World in Photos

An Algerian woman inspects the damage at her home due to forest fires in the Ait Daoud area of northern Algeria, on August 13, 2021. - Firefighters finally made headway against wildfires that have raged across northern Algeria for days but, as nationwide prayers were held for the dead, anger grew that the country was so ill-prepared. (Photo by Ryad KRAMDI / AFP)

This handout picture released by Turkey's IHH humanitarian aid group on August 12, 2021 shows a car floating in water in Kastamonu, after flash floods swept across several Black Sea regions. - Heavy storms descended on Turkey's northern stretches just as rescuers reported bringing hundreds of wildfires that have killed eight people since late July under near total control in the south. (Photo by Handout / IHH / AFP)

Activists of the Punjab Contractual Teachers Union protest against the state government to get job regularisation and the increase of salaries, in Amritsar on August 14, 2021. (Photo by NARINDER NANU / AFP)

Internally displaced school teacher wearing a burqa from Takhar province, who identified y her first name, Nilofar, left, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press inside her tent in a public park in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. In a lightning advance over the past several days, the Taliban now control more than two-thirds of the country, just two weeks before the U.S. plans to withdraw its last troops, and are slowly closing in on the capital, Kabul. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

A young Syrian girl stands by a water puddle caused by torrential seasonal rain flooding the "New Life" camp for the internally displaced north of Aleppo, by the border with Turkey, on August 13, 2021. (Photo by Bakr ALKASEM / AFP)

(From R) Paris Saint-Germain's Argentinian midfielder Leandro Paredes, Paris Saint-Germain's Argentinian forward Angel Di Maria, Paris Saint-Germain's Argentinian forward Lionel Messi and Paris Saint-Germain's Argentinian forward Mauro Icardi attend a training session at the Camp des Loges Paris Saint-Germain football club's training ground in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on august 13, 2021. (Photo by Bertrand GUAY / AFP)