Security personnel remove a suicide belt from a child in Kirkuk, Iraq, on Sunday, August 21. Footage from local television station Kurdistan 24 showed security personnel carefully cutting the belt from the boy’s torso.People use a boat to transfer an ox near Patna, capital of the eastern Bihar state in India, on Saturday, August 20. Heavy monsoon rains have displaced tens of thousands and caused rivers, including the Ganges, to overflow.People protest outside the French Embassy in London on Thursday, August 25, in response to some French authorities’ decision to ban women from wearing burkinis on the beach. The French Council of State suspended the ban on Friday, August 26.Nuan Nuan, a 1-year-old giant panda, reacts during a joint birthday celebration for her and her mother at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Tuesday, August 23.A fire artist performs during the Minsk International Fire Fest in Ratomka, Belarus, on Friday, August 19.A child receives treatment at a makeshift hospital after a reported airstrike in Douma, Syria, on Tuesday, August 23. Syria is in its fifth year of civil war.US Vice President Joe Biden, left, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey speak to the media after a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday, August 24.A person wearing full protective gear stands with soldiers wearing gas masks during a joint South Korea-US anti-terror drill at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday, August 23.Sira, a 9-year-old Nigerian girl, smiles after being rescued by the nongovernmental organization Proactiva Open Arms in operation in the Mediterranean Sea about 17 miles north of Sabratha, Libya, on Saturday, August 20.US swimmer Katie Ledecky, left, hands her medals to Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals baseball team on Wednesday, August 24.A charred truck is seen near the home of Julie and Art Thayer near Valleyford, Washington, on Monday, August 22. The Thayers had been hiking over the weekend and returned home Sunday night to find their home destroyed.
