A scorched forest in France, a crowd of mourners outside Buckingham Palace, an earthquake in China, flooding in Mexico and Bulgaria, a scene from the 79th Venice International Film Festival, a heat wave in California, continued fighting in Ukraine, a runway show at China Fashion Week, and much more

Wind whips embers from a burning tree during a wildfire near Hemet, California, on September 6, 2022. #

A model displays a creation from Heaven Gaia by Xiong Ying during China Fashion Week in Beijing on September 4, 2022. #

A surfer enters the water at Lower Trestles ahead of the 2022 Rip Curl WSL Finals in San Clemente, California, on September 6, 2022. #

A new view of the Tarantula Nebula, seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the nebula's star-forming region, including tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars that were previously shrouded in cosmic dust, in a view that spans 340 light-years across. The most active region appears to sparkle with massive young stars, appearing pale blue. Scattered among them are still-embedded stars, appearing red, yet to emerge from the dusty cocoon of the nebula. #

Fire retardant is dropped on the Fairview Fire, near Hemet, California, on September 6, 2022. #

Smoke rises as the Mill Fire burns on the outskirts of Weed, California, on September 2, 2022. #

A service member of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic fires a howitzer in the direction of the city of Avdiivka, Ukraine, during Russia's ongoing invasion, outside Donetsk, Ukraine, on September 7, 2022. #

A volunteer carries an idol of the Hindu god Ganesh for immersion in the Arabian Sea on the fifth day of the 10-day-long Ganesh festival in Mumbai, India, on September 4, 2022. #

A visitor poses for a photo in front of a giant-full-moon installation at Kwai Chai Hong, a heritage-revival back alley in Chinatown, on September 3, 2022, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month (September 10, this year) in the Chinese lunar calendar, on a full-moon day. #

A Javanese dancer performs at the Java Balloon event on the sidelines of the Dieng Culture Festival at Kalianget Park on September 4, 2022 in Wonosobo, East Java, Indonesia. #

People gather on Santa Monica beach amid an intense heat wave in southern California on September 4, 2022, in Santa Monica, California. #

A cable car is seen on California Street, with part of the Bay Bridge in the background, at sunrise in San Francisco, California, on September 6, 2022. #

Visitors watch the sun rise over Lake Powell from Alstrom Point in Big Water, Utah, on September 3, 2022. More than two decades of severe drought have left the Colorado River and its second largest reservoir, Lake Powell, at critical levels. In August, the U.S. government announced that water supplies to some U.S. states and Mexico will be cut to avoid a "catastrophic collapse" of the Colorado River. #

Rice Owls linebacker Aidan Siano sits on the sideline in the spray of a misting fan during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Southern California in Los Angeles, on September 3, 2022. #

The Ohio State drum major performs during an NCAA football game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, on September 3, 2022. #

A young bull flees from a Brazilian vaqueiro, or cowboy, competing in the Pega de Boi ("ox catch") tournament in Cabrobo, Pernambuco State, Brazil, on September 4, 2022. #

People take part in double-harness scurry racing at the Dorset County Show, on September 4, 2022, in Dorchester, England. #

Karol G performs during the opening night of her Strip Love tour at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois, on September 6, 2022. #

Actor Timothée Chalamet signs autographs as he arrives for the screening of the film Bones And All, part of the 79th Venice International Film Festival, at Lido di Venezia in Venice, Italy, on September 2, 2022. #

A wild goat (Capra aegagrus), under protection because of the danger of extinction, peers toward the photographer in Tunceli, Turkey, on September 4, 2022. #

A seal lies on a beach along the North Sea in the village of Sonderho, Denmark, on September 6, 2022. #

A mother and her daughter stand along a salt lake during sunset, in the coastal city of Larnaca, on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, on September 5, 2022. #

A view of the flooding caused by the overflow of the Sabinas River following heavy rains in Sabinas, Coahuila state, Mexico, on September 1, 2022. #

A car rests in debris left by severe flooding, following heavy rainfall in the village of Slatina, Bulgaria, on September 5, 2022. #

Rescue workers evacuate quake-affected residents at the site of a landslide near Moxi town, following a 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Luding county, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, China, on September 6, 2022. #

Glaciologist Matthias Huss, together with members of the Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS) Romain Hugonnet and Andreas Linsbauer, check measuring equipment on the Gries glacier in Gries, Switzerland, on September 2, 2022. #

The Northern Lights appear in the sky through a layer of smoke caused by multiple wildfires in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, seen in the early hours of September 4, 2022. #

A cat sits beneath lanterns displayed at the Tai O fishing village in Hong Kong, China on September 7, 2022. #

People congregate on the Queen Victoria Memorial opposite Buckingham Palace after Queen Elizabeth, Britain's longest-reigning monarch and the nation's figurehead for seven decades, died at age 96, in London, England, on September 8, 2022. #

Members of Turkish Police Special Operations wear VR headsets as they take part in a training simulation of a conflict with criminals at Virtual Tactics Training Center in Ankara, Turkey, on August 11, 2022. Photo released on September 7. #

Donald Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon (center) is led away from a New York court in handcuffs on September 8, 2022. Bannon was indicted on state charges of money laundering, conspiracy, and fraud related to an alleged online scheme to raise money for the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. #

A view of a scorched forest, burned during the Landiras fire earlier this summer, photographed near Hostens, France, on September 7, 2022. #

A sunrise view of the financial district of Lujiazui, in Shanghai, China, on September 7, 2022. #

A ferret pops its head out of a tube during a ferret race at the Dorset County Show, on September 4, 2022, in Dorchester, England. #

A cheetah lies on a mound in the Masai Mara National Park in Kenya on September 2, 2022. #

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