KABUL: An injured person arrives at a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, after at least two suicide bombs went off at a busy gathering area outside the city's international airport on Thursday, August 26 (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times/Redux)

TOKYO: From left, Japanese athletes Karin Morisaki, Yui Kamiji and Shunsuke Uchida light the Paralympic cauldron at the opening ceremony in Tokyo  on Tuesday, August 24 (Shuji Kajiyama/AP)

KABUL: A US Air Force crew prepares to load evacuees aboard an aircraft in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, August 21 (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/US Air Force)

WOFFORD HEIGHTS: Firefighters are seen behind the flames of a backfire they were setting to battle the French Fire near Wofford Heights, California, on Tuesday, August 24. Dozens of large wildfires are raging across the western United States (David McNew/Getty Images)

GREENLAND: Rain fell at the summit of Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time in recorded history, Sunday, August 23 (Jason Briner)