Cambridge, UK
Shire horses Bryn and Cosmo from Waldburg Shires stable harvesting the wildflower meadow at King’s College, Cambridge, before turning and carting the hay on a traditional wain. The bales will be used to propagate more wildflower meadows across the city, and the hay offered to local farmers as winter feed for livestock
Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA
London, UK
An organiser arranges British Medical Association-branded placards calling for better pay outside University College London hospital, during a strike by junior doctors. Hospital doctors in England will be striking until Tuesday morning in a dispute with the government over pay in the latest strike action to hit the UK’s state-funded National Health Service
Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images
Dover, UK
A group of people thought to be migrants are driven away from the Border Force compound in Kent, following an incident in the Channel. Six people are confirmed to have died when a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of France at Sangatte on Saturday
Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
Odesa, Ukraine
Cyclists stop to look at an emergency crew working on a supermarket destroyed as a result of a night strike. Ukraine downed three waves of Russian missiles and drones targeting Odesa, its army said, the latest in a string of attacks in the southern region on the Black Sea coast
Photograph: Oleksandr Gimanov/AFP/Getty Images
Jabalpur, India
People holding Indian national flags in the Narmada River as part of a flag rally on the eve of the country’s Independence Day celebrations
Photograph: Uma Shankar Mishra/AFP/Getty Images
Chicago, US
Fans in front of the stage at the Lollapalooza music festival in Grant Park in the city centre
Photograph: Daniel DeSlover/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock
Jiuquan, China
People visiting the sculpture The Son of the Earth, a huge sleeping baby set in the Gobi Desert in Gansu province. Measuring 15 metres long, 4.3 metres high and 9 metres wide, it was made of red sandstone using 3D technology by artist Dong Shubing
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Ratnapura, Sri Lanka
An illuminated aircraft flightpath and the Milky Way were seen in the sky during the Perseid meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. The meteors are called the Perseids because they appear from the general direction of the constellation Perseus
Photograph: Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
Donetsk oblast, Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers using D-30 artillery fire at Russian positions in the direction of Klishchiivka as the Russia-Ukraine war continues
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Kinderdijk, Netherlands
Wild geese silhouetted above a wind pump in South Holland. About a third of the country is below sea level and wind pumps prevent the land from being flooded
Photograph: Michael Probst/AP
Hawaii, US
Burnt trees and cars and the ruins of houses are what is left after fire raged through the town of Lahaina, in the west of the island of Maui in Hawaii. At least 93 people were killed in wildfires on the island, the largest natural disaster in Hawaii’s history
Photograph: Étienne Laurent/EPA
North Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspecting a munitions factory at an undisclosed location. According to state news agency KCNA, Kim visited major munitions factories on 11-12 August, including one producing tactical missiles
Photograph: KCNA/EPA
Beit Shean, Israel
Israelis and Palestinians take a break from extreme summer heat in a pool at the Gan HaShlosha national park. Temperatures in the Jordan Valley reached 44C (111F)
Photograph: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP
Singapore
Le Le, the first giant panda born in Singapore, eats food received on the occasion of his second birthday at the River Wonders giant panda forest exhibit in Mandai wildlife reserve
Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
Big Sur, US
The sun sets at Pfeiffer Beach in Big Sur on the central California coast
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Nanjing, China
People cooling off at a water park in China’s eastern Jiangsu province
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Ajmer, India
An artist dressed as Lord Shiva joins Hindu devotees in a religious procession in Rajasthan during the holy month of Shravan
Photograph: ABACA/Shutterstock
Elche, Spain
Participants in protective clothes amid swirling ‘drunken fireworks’ as part of the Night of Alborada festival in Alicante province
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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