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The week in pictures: Summer wildfires, a Thai school shooting and the Tour de France Femmes

  Sun, 09 Aug 2026
France A Serbian police helicopter battles a fire in Deliblatska Pescara (Deliblato Sands), 70 kilometres northwest of Belgrade, Serbia, on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. -  Serbian Ministry of Interior
SUN, 09 AUG 2026
A Serbian police helicopter battles a fire in Deliblatska Pescara (Deliblato Sands), 70 kilometres northwest of Belgrade, Serbia, on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. - © Serbian Ministry of Interior

A high diver is shown in action during training for the European Swimming Championships at the Bir-Hakeim bridge, Paris, August 5, 2026. Residents stand at the site of a supermarket warehouse hit by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine on August 5, 2026. Boats in a marina were left stranded on dry ground by low water levels in the Danube River near Apatin, Serbia, on August 4, 2026. A migrant who crossed from Morocco into Spain holds a sign reading "asylum" in Spanish as he lines up for food distribution on a beach in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Monday, August 3, 2026. Uno-X Mobility's Norwegian rider Katrine Aalerud (front), Lidl-Trek's Dutch rider Loes Adegeest (C) and Cofidis Women Team's Czech rider Nikola Noskova (L) ride in a breakaway during the sixth (of nine) stage of the fifth edition of the Women's Tour de France cycling race, 153.4 km from Montbrison to Tournon-sur-Rhone in central-eastern France, August 6, 2026. A student reacts with a relative after being evacuated from Debsirin Nonthaburi School following a shooting incident there, outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, August 7, 2026. Mourners gather around the flag-draped bodies of members of the Hassayna and Abu Sharia families, whose bodies were finally recovered from rubble after being killed in an Israeli strike in 2023, during their funeral in Gaza City on August 4, 2026. Rows of fireplaces and chimneys are all that remain of several homes in a residential neighbourhood in Spokane, Washington, after being burned by wildfire, Monday, August 3, 2026. Shiite worshippers carrying portraits of late Iranian supreme leaders Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini gather between the holy shrines of Imam Abbas and Imam Hussein during Arbaeen, marking the end of the 40-day mourning period following Ashoura, Karbala, Iraq, Tuesday, August 4, 2026.

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