Texas, USA

Wanda Carpenter hugs her seven-year-old daughter Samantha at the Fulton Learning Center after waiting out Hurricane Harvey.

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Crimea, Russia

A participant in a flyboarding competition, part of the 2017 Sevastopol sailing week water sports festival at the Yug yacht club.

Photo: Sergei Malgavko/TASS

Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Muslim pilgrims circumambulate the Ka’bah, Islam’s holiest site, located in the centre of the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque). Every year pilgrims perform a series of rituals during the Hajj, including running back and forth between the hills of Al-Safa and Al-Marwah, drinking from the Zamzam Well, and travelling to the plains of Mount Arafat to stand in vigil.

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Shah Alam, Malaysia

Singapore’s Shuran Yu competes in the senior ladies’ free skating at the 29th South-East Asian Games.

Photo: Vincent Thian/AP

Mosul, Iraq

Smoke blows in the background as members of the Iraqi forces advance through a street in the town of Tal Afar after the Iraqi government announced the launch of the operation to retake it from Islamic State.

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Cuellar, Spain

A man holding a stick tries to fend off a bull during the first bull run as part of annual festivities to honour the town’s patron saint. Two people were injured in the bull run.

Photo: Pablo Martín/EPA

Belalp, Switzerland

The picture, taken with a drone, shows a flock of alpine sheep being led on a steep mountain path. Shepherds are celebrated over the weekend traditionally known as Schaeferwochenende, after leading almost 800 sheep on a three-day hike from the summer pastures, high above the Aletsch glacier, down to Belalp in the canton of Valais for the winter season.

Photo: Valentin Flauraud/EPA