Underground dancing in Beijing, a memorial of flags in Boston, a view of the Milky Way in Chile, beach horse racing in Spain, the Notting Hill Carnival in London, a wildfire in California, destructive flooding in Pakistan, and much more

A young pitch invader is removed after the Southampton–Manchester United match at St. Mary's Stadium in Southampton, England, on August 27, 2022. #

People use a makeshift cable car to cross the Swat River after heavy rains in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on August 31, 2022. #

Homes are surrounded by floodwater in Sohbat Pur, a district of Pakistan's Balochistan province, on August 29, 2022. Disaster officials say nearly half a million people in Pakistan are crowded into camps after losing their homes in widespread flooding caused by unprecedented monsoon rains in recent weeks. #

An aerial view of a crowd of supporters of the Brazilian presidential candidate for the leftist Workers Party, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, at an election rally in Manaus, Brazil, on August 31, 2022. #

In this aerial view, the tower of the Cerro Dominador concentrated solar- and photovoltaic-power plant stands high in the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places with the highest solar radiation on Earth, in Maria Elena, Chile, photographed on August 28, 2022. The project is part of Chile's national renewable-energy program, whose goal is to secure 20 percent of the nation's energy needs from renewable sources by 2025. #

A new view of the Phantom Galaxy, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, seen in this image released on August 29, 2022. Webb’s instruments reveal delicate filaments of gas and dust in the spiral arms that wind outward from the center of this image. #

A young pangolin rests after receiving medical treatment on its tail, believed to have been injured during an attack by dogs, at the Leofoo Village Zoo in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on August 31, 2022. #

Performers parade during the Notting Hill Carnival in London, England, on August 28, 2022. The Caribbean carnival returned to the streets of Notting Hill after a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. #

Lil Nas X attends the 2022 MTV VMAs at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on August 28, 2022. #

Bring Me the Horizon performs at the Reading Music Festival in England on August 27, 2022. #

A reveler lies in tomato pulp during the Tomatina festival—billed as the world's largest food fight—in Buñol, Spain, on August 31, 2022. #

Stephanie Williams cools off with water from a hydrant in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, California, on August 31, 2022. Excessive-heat warnings expanded to all of Southern California and northward into the Central Valley on Wednesday, and were predicted to spread into Northern California later in the week. #

In an aerial view, hundreds of dead fish are seen floating in the waters of Lake Merritt, a tidal lagoon of San Francisco Bay, on August 30, 2022, in Oakland, California. Tens of thousands of dead fish, including sharks, sturgeon and large striped bass, are showing up on the shores of the bay and its waterways as a widespread algal bloom continues more than a month after first being detected. The algae is not believed to be immediately harmful to humans but, in high concentrations, could be fatal to fish and other marine life. #

An aerial view of the remains of the submerged Gary Qasruka village, which was abandoned in 1985 and has partly resurfaced recently following a large drop in the water level behind the Dohuk Dam due to drought, in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk, on August 28, 2022 #

Jockeys race along a beach during the annual beach horse races in Sanlucar de Barrameda, near Cadiz, Spain, on August 25, 2022. #

A view of Sycamore Gap on Hadrian’s Wall, in Hexham, England, photographed on August 27, 2022. This year is the 1,900th anniversary of the building of the first phase of Hadrian's Wall, which is being celebrated with a year-long festival of events and activities. The wall is named after Roman Emperor Hadrian, who ordered its construction in A.D. 122. At 80 miles long, it was the northwest frontier of the Roman empire for nearly 300 years. #

Exhibitors drive their steam road-locomotive engines at the Great Dorset Steam Fair in Blandford Forum, England, on August 28, 2022. First held in 1969 and reputedly the largest collection of steam and vintage equipment anywhere, it regularly attracts 200,000 visitors to the site to see steam road locomotives, as well as other vintage vehicles. #

A group charges and fires their rifles during Tabourida, a traditional horse-riding show also known as Fantasia, in Rabat, Morocco, on August 27, 2022. #

Wind whips embers from a hot spot during a wildfire in Castaic, California, on August 31, 2022. #

NASA's Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen during sunrise atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on August 31, 2022, in Florida. After a delay, the next launch attempt is scheduled for 2:17 p.m. Eastern time, on Saturday, September 3. #

Flamingos walk through a brine pond in the National Flamingo Reserve near San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, on August 27, 2022. #

Duane Hansen floats down the Missouri River in a giant hollowed-out pumpkin, in Bellevue, Nebraska, on August 27, 2022. Hansen said he was trying to set the record for "longest journey by pumpkin boat," while celebrating his 60th birthday. #

The USS Texas is towed down the Houston Ship Channel in Baytown, Texas, on August 31, 2022. The vessel, which was commissioned in 1914 and served in both World War I and World War II, is being towed to a dry dock in Galveston where it will undergo an extensive $35 million repair. #

A view of a platform on the Leviathan natural-gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, seen from the Israeli coastal beach of Nahsholim, on August 29, 2022. #

A man jumps from a bridge into a canal to cool off, as tourists pass by in a boat, in Copenhagen, Denmark, on August 24, 2022. #

A firefighting helicopter releases its load of water over a burned area during a forest fire in the Sierra de Nívar in Granada, Spain, on August 29, 2022. #

A bulldozer works the edge of the Route Fire burning near Castaic, California, on August 31, 2022. #

The Milky Way appears over a mountain in the Valle de la Luna in the Atacama Desert on August 26, 2022, near San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. #

An actor performs onstage during the show "Jubileo," at Teatro Fígaro in Madrid, Spain, on August 30, 2022. #

A man (right) removes a cloth to unveil a 30-foot-tall statue of the Hindu god Ganesh, made from metal pots, coconuts, ears of corn, and sugarcane, during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Chennai, India, on August 31, 2022. #

Passersby look at a field of 20,000 purple flags in Boston, Massachusetts—one flag for each of the overdose deaths in the state from 2011 to 2021—on Boston Common, on August 29, 2022. #

A man and a woman dance in an underground passage in Beijing, China, on August 30, 2022. #

People carry a 430-meter-long Ukrainian national flag in Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 28, 2022. The action was meant to symbolize Ukraine's unity during its war with Russia, whose forces occupy large swaths of Ukraine's east and south. #

Sunflowers grow in the rubble of a house after it was bombed by Russians in Chernihiv, Ukraine, on August 29, 2022. #

Serena Williams celebrates after defeating Montenegro's Danka Kovinic during their 2022 U.S. Open Tennis tournament women's-singles first-round match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on August 29, 2022. Williams was set to take center stage as the U.S. Open got under way, as the 23-time Grand Slam winner prepares to bid an emotional farewell to tennis. #

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