August 5

Activists burn an effigy of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte depicted as a sea monster, during a protest near congress to coincide with Duterte's state of the nation address in Manila on July 22, 2019. (Getty)

A boy crosses a roadblock in the Kilijiwe district of northern Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on July 24, 2019. (Getty)

Pnar, or Jaintia, tribesmen carry traditional Raths or chariots during events to mark the Behdienkhlam festival in Tuber village in the northeastern state of Meghalaya on July 22, 2019. (Getty)

- A wheelchair is seen amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following a reported regime air strike on the town of Ariha, in the south of Syria's Idlib province, on July 24, 2019.(Getty)

Stranded whales lie on the beach at Löngufjörur in the Snaefellsnes peninsula. About 50 pilot whales were stranded on the beach, a frequent but rarely fatal phenomenon among these cetaceans and which remains unexplained. (Getty)

Orthodox nuns look on as they take part in a religious procession during the celebration of the 1031st anniversary of the Christianisation of Kievan Rus in Kiev on July 27, 2019. - Tens of thousand of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow patriarchy) believers took part in the open air service and in the religious procession in Ukrainian capital on July 27, 2019. (Getty)