An orangutan rehabilitation center in Borneo, an iceberg-filled fjord in Greenland, a holy waterfall in Bali, green slime at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, scenes from the Republican National Convention, a fire festival in Japan, a hot summer day in New York City, and much more
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A view of Strombolicchio, a volcanic island topped by a lighthouse, about a mile away from Italy's island of Stromboli, on July 12, 2024. On July 11, the volcano erupted, sending ash, lava, and white smoke up from its crater. #
People do yoga poses on paddleboards at sunset as the heat index tops 100 degrees at Olathe Lake on July 15, 2024, in Olathe, Kansas. #
Children cool off and play in water sprayed from a fire hydrant on a hot day, July 16, 2024, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. #
Felipe VI, the King of Spain, holds the trophy as he and his daughter Princess Sofia celebrate with the players after they won the final match between Spain and England at the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in Berlin, Germany, on July 14, 2024. #
White-robed men hold up flaming torches during an annual fire festival at the World Heritage–listed Kumano Nachi Taisha shrine in the Wakayama Prefecture town of Nachikatsuura, Japan, on July 14, 2024. #
A person watches an eruption from Mount Etna in Sicily on July 15, 2024. Flights to Sicily's Catania airport were temporarily suspended following the eruption. #
Tourists ride bamboo rafts in the Yulong River scenic area in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, on July 14, 2024. #
Luxury buildings are seen from the coastal dune field in Concon, Chile. The dune field, located between Vina del Mar and Concon, has been invaded by the construction of large buildings intended to accommodate tourists. This year three sinkholes have opened near or directly under buildings after heavy rains, leaving them uninhabitable. Although experts advised against building in the dune field, because of the lack of clear regulation, a battle has raged for the past three decades over how much of the area should be off-limits to development. #
A staff member of a mushroom-cultivation-and-processing company records the growth of mushroom sticks in Qingdao, Shandong province, China, on July 14, 2024. #
A worker sorts peppers, zucchini, eggplants, and other vegetables laid to dry under the sun in Gaziantep, Turkey, on July 10, 2024. #
People on balconies wait for the start of the last bull run of the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain, on July 14, 2024. #
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents after an attempted assassination at a campaign rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. #
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson holds the gavel onstage ahead of the start of the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. #
Politician and disbarred lawyer Rudy Giuliani is helped to his feet after falling into a row of chairs on the second day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 16, 2024. #
Attendees are slimed at the 37th Annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, on July 13, 2024. #
Balinese Hindus take part in a cleansing ritual called Banyu Pinaruh, which is believed to purify their body and soul, at Sebatu holy waterfall in Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia, on July 14, 2024. #
A humpback whale breaches near Iguana Island, Panama, on July 14, 2024. #
A woman swings on Venao beach in Pedasi, Panama, on July 13, 2024. #
A boy jumps into the Ibar river to cool off in Mitrovica, Kosovo, on July 17, 2024. #
This aerial photograph taken on July 18, 2024, outside Brest, France, shows old vessels sailing past a lighthouse as they attend the grand parade during the eighth Brest Maritime Festival. #
A visitor looks out at icebergs jammed in the Ilulissat Icefjord on July 15, 2024, near Ilulissat, Greenland. The Ilulissat Icefjord is approximately 60 kilometers long and is a conduit for icebergs calving from the massive Sermeq Kujalleq glacier, also called the Jakobshavn Glacier, of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Since 1850, Sermeq Kujalleq has retreated approximately 25 miles (40 kilometers), a process that has accelerated in recent decades, with the period from 2002 accounting for 13.7 miles (22 kilometers) of glacier retreat. #
A person runs across the Rainbow Bridge, shrouded in fog, in the West Coast New Area in Qingdao, Shandong province, China, on July 12, 2024. #
Fans try to enter the stadium during the CONMEBOL Copa America 2024 Final match between Argentina and Colombia at Hard Rock Stadium on July 14, 2024, in Miami Gardens, Florida. #
Poor Clare Sisters play soccer as they support the Colombian national team in the Copa America final against Argentina, at a convent in Montenegro, Colombia, on July 13, 2024. #
A visitor dressed up as an anime character attends Festival Kamen 2024 at the National Stadium in San José, Costa Rica, on July 14, 2024. #
Mikail Agdas, baglama master, sits on a couch with his lamb in Konya, Turkey, on July 10, 2024. #
Cast member Ryan Reynolds holds Britain's ugliest dog, Peggy, who plays Dogpool in Deadpool & Wolverine, during a photo-call for the movie in London, England, on July 12, 2024. #
Farmer Tom Pearcy, the creator of York Maze, poses for a picture in a corn field on July 12, 2024, in York, England. York Maze is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of the children's book "The Gruffalo" this year. Pearcy has cut more than 5 kilometers of maze pathways into a design shaped like the Gruffalo in his 15-acre field. #
On July 12, 2024, Bujang, a 35-year-old male orangutan rescued from a circus in Sumatra, asks for food on a sanctuary island surrounded by a river, where non-releasable orangutans are protected for life. The Samboja Lestari Orangutan Rehabilitation Center is run by the nonprofit Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation in Samboja, East Kalimantan. #
Wives of Ukrainian servicemen assigned to the front line take part in assault combat training as part of a program to provide them with military skills, in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, on July 14, 2024. #
A riot police officer kicks away a tear-gas canister during anti-government protests in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 16, 2024. Police were out in force in the center of Kenya's capital on Tuesday after calls for more demonstrations against the embattled government of President William Ruto. Activists led by young Kenyans launched peaceful rallies a month ago against deeply unpopular tax hikes, but they descended into violence last month, prompting Ruto to drop the planned increases. #
Men stand before the collapsed minaret of a mosque, following Israeli bombardment in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on July 17, 2024. #
Trees erupt in flames as a wildfire burns between the Gaziemir and Buca districts of İzmir, Turkey, on July 18, 2024. #
A drone-and-firework show lights up the sky near the Eiffel Tower on July 14, 2024, in Paris, France. The Olympic Flame arrived in Paris on July 14 to be integrated into the Bastille Day celebrations. #
Claudia Tagbo and Pascal Touitou carry Olympic Torches at Basilique du Sacre-Coeur de Montmartre during the second day of the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay on July 15, 2024, in Paris, France. #
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