Here are some of the most striking images taken from around the world over the past week.

A herd of fifty life-sized handcrafted elephants, part of the CoExistence campaign organized by the Elephant Family Trust, are seen in Chelsea, London, on June 8, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

A child searches for his belongings from the ashes due to a devastating fire in a slum in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, on June 7, 2021. A devastating fire swept through one of the largest slums in Dhaka, destroying at least 100 shanties. No casualties have been reported so far. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

A private meeting of the UN Security Council is held at the UN headquarters in New York, on June 8, 2021. During the meeting, the council endorsed Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for a second five-year term. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

A destroyed train compartment is seen at the site of a train accident in Ghotki district of Pakistan's southern Sindh province on June 8, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

Visitors walk down the new cement walkway nearby the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis hill in Athens, Greece, on June 8, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

A poster is seen at the Huawei Flagship Store Berlin in Berlin, capital of Germany, on June 8, 2021, as Huawei unveils its flagship store in Germany, which is also the Chinese telecom giant's fifth flagship store in Europe. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

A Palestinian man bathes his son over the rubble of their house destroyed during the 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas-led militant groups in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, on June 7, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

An Israeli archeologist holds an intact chicken's egg from roughly 1,000 years ago in Yavne, central Israel, on June 9, 2021. The egg was found in an excavation site in Yavne, in a cesspit dating from the Islamic period. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

This photo taken on June 10, 2021, captures a solar eclipse in Toronto, Canada. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

"Queen of Warsaw" roses are exhibited at the Royal Flower Exhibition at the Royal Palace in Warsaw, Poland, on June 12, 2021. The "Queen of Warsaw" is a new breed of rose developed by Lukasz Rojewski, a Polish flower breeder and founder of the Polish Rose Society. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

This long-time exposure photo taken on June 12, 2021, shows lightning striking near Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra, Indonesia. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

Children run with kites in the colors of the Russian flag to celebrate Russia Day in Moscow, Russia, on June 12, 2021. Russia Day marks the date when the First Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation adopted the Declaration of Russia's National Sovereignty in 1990. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

Israel's new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends the first cabinet meeting of the new coalition government in Jerusalem, Israel, on June 13, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

People suffering from albinism gather at an event to mark International Albinism Awareness Day in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, June 13, 2021. International Albinism Awareness Day is celebrated annually on June 13. The theme this year wa "Strength Beyond All Odds". (PHOTO / XINHUA)