American athlete Blake Leeper is handed the Paralympic flag by Karen Bass, Mayor of Los Angeles during the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Closing Ceremony on day eleven of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games on September 8, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Umit Bektas/Reuters)





People wait for Pope Francis at the Esplanade of Taci Tolu during his apostolic trip to Asia, in Dili, East Timo on September 10, 2024. (Photo by Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters)





People walk past fallen bicycles amid strong winds and rain from the passage of Typhoon Bebinca in Shanghai on September 16, 2024. The strongest storm to hit Shanghai in over 70 years made landfall on September 16, state media reported, with flights cancelled and highways closed as Typhoon Bebinca lashed the city with strong winds and torrential rains. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP)





Residents watch the flow of the Bela River during floods in Mikulovice, Czech Republic, Saturday, September 14, 2024. (Photo by Petr David Josek/AP Photo)





People navigate a flooded street following incessant rains in Feni, a coastal district in southeast Bangladesh bordering with Indian Tripura state, Bangladesh, Thursday, August 22, 2024. (Photo by AP Photo)





Local residents take photos on their mobile phones as water from the Biala river come to the city center in Glucholazy, southern Poland, on September 14, 2024 as Central Europe faces heavy rainfall expected to cause floods. Four people have died in Romania in floods triggered by Storm Boris, which has brought torrential rains and widespread disruption to central and eastern Europe, rescue services said. Since Thursday, September 12, 2024, swathes of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia have been hit by high winds and unusually fierce rains. (Photo by Sergei Gapon/AFP Photo)





Rescuers carry a body bag with the remains of retrieved landslide victim Rey Ondez, 28, whose house was swept during the Tropical Storm Yagi, locally known as Enteng in San Luis, Antipolo, Rizal province, Philippines, on September 3, 2024. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





Motoring enthusiasts attend the Goodwood Revival, a three-day historic car racing festival in Goodwood, near Chichester, southern Britain, on September 6, 2024. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)





Ivy on a house in North Queensferry, UK begins to turn from green to red as autumn draws nearer on August 26, 2024. (Photo by South West News Service)





A delegate dodges heavy rain on day two of Labour Party conference in Liverpool on September 23, 2024. (Photo by James Glossop/The Times)





A woman walks past tree branches and leaves brought down during the passage of Typhoon Bebinca in Shanghai on September 16, 2024. The strongest storm to hit Shanghai in over 70 years made landfall on September 16, state media reported, with flights cancelled and highways closed as Typhoon Bebinca lashed the city with strong winds and torrential rains. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP)





People walk in a flooded street during heavy rainfall in the city of Faenza, Emilia-Romagna region, northern Italy, 19 September 2024. Due to heavy rainfall causing rivers to overflow, more than 1,000 people have been evacuated across the Emilia-Romagna region, according to local authorities. The low-pressure system Boris brought heavy rain to central and eastern Europe starting on 11 September 2024 with five times the average monthly rainfall for September within a few days, according to the EU's Copernicus programme. Hundreds of thousands were evacuated from their homes across the region and more than twenty people died according to the latest reports from the countries affected. (Photo by Fabrizio Zani/EPA/EFE)





A woman sits on a beach as smoke billows over southern Lebanon following Israeli strikes, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Tyre, southern Lebanon on September 23, 2024. (Photo by Aziz Taher/Reuters)





A resident walks in a flooded street in the town of Stupava, situated a few kilometers west of Bratislava, Slovakia, on September 15, 2024. (Photo by Tomáš Benedikovič/AFP Photo)





Canadian actress and model Taylor Russell poses on the red carpet during arrivals for the screening of the movie “The Room Next Door”, in competition, at the 81st Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy, on September 2, 2024. (Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters)