Cassidy Towriss watches the IndyCar Freedom 250 Grand Prix auto race, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Aug. 21 – 27, 2026
This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Leslie Mazoch, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.
Rescuers use an earthmover to carry a victim of flash flooding to safety along the Trishuli River in Nepal’s Nuwakot district, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)A girl cries as she waits for news of relatives missing after flash floods in Bidur, Nepal’s Nuwakot district, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)Women smoke waterpipe as they sit by the Litani River in the village of Qaaqaaiet al-Jisr, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)Carlos Alcaraz, of Spain, left, and Serena Williams, of the United States, talk on the court during a mixed doubles match at the U.S. Open tennis championships, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)Rocky, a gibbon hand-raised by on-site caretaker Jodi Kleier, sits in an enclosure at the Gibbon Conservation Center in Santa Clarita, Calif., Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Mohammed Ajouri mourns over the body of his brother Islam Ajouri, 14, who, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, was killed by Israeli forces, as his body is brought to the hospital in the West Bank city of Nablus, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)A man stands on a boat over a coral reef in the Dutch Cays of Guna Yala on Panama’s Caribbean coast, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)Mandy Madson visits a makeshift memorial honoring Dolly Parton outside her home Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026, in Brentwood, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)Palestinians inspect the Abu Salim Mosque a day after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Revelers throw tomatoes at each other during the annual “Tomatina” tomato fight fiesta, in the village of Bunol near Valencia, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)A woman poses for a photo while visiting a photography exhibit showcasing works by international photographers from the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, in Tehran, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)Real Sociedad’s Jon Aramburu pulls back Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe during the La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Real Sociedad in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)Skeletal remains inside the Espiritu Santo Hospital from 1575, according to archeologists from ProLima, are exposed during excavation at the Sanctuary of Santa Rosa de Lima, in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)Colorado Solicitor General Shannon Stevenson, right, hugs a colleague outside of court after tech giant Meta agreed to pay $17 billion as part of a settlement to end a landmark trial over teen social media addiction in Oakland, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)Robots compete at the Free Combat event of the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)President Donald Trump listens as Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., speaks during her campaign rally at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)People gather next to the bodies of people they said were their relatives and were killed in a gang attack in the Kenscoff neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)Supporters of opposition presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro attend a campaign motorcade in the Duque de Caxias neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)Ukrainian war veteran Oleksii Kozak is helped to get out of the water during a sporting event to encourage people and injured soldiers to take part in sports at a lake on the outskirts of Kyiv, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, during the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence Day. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)A homeless Syrian refugee receives cold water from the Streetwork team of the Athens municipality’s Department of Social Solidarity during a heat wave in Athens, Greece, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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