Sheikh Zayed Grand mosque, Athens wildfire, Poland northern lights and more: Top pictures of the week

The Parthenon temple atop the Acropolis hill in a smoke cloud from a wildfire, in Athens on August 12, 2024.

Fireworks sparkle in the sky at the end of the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis, in the outskirts of Paris, on August 11, 2024.

A Bangladeshi police officer holds an umbrella to protect himself form the sun while controlling the traffic in a junction after police called off their strike and resumed their duties following a meeting with the interim government in Dhaka on August 12, 2024.

Volunteers arrange flowers to make a flower carpet at the Grand-Place during the 23rd edition of the Brussels' Flower Carpet show, in Brussels on August 15, 2024. The 23rd Brussels' Flower Carpet show will run from August 15 to 18, 2024.

People visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on August 16, 2024, as Typhoon Ampil barrels towards Japan's capital.

Palestinian toddler Rim Abu Hayya, the sole survivor from her family after they were killed by reported Israeli bombardment that hit their house in the east of Khan Yunis, is carried by her aunt Ayat in a tent shelter west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 13, 2024.

The image of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi is reflected against a lake on August 14, 2024.

Tourists enjoy the Perito Moreno Glacier at Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate, Santa Cruz province, Argentina, on August 13, 2024.

People commute through a waterlogged road after heavy rainfall in Gurgaon, India on August 11, 2024.

This long exposure picture shows the northern lights (aurora borealis) illuminating the sky above the field in the village of Wigry, Suwalki region, during the annual Perseids meteor shower early on August 12, 2024.