The trail of a disintegrating waterspout is seen on the Havana waterfront on Aug. 8, 2025. Due to the intense summer heat, the island experiences various meteorological phenomena daily, including fatal lightning strikes and destructive tornadoes. Adalberto Roque/AFP via Getty Images
Local residents walk along a road amid smoke during a wildfire in Palaia Fokaia, Greece, on Aug. 8, 2025. Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images
People place paper cranes at the Peace Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 8, 2025, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Philip Fong/AFP via Getty Images
People cool off on the “Miroir d'Eau” (Reflecting Water) water feature in Bordeaux, France on Aug. 8, 2025, as a heatwave spreads across southern areas of the country. Philippe Lopez/AFP via Getty Images
U.S. President Donald Trump greets Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the White House on Aug. 8, 2025. Trump welcomed the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan, overseeing the signing of a joint declaration that seeks to end nearly four decades of hostility between the two nations. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
People gather at the scene where a bus carrying mourners back home from a funeral overturned, killing several people, in Kisumu, Kenya, on Aug. 8, 2025. Brian Ongoro/AP Photo
Protesters calling for the closure of The Bell Hotel, believed to be housing asylum seekers, gather outside in Epping, England, on Aug. 8, 2025. Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images
Sunset near Eversberg, Germany, on Aug. 8, 2025. Lavinia Savu/The Epoch Times
Burryman Andrew Taylor meets with local residents as he parades through the town encased in burrs in South Queensferry, Scotland, on Aug. 8, 2025. The Burryman event, held annually in Queensferry the day before the local Ferry Fair, features a local man dressed in a suit made from around 11,000 burdock heads, ferns, and flowers. Supported by two attendants, the man makes a seven-mile journey through the town. Residents greet him with donations and serve him whisky through a straw, a tradition dating back to 1746, believed to bring good luck and strengthen community spirit. Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images
Police officers stand at the entrance to the New South Wales Parliament House building in central Sydney on Aug. 8, 2025. An Australian politician jailed for rape resigned just moments before a state parliament voted on whether to expel him on Aug. 8. New South Wales state politician Gareth Ward was last month found guilty of sexually abusing two young men, aged 18 and 24, between 2013 and 2015. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images
Peru's President Dina Boluarte (2nd L) and Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (2nd R) hold a summit meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 8, 2025. Kazuhiro Nogi/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
U.S. Vice President JD Vance fishes with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy at Chevening House in Sevenoaks, England, on Aug. 8, 2025. Vance and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy are meeting for an official bilateral discussion at Chevening House, the foreign secretary's Grade I-listed summer residence. Suzanne Plunkett - WPA Pool/Getty Images
A blacksmith works at the Protec'fer iron workshop in Tunis, Tunisia, on Aug. 8, 2025. Fethi Belaid/AFP via Getty Images
A hot air balloon takes to the sky during the mass ascent on the opening day of the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, Europe's largest annual hot-air balloon event, in Bristol, England, on Aug. 8, 2025. Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images
French firefighters enjoy a thanksgiving dinner organized by a school for their work due to a wildfire outbreak in a vast area of the Aude department, at Talairan, southern France, on Aug. 8, 2025. Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images
The base of the Albert Pike monument without its statue in Washington, on Aug. 8, 2025. The National Park Service announced on Aug. 4 a plan to restore and reinstall a monument honoring Albert Pike, a Confederate general, that was toppled during Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
Allika Inkeri Moser of Team Estonia competes in the Women's Pole Vault during day two of the European Athletics U20 Championships 2025 in Tampere, Finland, on Aug. 8, 2025. Maja Hitij/Getty Images for European Athletics
The Prague Zoo curator of birds, Antonin Vaidl, feeds a lesser yellow-headed vulture, which hatched three weeks ago, by using a puppet that imitates a parent bird, at the zoo in Prague, Czech Republic, on Aug. 8, 2025. Eva Korinkova/Reuters
Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan (C) prepares to take off in his first attempt of the season at setting a new aviation record by reaching an altitude of 10,000 meters onboard the solar-powered plane SolarStratos at the Sion airport, in Sion, Switzerland, on Aug. 8, 2025. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images
