August 14, 2023

A part of the Shimla-Kalka heritage railway track is seen washed away following heavy rainfall on the outskirts of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh state, India. 

Lava flows from the Mount Etna volcano as seen from Southeast Crater, in Nicolosi, Sicily, Italy.

Rescuers work at the site of a shopping mall destroyed during a Russian military strike in Odesa, Ukraine.

Destroyed homes and cars are seen, Aug. 13, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. Hawaii officials urge tourists to avoid traveling to Maui as many hotels prepare to house evacuees and first responders on the island where a wildfire demolished a historic town and killed dozens. 

Oil and plastic bottles fill a river polluted by a nearby oil field in the countryside of Rmeilan, in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province.

Children play as they fill plastic containers with water in the northeastern city of Hasaka, Syria.

Shooting stars streak across the Milky Way during the "Nuits des étoiles" (Starry Night), a major annual celebration for astronomy enthusiasts, in Fontainebleau, southern Paris, France, Aug. 13, 2023.

Geese fly by a wind pump in Kinderdijk, Netherlands.