August 21, 2024

Afghan children stand at a scrap shop outside a World Food Program (WFP) distribution center in Kabul.

A child watches as a Shurui surgical robot, operated by a staff member (not pictured) from a console, performs "surgery" on a dummy at the World Robot Conference in Beijing, China.

Rescue personnel transport a body bag after a luxury yacht, which was carrying British entrepreneur Mike Lynch, sank off the coast of Porticello, near the Sicilian city of Palermo, Italy.

Lebanese firefighters put out a fire in a car after an Israeli strike in the southern city of Sidon. An Israeli strike in Sidon killed a Fatah official, said a leader from the Palestinian group and a security source, marking the first such attack reported on Fatah in over 10 months of cross-border clashes.

Israeli police officers scuffle with ultra-Orthodox Jewish men during a protest against a potential new draft law which could end their exemptions from military service in Jerusalem.

Rimon Buchshtab mourns during the funeral of her husband Yagev Buchshtab at a cemetery of the Kibbutz Nirim, southern Israel.  Buchshtab's body was one of six bodies of hostages, taken in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, recovered by Israel's military during an operation in the Gaza Strip.

A child reacts as people gather to receive meals during food distribution from a kitchen in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip.

Former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama embraces her husband, former U.S. President Barack Obama, on stage before his speech during Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Illinois, Aug. 20, 2024.

Demonstrators clash with police near the Israeli Consulate during the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 20, 2024, in Chicago.

Pope Francis wears a traditional hat given by an Indonesian faithful on the occasion of the weekly general audience at the Vatican.

Switzerland's Valentin Imsand competes in the men's pole vault during the Athletics Diamond League in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Construction workers prepare to build foundations along a street next to a billboard with an image of New York City in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.