A helicopter puts out a fire at the scene of an explosion at the port of Lebanon's capital Beirut on Aug. 4. STR/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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President Trump speaks during a Oval Office meeting Thursday with representatives of Israel and the United Arab Emirates, announcing an agreement to establish diplomatic ties between the two countries. Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images hide caption
Women hold flowers Thursday in support of demonstrators who were injured or detained during protests critical of election results in Belarus. Natalia Fedosenko/Tass via Getty Images hide caption
Former Salvadoran official Inocente Orlando Montano attends a trial in Madrid on June 8 for his alleged role in the killing of five Spanish priests in El Salvador in 1989. Kiko Huesca/EFE via AP hide caption
People line up outside a supermarket in a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, on Wednesday before a three-day lockdown goes into effect. Four new COVID-19 cases were diagnosed in Auckland, and an additional four probable cases have been identified. Fiona Goodall/Getty Images hide caption
Sen. Kamala Harris is Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden's pick as his running mate — a choice that many are celebrating in India, where Harris' mother was from. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images hide caption
Artists Shawana Brooks and her husband Roosevelt Watson III started the 6 Ft. Away Gallery in their yard in Jacksonville, Florida. They created it as a way to showcase Roosevelt's art at a time when galleries were closed due to the pandemic. Marc Mangra hide caption
A woman named Un A leads viewers on a tour of the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, in a recent YouTube video. "Every building in Pyongyang is going through general cleaning to shake off winter dust," she says in English. Echo of Truth/YouTube hide caption
Habeb al-Hamad Azab, a Syrian refugee, stands in front of his destroyed home in Beirut's Mar Mikhael neighborhood. Yasmina Hilal for NPR hide caption
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast, by Marjoleine Kars The New Press hide caption
Rattan Lal, an Indian-born scientist, has devoted his career to finding ways to capture carbon from the air and store it in soil. Ken Chamberlain/OSU/CFAES hide caption
A Prophet Of Soil Gets His Moment Of Fame
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A man scoops oil from the coast of Mauritius on Saturday. A Japanese cargo ship ran aground near Blue Bay Marine Park in late July and began to leak fuel oil and diesel into pristine waters. Jean Aurelio Prudence/L'Express Maurice/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Demonstrators block roads to protest the postponement of presidential elections in El Alto, Bolivia. Gaston Brito/Getty Images hide caption
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, seen here in May, said Tuesday that the country had four new cases of COVID-19. The government moved quickly to contain the outbreak and increased alert levels throughout the country. Hagen Hopkins/AP hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the approval of Russia's coronavirus vaccine during a government meeting on Tuesday. Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A cashier accepts payment from a customer in Munich in March. Matthias Schrader/AP hide caption
Hong Kong police officers search the newsroom of the Apple Daily newspaper Monday after arresting the paper's publisher, Jimmy Lai. Apple Daily via AP hide caption
A mural in Chennai, India, celebrates workers on the front lines against the coronavirus pandemic. The global case count crossed the 20 million threshold on Monday, with the U.S., Brazil and India in the lead. Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Residents exercise Sunday at Hagley Park in Christchurch, New Zealand. The country's border remains closed to foreign nationals, and New Zealanders returning home are forced to follow a strict 14-day quarantine. Mark Baker/AP hide caption
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab gives a speech in Beirut in March. Diab announced his resignation days after a disastrous explosion rocked Beirut. Dalati Nohra/AP hide caption