Hong Kong finance employees stage a flash mob, midges swarm area around Pandan Reservoir, Singapore, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.
Hong Kong finance employees held umbrellas and staged a 'flash mob' protest at Chater Garden in the Central district of Hong Kong, China, on August 1, 2019. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/CHONG JUN LIANG
Midges near a parked car at Pandan Reservoir on August 1, 2019. Hot weather sees the insect breeding more. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/ARIFFIN JAMAR
PUB is carrying out fogging twice daily around the Pandan Reservoir dyke, drains and surrounding vegetation in the mornings and evenings to control midges that have been breeding at an alarming rate due to the hot weather . PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/ARIFFIN JAMAR
Palestinian men perform fire breathing on the beach as an entertainment for children during the summer vacation in Gaza City on August 1, 2019. PHOTO: AFP
A man trips in rushing flood waters as he tries to hold onto a rope to help people to cross the street following heavy monsoon rains outside the Moinuddin Chishti sufi shrine in Ajmer in the western Indian state of Rajasthan on August 1, 2019. PHOTO: AFP
A picture taken in Joelster conty on August 1, 2019 shows damages near houses two days after mudslides. PHOTO: NTB SCANPIX/AFP
People human chain to lay sandbags on Toddbrook Reservoir near the village of Whaley Bridge, Cheshire, England, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. British police have ordered the evacuation of a town of 6,500 residents in northwest England over fears that a dam could collapse. PHOTO: PA VIA AP
Zariah Mohd Ali and her husband Mohamad Dahlan, seen here leaving the State Courts on July 30, 2019, were dealt with in court on Thursday for abusing their maid. Zariah, 58, was sentenced to 11 years in jail, while her husabnd, 60, was sentenced to 15 months in jail for his role in the abuse. THE STRAITS TIMES/KUA CHEE SIONG
Juan Rodriguez, holding his son Tristan, leaves Bronx Criminal Court with his wife Marissa after a hearing, Aug. 1, 2019 in New York. Rodriguez has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and other charges in the deaths of their 1-year-old twins left in a car on Friday while he put in a day at work. Prosecutors say Rodriguez told police he thought he had dropped the twins off at daycare. PHOTO: AP
Wheelchair-bound Japanese lawmaker Eiko Kimura (C) is surrounded by the media upon her arrival at Parliament in Tokyo on August 1, 2019. PHOTO: AFP
A Hindu woman offers prayers as she ties a sacred thread to a "Kalpavriksha" -- a divine wishing tree -- on the occasion of Hariyali Amavasya at an Hindu temple in Ajmer in the Indian state of Rajasthan on August 1, 2019. PHOTO: AFP
Extras listen to official speeches behind a giant screen during celebrations of the Swiss National Day at the Fete des Vignerons (Winegrowers' Festival), a traditional festival which takes place approximately every 25 years in Vevey, western Switzerland, on August 1, 2019. PHOTO: AFP
A pianist performs on a platform floating on Carucedo Lake as part of a concert of the French spectacle 'Le Piano du Lac' (lit.: The piano pf the lake) in Leon, northern Spain, August 1, 2019. PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Revelers attend the seven-day O.Z.O.R.A. Festival, described by organizers as a 'psychedelic tribal gathering', near the village of Ozora, Hungary, August 1, 2019. PHOTO: EPA-EFE
The warped shape of the stellar disk of the Milky Way galaxy, determined by mapping the distribution of young stars called Cepheids with distances set out in light years, is seen over the Warsaw University Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, in an artist's rendition released August 1, 2019. PHOTO: UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW HANDOUT VIA REUTERS
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