Photos Of The Week (August 28-September 3, 2023)

An elephant keeper feeds Madhubala at the Karachi Zoo in Pakistan. Madhubala has shown signs of immense stress and weakness after months of solitary existence in a barren enclosure since the loss of her longtime partner, Noor Jehan, in April. After concerns were raised about Madhubala's welfare by animal rights organizations, the ailing elephant will be relocated to a new sanctuary in September.

Festivalgoers attend the INOTA music and visual arts festival at an abandoned thermal power plant in Varpalota, Hungary.

Wild horses roam on Stolovi mountain in Serbia.

Knowledge Day is celebrated at Bishkek's secondary school No. 25 on September 1.

A Kyrgyz boy sells flags at Ala-Too Square on the occasion of Independence Day in Bishkek on August 31.

Firefighters work at the site of a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. 

A super blue moon shines over Red Square in Moscow. 

Police officers put body armor on children before their evacuation from a village near the front line in war-wracked Ukraine. 

Local residents wait for evacuation from the village of Stepnohirsk near the front line in southeastern Ukraine. 

Pakistani Hindu girls celebrate the Raksha Bandhan festival at a temple in Karachi.

An Afghan balloon vendor rides a bicycle along a street in Kabul.

Local residents pass by debris in Kyiv that fell down from their damaged house after a massive Russian rocket attack on the Ukrainian capital on August 30. 

Afghan youths run as they exercise on a hilltop in Jalalabad. 

Ukrainian servicemen carry a coffin with the body of Ukrainian military pilot Andriy Pilshchykov, who was buried on August 29. 

Athletes compete in the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. 

Afghan children read from the holy Koran at a madrasah, or Islamic school, in the Behsud district of Nangarhar Province.

Comrades of late Ukrainian commander Serhiy Ilnitkiy pay their respects during a memorial service on Independence Square in Kyiv on August 28, after he was killed fighting in the Donetsk region on August 23.

An Afghan boy helps a potter to sort clay piggy banks inside a kiln in Jalalabad.

A Cossack slashes a watermelon with a saber during a saber-cutting competition in the village of Novosvetlovsky in Russia's western Rostov region.

Afghan farmers process harvested figs in Kandahar.

An aerial view shows the site of an explosion and fire of an LPG gas station in Crevedia, near Bucharest, on August 27.