Diving at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, a boxing match between robots in Shanghai, and more pictures from around the world in this week’s selection.
July 30
Swedish divers Elias Petersen (right) and Nina Janmyr competing in the final of the mixed 3m synchronised diving event during the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore.
PHOTO: AFP
July 30
People wearing disposable raincoats as Typhoon Co-May approaches Shanghai. The typhoon made two landfalls in Shanghai and Zhejiang, bringing record rainfall and causing severe flooding.
PHOTO: AFP
July 28
People watching a boxing match between two remote-controlled robots from Unitree Robotics during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference at the Shanghai World Expo and Convention Centre.
PHOTO: AFP
July 29
A migrant trying to board a smuggler’s inflatable dinghy in an attempt to cross the English Channel off the beach of Gravelines, northern France.
PHOTO: AFP
Aug 1
Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki spewing lava and volcanic ash up to approximately 10km high during its eruption, as observed from a monitoring post in East Flores, East Nusa Tenggara province.
PHOTO: AFP
July 30
Smoke rising from a food warehouse hit by a Russian military strike in the village of Vasyshcheve, outside Kharkiv, Ukraine, amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country.
PHOTO: REUTERS
July 29
Palestinians carrying aid supplies in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. The supplies had entered Gaza in trucks through Israel.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Aug 2
Nine-year-old Palestinian girl Mariam Dawwas, who is malnourished, being carried by her mother in the Rimal neighbourhood in Gaza City. The World Health Organisation warned on July 27 that malnutrition is reaching “alarming levels” in Gaza.
PHOTO: AFP
Aug 2
Participants in the Fontanka River during the Fontanka SUP stand-up paddle boarding festival in St Petersburg, Russia.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Aug 1
A cosplayer at the ChinaJoy expo in Shanghai. ChinaJoy is the largest gaming and digital entertainment exhibition in Asia, according to its organisers.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE