From the Arenal Sound Music Festival in Spain, to the international air-balloon meeting "Grand-Est Mondial Air Ballons" in France and pouring rain in Germany; from European starlings flocking in the sky in Belarus, to the wildfires in Russia's Siberia — these are just some of the events that have been taking place around the globe.
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Staff of the Ministry of Nature Protection of Yakutia fights wildfires in Siberia, Russia.

Revellers dance next to a swimming pool during the Arenal Sound Music Festival in Burriana, Spain on 31 July 2019.

American and Mexican families play on a toy called "up and down" (seesaw) across the Mexican border with US at the Anapra Zone in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua State, Mexico on 28 July 2019.

Syrian Kurds in traditional clothing dance the "Dabke" in a street festival in the city of Rumaylan (Rmeilan) in Syria's north-eastern Hasakeh province on 27 July 2019.

Russian President Vladimir Putin before diving down to see the wreckage of the Sch-308 Semga submarine that sank during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 in the Gulf of Finland on 27 July 2019.

More than 400 hot air balloons take off from Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France, during an attempt to break the simultaneous air-balloon take-off world record on 29 July 2019 in Hageville, as part of the international air-balloon meeting "Grand-Est Mondial Air Ballons" (Gemab).

A man tries to catch locusts while standing on a rooftop as they swarm over the Houthi rebel-held Yemeni capital Sanaa on 28 July 2019.

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A flock of European starlings massing in the sky over a field during a sunny summer day on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, 30 July 2019.

Two giant pandas, Ru Yi (three years old) and Ding Ding (two years old), celebrated their birthday in the Moscow Zoo.

Cars parked in a flooded street as heavy rain pours over Flensburg, northern Germany, on 31 July 2019.

A woman poses for a photo in a vehicle parked on the street as a tourist attraction, in Bangkok, Thailand, 29 July 2019.

Some of the 1,000 soldiers joining the Salvadoran Armed Forces in Gerardo Barrios Square in the historic centre of San Salvador, on 29 July 2019, to be reviewed by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.

A fly rests on US President Donald Trump's hair as he speaks during an event commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the First Representative Legislative Assembly in Jamestown, Virginia on 30 July 2019.

Palestinian men perform fire breathing on the beach as entertainment for children during summer vacation in Gaza City on 1 August 2019.

Members of the Guardia di Finanza alpine rescue look on as Mount Etna, Europe's highest and most active volcano, erupts in Sicily, Italy, 27 July 2019.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, (R), accompanied by local farmer Ingrid Shervington, holds a chicken during a visit to rally support for his farming plans post-Brexit, at Shervington Farm, St Brides Wentlooge, near Newport, south Wales on 30 July 2019.

A policeman sprays tear gas to disperse protesters during a demonstration in the district of Yuen Long in Hong Kong on 27 July 2019.

A lifeguard watches swimmers from the Saint Francois beach in Ajaccio on 29 July 2019 on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica.

A "Volga" car before the start of the annual "GUM-Auto Rally" race at Vasilyevskiy Spusk, Moscow.

A view of the aftermath of a mudslide in Movika, Joelster, Norway, 31 July 2019

A girl sits next to an effigy of the demon Ghantakarna before it is burnt to symbolise the destruction of evil and the belief to drive away evil spirits and ghosts during the Ghantakarna festival at the ancient city of Bhaktapur, Nepal, 30 July 2019.

Fireworks at a celebration of the Russian Navy in Sevastopol.

This aerial image shows fishing boats docked on the last day of the summer fishing moratorium as they prepare to leave port in Lianyungang in eastern China's Jiangsu province on 31 July 2019.

An aerial view of a forest fire next to an oil palm plantation at Kumpeh Ulu district in Muarojambi, Indonesia, 30 July 2019.
