Fans climb on a bus stop in Buenos Aires after Argentina’s victory over England in the World Cup semi-final Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/APJim PowellFri 17 Jul 2026 13.34 EDTLast modified on Sat 18 Jul 2026 08.53 EDTShare
Gaza City
Palestinians attempt to take cover from a massive explosion after an Israeli airstrike targeting a blacksmith’s workshop in al-Sabra, Gaza City. The Gaza recovery plan being pursued by Donald Trump’s Board of Peace has shrunk dramatically from an ambitious blueprint for the reconstruction of the whole territory to a small pilot project in the south of the strip.Photograph: Belal Osama/APA/ShutterstockShare
Jerusalem
A Jewish worshipper lies on the ground during a visit to al-Aqsa compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israel will hold national elections on 27 October, giving its citizens their first chance to pass judgment on the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his coalition since the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023.Photograph: Naama Stern/ReutersShare
Gaza City
Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza City. The charity Save the Children has angered the UK government with a social media post marking Keir Starmer’s impending exit from Downing Street. The organisation suggested the outgoing prime minister was complicit in the deaths of thousands of civilians in the Israel-Gaza war.Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPAShare
Volunteers and relatives of victims search for their loved ones amid the debris of a collapsed building in Caraballeda. There has been public anger at what many perceive as the Venezuelan government’s botched response to twin earthquakes that have killed nearly 5,000 people, with one grieving mother caught on camera berating the son of the former president Nicolás Maduro. Photograph: Federico Parra/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Rescuers work at the site of a Russian strike on a residential building in Zaporizhzhia. Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week dismissed Ukraine’s popular defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, despite pleas from foreign partners and civil society for him to keep his job, as part of a wide-ranging government reshuffle.Photograph: Daryna Naumova/EPAShare
Le Vaudoué, France
A firefighter sprays water to extinguish flames in Fontainebleau forest during a wildfire in Le Vaudoué. French firefighters were tackling a blaze of unprecedented scale sweeping through the forest south-east of Paris, while in southern Spain the prime minister visited the scene of a deadly wildfire and warned: ‘The climate emergency kills.’Photograph: Stéphane Mahé/ReutersShare
Noisy-sur-École, France
A sign reads ‘No fires’ among burnt vegetation and trees after a wildfire in the Fontainebleau forest during a heatwave affecting a large part of France. The mayor of Fontainebleau, Julien Gondard, said he was shocked and angered. ‘This exceptional area is consumed by flames, we’ve never seen anything like this,’ he told the local TV station ICI Paris Île-de-France. ‘The forest is fragile and it’s in a critical condition.’Photograph: Stéphane Mahé/ReutersShare
Bunia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
A doctor provides care to a patient with Ebola at the Rwampara Ebola treatment centre in Bunia. There is no approved drug to help the medical teams scrabbling to save lives in the Ebola outbreak in the DRC – but there are hopes that could change within months as the first patients are enrolled in a treatment trial.Photograph: Benediction Murhabazi/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Potočari, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A woman stands next to the monument bearing the names of the victims of the Srebrenica genocide in Potočari.Photograph: Armin Durgut/APShare
Biddeford, Maine, US
A woman prays after leaving flowers near the scene where a man was shot and killed by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). US officials are facing mounting calls to remove ICE from the streets after federal agents killed two men who were not the target of enforcement action in less than a week.Photograph: Robert F Bukaty/APShare
Málaga, Spain
Penitents stand in the sea during the Virgen del Carmen procession in Málaga.Photograph: Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Johannesburg, South Africa
Malawians gather in front of their consulate in Johannesburg before their repatriation. About 35,000 have already returned home after fringe groups began demanding all illegal migrants leave by 30 June, in a campaign marked by violent protests and clashes.Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Greater Manchester, England
Firefighters tackle a moorland blaze near the Dovestone reservoir. A woman has been charged with aggravated arson in connection with the fire, as large parts of Greater Manchester were covered in smoke.Photograph: Temilade Adelaja/ReutersShare
Caracas, Venezuela
A boy displaced from the state of La Guaira plays football at a makeshift shelter inside a school in the aftermath of the 24 June earthquakes in Caracas. Photograph: Leonardo Fernández Viloria/ReutersShare
New York City, US
People play basketball as wildfire smoke from Canada causes hazy conditions in New York. Tens of millions of Americans faced smoky skies, irritated eyes and bad air quality as Canadian wildfire smoke spread over huge swathes of the US, affecting about 109 million people across the midwest, mid-Atlantic and north-east.Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
London, England
Alexander Zverev of Germany serves to Italy’s Jannik Sinner during the men’s singles final at Wimbledon. Sinner described his triumph in the final as particularly special considering his painful defeat at the French Open. He recovered from a difficult first set to secure his second Wimbledon title with an impressive four-set win against Zverev, the second seed.Photograph: Andrew Couldridge/ReutersShare
London, England
People play football on pitches with dried grass after three heatwaves so far this summer, at Hackney Marshes in north-east London. The UK’s climatic extremes are becoming increasingly normal, a report has found, with last year the hottest on record and further ‘unprecedented changes’ likely to break the record again soon.Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Arlington, Texas, US
France’s Désiré Doué covers his face at full-time after his side’s defeat against Spain in the World Cup semi-final at Dallas Stadium. The Spanish team collectively swamped the individual flair of France, whose front four had run amok earlier in the tournament but were reduced to faulty, spluttering components by a superbly oiled machine.Photograph: Julio Cortez/APShare
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fans climb on a bus stop in Buenos Aires after Argentina’s victory over England in the World Cup semi-final. Argentina dug deep in the closing stages of the match to complete one of their greatest fightbacks. That it came against England, the old enemy, made it even sweeter.Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/APShareExplore more on these topics
