PHOTO COLLECTION: AP Top Photos of the Day, Friday, August 8, 2025

This is a photo collection curated by AP photo editors.

Stamatina, 86, tries to extinguish a wildfire in Keratea, at the outskirts of Athens, Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanasis Stavrakis)
Burned grapevines are pictured after firefighters contained France’s largest wildfire in decades in Saint Laurent de La Cabrerisse, southern France, Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Los Angeles County Sheriff Rescue evacuates a horse as the Canyon Fire burns on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, in Halsey Canyon, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
A crinoid sits at Havannah Harbour, off the coast of Efate Island, Vanuatu, Sunday, July 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)
Juárez’s José Luis Rodríguez (11) battles for the ball with New York Red Bulls’s Wikelman Carmona (19) during the first half of a Leagues Cup soccer match Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, in Harrison, N.J. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
President Donald Trump holds charts as he speaks about the economy in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
A Palestinian man wave a pistol as others struggle to collect humanitarian aid airdropped by parachutes into Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Palestinians rush to collect humanitarian aid airdropped by parachutes into Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A girl plays on the shore at Albany Beach as the San Francisco skyline is seen in the background Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, in Albany, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Miami Marlins’ Heriberto Hernandez is doused with sunflower seeds in the dugout after hitting a home run in the third inning of a baseball game against the Houston Astros, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
A bolt of lightning strikes in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
People walk along the shore in Santa Catalina, Panama, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Stray cats gather on a table at the protected cat colony “Proyecto Aldameros,” in a park in the historic area of Havana, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Cargo containers fill a ship at the Port of Oakland on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Ukrainian National Guard serviceman of 3rd brigade «Spartan» prepares for flight a Penguin UAV near the frontline at Pokrovsk direction, Ukraine, on Wednesday, August 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Poland’s new President Karol Nawrocki attends an official ceremony to assume command of the Armed Forces at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the Pilsudski square in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Male Barbary lion Bart and female Khalila rest in their enclosure, Czech Republic, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Tudor Lakatos, who goes by the stage name Elvis Rromano, strikes a pose while getting ready for his performance with the Taraful Frunzelor band at the Terasa Florilor restaurant, in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, June 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Zeinab Mestrah, 26, who was wounded in the pagers attack carried out by Israel on September 17, 2024, poses for a photograph in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
A religious studies teacher instructs a boy in Quran recitation at the Abdullah Ibn-Masoud religious school on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Smoke from the Gifford Fire fills the sky as the sun sets over Los Padres National Forest, Calif., on Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
A foreign visitor walks by the iconic exhibition hall best known as the Atomic Bomb Dome on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Hiroshima, western Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Stranded cows look out from a submerged house along the banks of the river Ganga following heavy monsoon rains in Prayagraj, India, Tuesday, Aug.5, 2025.(AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Boston Red Sox pitcher Brayan Bello delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
President Donald Trump is seen in the window of Marine One at Lehigh Valley International Airport, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025, in Allentown, Pa. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Palestinians rush to collect humanitarian aid airdropped by parachutes into Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Young people wake up after spending the night at the Tor Vergata field in Rome as they participate in the Youths Jubilee, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Straw bales are decorated as a wedding couple to point out an upcoming wedding in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
India’s Mohammed Siraj and India’s Dhruv Jurel celebrate their win against England on day five of the fifth cricket test match between England and India at The Kia Oval in London, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
The winner of the Tour de France Femmes Pauline Ferrand-Prevot from France of team Visma – Lease a Bike celebrates as she crosses the finish line to win the 9th stage of the 4th edition of the Women’s Tour de France cycling race, 124,1 km from Praz-Sur-Arly to Chatel Les Portes du Soleil, in Chatel, France, Sunday Aug. 3, 2025. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)
Cooper Lutkenhaus, left, reacts as Donavan Brazier wins the men’s 800-meter final at the U.S. Championships athletics meet in Eugene, Ore., Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
Seattle Mariners’ Julio Rodriguez reacts while being doused by teammate Victor Robles to celebrate a win over the Texas Rangers in a baseball game Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Minami Katsu of Japan plays a shot from the 6th tee during the final round of the Women’s British Open golf championship, at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club in Porthcawl, Wales, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Ahmed Jaouadi of Tunisia competes in the men’s 1500-meter freestyle final at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Brazil’s Mariza, left, and Colombia’s Mayra Ramirez battle for the ball during the Women’s Copa America final soccer match at Rodrigo Paz Delgado stadium in Quito, Ecuador, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Leon Marchand of France competes in the men’s 400-meter individual medley heats at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Cincinnati Reds TJ Friedl lets go of the bat in the rain during the first inning of the MLB Speedway Classic baseball game between the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn., Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Detroit Tigers left fielder Riley Greene catches the foul ball by Philadelphia Phillies’ Kyle Schwarber during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
Tees are pinned in the hair of Lydia Ko of New Zealand during the third round of the Women’s British Open golf championship, at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club in Porthcawl, Wales, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

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