From hurricanes to raging fires to rampant flooding, late summer ushered in trouble for many people.
Photos Of The Week -- August 25-31
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Riders play the traditional mounted sport of "buzkashi," also known as "kok-boru" or "oglak tartis" ("goat grabbing") in Bishkek. (AFP PHOTO/Vyacheslav Oseledko)
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Heavy rain from Hurricane Isaac obsures the view of the Crescent City Connection Bridge over the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana. (John Moore/Getty Images/AFP)
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A family rides a motorbike through a flooded street after heavy monsoon rain in Peshawar, Pakistan. (REUTERS/Khuram Parvez)
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Greenpeace activists are blasted with water while attaching themselves to the anchor of the Russian passenger ship "Anna Akhmatova" in the Barents Sea. (AFP PHOTO/HO/GREENPEACE/Denis Sinyakov)
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Russia's Aleksei Lyzhikhin starts a men's 50-meter freestyle heat during the London 2012 Paralympic Games at the Aquatics Centre in London. (REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth)
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A Syrian refugee girl looks out of her parents' tent at the Al-Za'atri refugee camp in the city of Mafraq. (REUTERS/Ali Jarekji)
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Residents stand near a burned home one day after a wildfire raged in the village of Gornja Gorevnica, near Cacak, Serbia. (EPA/Aleksandar Stankovic)
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A dog sits on a buffalo as it cools off in the Ravi River in Lahore, Pakistan. (REUTERS/Mohsin Raza)
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Syrian rebel fighters run for cover after government forces fired a mortar in the northwestern city of Aleppo. (REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal)
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Pedestrians walk past portraits of past Chinese leaders as Beijing prepares for the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party that will see a change in the country's leadership. (AFP PHOTO/Mark Ralston)
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Young Kyrgyz girls wear traditional costumes and dance on Ala-Too Square in Bishkek on Kyrgyz Independence Day. (AFP PHOTO/Vyacheslav Oseledko)
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Firefighters extinguish a burning vehicle after it was set on fire by angry protesters over killings in Karachi, Pakistan. (AFP PHOTO/ Asif Hassan)
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An internally displaced child sleeps at a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan. (REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail)
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Venezuelans watch fuel storage tanks burn at the Amuay oil refinery in Punto Fijo in the Peninsula of Paraguana. (REUTERS/Stringer)
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Residents watch as the Three Gorges Hotel and 32-story passenger terminal of Chongqing port are toppled in a controlled explosion to make way for new skyscrapers in southwest Chongqing municipality. (AFP PHOTO)
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An aerial view shows the Burning Man 2012 "Fertility 2.0" arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. (REUTERS/Jim Urquhart)