Kashmiri Muslim women pray inside the shrine of Sufi saint Hazrat Sheikh Hamza Makhdoom, during the annual commemoration of the saint in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
From front page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos, chosen by Associated Press photo editors.
Displaced Palestinian beekeepers harvest honey from beehives at al-Dabba family bee farm, in Gaza city, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Ultra-Orthodox protesters demonstrate against a café operating on Shabbat, clashing with Israeli police and secular counter‑protesters supporting the café, in Jerusalem, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)A vehicle is crushed by debris after an earthquake struck Cali, Colombia, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Juan Diaz)Choir performs in a Tehran Symphony Orchestra performance at Unity Hall in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)Mexico competes in the artistic swimming team acrobatic final at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)Rescue workers try to put out a fire of a residential building and cars burning after a Russian air guided bomb strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)A mural of soccer player Lionel Messi’s adorns a facade of his childhood home on the day his father, Jorge Messi, died following a long illness, in Rosario, Argentina, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)Francesca kisses her father, Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella, after he took the oath of office in Cali, Colombia, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)People sit on dried grass in a park outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)Participants spray water from their water guns during a water gun festival in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)A fly feeds on flower nectar in a forest on a sunny day in outskirts of Tallinn, Estonia, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)A Hindu devotee reacts in pain after having his cheeks pierced with a steel rod as part of a ritual during the ‘Aadi’ festival, a holy month for Tamils observed with prayers and offerings to Hindu goddesses, in Chennai, India, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)Netherlands’ Demi Vollering, centre, celebrates with the team after winning the Women’s Tour de France cycling race (Tour de France Femmes) in Nice, France, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Philippe Magoni)Landmines collected for destruction are arranged in rows as members of a Syrian army engineering team conduct an operation to clear minefields left behind during the war in Qara, in the Damascus countryside, Syria, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)A cat sits on a street in the late afternoon at Karakoy district in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, June 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)Machine Gun Kelly performs at MGK Day on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026, at North Coast Yard in Cleveland. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)Noemi Marrero, left, who lost her children Mathias and Wilker, stands with her sister close to the urns with their ashes and other relatives members during a prayer for relatives of the victims of the June 24 earthquakes, in La Guaira, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)A man carries schoolgirls outside the site of a school shooting in Thailand’s Nonthaburi province, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)Nigerian brides attend a mass wedding ceremony in Kano, Nigeria, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Sani Maikatanga)Relatives mourn at the coffin of Oleksiy Yukov, who was fatally wounded while exhuming bodies of killed soldiers in the frontline in Donetsk region, during farewell service in St. Volodymyr Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Former Seattle Mariners pitcher Ryan Rowland-Smith wrestles an inflatable crocodile during a homerun derby after a baseball game, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)A hawksbill turtle swims at Addu Nature Park, a protected UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, off the coast of Addu City, Maldives, Feb. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Sophia Nasif)
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