Photos Of The Week (August 29-September 4, 2022)

A little girl yawns during a ceremony at to mark the start of the academic year at a school in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, on September 1. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin pays his final respects beside the coffin of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow.

Ukrainian cadets practice an emergency situation during a lesson in a bomb shelter on the first day of school at a cadet lyceum in Kyiv.

Schoolchildren attend a ceremony to mark the start of the school year amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine in Bucha on September 1.

A portrait of the last leader of the Soviet Union and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev, is displayed in his memory in his office at the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow on August 31. Gorbachev, who changed the course of history by triggering the demise of the Soviet Union and was one of the great figures of the 20th century, died in Moscow on August 30, aged 91.

Jellyfish swarm the coast of the Sea of Azov in Russia's Temryuksky district.

An aerial photograph shows flooded residential areas after heavy monsoon rains in the Jaffarabad district of Balochistan Province, Pakistan.

Partizan supporters throw flares during a Serbian SuperLiga soccer match between Partizan and Red Star in Belgrade.

A cow stands in a field as black smoke rises from the front line of the war in Ukraine in the Mykolayiv region. 

Girls on a street in Kabul take part in Taliban celebrations marking the first anniversary of the final withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. 

Kyrgyz women wearing traditional clothes walk past portable yurts during a hunting festival in the Chunkurchak Gorge, some 30 kilometers outside Bishkek.

Local residents use a temporary cradle service to cross the swollen Swat River after heavy rainfall in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.

A sunflower grows amid the rubble of a bombed house in Chernihiv, Ukraine.

A newborn African elephant snuggles up to its mother at a zoo in Nyiregyhaza, northeastern Hungary. 

Ukrainian tennis player Daria Snigur makes a heart over a pin with the colors of her country's flag after upsetting Simona Halep of Romania during the first round of the U.S. Open tennis championship.

Activists hold a giant Ukrainian flag during an event called Ukraine United in Kyiv.

A 4-year-old Ukrainian boy walks out of a shelter near his house in the village of Pereizne, Donetsk region.

A family sits under a tent set up next to their demolished house, surrounded by floodwater, in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province.