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Aloha from space
Hurricane Lane approaches Hawaii on Aug. 22 in an image captured by NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold from the International Space Station. The crew "sends much aloha to everyone there," Arnold tweeted.
Hawaii residents strapped in and forecasters warned of "life-threatening impacts" for the arrival of what could turn out to be the strongest hurricane to hit the islands in a quarter-century.
— Ricky Arnold / NASA
Helicopter rescue
Residents are rescued from flooding by a navy helicopter in India's southern state of Kerala on Aug. 17.
Torrential downpours began hammering Kerala on Aug. 8, more than two months into the annual monsoon season, setting off devastating floods that left more than 200 people dead and sent more than 800,000 fleeing for dry land.
— Sivaram V / Reuters
Canada wildfires
Thick smoke from wildfires fills the air and blocks the sun as horses stand on a ranch in Vanderhoof, British Columbia, on Aug. 22.
Smoke from fires in British Columbia drifted into Washington and Idaho causing causing air quality alerts.
— Darryl Dyck / Canadian Press via AP
67 years apart
South Korean Lee Keum-seom, 92, left, weeps as she meets with her North Korean son Ri Sang Chol, 71, during a reunion of separated families at the Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea on Aug. 20. Ri was four years old when he last saw his mother.
Dozens of elderly South Koreans crossed the heavily fortified border into North Korea on Monday for heart-wrenching meetings with relatives most hadn't seen since they were separated by the turmoil of the Korean War.
— AP
Venezuelan exodus
Venezuelan migrants on their way to Peru sleep along the Pan-American Highway between Tulcan and Ibarra in Ecuador, after entering the country from Colombia, on Aug. 22.
Officials from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru will meet in Bogota next week to seek a solution to a growing exodus of migrants overwhelming South American countries as they flee a devastating economic crisis in Venezuela.
— Luis Robayo / AFP - Getty Images
Typhoon approaches
A huge wave hits a breakwater in Aki City in western Japan as a Typhoon Cimaron approached the area on Aug. 23.
The typhoon was expected to cross western Japan on Thursday night. Japan's weather agency warned of strong gusts, high waves and heavy rain.
— Chika Oshima / Kyodo News via AP
Sprintern
NBC News intern Cassie Semyon, 21, runs from the courthouse with the jury deliberation results in the trial of former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in Alexandria, Virginia, on Aug. 21.
Manafort, a fixture in Republican politics for decades, was convicted of five counts of tax fraud, one count of failure to file a report of foreign bank and financial accounts and two counts of bank fraud. The judge declared a mistrial on the 10 other charges he faced.
Semyon was a cross-country runner before college.
— Jacquelyn Martin / AP
Papal wax
A wax figure of Pope Francis is carried at the National Wax Museum Plus in Dublin ahead of the pope's visit to Ireland on Aug. 23.
— Brian Lawless / PA via AP
Weighing the penguins
A penguin stands on s scale for the London Zoo's annual weigh-in on Aug. 23.
Home to more than 19,000 animals and 800 different species, the zoo regularly records the heights and weights of all the creatures to monitor the residents' overall well-being.
— Frank Augstein / AP
Eid tapestry
Muslims attend a prayer service to celebrate Eid al-Adha in Labuhan Lombok village, on Indonesia's Lombok island on Aug. 22.
The picturesque island of Lombok, situated next to holiday hotspot Bali, was hit by two deadly quakes on July 29 and Aug. 5. On Aug. 19 it was shaken again by a string of fresh tremors and aftershocks, with the strongest measuring 6.9 magnitude.
— Fred Dufour / AFP - Getty Images |