Noah Berger / APFirefighters burn off vegetation while trying to stop a wildfire called the Bench Fire from spreading in Warm Springs, Oregon, on July 25, 2026.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / GettyA Tezutsu-shu, a traditional fireworks performer, is showered with sparks from tezutsu hanabi, hand-crafted bamboo tubes packed with gunpowder that erupt in a towering column of spark and flame, during the Tatebayashi Arm-Held Fireworks Festival in Tatebayashi, Gunma prefecture, Japan, on July 25, 2026.Lee Jin-man / APA participant plays in a mud pool during the Boryeong mud festival near a beach in Boryeong, South Korea, on July 25, 2026.Pavel Bednyakov / APPeople run through Red Square under pouring rain in Moscow, Russia, on July 28, 2026, backdropped by Saint Basil’s Cathedral.Mateusz Kaczmarek / ReutersEurope’s largest statue of the Virgin Mary, measuring 182 feet, pictured before its official opening to the public, in the village of Konotopie, near Torun, Poland, on July 29, 2026. The monument, funded by billionaire couple Grazyna and Roman Karkosik, is expected to become a major religious landmark and tourist attraction.VCG / GettyPeople ride a roller coaster past a giant Lego minifig at the Legoland Shanghai Hotel in Shanghai, China, on July 24, 2026.Kent Nishimura / AFP / Getty“Valor” (left) and “Sacrifice,” the two statues that make up the “The Arts of War” equestrian statues along Arlington Memorial Bridge, are visible after the scaffolding surrounding them was partially removed, in Washington, D.C., on July 29, 2026. The U.S. Interior Department said it was regilding four gold-plated equestrian statues near the Lincoln Memorial and that the project is slated to cost more than $5 million.Toby Melville / ReutersYoung deer stags are silhouetted against the darkening sky, beneath the moon as it approached its full Buck Moon phase on July 29, as it rises above Richmond Park in London, England, on July 27, 2026.Mesut Karaduman / Anadolu / GettyA ballerina performs as the full moon rises in the evening sky in Tekirdağ, Turkey, on July 29, 2026.Sunday Alamba / APPeople dressed in costumes perform during the Mask Festival in Porto-Novo, Benin, on July 26, 2026.Tyrone Siu / ReutersItaly’s Guillaume Bianchi (right) faces Hong Kong’s Choi Chun Yin Ryan in the Senior Team Men’s Foil at the World Fencing Championships in Hong Kong, China, on July 28, 2026.Phil Noble / ReutersNigeria’s Ruth Asuquo Nyong attempts a clean-and-jerk lift in the Women’s 48kg Final during the Commonwealth Games 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland, on July 26, 2026.Angela Ponce / ReutersPeru President Keiko Fujimori steps out of the congress after being sworn in as the country’s new president, in Lima, Peru, on July 28, 2026.Temilade Adelaja / ReutersA tall puppet walks the parade route during Manchester Day 2026, celebrating Manchester’s cultural links with Barcelona, with performers from Spain and the U.K., in Manchester, England, on July 26, 2026.Borja Suarez / ReutersVolunteers pose nude for the art photographer Spencer Tunick in Santa Ana Square, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, on July 26, 2026.Justin Tallis / AFP / GettyHundreds of people dressed in red take part in “The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever 2026” dance event at Folkestone Harbour Arm in Folkestone, England, on July 26, 2026. Originating in Berlin, the annual event held at many locations around the world gathers participants to re-create the music video for the musician Kate Bush’s 1978 song “Wuthering Heights.”CFoto / Future Publishing / GettyGeese swim in a lake at an ecological goose-breeding base in Menmen Township, Suqian City, Jiangsu province, China, on July 29, 2026.Pierre Albouy / ReutersAlphorn blowers perform an ensemble piece on the last day of the International Alphorn Festival on the Alpine pasture of Tracouet in Nendaz, in southern Switzerland, on July 26, 2026.Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP / GettyThe peloton ascends Col du Noyer during the Stage 19 of the Tour de France cycling race, in the French Alps, on July 24, 2026.Chaideer Mahyuddin / AFP / GettyPaddy fields, viewed at sunrise in Samahani, Aceh province, Indonesia, on July 24, 2026.Pablo Blázquez Domínguez / GettyA helicopter collects water from a swimming pool to combat wildfires on July 28, 2026 in Casillas, in Ávila province, Spain.Kostiantyn Liberov / Libkos / GettyLocal residents and visitors relax on a beach on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, as smoke from a fire rises in the background following a Russian missile strike on July 29, 2026.Giuseppe Distefano / Etna Walk / AFP / GettyA plume of ash rises from Mount Etna during an eruption on July 30, 2026.Scott Olson / GettyAn aerial view shows fallen trees from the previous day’s tornado in Saint Mary Cemetery in Appleton, Wisconsin, on July 28, 2026. The tornado passed through several communities in the area, causing widespread power outages, and left behind a long path of destruction.Pier Marco Tacca / GettyThe grape harvest kicked off early in the Pavia area at the Defilippi farm in Oliva Gessi, Italy, on July 28, 2026. The recent heat wave across Europe has led to a record early start for this year’s harvest.Arif Ali / AFP / GettyPeople walk across a washed-out railroad track in a flooded area after the Ravi River overflowed following heavy monsoon rains in Sheikhupura, in Pakistan’s Punjab province, on July 29, 2026.Yuichi Yamazaki / AFP / GettyA collapsed house rests partly on a small truck in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, on July 29, 2026, after an earthquake struck southwestern Japan the previous day.Michal Čížek / AFP / GettyA polar bear cools down on a pile of ice cubes in its enclosure at the Prague Zoo on July 30, 2026, as temperatures were expected to reach at least 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit.
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