International Hot Air Balloon Regatta In Haro (La Rioja, Spain)
August 1, 2025, Haro, La Rioja, Spain: Participants at the International Hot Air Balloon Regatta, on August 1, 2025, in Haro, La Rioja, Spain. The Rioja town of Haro hosts, from July 30 to August 3, two of the most recognized events in the world of aerostation, the championship of Spain and the international regatta 'City of Haro'. A total of 26 pilots from Spain, France, Switzerland and Portugal will participate in this event. Coinciding with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the International Regatta, the Government of La Rioja and the City Council of Haro have decided to promote the celebration of the Spanish Championship in La Rioja. (Credit Image: © Jpeg/Contacto via ZUMA Press)
Viking Romaria 2025: Annual Viking Festival in Catoira
August 3, 2025, Catoira, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain: A woman during the Viking Landing of the LXV Viking Romaria Vikinga (Viking Festival). The festival of the Viking Landing in Catoira, also known as the Viking Pilgrimage, is one of the most unique and recognized celebrations of Galicia. Its history and significance stem from the strategic position of Catoira at the mouth of the river Ulla, in the vicinity of the Torres del Oeste, a fortress built between the ninth and thirteenth centuries to defend access to the heart of Galicia and, especially, to Santiago de Compostela, against attacks by Vikings and Norman and Saracen pirates. (Credit Image: © Elena Fernandez/Contacto via ZUMA Press)
Helicopter Crash Simulation Enhances Readiness At Northern Strike
August 4, 2025 - Grayling, Michigan, USA - U.S. Army National Guard firefighters of the 1049th Engineer Detachment, Montana Army National Guard, respond to a nighttime fire training scenario during Northern Strike 25-2 at Grayling Army Airfield, Michigan, August. 4, 2025. The exercise challenged participants and local first responders with a complex, simulated emergency designed to enhance interoperability among multicomponent, multinational, and interagency partners. Northern Strike is a National Guard Bureau-sponsored, multi-component, multinational exercise designed to build readiness and enhance interoperability with allied forces to fight and win. Northern Strike 25-2, Michigan’s largest and longest exercise designed to validate readiness of the joint reserve force, is held August. 2 to 16, 2025, at the National All-Domain War-fighting Center. This year's iteration will feature approximately 7,500 participants. (Credit Image: © US Army/ZUMA Press Wire)
'Freakier Friday' Australian Premiere RED CARPET
August 5, 2025, Sydney, NSW, Australia: American actress, singer, producer, and businesswoman LINDSAY LOHAN, 39, who plays Anna Coleman in 'Freakier Friday', arrived on red carpet for its' Australian Premiere at Event Cinemas Bondi Junction in Sydney. (Credit Image: © Christopher Khoury/Australian Press Agency via ZUMA Press Wire)
Israel-Hamas War 2025: Water Distribution in Gaza
August 5, 2025, Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory: Palestinians try to meet their daily water needs by filling jerry cans from water tankers brought into the area in Gaza City, on August 05, 2025. In the Gaza Strip, which remains under Israeli attacks, Palestinians are struggling to survive under extremely harsh conditions, deprived of even the most basic necessities such as shelter, food, and clean water. (Credit Image: © Omar Ashtawy/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire)
California Wildfires 2025: Canyon Fire
August 7, 2025, Ventura County, California, USA: Firefighters battle to contain the wildfire in Ventura County, Thursdayy, Aug. 7, 2025. The wildfire, dubbed the Canyon fire, broke out around 1:25 p.m. local time (2025 GMT) near Piru, a small historic town located in eastern Ventura County and around 77 km northwest of Los Angeles. The fire has grown to nearly 5,000 acres late Thursday, forcing thousands of residents in northern Los Angeles and eastern Ventura counties to evacuate. (Credit Image: © Qiu Chen/Xinhua via ZUMA Press)
M'era Luna Festival 2025: 25th Anniversary
August 9, 2025, Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany: A couple, woman dressed in a wedding gown and holding leash for her partner, a man wearing a dog collar, are walking by camping tents at M'era Luna Festival campsite on the airfield. The M'era Luna is a gothic festival that encompasses a number of different styles such as metal, future pop, aggrotech, synthpop, gothic rock, dark wave, and EBM. Annually on the second weekend of every August, in Hildesheim, Germany at Flugplatz Hildesheim-Drispenstedt, a former British Army airbase. 25,000 regular attendants, making the M'era Luna one of the biggest dark music events in Germany or Europe. (Credit Image: © Moritz Frankenberg/dpa via ZUMA Press)
M'era Luna Festival 2025: 25th Anniversary
August 9, 2025, Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany: A striking woman in full gothic festival regalia at the 25th anniversary M'era Luna Festival. The M'era Luna encompasses a number of different styles such as metal, future pop, aggrotech, synthpop, gothic rock, dark wave, and EBM. Annually on the second weekend of every August, in Hildesheim, Germany at Flugplatz Hildesheim-Drispenstedt, a former British Army airbase. 25,000 regular attendants, making the M'era Luna one of the biggest dark music events in Germany or Europe. (Credit Image: © Moritz Frankenberg/dpa via ZUMA Press)
The INFONA Plan Is Upgraded To Level 2 Due To A Forest Fire In A Pine Forest In Carcastillo.
August 10, 2025, Carcastillo, Navarre, Spain: Firefighters continue the extinguishing works to extinguish the fire. The fire started on the night of Saturday, August 9, in a pine forest located next to the road between Carcastillo and Figarol, in the Llano de Larrate, continues to affect areas of Aleppo pine. At 8 o'clock this Sunday has risen to 2 the operational situation of the Special Emergency Civil Protection Plan for forest fires in the Foral Community of Navarra (INFONA), and at this time, what is most worrying are the high temperatures that are stressing the entire Foral Community, along with factors such as wind, terrain orography and the abundance of foliage that acts as fuel. (Credit Image: © Eduardo Sanz/Contacto via ZUMA Press)
Trump Declares DC Crime Emergency: Takes Over Police, Deploys NG
August 11, 2025, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: President DONALD J. TRUMP, 79, making a point about District of Columbia Crime. Trump activated 800 National Guard troops and is taking over the Metropolitan Police Department to tackle crime in Washington. ''I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order and public safety in Washington, DC,'' Trump told reporters at the Monday press conference. ''And they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.'' Trump also said that he would federalize the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington to respond to crime, placing it under the authority of Attorney General Bondi. (Credit Image: © Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Press Wire)
Anti-Trump Protest In Hingham Massachusetts
August 13, 2025, Hingham, Massachusetts, USA: A demonstrator attends a Stand Up Speak Out rally, held to protest President Trump policies, in Hingham, Mass., on Wednesday, August 13, 2025. (Credit Image: © Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via ZUMA Press)
Spain Wildfires 2025: Heatwave Scorches Country
August 17, 2025, Laza, Ourense, Spain: Residents of Soutelo Verde in Laza, Ourense province, Spain, watch the firefighting helicopter. Spain has sent 500 more troops to fight raging wildfires, bringing the total deployed to 1,900, as the death toll from the blazes has risen to four. (Credit Image: © Elena Fernandez/ZUMA Press Wire)
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