A dance on the beach in England, international competition at the 2018 Asian Games, ink on display at the Shanghai Tattoo Extreme & Body Art Expo, the MTV Video Music Awards in New York City, the hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, camels in Inner Mongolia, night patrol in El Salvador, Hurricane Lane seen from orbit, agricultural drones in Japan, lightning over Mexico, and much more
Photos of the Week: Silent Sam, Turbine Down, Mutton Bustin’
1. The setting sun colors the sea mist hanging over Popham Beach as beachgoers pack up and head home in Phippsburg, Maine, on August 23, 2018.
2. A lightning bolt strikes in Culiacan, Sinaloa State, Mexico, early on August 18, 2018.
3. A bench is surrounded by water after recent heavy rains caused the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., to overflow on August 22, 2018.
4. After a guilty verdict on the first count, an unidentified man holds a sign while Natasha Bertrand, a staff writer for The Atlantic, runs out of a U.S. district courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, on August 21, 2018, the fourth day of jury deliberations in the former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's trial on bank and tax fraud charges stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
5. A child hangs from a seat during a "Make America Great Again" rally at a civic center in Charleston, West Virginia, on August 21, 2018.
6. A boy participates in mutton bustin' as he rides a sheep at the Snowmass Rodeo on August 22, 2018, in Snowmass, Colorado.
7. Following Typhoon Rumbia, a man wades through a flooded street with two pigs in a village in Shouguang, Shandong province, China, on August 23, 2018.
8. Sri Lankan youths make a human pyramid at the Keerimalai Hot Springs in Jaffna district on August 19, 2018.
9. People enjoy a ride at a theme park during the Eid al-Adha holiday in Istanbul, Turkey, on August 22, 2018.
10. A wind turbine, knocked down as Typhoon Cimaron passed through western Japan, photographed in Awaji, Hyogo prefecture, Japan, on August 24, 2018
11. A Nileworks automated drone flies over rice plants, spraying pesticide while diagnosing growth of individual rice stalks, during a demonstration in Tome, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, on August 20, 2018.
12. A photo taken from the International Space Station by the astronaut Ricky Arnold shows Hurricane Lane in the early morning hours near Hawaii on August 22, 2018.
13. Residents enjoy a swimming pool, next to the construction site of a new multistory apartment building, on a hot day in Istanbul, Turkey, on August 19, 2018.
14. An internally displaced girl plays in the Sudd swamp near the town of Nyal, South Sudan, on August 19, 2018.
15. In this August 18, 2018, photo, a hiker makes his way past an alpine pond on the Juneau Ridge in Alaska.
16. Malian children wash a goat in a river on the eve of the Islamic festival Eid al-Adha in Bamako, Mali, on August 20, 2018.
17. A woman walks on a shoal under the Margaret Bridge during a period of low water levels in Budapest, Hungary, on August 22, 2018.
18. Police stand guard after the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam was toppled by protesters on campus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on August 20, 2018.
19. The police officer Joselyn Mejia, 27, rides in the back of a pickup during a nighttime police patrol through a market street in central San Salvador, El Salvador, on August 20, 2018.
20. An unidentified man stands with his hands up against a wall after being stopped by Brazilian soldiers during a military operation at the Complexo da Alemão slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 22, 2018. Direct confrontations between soldiers and armed traffickers have marked a deepening of the military's role in Rio's security. In operations on Monday, at least 11 suspects and 2 soldiers were killed.
21. A male brown bear scales a fence in the courtyard of Octavian Goga High School in the Transylvanian city of Csikszereda, or Miercurea Ciuc, in Romania, on August 21, 2018. The bear broke into several homes and killed a goat. In the end, the bear was killed by a hunter.
22. Camels lie in the grass on August 19, 2018, in Hulun Buir, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Prefecture, China.
23. Muslim pilgrims, carrying umbrellas to block the sun, gather on Mount Arafat in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on August 20, 2018.
24. Muslim pilgrims pray during the annual hajj pilgrimage outside Namira Mosque on the plains of Arafat, outside the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on August 20, 2018.
25. The Russian couple Dmitry Vasin and Sagdiana Khamzina compete to win the stage category at the World Tango Championship final in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 22, 2018.
26. The performer Cardi B attends the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on August 20, 2018.
27. Performers wait to get onstage during the opening ceremony of the 2018 Asian Games at the Gelora Bung Karno main stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 18, 2018.
28. A priest adjusts his vestments before Mass during the Pastoral Congress at the World Meeting of Families in Dublin, Ireland, on August 23, 2018.
29. A tattooed man sits on a chair at the Shanghai Tattoo Extreme & Body Art Expo in Shanghai on August 24, 2018.
30. Tear-gas canisters, thrown by Israeli forces, leave trails as they fall onto Palestinian protesters during a demonstration along the border of the Gaza Strip, east of Gaza City, on August 17, 2018.
31. Competitors take part in the compound women's individual qualification-round archery event at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 22, 2018.
32. Jeon Hee Sook of South Korea in action with Sera Azuma of Japan at the 2018 Asian Games women's individual foil semifinals in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 20, 2018.
33. A bride and groom pose for photographs on the Millennium Bridge with St Paul's Cathedral as a backdrop in London on August 22, 2018.
34. A woman prays over the belly of another woman at a prophetic church held in a closed street market in San Salvador, El Salvador, just after midnight on August 21, 2018.
35. A young Muslim girl dances and runs in the sea as she and her family celebrate Eid al-Adha by watching the sun set at Crosby Beach in Liverpool, England, on August 21, 2018.