The Gold Leaf Face-Blessing ritual in Thailand, catastrophic flooding on the Nepal-Tibet border, German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk in concert – these and more pictures from around the world feature in this week’s selection.
AUG 30
Devotees with their faces covered in gold leaf at a statue of the sage Por Kae at a shrine in Ayutthaya province, Thailand, for the Na Na Thong (Gold Leaf Face-Blessing), a sacred ritual believed to enhance wealth and fortune.
PHOTO: REUTERS
AUG 30
Rescue works continuing at Trishuli Center in Nepal’s Nuwakot district after catastrophic flooding on the Nepal-Tibet border. The number of people missing in the catastrophic flood that sliced through the border area between Nepal and Tibet has neared 3,000, as rescuers continue to scour the deep mud for survivors.
PHOTO: AFP
AUG 28
Seminal German band Kraftwerk performing in front of the Bauhaus Dessau building in Dessau-Rosslau, Germany. Formed in 1970, Kraftwerk are widely considered as innovators and pioneers of electronic music.
PHOTO: AFP
AUG 28
A full moon behind a collapsed residential building in Catia La Mar, La Guaira State, Venezuela, more than two months after magnitude-7.2 and magnitude-7.5 earthquakes struck the area.
PHOTO: AFP
AUG 26
Revellers flinging overripe tomatoes at one another in La Tomatina, the world’s biggest annual food fight, in the town of Bunol, Spain.
PHOTO: AFP
AUG 28
Thousands of mourners gathering at a makeshift memorial at the Royal Palace square in Oslo, Norway, to pay tribute to the late Norwegian King Harald V, who died on Aug 28.
PHOTO: AFP
AUG 28
Shaolin students training for a dragon dance at a Shaolin Temple outside Lusaka, Zambia. When viewed from a distance, the temple appears almost like a mirage, a slice of central China dropped into the Zambian landscape.
PHOTO: AFP
AUG 28
US trail runner Ben Dhiman competing in the 23rd Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, a 174km trail race crossing France, Italy and Switzerland, which starts and ends in Chamonix, south-eastern France.
PHOTO: AFP
AUG 25
A boy playing inside the Space & Time Cube, a space-themed travelling installation featuring immersive digital art, in Surabaya, East Java province, Indonesia.
PHOTO: REUTERS
AUG 29
A man walking past the remains of Torajans after they are removed from the burial chamber during Ma’nene, a Torajan ritual in which families exhume, clean and re-dress deceased relatives to honour them, in Pangala, North Toraja, South Sulawesi province, Indonesia.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Produced by Desmond Foo and Grace Yew