A green woodpecker perches on a tree trunk of the Retiro Park in downtown Madrid, Spain, August 28, 2018. (Photo by AFP)
A selection of photos shot recently from around the world:
A paddock containing a crop of canola can be seen near a dirt road located on the outskirts of the town of Mallala, north of Adelaide, South Australia State, Australia, on August 22, 2018. (Photo by Reuters)
A person holds a baby turtle as 25 loggerhead turtles and green turtles, which just hatched, are released and launched into the sea in the Mansouri reserve, south of Beirut, Lebanon, on August 29, 2018. (Photo by AFP)
A gendarme of the presidential guard marches in front of the Presidential Palace onto which national flags of Germany are hung, a day before the visit of the German chancellor, in Dakar, Senegal, on August 28, 2018. (Photo by AFP)
A Brazilian soldier patrols on the banks of the Guanabara Bay during an operation against drug gangs in the Salgueiro slums complex in Sao Goncalo, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 29, 2018. (Photo by Reuters)
Pupils eat candy floss in front of a school run by the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza City on August 29, 2018, on the first day of classes after the summer holidays. (Photo by AFP)
Commercial trucks are seen crossing over the Ambassador Bridge toward Windsor, Ontario, Canada, from Detroit, Michigan, the US, on August 29, 2018. (Photo by Reuters)
People wade through floodwaters with their belongings amid heavy rainfall at a flooded section of a highway near Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China, on August 29, 2018. (Photo by Reuters)
Former Bayern Munich’s midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger poses in front his trophies prior to a farewell match for him between his former teams FC Bayern Munich and Chicago Fire in a stadium in Munich, southern Germany, on August 28, 2018. (Photo by AFP)
A member of the Terek Cossack Host community rides a horse as he competes during the Youth Cossack Games in the town of Zheleznovodsk, in Stavropol region, Russia, on August 29, 2018. (Photo by Reuters)