A newly married couple walks up a hill with a view of the city of Antakia, Turkey, on Aug. 29.
Firefighters battle a blaze in Lousame, Spain on Aug. 29. Spain is prone to forest fires in summer because of soaring temperatures, strong winds, and dry vegetation. Last year wildfires destroyed some 500 square miles of land in Spain from January to July, after one of the driest winters on record.
A demonstrator works to stop violence during a march in Bogota, Colombia, on Aug. 29 in support of Colombian farmers on strike in demand of government subsidies and greater access to land.
People enjoy the water sculpture "Tower: Instant Structure for Schacht XII" at the Zeche Zollverein former coal mine in Essen, Germany on Aug. 29. The sculpture was built for the art festival Ruhrtriennale 2013 by the British architecture studio Random International. As the site describes, the sculpture is a "performative structure at World Heritage Zollverein using its plentiful, native material: water (6 million cubic metres of which have to be pumped out of the former mines every year to warrant the structural integrity of the entire region). Random cycle almost 30,000 litres of water per minute to create a monolithic form, an ephemeral tower that appears and disappears instantaneously."
Greek Orthodox Christian nuns walk along the Via Dolorosa during a procession commemorating the death and the resurrection of Saint Maria on Aug. 25, in Jerusalem.
Crowds gather to support Cambodia's opposition leader Sam Rainsy and Vice President Kem Sokha at Freedom Park on Aug. 26 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Rainsy and Sokha spoke to a crowd of around 10,000 supporters, where they called upon them to gather in Phnom Penh for mass demonstrations if an independent commission is not set up to investigate election results.
"The Cipotegato" acknowledges the crowd after running through the streets on Aug. 27, in Tarazona, Spain. Every year thousands of people gather in the main square of Tarazona waiting for "The Cipotegato," and then throw tomatoes at him. The Cipotegato is a hooded character, dressed as a harlequin in a yellow, green, and red costume. The roots of the event come from a tradition in the middle of the 18th century that gave a local prisoner the chance to escape to freedom.
People sit on benches along a pathway in Brooklyn Bridge Park, a newly designed outdoor space on the East River in Brooklyn, New York on Aug. 27. The park, part of a renovation of post-industrial space throughout the borough, includes 85 acres of new parkland with spaces allocated for running, biking, and viewing the river.
