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The Texas-Louisiana border bore the brunt of Harvey's second coming, this time as a tropical depression.

This year's Burning Man festival in the middle of the Black Rock Desert of Nevada is expected to be the hottest ever.

Harvey has dumped 15 trillion gallons (56 trillion litres) of rain on the Houston area, with another five trillion gallons to come.

The sounds of steel bands made London feel more exotic for a couple of days. Even the weather this year was tropical.

Berlin's huge Tiergarten park is crawling with a species of crayfish native to America's Deep South.

Russian photographer Denis Esakov presents Moscow from a different perspective – from above.

Macau has been devastated by Typhoon Hato – the most powerful storm to hit the territory in half a century.

People are abandoning their villages and moving to cities, leaving only the elderly behind in crumbling houses.

"Let's make all carriages, on all our trains, safe for all passengers," Aslef said.

Typhoon Hato, a maximum category 10 storm, slammed into Hong Kong with winds of up to 155 kmh (95 mph).

The popular Italian tourist island of Ischia off the coast of Naples was hit by an earthquake, killing at least two people and injuring dozens.

The Elizabeth Tower, completed in 1859, is showing its age. The masonry is chipped and crumbling, and the clock faces are disintegrating.

The worst monsoon floods in a decade have killed more than 800 people and displaced over a million across India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

Millions of Americans armed with protective glasses have staked out their positions for what should be the most observed and photographed eclipse in history.

The Palio di Siena has been held in the Piazza del Campo in the centre of the medieval town, twice a year, almost without fail since 1656.

Nominees include a wheelchair that can climb stairs, the world's first translating earpiece, ink made from air pollution, and a robot that carries your stuff while rolling along behind you like R2-D2.

The colours of the Indian flag were projected onto buildings and painted on the faces of children across the nation of 1.3 billion people.

Thousands of fans have shrines to Presley in their homes and consider visits to Graceland a pilgrimage.

Rail operators expected to hike fares by 3.5%, as trade unions complain of poor service for money.

More than 100 hot air balloons took to the skies over Bristol as dawn broke for the start of the 39th International Balloon Fiesta.

The origins of Puck Fair are unclear, but it dates back at least 400 years.

As we reach the 70th anniversary of partition, relations between the two nations are as broken as ever.

Many of the images he took as a 22-year-old aspiring photographer lay forgotten until a history student chanced across them in 2011.

AFP photographer Ed Jones is one of the few Western journalists allowed to enter North Korea on a regular basis.

When the quake hit, the performers ran off the stage in terror and the audience thought the tremor was part of the show.

The British Life Photography Awards, celebrating the diversity of life in Britain, are open to amateur and professional photographers of all ages.

Voters formed long lines at many polling stations before dawn, waiting for their chance to cast ballots in the tightly contested race.

The Yi have retained their language and traditions in a rapidly modernising country, but are among the poorest people in China.

At least 53 people have lost their lives after parts of southeast Asia were inundated by flooding.