A competitor falls off the "gostra," a pole covered in lard, as he tries to grab the flag during the week-long celebrations of the religious feast of St. Julian, patron of the town of St. Julian's, Malta, on August 20, 2022. #

An aerial view of a man standing on a the cracked bed of Lake Akgol, dried out due to an ongoing heat wave in the Ozalp district of Turkey's Van, on August 10, 2022. #

A man sits on a deck chair among brown leaves fallen from the trees in St. James's Park in London, England, on August 24, 2022. Searing summer temperatures in the U.K. have not just parched the earth and dried up rivers, lakes, and reservoirs but are also making trees shed their leaves early. #

A forest burns during a wildfire near Altura, Spain, on August 19, 2022. As of early August, 43 large wildfires—those affecting at least 1,200 acres—were recorded in Spain by the Ministry for Ecological Transition, while the average in previous years was 11. #

Dr. Tetiana Myroshnychenko, a neonatologist at Pokrovsk Perinatal Hospital in Pokrovsk, in eastern Ukraine, checks on Veronika, a baby born nearly two months prematurely, on August 15, 2022. In Ukraine’s war-torn eastern Donetsk region, only one hospital under government control remains equipped to care for babies born prematurely in government-held areas. Doctors say the stress caused by the war and rapidly worsening living conditions are leading to more frequent birth complications for the area's pregnant women. #

A Hindu devotee falls after breaking a dahi-handi ("curd pot") suspended in the air as a human pyramid collapses beneath him during celebrations of the Janmashtami festival, which marks the birth of Hindu god lord Krishna, in Mumbai, India, on August 19, 2022. #

An excavator clears an area of forest that will be used for the tracks of the Maya Train in Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, on August 2, 2022. Mexico’s ambitious Maya Train project is supposed to bring development to the Yucatan Peninsula, but along the country’s Caribbean coast it is threatening the Indigenous Maya people it was named for and dividing communities it was meant to help. Photo released on August 22. #

Villagers use a boat to cross a waterlogged road caused by floodwaters after a rise in water levels of rivers Yamuna and Ganges following monsoon rains at Badara Sanuti village near Allahabad, India, on August 24, 2022. #

Stranded people carry their belongings as they wade through a flooded area after heavy monsoon rainfall in the Rajanpur district of Punjab province, Pakistan, on August 25, 2022. #

A view of pagodas on Louxingdun island, which is usually partially submerged in Poyang Lake. Low water levels are due to a regional drought in Lushan, Jiangxi province, China, on August 24, 2022. #

Bryan Rosel and his wife, Magdalena Llanque, who met more than a year ago through social media, kiss after getting married during a mass wedding ceremony where 50 couples were wed at the shore of Lake Titicaca in the Aymara district of Acora in Puno, Peru, on August 20, 2022. #

This image provided by NASA shows a false-color composite image of Jupiter obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 27, 2022. The planet’s auroras, its rings, and some of its small satellites are visible along with background galaxies. #

People rest in hanging hammocks near the "house in the air" in Abejorral, Colombia, on August 20, 2022. The house is an aero hostel located in the Andes mountains, built on a vertical rock about 25 meters high. #

A giant sculpture of a hand with fingernails painted in the colors of Ukraine's flag, and giving a victory sign, created by artist Jan "Slove" Slovencik, stands outside the Russian embassy in Prague, Czech Republic, on August 24, 2022, commemorating Ukraine's Independence Day. #

An African refugee from Nigeria works as a cat caretaker for an upper-middle-class family in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 21, 2022. Nigerian refugee women live on the outskirts of the city, work as helpers in car junkyards, and make a living from food donations, while facing problems such as racism, xenophobia, and unemployment. More than 2,000 Nigerians were living in Brazil illegally and without proper documentation before February 9, 2009, when they began to enjoy the amnesty offered by the Brazilian government. #