August 13, 2021

A Taliban fighter stands guard over surrendered Afghan security member forces in the city of Ghazni, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, after the Taliban completed their sweep of the country’s south.

Meteors streak past stars in the night sky above the Battle of Didgori memorial area during the yearly Perseid meteor shower at Didgori, Georgia.

A demonstrator gets help during a protest of the government's actions during the coronavirus crisis, in Bangkok, Thailand.

A goat eats from offerings made by Hindu devotees to stone sculptures of snakes on of Naga Panchami, an important day in the Hindu calendar in which serpents are worshipped, in Bangalore, India.

Muslims take part in Friday prayers with social distancing measures in place because of the COVID-19 crisis, at a religious center in Surabaya, Indonesia.

Two panda cub twins, about 11 days old and named Fleur de Coton, left, and Petite Neige, sleep inside a special container at The Beauval Zoo in Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, central France.

Birds sit on a wire in a field at Moronga village, along the Assam-Meghalaya state border, India.

A woman stands behind the rows of numbers drawn on the Holocaust Memorial in Boston, August 12, 2021. The numbers represent the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.

A partly collapsed building is seen after being hit by floods that affected towns in the Turkish Black Sea area of Bozkurt, a town in Kastamonu province, Turkey.