Protests escalate in Indonesia; Malaysia celebrates its National Day; and more pictures from around the world in this week’s selection.
Aug 30
A police officer with a megaphone as the West Nusa Tenggara Provincial Council office burns after being set on fire by protesters in Mataram on Lombok Island, Indonesia. The country was rocked by protests after footage spread of a motorcycle taxi driver being run over by a police tactical vehicle in an earlier rally against low wages and financial perks for lawmakers.
PHOTO: AFP
Aug 31
Protesters riding motorcycles in front of a police headquarters that was burned and looted during demonstrations in Surabaya, Indonesia.
PHOTO: AFP
Aug 25
Revellers taking part in the Notting Hill Carnival in London, England.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Aug 27
A reveller crouching against a wall spattered with tomato pulp during the annual La Tomatina food fight festival in Bunol, near Valencia, Spain.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Aug 29
Hindu devotee couples leaving after taking a holy dip in the sacred Lolark Kund well, with the wishes to be blessed with a child, during the Lolark Shasthi festival in Varanasi, India.
PHOTO: AFP
Aug 25
A man holding the equipment used by Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri, who was a contractor for Reuters, at the site where he was killed along with other journalists in Israeli strikes on Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Aug 31
Runners in action during the Sydney Marathon in Australia.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Aug 31
Malaysian schoolchildren waving national flags during the 68th National Day celebrations in Putrajaya.
PHOTO: AFP
Aug 29
Beekeepers resting after loading beehives onto a pickup truck in Ait Attou Moussa, in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains.
PHOTO: AFP
Aug 29
People flying a kite in the shape of a pair of legs on the opening day of the St Anne’s Kite Festival at St Anne’s near Blackpool, England.
PHOTO: REUTERS