Taliban fighters patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, August 19, 2021. The Taliban celebrated Afghanistan's Independence Day on Thursday by declaring they beat the United States, but challenges to their rule ranging from running a country severely short on cash and bureaucrats to potentially facing an armed opposition began to emerge. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





A protester dressed as Jesus holds a cross bearing the message “the vaccine kills your immune system”, during a demonstration against the COVID-19 health pass which grants vaccinated individuals greater ease of access to venues in France, in Paris, France, 07 August 2021. The national enforcement of the “Health Pass” is expected to take effect on 09 August, after the French Constitutional Council has confirmed the government's law which extend the use of its Vaccinal Passeport (a QR code which proves the bearer has received full vaccination, or been tested negative for Covid in the last 72 hours) to cultural place, transport, and restaurants among other places. (Photo by Ian Langsdon/EPA/EFE)





Jake Bodart (L), Austin Johnson (C) and Jessica Rendon (L) of the Oregon Department of Agriculture look down at their attached boots while wearing hornet extraction suits, during an Asian giant hornet field training day held by the Washington State Department of Agriculture Pest Program, at Birch Bay State Park near Blaine, Washington, U.S. August 18, 2021. (Photo by Lindsey Wasson/Reuters)





Gypsies gather at Appleby in Cumbria, United Kingdom on August 12, 2021, for the biggest horse fair of its kind in Europe, which lasts till Sunday. Typically the fair takes place in June, although COVID has pushed it back to August in 2021. In the region of 30,000 people are expected to attend. (Photo by Chris Strickland/Alamy Live News)





Whole neighborhoods were destroyed by the Caldor fire, which raced through Grizzly Flats, Calif., on Tuesday, August 17, 2021. (Photo by Ethan Swope/AP Photo)





A stucked train after flooding is pictured in Wald im Pinzgau near Salzburg, Austria, on August 17, 2021. Storms have battered large parts of Austria since late August 16 with landslides and flooding hitting especially Austrias western regions of Pinzgau and Pongau in the state of Salzburg, bordering Germany. Some 100 people stuck in cars as landslides hit roads had to be rescued, while three people have been injured. (Photo by JFK/AFP Photo)





“Atzeries” the fire beast sets of its flying sparks inaugurating the “Festa Major de Gracia” in Spain on August 15, 2021. This unannounced cavalcade through Barcelona's Gracia quarter was the beginning of a reduced and restricted version of this famous festival due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. (Photo by Matthias Oesterle/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





One of a set of panda cub twins named Fleur de Coton sleeps in an incubator at The Beauval Zoo in Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, central France on August 13, 2021. The two cubs were born on August 2, 2021, and now weight 310 grams and 296 grams. (Photo by Guillaume Souvant/AFP Photo)





Persephone guides the visitors inside Alistrati cave, about 135 kilometers (84 miles) northeast of Thessaloniki, Greece, Monday, August 2, 2021. Persephone, billed as the world's first robot used as a tour guide inside a cave, has been welcoming visitors to the Alistrati cave, since mid-July. (Photo by Giannis Papanikos/AP Photo)





A handout image taken aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and made available by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows Hurricane Ida churning in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of its landfall in Louisiana, USA, 29 Augutst 2021. Hurricane Ida made landfall as a category 4 hurricane on the 16 anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The image was shared on ESA astronaut and Expedition 65 crew member Thomas Pesquet's Twitter account. (Photo by European Space Agency Handout/EPA/EFE)





A tree frog is sitting on a sign in Buenaventura, Colombia on August 01, 2021. Residents of the Buenaventura area, an important port city in western Colombia, have been caught in a crossfire between drug trafficking structures, for too many years, but they continue facing the cycling of violence with their intangible cultural heritage, this port city of 400,000 is at the center of it all. From hip-hop to the marimba keyboard, one of the contributions to the culture is their culinary heritage handed down over generations, In 2017, became a member of the Unesco Creative Cities Network, based on its gastronomy. Buenaventura is by far the largest city in the region, where an overwhelmingly Afro-Colombian population lives largely in small, scattered communities. Most are descended from slaves brought in by the Spanish starting in the 17th century to work in gold mines. (Photo by Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Our Teacher’s a Troll by Dennis Kelly transforms Lesnes Abbey Ruins into an open-air theatre in London, United Kingdom on August 10, 2021. (Photo by David Levene/The Guardian)





Kosovo's ceremonial guard stand at attention during a presidential medal ceremony for Beau Biden, the late son of US President Joe Biden, in Pristina on August 1, 2021. Beau Biden worked in Kosovo after the nation's 1998-1999 war with military forces and with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to help train prosecutors and judges. (Photo by Armend Nimani/AFP Photo)





China's Li Hao (L) competes with Ukraine's Artem Manko during the men's sabre individual category A gold medal wheelchair fencing bout at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at the Makuhari Messe Hall in Chiba on August 25, 2021. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





An Airbus A400M transport aircraft of the German Air Force takes off early this morning from the Wunstorf air base in the Hanover region Monday, August 16, 2021. In view of the rapid advance of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Bundeswehr wants to begin evacuating German citizens and local Afghan forces from Kabul. (Photo by Moritz Frankenberg/dpa via AP Photo)





A man holds two dead, young llamas to be burned as a ritualistic offering in honor of the “Pachamama”, or Mother Earth, on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, Sunday, August 1, 2021. According to the Aymara tradition, the Pachamama awakens hungry and thirsty every August after the dry season, and to satiate her, devotees toss offerings including fruit, coca, sweets and dead llama fetuses into a bonfire. (Photo by Juan Karita/AP Photo)





Demolition of Ferry Bridge C Power Station Chimneys and Boilers House The Ferrybridge power stations are a series of three coal-fired power stations situated on the River Aire near Ferrybridge in West Yorkshire, England on August 22, 2021, next to the junction of the M62 and A1 motorways. (Photo by Charlotte Graham/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A mountain goat jumps over a fence on a farm in Walhachin, British Columbia on Sunday, August 15, 2021. (Photo by Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP Photo)





Fishermen use fire to attract fish on a traditional sulfuric fire fishing" boat, on August 20, 2021 in New Taipei City, Taiwan. Taiwan used to have 300 boats using the traditional fire fishing method but now only one boat remains. (Photo by Billy H.C. Kwok/Getty Images)





Farzia, 28, who lost her husband in Baghlan one week ago to fighting by the Taliban sits with her children, Subhan, 5, and Ismael ,2, in a tent at a makeshift IDP camp in Share-e-Naw park to various mosques and schools on August 12, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. People displaced by the Taliban advancing are flooding into the Kabul capital to escape the Taliban takeover of their provinces. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)