A doll left by the protesters lies on the ground as riot police officers block the street during a demonstration in support of the city-wide strike and to call for democratic reforms at Tai Po residential area in Hong Kong, China, August 5, 2019. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)





A view of the tail of a Ural Airlines A-321 passenger plane at the site of its emergency landing outside Zhukovsky airport in Ramensky district of Moscow region, Russia, 15 August 2019. A-321 with 226 passengers and seven crew members on board en-route from Moscow to Simferopol made emergency landing after a right engine failure following the plane's colliding with seagulls shortly after take-off. Ten people were hospitalized following the accident. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA/EFE)





A member of the Kurdish Internal Security Police Force of Asayish stands guard as Syrian Kurdish demonstrate against Turkish threats to invade the Kurdish region, in the northeastern city of Qamishli on August 27, 2019. The Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria said Tuesday their forces had started to withdraw from outposts along the Turkish border after a US-Turkish deal for a buffer zone there. (Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP Photo)





An anti-extradition bill protester throws a stone at a police station in Tseung Kwan O residential district, in Hong Kong, China, August 4, 2019. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A man urinates on photos of Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam placed in the urinals, during a demonstration at the Airport in Hong Kong, Tuesday, August 13, 2019. Protesters severely crippled operations at Hong Kong's international airport for a second day Tuesday, forcing authorities to cancel all remaining flights out of the city after demonstrators took over the terminals as part of their push for democratic reforms. (Photo by Vincent Yu/AP Photo)





Shamans try to summon rain on Olkhon Island in Irkutsk Region, Russia on August 4, 2019. Forty shamans of the Irkutsk Region, Buryatia and Transbaikal Territory gather on the island to summon rain to battle the Siberian wildfires. (Photo by Vladimir Baikalsky/TASS)





LGBT activists and their supporters gather for the first-ever pride parade in the central city of Plock, Poland, on Saturday August 10, 2019. The parade comes as the country finds itself bitterly divided over the growing visibility of the LGBT issue and as the government and powerful Catholic church denounce gay rights as a threat to society. (Photo by Czarek Sokolowski/AP Photo)





Pope Francis allows a little girl suffering from an undisclosed illness to move around undisturbed clapping and dancing on the stage for most of his general audience in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, August 21, 2019. (Photo by Remo Casilli/Reuters)





A fighter loyal to the UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) points his gun toward enemy lines during clashes with forces loyal to strongman Khalifa Haftar, in Espiaa, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of the Libyan capital Tripoli on August 21, 2019. (Photo by Mahmud Turkia/AFP Photo)





Riot police take to the streets in large numbers to suppress anti-government protesters in Hong Kong on August 31, 2019. Train service to Hong Kong's airport was suspended Sunday as pro-democracy demonstrators gathered there, while protesters outside the British Consulate called on London to grant citizenship to people born in the former colony before its return to China. (Photo by Kevin On Man Lee/Penta Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





In this photo taken on Thursday, August 22, 2019, and distributed by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service, the Russian Progress 73 cargo ship blasts off from the launch pad at Russia's space facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The new Russian rocket, that is expected to replace the current model sending manned missions into space, blasted off from Kazakhstan on Thursday, carrying a Soyuz capsule with a humanoid robot. (Photo by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service via AP Photo)





In this photo taken on Monday, August 5, 2019, a family watches explosions at a military ammunition depot near the city of Achinsk in eastern Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region, in Achinsk, Russia. Russian officials say powerful explosions at a military depot in Siberia left 12 people injured and one missing and forced over 16,500 people to leave their homes. (Photo by Dmitry Dub/AP Photo)





An tract of Amazon jungle burning as it is being cleared by loggers and farmers in Iranduba, Amazonas state, Brazil on August 20, 2019. Wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest have hit a record number this year, with 72,843 fires detected so far by Brazil's space research center INPE, as concerns grow over right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro's environmental policy. (Photo by Bruno Kelly/Reuters)





In this photo taken on Friday, July 26, 2019, and distributed by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service, the Fedor robot is seen before being loaded into a Soyuz capsule to be launched by a new Soyuz 2.1a rocket from the launch pad at Russia’s space facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The new Russian rocket, that is expected to replace the current model sending manned missions into space, blasted off Thursday, carrying a Soyuz capsule with a humanoid robot that will be tested in spaceflight conditions aboard the International Space Station (ISS). (Photo by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service Photo via AP Photo)





Firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire burning container boxes with telecommunication and radio equipment at the Radion Antenna Park atop of Ymmitos Mountain (Hymettus), after a wildfire that broke out at the foot of the mountain on the outskirt of Athens, Greece, 12 August 2019. A wildfire broke out in the forest of Paeania, suburb of Athens, was contained quickly by the fire brigade. (Photo by Kostas Tsironis/EPA/EFE)





An Azerbaijani armoured vehicle drives during the International Army Games at the 40th military base Otar in Zhambyl Region, Kazakhstan on August 7, 2019. (Photo by Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters)





Medical student and environmentalist Sofia Guzman, 22, wears a mask she made to represent a toucan skull, during a protest to call for action to protect the Amazon rainforest, outside Brazil's embassy in Mexico City, Friday, August 23, 2019. Under increasing international pressure to contain fires sweeping parts of the Amazon, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday authorized use of the military to battle the massive blazes. (Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo)





A restored MK IX Spitfire takes off from Goodwood Aerodrome in Goodwood, England, Monday, August 5, 2019. A restored World War II Spitfire has taken off from an English aerodrome on the first leg of a planned 27,000 mile (43,000 kilometer) trip around the globe. Pilots Steve Brooks and Matt Jones hope to circle the world in about four months, with stops in 30 countries. Brooks says his biggest worry was the weather – and “landing is always the tricky part”. (Photo by Steve Parsons/PA Wire via AP Photo)





Pakistani breeder uses crane to carry his animals down from the roof for transporting them to the livestock market for the Muslim's Eid al-Adha in Karachi, Pakistan on August 04, 2019. Due to the crowded population, agricultural land scarcity and irregular urbanization in Karachi, people sometimes keep their animals on their roofs. (Photo by Sabir Mazhar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)