Robyn Beck, AFP/Getty ImagesZiggy Torok, left, and Starla Affatati watch with concern as flames close in on Torok's home in the Rice Canyon neighborhood as the Holy Fire burns in Lake Elsinore, California, southeast of Los Angeles, on Aug. 9, 2018.
Patrick Record, The Associated PressKing Bass, 6, left, sits and watches the Holy Fire burn from on top of his parents' car as his sister Princess, 5, rests her head on his shoulder Thursday night, Aug. 9, 2018 in Lake Elsinore, Calif.
John Locher, The Associated PressBree Seville uses a small brush to sweep the stairs leading to burned out ruins of her fiancee's mother's home in the Keswick area of Redding, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018.
Rajesh Kumar Singh, The Associated PressIndian milkmen carrying milk overhead make their way through a water logged street as a boy hangs on to a cycle rickshaw trolley following heavy rains in Allahabad, India, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018.
Dusan Vranic, The Associated PressIn this Monday, Aug. 6, 2018, photo, crocodiles rest at a a farm in the Jordan Valley, West Bank. Hundreds of crocodiles are stuck at the farm where they were brought in the mid-90s to serve as a tourist attraction. Ensuing Palestinian-Israeli violence kept visitors away.
Antonio Calanni, The Associated PressA child pretends he is swimming, in shallow water at a fountain in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018.
Emrah Gurel, The Associated PressHot air balloons, carrying tourists, rise into the sky at sunrise in Cappadocia, central Turkey, early Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018.
Dieu Nalio Chery, The Associated PressYaisah Val a transgender woman get her makeup done at her home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on July 12, 2018.
Hassene Dridi, The Associated PressA man shouts during a demonstration in Tunis, Saturday Aug 11, 2018. Thousands of Muslim fundamentalists have held an hours-long protest in front of the nation's parliament to decry proposals in a government report on gender equality.
Fauzy Chaniago, The Associated PressA military paramedic tends to a boy who suffers head injury from Sunday's earthquake at a makeshift hospital in Kayangan, Lombok Island, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018. The north of Lombok has been devastated by the magnitude 7.0 quake that struck Sunday night, damaging thousands of buildings and killing more than 100 people.
Ed Jones, AFP/Getty ImagesPeople ride a water slide at the Caribbean Bay water park in Yongin, outside Seoul on Aug. 6, 2018.
Ed Jones, AFP/Getty ImagesRohingya refugee children play in a playground in the Thangkhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, August 9, 2018.
Spencer Platt, Getty ImagesA woman buys and ice cream cone on a hot afternoon in Manhattan on Aug. 6, 2018 in New York City. New York City is enduring another day of intense heat with temperatures in the 90's and high humidity levels.
Ulet Ifansasti, Getty ImagesAn Indonesian search and rescue team looking for victims at a collapsed mosque following an earthquake in Tanjung on Aug. 7, 2018 in Lombok Island, Indonesia.
Matt Cardy, Getty ImagesPeople watch the sun set at Porth beach on the first day of the annual Boardmasters festival that is taking place in Newquay on Aug. 8, 2018 in Cornwall, England.
Win McNamee, Getty ImagesKim Ganczak writes on the street with chalk near a makeshift memorial for Heather Heyer, who was killed one year ago tomorrow during a deadly clash, Aug. 11, 2018 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Steve Helber, The Associated PressA couple embrace as they participate in prayers at the intersection where Heather Heyer was killed last year as they mark the anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018.
Chandan Khanna, AFP/Getty ImagesA young Rohingya refugee girl washes her school bag at the Kutupalong camp in Ukhia near Cox's Bazar on Aug. 10, 2018.
Vadim Ghirda, The Associated PressA man throws a plastic bottle at riot police during protests outside the government headquarters, in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Aug. 10, 2018. Tens of thousands of Romanians flocked to an anti-government protest in Bucharest on Friday, urging the left-wing government to resign and call an early election.
Said Khatib, AFP/Getty ImagesA Palestinian protester uses a slingshot next to burning tyres during a demonstration at the Israel-Gaza border, east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug. 10, 2018.
