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Burryman Andrew Taylor meets with native residents as he parades by means of Queensferry, Scotland, encased in burrs, on August 8, 2025. The Burryman occasion, held yearly on the day earlier than the Ferry Truthful, encompasses a man wearing a go well with made out of round 11,000 burdock heads, ferns, and flowers. Supported by two attendants, the person makes a seven-mile journey by means of the city. Residents greet him with donations and serve him whisky by means of a straw, a convention relationship again to 1746, believed to convey good luck and strengthen neighborhood spirit.

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China’s Shasha Liu takes a shot throughout the ladies’s pool 10-ball bronze-medal match in opposition to Germany’s Ina Kaplan, throughout the 2025 World Video games, in Chengdu, China, on August 13, 2025.

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A adorned elephant on the Buddhist Temple of the Tooth, as a part of celebrations to mark the pageant of Esala Perahera, in Kandy, Sri Lanka, on August 8, 2025

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A lady watches the sundown, which was shrouded in smoke from distant wildfires, at a park in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, on August 7, 2025.

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A wildfire burns on Mount Underwood close to Port Alberni, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, on August 12, 2025.

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William Gregorio and his son Yamry pose for a portrait the place their ancestral residence used to face, now submerged in seawater amid rising tides, on August 12, 2025, in Pugad Island, Hagonoy, Philippines. Within the Philippines’ coastal communities, water has been rising for years on account of local weather change. However residents say the sharpest surge got here due to large-scale reclamation and different man-made coastal developments, which have altered currents and compelled the tide farther inland. Now even the gentlest tide can unleash deep floods, drowning streets and houses inside minutes.

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A competitor takes half within the annual worldwide waterfall-jumping competitors held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on August 9, 2025.

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A polar bear rests on ice cubes that have been dropped at its enclosure throughout a warmth wave, at Prague Zoo, in Prague, Czech Republic, on August 13, 2025.

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A two-week-old orphaned jaguarundi meows as a biologist cares for it at a wildlife veterinary hospital, in Panama Metropolis, Panama, on August 13, 2025.

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Yerai Garcia performs together with his canine Greta as a full moon often known as the Sturgeon Moon rises in Arguineguín, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, on August 9, 2025.

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Flamingos fly at daybreak above a lagoon within the Fuente de Piedra nature reserve, close to Malaga, Spain, on August 9, 2025.

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A woman and her canine wade right into a shallow sea at excessive tide in Gravelines, France, on August 13, 2025 .

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Navy forces participate in a Nationwide Day parade rehearsal in Hanoi, on August 13, 2025, forward of Vietnam’s eightieth Nationwide Day, on September 2.

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A Ukrainian army car geared up with cage armor to defend in opposition to Russian FPV drones strikes alongside a highway, on August 11, 2025, in Kostyantynivka, Ukraine.

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A view of the Cliff Bookstore on the Cotton Sinkhole in Hechi, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Area, China, on August 9, 2025.

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Shiite Muslims attain to obtain a blessing from the tomb of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, on the imam’s shrine in Iraq’s holy metropolis of Karbala, on August 14, 2025, on the eve of Arbaeen, which commemorates his seventh-century killing.

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A employee cleans a statue of Buddha contained in the newly constructed Techo Worldwide Airport, in Kandal province, Cambodia, on August 11, 2025.

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Japan’s Nanoha Kida competes throughout the ladies’s changquan–jianshu–qiangshu wushu occasion on the 2025 World Video games, in Chengdu, China, on August 9, 2025.

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A Unitree Robotics humanoid robotic demonstrates expertise previous to a boxing match throughout the 2025 World Robotic Convention, in Beijing, China, on August 10, 2025.

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Ricardo Monreal of Necaxa battles for possession with Ángel Azuaje of Pumas UNAM throughout the fourth-round match, a part of the Torneo Apertura 2025 Liga MX at Estadio Olímpico Universitario, in Mexico Metropolis, Mexico, on August 10, 2025.

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Rainwater rushes down a stairway in Kennedy City district throughout heavy rainfall, in Hong Kong, China, on August 14, 2025.

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Buddy and Cheryl Rooney keep cool in a mountain brook at Diana’s Baths, a well-liked swimming gap in North Conway, New Hampshire, on August 12, 2025.

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A lady with a hose tries to battle a fireplace in Santa Baia De Montes, Spain, on August 14, 2025.

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Los Angeles County Sheriff Search and Rescue evacuates a horse because the Canyon Fireplace burns in Hasley Canyon, California, on August 7, 2025.

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Fireplace burns in an condominium constructing hit by a Russian drone strike within the city of Bilozerske, in Donetsk, Ukraine, on August 10, 2025.

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Folks benefit from the water of the Bourne River beneath hanging homes in Pont-en-Royans, France, on August 7, 2025.

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Vacationers stroll throughout the Maling River Canyon in Xingyi Metropolis, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou province, China, on August 10, 2025.

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Dolphins leap within the North Sea close to Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, England, on August 11, 2025.