1. "Steel Beach." Sailors dive into the Pacific Ocean, somewhere near Hawaii, on August 2 during a swim call aboard the Los Angeles–class submarine USS Olympia, after the week-long RIMPAC naval-warfare exercise had just ended.

2. Paul Espernberger of Austria competes in the men's 50-meter butterfly heat on day five of the European Championships at Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow, Scotland, on August 6, 2018.

3. Kashmiri government teachers shout anti-government slogans as Indian police spray purple-colored water during a protest in Srinagar on August 9, 2018. Dozens of government employees were detained as they demanded hikes in salary and regularization of their jobs.

4. An air tanker drops retardant on the Ranch Fire, part of the Mendocino Complex Fire, burning along High Valley Road near Clearlake Oaks, California, on August 5, 2018.

5. Flames scorch a hillside at the Holy Fire in Lake Elsinore, California, southeast of Los Angeles, on August 9, 2018.

6. An aerial view of teenagers performing martial arts on a playground on August 4, 2018, to welcome the upcoming National Fitness Day, in Nantong, Jiangsu province, China

7. A girl walks along former railway tracks in the so-called Tunnel of Love, surrounded by arches of intertwined trees, near the Ukrainian village of Klevan, in the Rivno region, on August 6, 2018.

8. A person makes his way across one of the elevated glass walkways at Grand Central Terminal in New York City on August 3, 2018.

9. A view of the Fok Cheong Building, Montane Mansion, and Oceanic Mansion, one of the most crowded building compounds in Hong Kong, photographed on August 9, 2018

10. Carpets are laid out in fields under the sizzling sun to soften their colors, in Dösemealti, a town in the Mediterranean province of Antalya, Turkey, on August 10, 2018.

11. Amálie Švábíková, from the Czech Republic, makes an attempt in the women's pole-vault final at the European Athletics Championships at the Olympic stadium in Berlin, Germany, on August 9, 2018.

12. This photo taken on August 6, 2018, shows a Michael Jackson mural painted by the Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra in New York City. The late pop singer would have celebrated his 60th birthday on August 29, 2018.

13. A woman attends a demonstration in support of decriminalizing abortion, outside the Argentine Embassy in Quito, Ecuador, on August 8, 2018. Argentina's Senate is debating legislation that would legalize elective abortions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, an issue that bitterly divides the homeland of Pope Francis.

14. Women in support of decriminalizing abortion protest in the rain outside Congress, where lawmakers are debating the issue, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 8, 2018.

15. People cool off at an urban beach at Madrid Rio Park in Madrid, on August 5, 2018. Hot air from Africa is bringing a heat wave to Europe, prompting health warnings about Sahara Desert dust and exceptionally high temperatures that could peak at 47 degrees Celsius (117 Fahrenheit) in Spain and Portugal.

16. Smoke from the Mendocino Complex Fire hangs over a valley on August 8, 2018, near Lodoga, California. The Mendocino Complex Fire, which is made up of the River Fire and Ranch Fire, has surpassed the Thomas Fire to become the largest wildfire in California state history, with more than 300,000 acres charred and at least 115 homes destroyed.

17. People watch the sun set on Porth Beach in Newquay on August 8, 2018, in Cornwall, England.

18. Swedish Skycats perform an aerobatic wing walk during the Wings Over Baltics Airshow in Tukums, Latvia, on August 4, 2018.

19. The German extreme athlete Dirk Auer drives on his jet-powered Bobby car to set a new world record at 74.37 miles an hour (119.68 kilometers an hour) during an airport racing event in Bottrop-Kirchhellen, Germany, on August 5, 2018.

20. Two cars sit in a sinkhole that opened up in a street after heavy rain on August 4, 2018, in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China.

21. An immigrant's foot, photographed aboard the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms' rescue boat in the central Mediterranean Sea, on August 3, 2018.

22. The Rohingya refugee Dola Banu, 19, poses for a photo with her son in the entrance to her shelter at the Thangkhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar on August 9, 2018.

23. A separated migrant family is reunited in Guatemala. Lourdes de Leon hugs her 6-year-old son Leo Jeancarlo de Leon as they are reunited at the "Nuestras Raíces" shelter in Guatemala City on August 7, 2018. De Leon said she and Leo had gone to the United States in search of a better life, because her low-paying job selling clothing wasn’t enough to provide him with a good future. They arrived in Arizona on May 10, and the boy was taken from her a couple of days later. She was returned to Guatemala on June 7, while he remained in a shelter in New York.

24. The veterinarian Rodrigo Gutierrez Zecua carries one of a pair of four-month-old white-lion cubs as he prepares to move them from the cage where they spend the night to the enclosure where they are visible to the public during visiting hours at the Altiplano Zoo in Tlaxcala, Mexico, on August 7, 2018.

25. A man wearing an Itachiguma mask looks at the robot cat Ballon, which moves on the floor, during a photo opportunity at the Underground Maker Festival in Tokyo, Japan, on August 5, 2018. According to the Japanese artist Daiki Sako, who combined a robotic cleaner with the body and head of a cat, the robot was inspired by the video artwork "Welcome to Kitty City" by Cyriak.

26. A hot-air balloon in the shape of the children's comic character Rupert Bear is seen tethered before the launch of the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta in Southwest England on August 9, 2018.

27. Guy Clarke is thrown from his mount as he competes in the bareback competition at the 2018 Mount Isa Mines Rotary Rodeo at the Buchanan Park Events Complex on August 10, 2018, in Mount Isa, Australia.

28. A llama fetus burns as part of an offering during the inauguration of the new Bolivian presidential palace, named La Casa Grande del Pueblo, in La Paz, Bolivia, on August 9, 2018.

29. Onlookers are silhouetted against the reflection of a wildfire burning in the Cleveland National Forest in Lake Elsinore, California, on August 8, 2018.

30. A former child soldier holds a weapon during a child-soldiers' release ceremony outside Yambio, South Sudan, on August 7, 2018.

31. A girl with painted hands and face participates in a peace rally to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing in the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II, in Mumbai, India, on August 6, 2018.

32. A worker covers a building with a poster in Beijing's Sanlitun shopping center on August 6, 2018.

33. Children lie on a glass floor at the bottom of a new cantilevered staircase called the Oculus Stairs at the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington, on August 3, 2018. The recently completed $100 million renovation of the 605-foot-tall structure included replacing some floors and walls with structural glass that opened up views of the three legs below. It also includes "The Loupe," considered the world's first and only revolving glass floor.

34. A Cambodian worker sleeps during their lunch break at a construction site near Otres Beach in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, on August 3, 2018.

35. Israel's "Iron Dome" anti-missile system fires an interceptor missile as rockets were launched from Gaza toward Israel, near the southern city of Sderot, on August 9, 2018.