A barber clips a client’s hair at his makeshift open-air shop in Kolkata, India, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
A look at everyday moments across countries, cultures and communities worldwide. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
A woman with an umbrella to shade her from the sun is seen through an installation made with honeycombed steel sheets, symbolizing the Berlin Wall on the 65th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)A health worker dries boots that were washed to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus at the treatment centre in Bunia General Hospital in Ituri, eastern Congo, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne Dirole)A child runs in a park in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)People visit a market to shop for flags, badges, masks and other items in national colors for upcoming Pakistan’s Independence Day celebrations, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)A man holds balloons as he walks on a sidewalk in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)A man carries a pig at the entrance of a market, decorated with a mural of Fidel Castro, in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)Teća Roberts plays traditional Native American lacrosse with a group from Twin Cities Native Lacrosse at Cedar Field Park, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026, in Minneapolis. The group gathers to play the “Creator’s Game,” which originated in the Native American community. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)A woman shopping in the main Shurja market in central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)Women walk past a street vendor displaying nuts for sale in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)A man jumps over a flooded sidewalk during a rain shower in Moscow, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)A woman sits on a chair to cool off by the shore as the sun sets on Zahara de los Atunes beach in Cádiz, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)Motorists drive past stray cows roam on a road, in Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)A young man jumps from the “Love” natural bridge into the sea at sunset in the Ayia Napa resort on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
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