The Nepal-Tibet flood disaster, Russian strikes in Kyiv, the Plaskett Fire in California and Notting Hill carnival – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
People search through debris and rubble after a Russian strike in the Bucha district of Kyiv. Photograph: Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty ImagesJim PowellFri 4 Sep 2026 13.15 EDTLast modified on Mon 7 Sep 2026 09.39 EDTShare
Devighat, Nepal
Women view the widened channel of the Trishuli River after flash floods in Devighat. Rescuers have built temporary bridges to reach remote areas and dug through the ruins of hydropower projects in the Himalayas to rescue hundreds of trapped workers, as the death toll passed 1,000 nearly a week after devastating floods left a trail of destruction across the country’s towns and valleysPhotograph: Ezra Acayan/Getty ImagesShare
Rasuwa, Nepal
Members of a search and rescue team at the Trishuli-3A hydropower project in Rasuwa rescue a man. Two people were pulled out alive from the hydropower tunnel nine days after deadly flash floods buried the project in deep mud and left them trappedPhotograph: Nepal Army/ReutersShare
Kathmandu, Nepal
Relatives mourn during the symbolic cremation of four members of the Magar family who remain missing after the flash floods, at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu. The bodies of some of those killed in the Nepal-Tibet flood disaster may never be found, and some of those who are found may never be identified, a renowned forensic scientist, Prof Richard Bassed, said this weekPhotograph: Ezra Acayan/Getty ImagesShare
Devighat, Nepal
Rescue workers inspect damaged structures after the recent flash flooding along the Trishuli River in Devighat. The disaster was triggered by a glacier collapse that sent a deluge of ice, rock and mud through Nepal’s border region with ChinaPhotograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/APShare
Galchi, Nepal
A mark shows the mud level on a wall in a classroom at Bageshwori secondary school after flash floods in Galchi. The Himalayas – spanning Nepal, India, China, Bhutan and Pakistan – are warming twice as fast as the global average, putting the region at increased risk of avalanches, landslides and floodsPhotograph: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Kyiv, Ukraine
Children play with bubbles during traditional back-to-school celebrations in KyivPhotograph: Francisco Seco/APShare
Kyiv, Ukraine
People visit a McDonald’s restaurant that was the first to open in Ukraine, in an area hit by numerous Russian missile attacks. Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week declared that Russia’s airspace was becoming unsafe for commercial airlines, as Vladimir Putin promised to increase strikes against Ukraine’s energy facilities in the run-up to winterPhotograph: Gleb Garanich/ReutersShare
Kyiv, Ukraine
People search through debris and rubble after a Russian strike in the Bucha district. At least 12 people were killed in and around the city on Monday night as Ukraine’s capital endured a sixth consecutive night of Russian drone and missile attacks aimed at shattering infrastructure and lowering the morale of the cityPhotograph: Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty ImagesShare
Al-Mansouri, Lebanon
Smoke billows from houses hit during Israeli attacks in the town of al-Mansouri in southern LebanonPhotograph: Xinhua/ShutterstockShare
Sinjil, West Bank
A Palestinian man scans a valley with a flashlight during a volunteer nightwatch to help prevent Israeli settler attacks in the town of Sinjil. Israelis shot dead two teenagers in the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir and Israeli troops razed the village of Khirbet al-Taban, outside Hebron, in the latest attacks across the occupied West BankPhotograph: Léo Corrêa/APShare
Gaza
Palestinian children watch a film screening organised by the Little Wings Cinema initiative in Gaza. Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, set out a plan this week for the illegal forced expulsion of all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, with the intention of sending them abroad. Earlier this year, an independent UN inquiry found that Israel continued to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in GazaPhotograph: Omar Ashtawy/HL/Getty ImagesShare
A crew member walks on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as it heads towards Laem Chabang port. The aircraft carrier has been plagued by reports of deteriorating living conditions and poor mental health onboard, including attempted suicides, making headlines around the world and provoking criticism of Donald Trump’s war against IranPhotograph: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Menab, Iran
A child receives treatment at a hospital in Menab after being wounded, according to Tasnim news agency, in a strike on a home where a wedding was being held in the city of Kuhestak. Iran accused the US of a war crime after a missile blast killed at least four people and injured 68 who were attending the weddingPhotograph: Morteza Akhoondi/Tasnim/APShare
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
A woman, overwhelmed with grief, is carried out of a funeral service for more than 20 people killed by armed gangs last week in Kenscoff, a neighbourhood near Port-au-PrincePhotograph: Clarens Siffroy/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Washington DC, US
A demonstrator dressed as a blood-covered Lady Justice attends a Defend the Vote rally at the Lincoln Memorial. A new system to screen millions of mail-in ballots for this November’s US midterm elections was thrown together so hastily, and tested so little, that a single scanning glitch could lead to entire batches of ballots being turned away, a whistleblower has told CongressPhotograph: Aaron Schwartz/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
A man dives into the Shatt al-Arab River amid soaring temperatures in BasraPhotograph: Hussein Faleh/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Lake Baringo, Kenya
A person holds a Nile crocodile at Lake Baringo, where Kenya Wildlife Service is facilitating the capture and translocation of the animals to reduce cases of human-wildlife conflict near MarigatPhotograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
International Space Station
The European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot works during a spacewalk outside the ISS. Adenot and the Nasa astronaut Anil Menon completed the installation and activation of a spare space-to-ground antennaPhotograph: ESA/AFP/Getty ImagesShareExplore more on these topics