Jose Jordan, AFP/Getty ImagesA firefighter refreshes a burnt area by a wildfire in Monte Pinar, close to the village of Barx, on Aug. 8, 2018.
Jorge Guerrero, AFP/Getty ImagesFlamingos move around a pen at Fuente de Piedra lake, 70 kms from Malaga in the Iberian Peninsula, on Aug. 11, 2018 during a tagging and control operation of flamingo chicks to monitor the evolution of the species.
Michael Probst, The Associated PressA jackass penguin dives in the zoo in Kronberg near Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Aug.7, 2018.
Narinder Nanu, AFP/Getty ImagesAn Indian woman looks down the barrel of an 84-MM rocket launcher during an Indian Army exhibition at Panther Stadium in Amritsar on Aug. 11, 2018.
Rodrigo Buendia, AFP/Getty ImagesVenezuelan citizens rest at the Rumichaca international bridge in Ipiales, Colombia, in the border with Ecuador, on August 11, 2018. The "unusual" increase in the migratory flow of Venezuelans, which reached 4,200 people a day, prompeted Ecuador to declare state of emergency in provinces bordering Peru and Colombia.
Johannes Eisele, AFP/Getty ImagesIn this photo taken shortly after midnight on Aug. 9, 2018, a man sleeps in front of a shopping mall along Nanjing East Road, a popular pedestrian street filled with shoppers and tourists during the day, to escape the heat of residential apartments in Shanghai.
Rizwan Tabassum, AFP/Getty ImagesA Pakistani man creates a pattern design on a camel's skin at a market ahead of Eid al Adhal festival in Karachi on Aug. 11, 2018.
Mark Ralston, AFP/Getty ImagesEnglish contemporary artist Lucy Sparrow poses beside her latest art installation titled "Sparrow Mart Supermarket," an entire supermarket with the products made from felt material, currently on display at the Standard Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Aug. 10, 2018.
Noel Celis, AFP/Getty ImagesRickshaw driver carrying passengers manoeuvers on a flooded street due to a heavy downpour brought about by tropical storm Yagi as it exits the Philippine's area of responsibility, in Manila on Aug. 11, 2018.
Ted Aljibe, AFP/Getty ImagesResidents clean their mud-filled homes after flooding brought about by heavy downpour due to exiting Tropical storm Yagi, submerged their homes in Marikina City, suburban Manila on Aug. 12, 2018.
Arif Ali, AFP/Getty ImagesPakistani men hold a national flag in a stall ahead of the upcoming Independence Day celebrations in Lahore on Aug. 12, 2018.
Marcio Jose Sanchez, The Associated PressA truck and a street are covered in fire retardant dropped by an air tanker as crews battle a wildfire Friday, Aug. 10, 2018, in Lake Elsinore, Calif.
Emrah Gurel, The Associated PressIn this photo taken on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018, Ali Kemer, a 50-year-old horse-breeder, herds horses in the village of Hormetci, on the foothill of Mount Erciyes, in the central Anatolian province of Kayseri, Turkey.
Logan Cyrus, AFP/Getty ImagesVirginia State Police guard the statue of Confederate Robert E. Lee on Aug. 12, 2018 in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, on the one-year anniverary of the violent Unite the Right rally that left one person dead and dozens injured.
Michele Cattani, AFP/Getty ImagesA woman with her child gets ready to cast her ballot at a polling station in Bamako on Aug. 12, 2018 during the second round of Mali's presidential elections.
Adek Berry, AFP/Getty ImagesA man carries a refrigerator from the ruins of an appliance shop in Bangsal, northern Lombok on Aug. 8, 2018, three days after the area was struck by an earthquake.
Gent Shkullaku, AFP/Getty ImagesThis aerial photograph shows parasols on a beach of the Adriatic Sea on Aug. 8, 2018 in Durres, as a heatwave sweeps across Europe. Temperatures rose 38 degrees Celsius in Albania.
AFP/Getty ImagesYemenis dig graves for children, who where killed when their bus was hit during a Saudi-led coalition air strike, that targeted the Dahyan market the previous day in the Huthi rebels' stronghold province of Saada on Aug. 10, 2018.
