A man stands on a boat over a coral reef in the Dutch Cays of Guna Yala on Panama's Caribbean coast, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A look at everyday moments across countries, cultures and communities worldwide.
This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
Women smoke waterpipe as they sit by the Litani River in the village of Qaaqaaiet al-Jisr, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)Rocky, a gibbon hand-raised by on-site caretaker Jodi Kleier, sits in an enclosure at the Gibbon Conservation Center in Santa Clarita, Calif., Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Yusuke Fujii, a worker at Kurosawa Sangyo Co., a tire recycling company, cools off in the “Dohiyemon BOX,” a personal cooling unit dubbed a “human refrigerator,” on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026, in Chikusei, north of Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)A woman begs for money at Maidan metro entrance during an air raid alarm in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)Yakoub Durak stacks wood into a pile at a charcoal production site in a forest in Kocaeli province, Turkey, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. A handful of family-run producers continue the region’s traditional practice of slowly carbonizing hardwood in earthen kilns to make charcoal for barbecues and restaurants. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)A tourist wearing a hat poses for a photograph on the rocky Areios Pagos Hill next to the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)People search for gold at a mining site in Iga-Barrière, Ituri province, eastern Congo, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne Dirole)Ahmed Fakhoury, 27, uses a pottery wheel to make clay pots at a traditional pottery workshop in the West Bank city of Hebron, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)A woman dances as conga musicians play in the streets of Old Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)A man takes a closer look at a sea creature bought from local fishers’ catch on the beach of Rongshanliao village on southern China’s Hainan province on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Fairgoers ride the giant slide, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, at the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights, Minn. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)Alfonso Pino trims a customer’s hair in his salon in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)A woman and children write wishes on cards along a wishing alley of Bei Shan Da Yuan, a historical and culture attractions spot in Zhuhai in south China’s Guangdong province, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)A woman walks on a sidewalk at Islamic Revolution street in downtown Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)Mohammed Al-Sarsak, 16, makes a kite inside the tent where he lives in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)People enjoy a nice view on rainbow, backdropped by the GUM state shop, left, the St. Basil’s Cathedral, center, and the Spasskaya Tower, right, walking in Red Square during the golden hour in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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