Today in Pictures, Aug 7, 2019

Atomic bomb victims remembered in Hiroshima, Japan, FairPrice hypermarket in Singapore features an indoor hydroponic farm, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Aug 07, 2019, 12:11 PM

A girl releases paper lanterns on the Motoyasu River facing the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome in remembrance of atomic bomb victims on the 74th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan August 6, 2019. PHOTO: KYODO VIA REUTERS

FairPrice's largest FairPrice Xtra hypermarket and Unity Pharmacy outlet at VivoCity features a small indoor hydroponic farm – where vegetables are grown and harvested – by local urban farming firm ComCrop. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/MARK CHEONG

Sportswoman of the Year Yip Pin Xiu holding her trophies at the Singapore Disability Sports Awards, August 6, 2019. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/ARIFFIN JAMAR

A jubilant Muhammad Diroy Noordin receiving his Sportsman of the Year trophy from Culture, Community and Youth Minister Grace Fu. Behind them is Haw Par Corporation executive director Han Ah Kuan. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/ARIFFIN JAMAR

Arrested people are guarded by policemen during a face-off at Sham Shui Po district in Hong Kong, Aug. 7, 2019. PHOTO: AFP

The driver of an electric auto rickshaw hovers over his seat after driving his passengers into a water-logged street following heavy rains in Mathura in Uttar Pradesh state on August 6, 2019. PHOTO: AFP

Students of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) demonstrate demanding the resignation of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez for his alleged links with drug trafficking, in the surroundings of the Congress building in Tegucigalpa on August 6, 2019. PHOTO: AFP

A photo issued on August 7, 2019 show Latvian women bathing in a huge tub heated by a bonfire in the village of Bobrovka, some 350 km of Omsk, on July 31, 2019. PHOTO: AFP

People prepare a giant octopus 'tapa' to try to break a new world record in O Carballino in Galicia, northern Spain, August 6, 2019, on occasion of the celebration of the traditional octopus day on 11 August. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

A man stands on rocks as lightning strikes over Lake Geneva on August 6, 2019 near Le Bouveret, western Switzerland. PHOTO: AFP

Paleontologist Naturalis Anne Schulp (L) takes part in the construction of the skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus Rex called Trix in Naturalis in Leiden, The Netherlands, on August 6, 2019. PHOTO: ANP VIA AFP

Seal pup Freya peeks out of its basket before being released into the North Sea on the beach of Juist island, northern Germany, August 6, 2019. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

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