Italian airshow and Nepal flash flood

Frecce Tricolori, the aerobatic team of the Italian Air Force, performs on the first day of the BIAS International Air Show, in Bucharest, Romania, on 28 August 2026.

A drone view of the aftermath of flash flooding at the confluence of the Trishuli and Tadi rivers in the Devighat area of Nuwakot district, Nepal, on 29 August 2026.

A recent graduate prepares to pose for a photograph in front of the ruins of the Roman Temple of Bacchus in the historic town of Baalbek, Lebanon, on 29 August 2026.

Pedestrians walk past a wall mural along a street in downtown Tehran on 31 August 2026. Iran attacked US military targets in the Middle East in retaliation for US strikes on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz.

A powerful branching bolt of lightning flashes across the nighttime landscape, illuminating a wind farm in Sieversdorf, Germany, on 31 August 2026.

Atlantic puffins gather among the grassy nesting burrows on the coastal cliffs of Heimaey, part of Iceland’s Westman Islands (Vestmannaeyjar), on 26 August 2026.

A full moon is seen behind a collapsed residential building in Catia La Mar, La Guaira State, Venezuela, on 28 August 2026, more than two months after earthquakes of magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 struck the area.

Performers wave Malaysian flags during the 69th National Day celebration in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on 31 August 2026.

Palestinian men work on pots at a traditional pottery workshop in the West Bank city of Hebron, on 26 August 2026.

Humanoid robots fight in a kickboxing match during the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing on 26 August 2026.