August 14, 2019

Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg waves from a boat as she starts her trip to New York, in Plymouth, Britain.

People look at lava bursting from the Piton de la Fournaise or the Peak of the Furnace flowing down the east-south-east face on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, Aug. 13, 2019.

A woman and a boy stand for pictures at Chkalovskaya metro station in Moscow, Russia, in front of a work of art showing Soviet pilot Valery Chkalov. He took a non-stop flight over the Arctic and landed in the U.S. state of Washington in 1937.

A thin, 70-year-old elephant named Tikiri eats at the Temple of the Tooth in the central city of Kandy, Sri Lanka. After a social media firestorm over using a weak animal in a parade, officials withdrew her from the festival and permitted to rest and take medicines.

This picture shows a view of the Sutong Bridge in Nantong in China's eastern Jiangsu province.

Muslim pilgrims walk around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Aug. 13, 2019.

Gold bars and coins are stacked in the safe deposit boxes room of the Pro Aurum gold house in Munich, Germany.

A boy competes in mutton busting at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 13, 2019.

A man rests near a sculpture of Saint Volodymyr in Kyiv, Ukraine.

An Arab boy jumps into the Mediterranean sea from the ancient wall surrounding the old port city of Acre during the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday in the old port city of Acre, Israel, Aug. 13, 2019.

Tightrope walker Tatiana-Mosio Bongonga walks on a rope above the Prague Castle during a practice for an official opening of an international circus and theater event in Prague, Czech Republic, Aug. 13, 2019.