Pope Francis, wearing a protective helmet from the Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian Firefighters Corps., as he holds a private visit of the Duomo cathedral in L'Aquila on August 28, 2022 during a one-day pastoral visit to the 2009 earthquake-struck Abruzzo capital. (Photo by Vatican Mediia/Catholic Press/Alamy Live News)





Kempton Park racehorse in Surrey, England welcome on August 28, 2022 the 13th Nepali Mela Festival first came to the UK in 2009, as a celebration of each and every Nepalese tribe's cultures and traditions.The Nepalese join together from over 50 tribes to welcome one another and rejoice over their diverse and unique ways of life. (Photo by Paul Quezada-Neiman/Alamy Live News)





Festival goers dance in the sea during the festival “Les plages electroniques” (electronic beaches) in Cannes, southeastern France on August 7, 2022. (Photo by Valery Hache/AFP Photo)





A woman disguised as a Congolese takes part on the 5th Festival of Pollera Congo in Portobelo, Panama, on August 20, 2022. The Congolese pollera Festival entered the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity List of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (Unesco) in 2018. (Photo by Luis Acosta/AFP Photo)





British rock band Bring Me The Horizon performs at the Reading Music Festival, England, Friday, August 27, 2022. (Photo by Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP Photo)





Arty Slaughter, five, stands on Wednesday, August 24, 2022 in the hand of “Elderma”, one of the new interactive tree giants unveiled at The Lexicon Shopping Centre in Bracknell, commissioned by Bracknell Forest Council to launch its “Green and Active Heroes volunteering scheme”. The scheme, which is part of the Bracknell Forest Festival, has been designed to encourage people within the borough to spend more time outdoors and closer to nature. (Photo by David Parry/PA Wire)





A kid walks along fresh water fogger system along the Seine river, as Europe is under an unusually extreme heat wave, in Paris, France, Tuesday, August 2, 2022. (Photo by Francois Mori/AP Photo)





A participant bears the weight of other men above him as people climb greased poles to retrieve prizes during a greased-pole climbing competition held as a part of Independence Day celebrations at Ancol Beach in Jakarta, Indonesia Wednesday, August 17, 2022. Indonesia is celebrating its 77th anniversary of independence from the Dutch colonial rule. (Photo by Tatan Syuflana/AP Photo)





Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr lifts his two year old daughter Nikole after they disembarked a train from Zaporizhia at Lviv railway station on August 25, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine. August 24 marked six months since Russia launched its large-scale invasion of Ukraine. Lviv has been spared the brunt of that attack, which has focused on central and eastern parts of Ukraine, but has been targeted periodically by missile strikes. (Photo by Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)





Young women sing during Ashenda festival in Lalibela, Ethiopia, on August 22, 2022. Ashenda Festival is celebrated in Tigray and Amhara regions, group of girls make preparations for the holiday by buying new clothes, visiting hairdressers and the holiday also marks the end of a two-week-long fasting period known as Filseta where the faithful in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church gather to honor the Virgin Mary. After 2 years of war between Ethiopia's Government and Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) that took place both in Tigray and Amhara regions it will be celebrated on August 22, 2022 in Lalibela, and girls from neighbouring cities will gather around and celebrate at Church of St. George and Bete Maryam. (Photo by Amanuel Sileshi/AFP Photo)





Women's soccer tournament is held where the participants must appear on the field to play with ruana boots and a hat, this is the traditional dress of the peasants of the region in Jenesano, Boyaca, Colombia on August 21, 2022. The different teams face each other to look for a new champion in the midst of the gaze of tourists who travel from all over the country to attend the event. (Photo by Yair Suarez/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Australian artist Patricia Piccinini speaks during the press presentation of her exhibition at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore on August 2, 2022. The exhibition “Patricia Piccinini: We are Connected” features unique and bizarre hyperrealistic sculptures of animal-human hybrids. (Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP Photo)





Actors performs on stage during the “Jubileo” theatre play at Teatro Fígaro attends the “Jubileo” theatre play at Teatro Fígaro on August 30, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Juan Naharro Gimenez/Getty Images)





People walk past Russian armored military vehicles that were captured in fights by the Ukrainian army, displayed in Khreshchatyk street on Independence Day, in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, 24 August 2022. Ukrainians mark the 31st anniversary of Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, as the Russian invasion continues six months since its beginning. Russian troops on 24 February entered Ukrainian territory, starting the conflict that has provoked destruction and a humanitarian crisis. (Photo by Roman Pilipey/EPA/EFE)





Moroccan horsemen fire their rifles during a traditional horse riding performance at a Moussem culture and heritage festival in the capital Rabat, on August 27, 2022. (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP Photo)





Nina a Sotheby's model wears The Willimason Pink star, an 11.15 carats and one of the rarest pink diamonds which is estimated at US 21 Million in London on August 31, 2022. The sale will take place in Hong Kong in October (Photo by Amer Ghazzal/Alamy Live News)





Russian political philosopher Alexander Dugin, leader of the International Eurasian Movement, attends a mourning ceremony for his daughter, Russian journalist and political scientist Darya Dugina (Platonova), at the Ostankino Television Technical Center in Moscow, Russia, 23 August 2022. Dugina, 29, died on 20 August when the car she was driving blew up on a highway near Moscow. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A woman watches from along a promontory as a sight-seeing hot air balloon launches in Goreme Historical National Park, east of Nevesehir (Neapolis) in the province of the same name in central Turkey's historical Cappadocia (Kapadokya) region on August 24, 2022. (Photo by Omar Haj Kadour/AFP Photo)





A beluga whale is seen swimming up France's Seine river, near a lock in Courcelles-sur-Seine, western France on August 5, 2022. The beluga whale appears to be underweight and officials are worried about its health, regional authorities said. The protected species, usually found in cold Arctic waters, had made its way up the waterway and reached a lock some 70 kilometres (44 miles) from Paris. The whale was first spotted on August 2, 2022 in the river that flows through the French capital to the English Channel, and follows the rare appearance of a killer whale in the Seine just over two months ago. (Photo by Jean-François Monier/AFP Photo)