Girls sit in a children’s playground after a Russian attack on Kyiv. Photograph: Roman Pilipey/AFP/Getty ImagesJim PowellFri 3 Jul 2026 14.17 EDTLast modified on Fri 3 Jul 2026 14.47 EDTShare
Kyiv, Ukraine
A woman holding a child cries next to a residential building damaged after a Russian air attack on Kyiv. At least 27 people were killed and dozens injured in what the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, called the worst Russian attack on the capital during more than four years of air assault on UkrainePhotograph: Roman Pilipey/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Kyiv, Ukraine
A large fire burns across Kyiv after an overnight Russian attack. Russia used nearly 500 drones and more than 70 missiles in the hours-long attack on Kyiv and other parts of the country in the early hours of ThursdayPhotograph: Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty ImagesShare
Kyiv, Ukraine
Iryna Plekhova looks for her remaining belongings in her burned-out apartment. As dawn broke after the overnight attack, fires were burning across Kyiv, with strikes or debris hitting residential buildings in several districts and a hotel on one of the central boulevardsPhotograph: Alina Smutko/ReutersShare
Kyiv, Ukraine
Girls sit in a children’s playground. Russia regularly launches combined missile and drone attacks on the Ukrainian capital and there had been speculation for some days that another massive attack was coming. Volodymyr Zelenskyy had warned: ‘I am asking all our people to be extra careful, take care of yourselves and your children, and use shelters, this is very important’Photograph: Roman Pilipey/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Gaza
Palestinian children stand among destroyed homes in Gaza.Photograph: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/ShutterstockShare
Israel
An Israeli soldier works on a tank near the border with Lebanon in northern Israel. Australian federal police investigators are assessing a brief detailing alleged war crimes committed by an Australian citizen serving in the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza. The allegations include the deliberate targeting and destruction of residential buildings without military justification, a war crime under Australian lawPhotograph: Ariel Schalit/APShare
Caracas, Venezuela
People look at buildings damaged after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Venezuela in Caracas. More than 58,000 buildings may have been damaged and destroyed by the twin earthquakes that hit the country last week, according to a preliminary analysis of satellite data that suggests the scale of the destruction could dwarf official estimatesPhotograph: Jesús Vargas/Getty ImagesShare
Catia La Mar, Venezuela
Rescue workers search through the rubble of a building that collapsed when earthquakes struck Catia La Mar. A 43-year-old security guard was pulled from the collapsed basement of a shopping centre eight days after the earthquakes, to huge cheers from international rescue teamsPhotograph: Matias Delacroix/APShare
La Guaira, Venezuela
A building damaged during the earthquakes in La Guaira. The official death toll so far is 2,595, but with 400 bodies reportedly being delivered to La Guaira’s morgue each day, that figure is certain to risePhotograph: Matias Delacroix/APShare
Verulam, South Africa
Supporters of the March and March movement at a demonstration against undocumented migrants in South Africa. The country was holding its breath on Tuesday as mass anti-immigration protests were held across the country. They came after a weeks-long campaign that has seen at least four killed and tens of thousands fleeing for safetyPhotograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Durban, South Africa
A woman reacts as March and March protesters taunt foreigners allegedly living in a high-rise buildingPhotograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Monaco
The entrance of a residential building in Monaco where a suspected parcel bomb explosion wounded the Ukrainian-born businessman Vadym Iermolaiev and his wife and child. An international search is under way for a suspected bomber in the unprecedented attack that has shaken the normally ultra-safe principalityPhotograph: Sébastien Nogier/EPAShare
Beijing, China
People take photographs in front of a large flag of the Communist Party of China on the 105th anniversary of the founding of the organisation in BeijingPhotograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty ImagesShare
Medora, North Dakota, US
Donald Trump arrives by ceremonial train for the dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. The sound of YMCA by the Village People booming through the badlands of North Dakota could only mean one thing: Donald Trump’s 250th anniversary travelling circus had reached a remote corner of America more familiar with bison, wild horses and bighorn sheepPhotograph: Evan Vucci/ReutersShare
Miami, Florida, US
An Argentinian fan wearing a goat costume in Miami on the eve of the World Cup match between Argentina and Cape Verde. ‘Sharing the pitch with Messi is a dream,’ Cape Verde’s goalkeeper Vozinha said after his team’s draw with Saudi Arabia. ‘And I’ll proudly tell my kids I played against him one day’Photograph: Patrícia de Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Atlanta, Georgia, US
England’s Harry Kane celebrates with Jude Bellingham after the first of his two goals during the World Cup match against Democratic Republic of Congo at Atlanta Stadium. Thomas Tuchel’s mission to put a second World Cup star on the England shirt did not look as though it would reach the second knockout round until Kane came to the rescue with two late goalsPhotograph: Ian MacNicol/Getty ImagesShare
London, UK
Rufus the Harris’s hawk stands on the fist of falconer Donna Davis on the third day of the 2026 Wimbledon ChampionshipsPhotograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
London, UK
Sofia Kenin of the US makes a return to her compatriot Amanda Anisimova at Wimbledon. Anisimova fired 20 aces past Kenin to reach the third round. With every win, she erases some of the memory of last year’s final, when she was beaten 6-0, 6-0 by Iga SwiatekPhotograph: Toby Melville/ReutersShare
Police use water cannon to spray tourists at the Brandenburg Gate during extreme hear in Berlin. All-time temperature records were broken in Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Czechia and Hungary, as well as June records in England and Switzerland, while France’s average temperature measured across the country also hit an absolute highPhotograph: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesShareExplore more on these topics
