PHOTO COLLECTION: AP Top Photos of the Day, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025

This is a photo collection curated by AP photo editors.

Astronauts, from left, Oleg Platonov, of Russia, Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, and Kimiya Yui, of Japan, pose for a photo as they leave the Operations and Checkout Building for a trip the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A and a planned liftoff on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Friday, Aug. 1, 2025, in Cape Canaveral , Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Lamar Taylor of Bahamas prepares to compete in the men’s 50-meter freestyle heats at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, Friday, Aug.1, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Smoke rises amid destroyed buildings following an Israeli shelling in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Containers are piled up in a cargo terminal in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
RC Leipzig players, right, battle for a line-out throw during the seventh place match at the German rugby sevens championship, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025, in Dresden, Germany. (Hendrik Schmidt/dpa via AP)
Residents pass by the site of the Russian air strike which destroyed a residential house in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Yevhen Titov)
Annette Echikunwoke takes a throw during the hammer throw finals during the U.S. Championships athletics meet in Eugene, Ore.,Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
New York Police officers salute as the hearse carrying the casket of NYPD officer Didarul Islam passes after his funeral, Thursday, July 31, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura )
Palestinians rush to collect humanitarian aid airdropped into Zawaida in central Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians mourn around the body of a man killed while trying to reach aid trucks entering northern Gaza through the Zikim crossing with Israel, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Youths attend a profession of faith moment led by Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, as part the weeklong Jubilee celebration for young Catholics, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
A demonstrator holds a candle while wearing a “wanted” sign of Heath Minister Mario Lugones on his forehead during a demonstration to demand better salaries and increased funding for the Garrahan pediatric public Hospital, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Archaeologist Jose Aliaga works at the site where city workers discovered ancient remains, from the pre-Inca Chancay culture, and artifacts as workers were digging a natural gas line for the company Calidda in the district of Puente Piedra on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)
New cars are parked in a lot at the International Car Operators terminal in the Port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Teammates shower Cincinnati Reds’ Elly De La Cruz with play money in the dugout after his two-run homer during the third inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves, in Cincinnati, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Israeli right-wing activists watch the northern Gaza Strip during a rally calling for the re-establishment of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, near the border in southern Israel, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Delia Donn, 78, gestures to a riot policeman near Congress during weekly protests demanding better pensions for retirees, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Rescuers work in a destroyed apartment building after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Straw bales lie on a field in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A man leads his donkeys up a hill in Ha Lejone, Lesotho, where the unemployment rate is close to 40 percent, Tuesday, July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
Thai residents who fled homes following the clashes between Thai and Cambodian soldiers, rest at an evacuation center in Surin province, Thailand, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Pauline Alexandra Pfeif of Germany competes in the women’s 10m platform diving preliminaries at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Visitors holding parasols walk through the Tottori Sand Dunes in Tottori Prefecture, Monday, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
A Kashmiri woman rows a boat filled with fodder for cattle as it rains on the Dal Lake in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
A boatman paddles through an estuary during a precautionary tsunami warning following an earthquake off the coast of Russia, in Buenaventura, on Colombia’s Pacific coast, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)
Floral tributes in front of the ‘Black Sabath bridge’ to honour musician Ozzy Osbourne as thousands of fans gathered to watch a funeral procession for Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne following his death aged 76, in Birmingham, England, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
Veterinarians examine cattle at a ranch that supplies livestock for export to the U.S., in Zamora, northern Mexico, Monday, July 28, 2025, as the U.S. border remains closed to Mexican cattle imports because of screwworm concerns. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Security personnel stand by Air Force One, before President Donald Trump’s arrival at Royal Air Force Lossiemouth, Tuesday, July 29, 2025, en route to return to Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
President Donald Trump arrives, followed by a bagpiper band, at the opening ceremony for the Trump International Golf Links golf course, near Aberdeen, Scotland, Tuesday, July 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Humanitarian aid destined for Palestinians is airdropped over the Gaza Strip by a Jordanian Air Force aircraft on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Malak Harb)
Members of the NYPD Crime Unit examine a door with bullet holes at the scene of the previous day’s deadly shooting, Tuesday, July 29, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Tanzin Dolma milks a yak as her husband, Punchuk Namdol, collects yak dung in the background on an early morning in Maan village, Ladakh, India, Tuesday, July 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
England’s soccer team captain Leah Williamson lifts the trophy with her teammates on a stage celebrating with thousands of fans during a homecoming victory parade and celebration outside Buckingham Palace in London, after winning the Women’s Euro 2025,Tuesday, July 29, 2025.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Los Angeles Angels’ Logan O’Hoppe, right, reacts after a close pitch during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers Monday, July 28, 2025, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/William Liang)
Tennessee Titans linebacker Arden Key uses a wet towel to cool off after practice at the team’s NFL football training camp, Tuesday, July 29, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Tazman Abramowicz and Carson Paul of Canada compete in the men’s 3m synchronised preliminaries at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, Monday, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
The statue of St. Peter is backdropped by clouds prior to the start of a welcome mass for the Youth Jubilee in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Tuesday, July 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Participants carry a portable shrine, or mikoshi, into the sea during a purification rite at the annual Kurihama Sumiyoshi Shrine Festival at Kurihama, Yokosuka city, south of Tokyo Sunday, July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Ko Ha-ru of South Korea competes in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke heat at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, Monday, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
NYPD officers bring out the body of Didarul Islam, who was shot and killed by a gunman earlier this evening, out of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Hospital, early Tuesday, July 29, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
Humanitarian aid is airdropped to Palestinians over northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen, in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A worker sorts beef carcasses at an export-oriented slaughterhouse in Hermosillo, Mexico, Monday, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A shoe lies in a ditch along a route used by migrants near the border crossing into Peru, in Arica, Chile, Tuesday, June 10, 2025.(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
A firefighter tries to extinguish a wildfire as a helicopter flies, in the northwestern suburb of Kryoneri, in Athens, Greece, Saturday, July 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)
President Donald Trump speaks as he meets European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the Trump Turnberry golf course in Turnberry, Scotland Sunday, July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen shake hands after reaching a trade deal at the Trump Turnberry golf course in Turnberry, Scotland Sunday, July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Abbot Phut Analayo, right, and other monks and residents who fled clashes between Thai and Cambodian soldiers take shelter in Surin province, Thailand, Saturday, July 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Relatives of Druze Israeli captain Amir Saad, who was killed in a battle in the Gaza Strip, mourn during his funeral in the village of Yanuh Jat, northern Israel, Sunday, July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A demonstrator taking part in a march against a recently approved amnesty law that benefits military members and civilians prosecuted for human rights abuses during the country’s armed conflict stands on a hill overlooking Lima, Peru, Sunday, July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
A man rides a bicycle during heavy rain in Beijing, China, Sunday, July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
The pack with Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, passes the Arc de Triomphe during the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 132.3 kilometers (82.1 miles) with start in Mantes-la-Ville and finish on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, France, Sunday, July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy)
England players celebrate with the trophy after winning the Women’s Euro 2025 final soccer match between England and Spain at St. Jakob-Park in Basel, Switzerland, Sunday, July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Fans react as Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy, right, gives autographs during Back Together Weekend at the team’s NFL football training camp Sunday, July 27, 2025, in St. Joseph, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Protesters destroy an effigy of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in time for his State of the Nation Address in Quezon City, Philippines on Monday, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Basilio Sepe)

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