon rains have impacted major cities across Pakistan, triggering urban flooding and power outages. Authorities remain on high alert. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA)





A girl wears rainbow colored wings during the LGBTQ+ Pride parade in Santiago, Chile, on June 21, 2025. (Photo by Pablo Sanhueza/Reuters)





Children play near a public football field in the village in the Dnipropetrovsk region on June 25, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Tetiana Dzhafarova/AFP Photo)





A priest baptizes a child during a mass baptism ceremony, sponsored by local officials, at the San Martin De Porres Church in Bacoor city, Cavite province, southwest of Manila, Philippines, 20 June 2025. More than 200 children were baptized in a mass baptism ceremony, a significant religious and cultural event in a predominantly Catholic country like the Philippines, where the baptismal certificates issued afterward often serve as a de facto birth record for newborns in communities lacking easy access to civil registration. (Photo by Francis R. Malasig/EPA)