Photos Of The Week (August 15-21, 2022)

A model presents a creation during the Bridal Festive fashion show in Karachi, Pakistan.

Raindrops roll down the face of a statue of a couple embracing in the city center of Druzhkivka, where many residents have evacuated, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.

An Orthodox priest is seen during a funeral ceremony for 20 unidentified people killed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February and March at a cemetery in Bucha.

Ukraine's Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk is covered in sand during the women's triple jump qualification during the 2022 European Championships in Munich.

Artists perform as people gather to protest against the loosening of logging rules by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government to meet increased demand for firewood amid a surge in gas and electricity prices, in Budapest.

A woman stands on the shore of Lake Velencei in Gardony, Hungary. Due to heat and drought, the water level of the lake stands at 55 centimeters, 8 centimeters below the lowest level ever measured.

Mourners carry the body of a victim of a mosque bombing in Kabul on August 18. The blast during evening prayers on August 17 killed at least 21 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded over two dozen others.

Veterinarians from the global animal-welfare organization Four Paws conduct dental surgery on an elephant at a zoo in Karachi, Pakistan.

A visitor looks at an installation artwork called Tell Me Your Story by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota in Pristina on August 16 at the 14th edition of the European Nomadic biennale held in Kosovo.

A woman carries an umbrella as she walks past a destroyed shopping mall in Bucha, outside Kyiv.

Birds fly above Lake Tuzkol in Kazakhstan's Almaty region. 

A man cleans an apartment that was destroyed after Russian shelling in Nikopol, Ukraine, 

Participants blow soap bubbles at the Sziget (Island) arts festival in Budapest. 

Taliban fighters hold weapons as they ride on a Humvee to celebrate the first anniversary of the fall of Kabul, near the U.S. Embassy building in the Afghan capital on August 15. 

Members of Russia's Youth Army movement and other participants attend a military-technical forum in Moscow on August 15. 

Hungarian athlete Zsofia Kovacs rubs her hands with chalk powder before she starts the women's floor exercise final at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Munich, Germany.

People help firefighters extinguish a blaze after blasts ripped through a fireworks warehouse in a shopping mall in Yerevan on August 14. 

A couple push their child on a swing where a rocket attack damaged homes on August 16 in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine.

Austria's Sofia Polcanova (left) and Romania's Bernadette Szocs celebrate winning the Women's Table Tennis Doubles final match at the European Championships Munich 2022 in Munich on August 18.

People affected by monsoon rains waits for relief in Hyderabad, Pakistan.

Shrapnel holes mark a sculpture of a child next to a school crossing on a street in Siversk, Donetsk region.