Emergency crews and firefighters work near the fire advancing through the forest toward the town of El Rosario in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain on Friday, August 18, 2023. Officials say a wildfire is burning out of control through the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife, affecting nearly 8,000 people who have been evacuated or ordered to stay indoors. (Photo by Arturo Rodriguez/AP Photo)





This photo taken on June 25, 2023 shows Fuwaku rugby club players taking part in a rugby union match between two seniors over 70s teams at the Tochigi Prefectural Sports Park in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi prefecture. The Fuwaku rugby club was created in 1979. They have different colors of shorts depending on their age: white shorts are for those in their forties, blue for the fifties, red for the sixties, yellow for the seventies, purple for the eighties and gold for the nineties. It is one of approximately 150 Japanese clubs that stages competitive full-contact matches for players over the age of 40. Ahead of the Rugby World Cup in France, Agence France-Presse asked aspiring photographers from countries qualified for the competition to show one aspect of the rugby union culture in their homeland, with the help of Canon cameras who are sponsoring the tournament. From Namibia to Fiji via Romania to Portugal this photo essay gives us a glimpse of the core values of rugby on five continents. (Photo by Karen Haibara/AFP Photo)





Dancers from Shobana Jeyasingh Dance rehearse Counterpoint in the fountains at Somerset House ahead of this weekend's performances as part of Westminster City Council's Inside Out Festival, in London, Thursday, August 17, 2023. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo)





People enjoying the warm weather in Potters Fields Park in London on Wednesday, August 23, 2023. A hot spell set to sweep the country on Wednesday could be the last this year, forecasters have said. The Met Office expects temperatures to peak in the late 20s in some areas before the mercury dips and the sunshine gives way to more unsettled conditions over the bank holiday. (Photo by Lucy North/PA Images via Getty Images)





Peruvian singer Lenin Tamayo records a song as he takes on Peru's music scene with a new genre that resembles South Korean pop music but with songs in Quechua, the language of the Incas, in Lima, Peru on August 17, 2023. (Photo by Angela Ponce/Reuters)





People play chess with an outdoor chess set in Holland Park, London, Britain on August 22, 2023. The UK government will install 100 chess boards in public parks across the United Kingdom as part of a 1 million British pun budget package, as well as increasing the funding to the English Chess Federation (ECF). (Photo by Tolga Akmen/EPA)





The cast of HOME (left-right) Yuwei Jing, Malin Kvist, Zoe Villers, Kimihiko Katamura and Jack Bentinck from the Temper Theatre company, during a photocall in the Water of Leith, Edinburgh on Tuesday, August 22, 2023. The show highlights the climate crisis and how flooding is affecting the Fens in East Anglia and is being performed at the Pleasance Courtyard during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)





Local residents dance while musicians plays folk music at a yard bar, in downtown Kyiv, on August 13, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roman Pilipey/AFP Photo)





Parade revelers sing and dance from floats during the 45th Annual Provincetown Carnival Parade in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on August 17, 2023. The carnival, which celebrates community, expression and creativity was started in 1978 by the Provincetown Business Guild. The theme for the parade this year is “Land of Toys”. The Guild uses the parade to introduce new LGBTQ+ visitors and their allies to the Provincetown community. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso/AFP Photo)





USA's Tara Davis-Woodhall reacts as she competes in the women's long jump final during the World Athletics Championships at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on August 20, 2023.. (Photo by Marton Monus/Reuters)





England's Georgia Stanway and Rachel Daly celebrate after the match as England progress to the final of the World Cup over Australia in Sydney, Australia on August 16, 2023. (Photo by Jaimi Joy/Reuters)





The all-female circus troupe, Yuck, strike a pose in Edinburgh in the second decade of August 2023. Their show, mixing acrobatics, confessions, dancing and comedy, is on at the Fringe. (Photo by Duncan McGlynn/The Times)





People wait to jump in the water to cool off during a hot weather day at the public swimming pool Bellerive on the shore of the Geneva Lake, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, August 23, 2023. The city of Lausanne has decided to open its swimming pools free of charge as many parts of Switzerland have been experiencing a period of extreme heat. (Photo by Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP Photo)





England's goalkeeper Mary Earps, centre, reacts during the Women's World Cup semifinal soccer match between Australia and England at Stadium Australia in Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, August 16, 2023. (Photo by Abbie Parr/AP Photo)





Dancers perform in the fountains at Somerset House, in a dress rehearsal for Indian-born British choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh's “Counterpoint” in London on August 17, 2023. There will be eight performances of Counterpoint over the weekend of 19 and 20 August, part of Somerset House's Summer in the Courtyard and Westminster City Council's Inside Out festival. (Photo by Daniel Leal/AFP Photo)





Tourists rest on a bench in Rome, Monday, July 17, 2023. Tourist flock to the eternal city while scorching temperatures grip central Italy with Rome at the top of the red alert list as one of the hottest cities in the country. (Photo by Gregorio Borgia/AP Photo)





In this photo released by Oreo Deng, Oreo Deng, a former English tutor who sells jewelry to U.S. customers by livestreaming on TikTok, poses for a photo in her studio in Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province in June 2023. Chinese livestreamers have set their sights on TikTok shoppers in the U.S. and Europe, hawking everything from bags and apparel to crystals with eyes on a potentially lucrative market, despite uncertainties over the Chinese social media platform's future in the U.S. and elsewhere. (Photo by Oreo Deng via AP Photo)





Models defile on the catwalk in front of the Opera House during the parade of models and designers during the opening of the World Nomad Fashion Festival in Bishkek on August 10, 2023. (Photo by Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP Photo)





Models wear creations as part of the Maccapani men's and women's Spring Summer 2024 collection, unveiled during the Fashion Week in Milan, Italy, Friday, June 16, 2023. (Photo by Antonio Calanni/AP Photo)





Australia's Sam Kerr is despondent after Alessia Russo scored England's third goal in the Lionesses' 3-1 victory in the semi-final of the Women's World Cup, in Sydney on August 16, 2023. England will face Spain in the final. (Photo by Amanda Perobelli/Reuters)