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The week’s best photos

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Tree poles

People take part in a traditional game where they climb a 4-meter-high tree pole coated in oil in South Sumatra, Indonesia (Image credit: Al Zulkifli / Getty Images)

A student

A student reads from a textbook as schools reopen after a month-long closure in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Image credit: Luis Tato / AFP / Getty Images)

A girl

A girl with mpox waits to be treated at a clinic in Munigi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Image credit: Moses Sawasawa / AP )

Orangutans

Two Bornean orangutans share food in Sepilok, Malaysia (Image credit: Hasnoor Hussain / Reuters )

People

People gather in prayer to mourn Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in Khan Younis, Palestine (Image credit: Mohammed Salem / Reuters )

A man

A man carries steel drums on his cart in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh (Image credit: Luis Tato / Getty Images)

An elephant

An elephant takes a bath in Kandy, Sri Lanka (Image credit: Ishara S. Kodikara / Getty Images)

A man and his dog

A man and his dog participate in a costume contest celebrating Saint Roch in La Paz, Bolivia (Image credit: Juan Karita / AP)

Statue of Liberty

The Blue Sturgeon Supermoon rises out of clouds behind the Statue of Liberty in New York (Image credit: Gary Hershorn / Getty Images)

A man

A man jumps from the 22-meter-high Fshajt Bridge near Gjakova, Kosovo (Image credit: Armen Nimani / Getty Images)

Football players

Carolina Panthers’ Luiji Vilain pulls the shirt of New York Jets’ Andrew Peasley during an NFL game in Charlotte, North Carolina (Image credit: Jacob Kupferman / AP )

Joe Biden

Joe Biden attends the Democratic National Convention in Chicago (Image credit: Matt Rourke / AP )

A slippery climb, hungry orangutans, and more