From soy sauce to pumpkin exhibitions and pole vault records

Sweden's Armand Duplantis competes in the men's pole vault in Lausanne on August 21, 2024. He would beat his own world record five days later.

An Afghan worker offers his evening prayer at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Kandahar on August 21, 2024.

Workers make soy sauces at a village in Rugao, in eastern China's Jiangsu province on August 22, 2024.

A depiction of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo at a pumpkin exhibition themed around 'strong women' at Ludwigsburg Castle in southern Germany, on August 22, 2024.

Lava and smoke erupting from a new volcano near Grindavik on the Icelandic peninsula of Reykjanes on 22 August 2024.

A college student dressed as Hindu deity Krishna, ahead of Janmashtami festival, in Chennai on August 23, 2024.

A man carrying his livestock wades through flood waters in south-eastern Bangladesh on August 24, 2024. Nearly 300,000 Bangladeshis took refuge in emergency shelters.

Firefighters battle a fire in Sao Paulo, Brazil on August 23, 2024.

A man watches smoke billow after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Qsair on August 25, 2024.

Activists protest to condemn the rape and murder of a doctor in India's West Bengal state, in Kolkata on August 25, 2024.