Top 10 pictures of the week from around the world

Downed power lines slump over a road in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, in Reserve, La.

Beach chairs wait for customers at the Baltic Sea in Travemuende, Germany, early Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021.

Carla Bayerri, 45, inspects his restaurant after flooding in the seaside town of Alcanar, in northeastern Spain, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. A downpour Wednesday created flash floods that swept cars down streets in the Catalan town of Alcanar. Most of mainland Spain is under alert for heavy rains.

Whales swim near a kayak in Puerto Madryn, Argentina, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. As the migration season of the southern right whale gets underway in the Argentine Patagonia, locals and visitors are watching the enormous animals coming ever closer to the shore.

Eighth graders sit in a socially distanced classroom at the National School 1044 Santa Ana, on the first day that teachers are required to offer in-person instruction in Asuncion, Paraguay, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. It had been one and a half years of remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A firefighter monitors the Caldor Fire burning near homes in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. As the winds returned, the Caldor Fire roared over the Sierra crest and bore down on the southern end of Lake Tahoe.

In this image provided by the US Army, made with a night vision scope, Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, commander of the US Army 82nd Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, prepares to board a C-17 cargo plane at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021, as the final American service member to depart Afghanistan.

Police remove one of several protesters who had blocked the entrance of the country's constitutional court in an act of civil disobedience in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday Aug. 30, 2021. The protest took place on the eve of an expected court ruling critical to the country's future relationship with the rest of the European Union. Judges of the Constitutional Tribunal are scheduled to convene on Tuesday to decide what has primacy — the central European nation's own constitution or the law of the 27-member bloc.

President Joe Biden watches as a carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui, 20, of Norco, Calif., during a casualty return Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Nikoui died in an attack at Afghanistan's Kabul airport, along with 12 other US service members.

Two people embrace in a public square as they watch an art installation by artist Dan Acher called Borealis in the center of Antwerp, Belgium, Sunday, Aug. 29. 2021