Scenes from the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, an air festival in England, an inflatable art installation in Shanghai, scenes from the Venice Film Festival, a deserted theme park in China, a soapbox race in Kazakhstan, a dust storm in Sudan, and much more
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A participant wearing traditional Bavarian lederhosen races to the finish in the 2024 Münsinger Ochsenrennen ("Münsing Oxen Race") on September 1, 2024, in Münsing, Germany. The event, which pits the pride and glory of local ox breeders against one another, takes place only once every four years. #
Trevon Jenifer of Team USA falls as Eithen Leard of Team Australia looks on during the preliminary-round Group B match between Australia and the United States on day four of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games at Bercy Arena, on September 1, 2024. #
Tatyana McFadden of Team USA competes during the women's 100m T54 Round 1 heats on day seven of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games at Stade de France. #
The AeroSuperBatics Wingwalkers perform for the crowd at the Bournemouth Air Festival on August 29, 2024, in Bournemouth, England. #
A gigantic dust storm known as a "haboob" advances over palm groves in Dongola in Sudan's Northern State on August 30, 2024. #
A participant steers his homemade vehicle through bubbles on a track during the Red Bull Soapbox Race in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on August 31, 2024. #
Vanessa Low of Team Australia makes a jump in the women's long-jump T63 final at Stade de France, during the 2024 Paralympics, on September 5, 2024. #
Team Ethiopia's para-athlete Gate Yayesh Tesfaw (left) and her guide, Kindu Sisay Girma, compete in the women's 1500-meter T11 athletic events at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on September 2, 2024. #
Zhiqiang Yan of Team China competes with teammates Zhijian Lan and Qi Zhang (not in frame) in the boccia mixed-team BC1/BC2 gold-medal match against Team Indonesia on day eight of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games at South Paris Arena. #
Employees work on a steel-tube-tower production line at a factory in Haian, in China's Jiangsu province, on September 1, 2024. #
A view of a deserted, unfinished theme park in Jurong city in east China's Jiangsu province, on September 5, 2024 #
A drone view shows wildfires in Brasilia's National Forest, in Brasilia, Brazil, on September 4, 2024. #
Firefighters extinguish a fire at a burning electrical substation hit by a Russian bombing in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, on September 2, 2024. #
A man takes cover behind a column as an explosion blasts out dust and debris during an Israeli strike that reportedly targeted a school in the Zeitoun district on the outskirts of Gaza City, on September 1, 2024. #
On September 1, 2024, Ahmad Abu Amsha, 42, a music teacher who had to flee Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip, entertains children at a beach near a camp for displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, where he took refuge with his family. Amsha, the father of five, was a music teacher at a school in the north when the war broke out after Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack. In the south, he volunteers to teach music to young displaced Palestinians and to entertain children and youngsters in camps. #
A participant walks a costumed dachshund during a dachshund-parade festival in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on September 1, 2024. #
Rapper Ludacris, wearing a costume with oversized arms, walks to the mound to throw out the first pitch prior to the game between the Atlanta Braves and the Colorado Rockies at Truist Park on September 4, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. #
Miniature artworks created by Japanese artist Tatsuya Tanaka are on display during the "Small MUJI" exhibition at a MUJI store on September 4, 2024, in Beijing, China. #
A praying mantis walks the red carpet before the arrival of the cast of the movie April, presented in competition during the 81st International Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido, on September 5, 2024. #
George Clooney (center) poses with photographers as he attends the Wolfs red carpet during the 81st Venice International Film Festival on September 1, 2024, in Venice, Italy. #
Devotees carry an idol of the Hindu deity Ganesha ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival, in Mumbai, on August 31, 2024. #
Tokito Oda of Team Japan serves against Ben Bartram of Team Great Britain during their men's singles second-round match on day four of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games at Roland Garros, in Paris, France. #
Sarah Adam of Team USA collides with Stuart Robinson of Team Great Britain during a wheelchair rugby semifinal match on day four of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games at Champs-de-Mars Arena. #
Guo Jincheng of Team China practices during a warm-up session ahead of a competition, during the 2024 Paralympics, on September 3, 2024, in Paris, France. #
Gold medalist Emeline Pierre of Team France acknowledges fans on the podium at the para-swimming women's 100-meter freestyle S10 medal ceremony on day four of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games at Paris La Defense Arena. #
A woman takes a selfie as she lies in a pool of plastic balls at the Blow Up Experience installation, part of an exhibit of inflatable art and technology, in Montevideo, Uruguay, on August 30, 2024. #
A giant inflatable art installation, part of the "Kaws: Holiday" series, appears on the North Bund in Shanghai, China, on August 30, 2024. #
The Firebirds display team performs during the night show at the Bournemouth Air Festival on August 29, 2024, in Bournemouth, England. #
People participate in a Labor Day parade on September 2, 2024, in Marlborough, Massachusetts. #
Members of the media film as South Korean Marines take positions after landing on a beach during a combined military-amphibious landing exercise between South Korea and the U.S., called the Ssangyong exercise, in Pohang, South Korea, on September 2, 2024. #
Gal Hamrani of Team Israel makes a save as she competes during the goalball women's preliminary-round Pool C Game 22 match between Israel and China on day four of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games. #
Beatrice Maria Vio Grandis of Team Italy celebrates a point during the wheelchair-fencing women's foil-team bronze-medal match between Italy and Hong Kong on day eight of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games at the Grand Palais. #
Mohamed Lahna of Team USA celebrates with a U.S. flag as he crosses the finish line in second position at the end of the men's PTS2 para-triathlon event at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games at Pont Alexandre III on September 2, 2024. #
Visitors explore a beer museum on September 1, 2024, in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China. The museum features more than 1,000 different beers from around the world. #
A Sumatran elephant calf named Rocky Balboa, born on May 25, 2024, stands next to its mother, a 40-year-old elephant named Lembang, at the Surabaya Zoo during the introduction of the three-month-old calf to the public in Surabaya on August 31, 2024. #
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