Our Daily Life series is a visual exploration of everyday imagery from around the globe.
Our latest installment includes photos North Korea, Egypt and Ukraine from by AP photographers Dita Alangkara, Nariman El-Mofty, Ahn Young-joon, Mary Altaffer and more.
A traffic police officer directs vehicles at a street junction during sunset in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Egyptian boys and girls cool off in a a public pool in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016. Temperatures here rose to 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Five-year old white lion Ludwig, father of five new-born white lion cubs, in a private zoo in the village of Demydiv 50 kilometres west of Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016. Most white lions live in captivity as the rare colour mutation is widely believed to make it difficult for white lions to survive in the wild. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
A poster with the image of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro is reflected on a mirror, right, as a TV shows the Rio Olympic Games at a house in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
A parking attendant reads a tabloid with a headline that reads in Spanish; “They left her without arms or legs” as a shoeshine boy polishes a client’s shoe, in Lima, Peru’s financial district, Monday, Aug. 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Israeli Arab boys jump into the Mediterranean sea from the ancient wall surrounding the old city of Acre, northern Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Commuters crowd into a subway car in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
A dog looks at passers-by celebrating festivities in honor of local patron saint San Cayetano, Saint Cajetan, in Madrid, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A boy waits to sell rose petals to Hindu pilgrims standing on the bank of the holy Sangam, confluence of Ganges river, Yamuna river and mythical saraswati river in Allahabad, India , Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
An Israeli Arab woman takes a photo of her daughter at a gas station near Jerusalem, Friday, Aug. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Monday, Aug. 15, 2016 photo, a man poses for a portrait in Ishkashim, Badakhshan province, far northeastern Afghanistan. The region is one of the country’s poorest and most isolated, sandwiched between Tajikistan and the Taliban-led insurgency just 50 km to the south. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)
An old couple walk hand in hand in a street of the old city during a very hot summer day, in Pamplona northern Spain, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Palestinian people swim off the Gaza City beach, in the Mediterranean Sea at the last Friday of the annual summer holiday, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
A visitor to Coney Island uses her book to shade her face against the sun, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
In this underwater picture a woman floats in a swimming pool during a summer day in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016 . (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
A North Korean and her son pose for a photo on the back of a camel at the newly opened Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s latest gift to the lucky residents of Pyongyang, the renovated central zoo, is pulling in thousands of visitors a day with a slew of attractions ranging from such typical zoo fare as elephants, giraffes, penguins and monkeys to a high-tech natural history museum. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
North Korean flags are flown between apartment blocks in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
A man throws her daughter in the air while they are silhouetted at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Children hang around a cemetery area near the Shahin Al-Khalwati Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. Muslim Sufi Saint Shahin Al-Khalwati built the mosque in the 16th century on top of a hill where he would go into spiritual seclusion. Today the neglected mosque sits on the top of a hill of a cemetery. Al-Khalwati’s grandchildren demand the government restore the mosque because it is a heritage site, according to civilians who live in the cemetery area. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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