Perseid meteor shower, Canada wildfire, Dead Sea and more: Top 10 pictures of the week from around the world

A picture taken in Fontainebleau, southern Paris on August 13, 2023 shows shooting stars streaking across the Milky Way during the "Nuits des étoiles" (Starry Night), a major annual celebration for astronomy enthusiasts. Since 1991, Nuits des étoiles has been organized by teams of volunteer astronomers. The celestial spectacle will also be at its peak with the Perseids. The deep sky will be within reach of our telescopes, from the Milky Way north to south, from Cassiopeia and Perseus to Scorpio and Sagittarius, towards the galactic center.

The McDougall Creek wildfire burns on the mountainside above houses in West Kelowna, B.C., on Friday, Aug. 18, 2023. Thousands have fled, driving hundreds of kilometers (miles) to safety or waiting in long lines for emergency flights, as the worst fire season on record in Canada showed no signs of easing.

The town of Fort Smith, Canada during the wildfires, on August 13, 2023. Hundreds of people started to be airlifted to safety from remote villages threatened by wildfires in Canada's far north overnight Monday to Tuesday after Yellowknife, the largest city in the region, declared an emergency.

Columns of smoke, pictured from the village of Guimar, on August 17, 2023, billow from a huge wildfire which broke out almost two days ago and is raging in the northeastern part of the Canary island of Tenerife. The huge wildfire ravaging the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife that has burnt through more than 2,600 hectares of land is the "most complex" blaze to hit the Canary Islands in four decades, the regional government said.

An aerial picture taken on August 15, 2023 shows patterns formed by crystalized minerals and sinkholes on the surface of a dried-up Dead Sea area which exposed and created a salt plain, near the southern Israeli Neve Zohar Resort. The Dead Sea has lost a third of its surface area since 1960 with the blue water receding about a metre (yard) every year, leaving behind a lunar landscape whitened by salt and perforated with gaping holes.

People visit the village of Pyrgi, known for decorative motifs called "Xista" on facades of buildings, on the island of Chios, Greece, August 12, 2023.

A tractor collects straw on a field in a private farm in Zhurivka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023.

A rainbow is reflected in a puddle of water in Auckland on August 12, 2023.

Riders compete during the match between Russia and Kazakhstan at World Kok-Boru Cup, also called ulak tartysh, a traditional game in which players on horseback manoeuvre with a goat's carcass and score by putting it into the opponents' goal at the Cholpon-Ata hippodrome, 250 km (155 miles) southeast of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023.

Triathlon athletes start to compete swimming in the Seine river during a Test Event for the women's triathlon for the upcoming 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, on August 17, 2023. From August 17 to 20, 2023, Paris 2024 is organising four triathlon events to test several arrangements, such as the sports operations, one year before the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The swim familiarisation event follows the cancellation on August 6 of the pre-Olympics test swimming competition due to excessive pollution which forced organisers to cancel the pre-Olympics event.