From heavy monsoon rains in Mumbai to celebrations in Khartoum and protests in Hong Kong; from mass shootings in the United States to wildfires in Russia's Siberia and California in the US — these are just some of the events that have been taking place around the globe.
Check out this gallery, compiled for you by Sputnik, to stay caught up with things and spot something that you might have missed!
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American singer Jennifer Lopez performs at a concert at the Dynamo Central Stadium in Moscow.
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Anne Schulp, a palaeontologist at Naturalis museum, takes part in the reconstruction of the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex named Trix in Naturalis in Leiden, the Netherlands, on 6 August 2019.
© AFP 2023 / Bart Maat
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A public bus makes its way through a flooded road after heavy monsoon rains in Mumbai on 4 August 2019.
© AFP 2023 / Indranil Mukherjee
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A Sudanese demonstrator waves the national flag as people celebrate in Khartoum on 4 August.
© AFP 2023 / Ebrahim Hamid
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Protesters, right, fight with a group of men wielding wooden poles on a street during an anti-extradition bill protest in Hong Kong. China warned on 6 August that it will be "only a matter of time" before it punishes those behind the two months of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, which have increasingly devolved into violent clashes with law enforcement.
© AP Photo
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People look on as a bull is brought down from the rooftop of a three-story house with a crane in order to be sold for the upcoming Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, in Karachi, Pakistan, 4 August 2019.
© AP Photo / Fareed Khan
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Muslim pilgrims perform prayers around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on 7 August 2019, prior to the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
© AFP 2023 / Abdel Ghani Bashir
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Foreign tourists wear warm hats on Manezhnaya Square during cold weather in Moscow. On the night of 5 August, the temperature dropped to 6-7 degrees Celsius.
© Sputnik / Iliya Pitalev
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A Palestinian child holds a pumpkin while sitting on a pile of them at a home in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on 5 August 2019.
© AFP 2023 / Mohammed Abed
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Pope Francis greets faithful during the weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, 7 August 2019.
© REUTERS / Yara Nardi
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Launch of two new tactical guided missiles during a demonstration at an undisclosed location in North Korea.
© AFP 2023 / KCNA VIA KNS
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A woman reacts after a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, US on 3 August 2019.
© REUTERS / Jose Luis Gonzalez
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US President Donald Trump, with US First Lady Melania Trump, boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on 7 August 2019. Trump is travelling to the mass shooting sites in Ohio and Texas.
© AFP 2023 / Saul Loeb
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Firefighters battle the Marsh fire near the town of Brentwood in Contra Costa County, California, 3 August 2019.
© AP Photo / Noah Berger
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An Mi-8 helicopter with a spillway system for the abstraction of water during firefighting in the Boguchansky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia.
© Sputnik / Alexandr Kryazhev
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A man walks through flare smoke as he arrives with some 2,000 fellow supporters of Hungarian football club Ferencvaros at the Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb on 6 August 2019 to attend the UEFA Champions League playoff match against Dinamo Zagreb.
© AFP 2023 / Denis Lovrovic
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Festivalgoers attend day three of Lollapalooza in Grant Park on 3 August 2019 in Chicago.
© AP Photo / Invision/Amy Harris
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Tourists riding a boat among trees at Luyanghu Lake wetland park in Yangzhou in China's eastern Jiangsu province.
© AFP 2023 / Stringer
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Two tied-up goats sit together as livestock vendors sleep nearby at a market set up to sell animals ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in Ajmer in the western Indian state of Rajasthan on 8 August 2019.
© AFP 2023 / Himanshu Sharma
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A man stands on rocks as lightning strikes by Lake Geneva on 6 August 2019 near Le Bouveret, western Switzerland.
© AFP 2023 / Fabrice Coffrini