Sonny Tumbelaka, AFP/Getty ImagesA collapsed mosque is seen as the sun set at Kayangan subdistrict in North Lombok on West Nusa Tenggara province on Aug. 8, 2018, three days after an earthquake hit the area.
Tauseef Mustafa, AFP/Getty ImagesKashmiri fisherman rows a boat after a rainfall in Srinagar on Aug. 8, 2018.
Rodger Bosch, AFP/Getty ImagesPeople lay out plots and build shacks on a piece of land belonging to the Louiesenhof Wine Estate on Aug. 8, 2018, in Stellenbosch, which is at the centre of the South African wine-producing region. Hundreds of shacks have been erected on the property, which is next to the Kayamandi informal settlelment, despite people being evicted from the same land several months ago.
Miguel Riopa, AFP/Getty ImagesThe world's biggest octopus tapa (snack) is cooked in Carballino, on Aug. 7, 2018.
Patrik Stollarz, AFP/Getty ImagesThe river bed of the Rhine is dried on Aug. 8, 2018 in Duesseldorf, western Germany, as the heatwave goes on.
Oliver Bunic, AFP/Getty ImagesA man covered with mud sunbathes in Ovca, near Belgrade, on Aug. 11, 2018 as a heatwave sweeps across Europe.
Said Khatib, AFP/Getty ImagesA relative of 23-year-old Palestinian Enas Khammash, who was killed with her toddler in an Israeli airstrike, inspects their bedroom in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Aug. 9, 2018.
Natacha Pisarenko, The Associated PressWomen in support of decriminalizing abortion protest in the rain outside Congress where lawmakers are debating the issue in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018.
Sajjad Hussain, AFP/Getty ImagesIndia's most marginalised Dalit community members shout slogans during a protest in New Delhi on Aug. 9, 2018.
Chandan Khanna, AFP/Getty ImagesA Rohingya refugee boy looks on as he stands on a fishing boat at Shamlapur camp in Teknaf on Aug. 9, 2018.
City of Redding, AFP/Getty ImagesThis handout photograph obtained August 9, 2018 courtesy of The City of Redding shows a general view of damage caused by the Carr Fire near Redding, California.
Mahmud Hams, AFP/Getty ImagesPalestinians sit in a car after they received aids from a United Nations food distribution centre in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Aug. 8, 2018.
Frank Rumpenhorst , AFP/Getty ImagesAn airplane flies past a cloud band illuminated by the setting sun in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on Aug. 09, 2018.
Fauzy Chaniago, The Associated PressA doctor examines children injured in the earthquake at a makeshift hospital in Tanjung on Lombok Island, Indonesia, Monday, Aug. 6, 2018.
Victoria Jones, PA via APA canal boat passes along the Regent's Canal in King's Cross, London, Monday, Aug. 6, 2018.
Michael Burke, The Associated PressHomes destroyed by a wildfire are seen from an aerial view in the Keswick neighborhood of Redding, Calif., Friday, Aug. 10, 2018.
Emrah Gurel, The Associated PressIn this photo taken on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018, Ali Kemer, a 50-year-old horse-breeder, kisses one of his horses in the village of Hormetci, on the foothill of Mount Erciyes, in the central Anatolian province of Kayseri, Turkey. Kemer is a third-generation horse breeder in the village where the residents have a special affinity with the "yilki," as the untamed horses are called. He cares for about 350 of them and charges visitors 50 Turkish lira (US $8) to photograph the horses, money he says he uses for their upkeep.
Shakil Adil, The Associated PressPakistani family members receive a fishermen, center, who is released by Indian authorities, at Karachi railway station in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 10, 2018. The Indian government has released 14 Pakistani fishermen held for violating its territorial waters as a goodwill gesture.
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Ziggy Torok, left, and Starla Affatati watch with concern as flames close in on Torok's home in the Rice Canyon neighborhood as the Holy Fire burns in Lake Elsinore, California, southeast of Los Angeles, on Aug. 9, 2018.
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