Today in Pictures, Aug 13, 2024
Maximilian Maeder returning to Singapore after winning Olympic bronze, people rescued from a wildfire in Greece and more images from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Women embracing after being rescued during a wildfire in Varnavas, north of Athens, Greece, on Aug 11, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
A Bangladeshi police officer protecting himself from the sun while controlling traffic after the police called off their strike and resumed their duties following a meeting with the interim government in Dhaka on Aug 12, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
Olympic bronze medallist, kitefoiler Maximilian Maeder, carrying six-year-old Caleb Tan, who skipped school to see him, as he arrives at Changi Airport from the Olympics in France on Aug 13, 2024.
ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
People watching a surfer in a canal while having a drink on a terrace in Rotterdam on Aug 11, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
Revellers leaving the port on makeshift rafts before reaching La Concha Bay during the Pirata Abordaia (Pirate-boarding) Festival in the Spanish Basque city of San Sebastian on Aug 12, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
A person taking a photo of a new artwork by the British artist Banksy in Charlton, London, Britain, Aug 12, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
The massive stone head sculptures at the archaeological site of Mount Nemrut in south-eastern Turkey, on Aug 11, 2024, the night of the Perseid meteor shower.
PHOTO: AFP
An aerial view showing a juvenile fin whale that died on the shore in Torrance, California, on Aug 11, 2024. The fin whale is the second-largest whale, second only to the blue whale.
PHOTO: AFP
A girl using a mobile phone at a tea stall in front of clothing advertisements in Hanoi on Aug 12, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
