An Iraqi youth dives into the river in the Shatt Al-Arab river in the southern port city of Basra on August 6, 2020. (AFP)

The pack rides during the one-day classic cycling race Milan-San Remo on August 8, 2020. (AFP)

This aerial view taken on August 9, 2020 shows the site of containment operations for the leaked oil coming from the vessel MV Wakashio, belonging to a Japanese company but Panamanian-flagged, that ran aground near Blue Bay Marine Park off the coast of south-east Mauritius. (AFP)

Winner Joris Bergman aka de Navel competes during the National Championships Belly Slides in Hilversum on August 10, 2020. (AFP)

Mount Sinabung spews thick ash and smoke into the sky in Karo, North Sumatra on August 10, 2020. (AFP)

A person gestures during a gathering at the site where a protester died last night in Minsk on August 11, 2020. - The main challenger in Belarus's disputed presidential election said on August 11 she made a "difficult decision" to leave the country, after a second night of street clashes between police and opposition supporters left a protester dead. (AFP)

A Lebanese boy jumps a fire during clashes between protesters and security forces near the parliament in central Beirut on August 10, 2020 following a huge chemical explosion that devastated large parts of the Lebanese capital. (AFP)

Elephants play in a river at the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Pinnawala, Sri Lanka, about 90km from the capital Colombo on August 11, 2020. (AFP)

Aerial view showing smoke billowing from a part of the Amazon rainforest reserve north of Sinop, in Mato Grosso State, Brazil, on August 10, 2020. (AFP)

A wood duck or Carolina duck, a species of perching duck found in North America, is seen in a pond at the Ghosh Para area of Howrah District near Kolkata on August 11, 2020. (AFP)