August 21, 2023

Students with painted faces gather in support of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft in Chennai, India. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) confirmed that the lander module of the Chandrayaan-3 had "successfully separated" from the propulsion module six days ahead of a planned landing slated for Aug. 23.

A man evacuates horses during a wildfire in Chasia in the outskirts of Athens. Greece's fire brigade ordered the evacuation of a district on Athens' northwestern flank as firefighters battled a steadily growing wave of wildfires around the country, the second in a month. 

A woman holds the hand of a patient, as patients from the General University Hospital of Alexandroupolis were evacuated in a ferry to escape from a wildfire raging in Alexandroupolis, on the region of Evros, Greece.

Exiled former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra walks with his son Panthongtae Shinawatra and daughters Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Pintongtha Kunakornwong at Don Mueang airport in Bangkok, Thailand.

U.S. President Joe Biden, aboard Marine One, inspects the fire-ravaged town of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii, Aug. 21, 2023.

Firefighters and emergency medical personnel move a resident of a care home, who was trapped in their home overnight, to an ambulance following Tropical Storm Hilary in Cathedral City, California, Aug. 21, 2023.

An aerial image shows no traffic on Interstate 10 due to flooding and mud on the highway following heavy rains from Tropical Storm Hilary, in Rancho Mirage, California, Aug. 21, 2023.

Actors, writers and other union members join SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikers in Manhattan in New York City.

Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into the U.S. climb a fence with barbed wire and concertina wire, Aug. 21, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas.

A woman walks past South Korean soldiers taking part in an anti-terror drill as part of the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield joint military exercise between South Korea and U.S., at a subway station in Seoul.

Burnt sunflowers are seen in a field during a heatwave in the suburbs of Puy Saint Martin village, southeastern France, where the temperature reached 43°C.

An aerial view shows trees and brush growing out of the remains of the shipwrecked Yawah, just one of more than 200 ships in the Ghost Fleet at the Mallows Bay Park in Nanjemoy, Maryland.