Week in pictures: 5-11 August 2023


A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.

TOBY MELVILLE/Reuters

75,000 rubber ducks join the throng at the Chicago Ducky Derby in Chicago, Illinois, on 10 August 2023.

KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP

A youth dives into the Mediterranean sea on the French Riviera, 10 August 2023.

VALERY HACHE/AFP

The funeral cortege of Sinéad O'Connor, in Bray, Ireland, on 8 August 2023.

Niall Carson/PA Media

Argentine presidential candidate Javier Milei during the closing event of his electoral campaign 7 August 2023.

AGUSTIN MARCARIAN/REUTERS

An aerial image taken on 10 August 2023 shows homes and buildings on the waterfront in Lahaina burned to the ground in the aftermath of wildfires in western Maui, Hawaii.

PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP

Railway workers repair the tracks alongside damaged carriages, a day after the derailment of a passenger train in NawabShah on 7 August 2023.

ASIF HASSAN/afp

Lauren James, of England, stamps on Michelle Alozie, of Nigeria, during the Fifa Women's World Cup at Brisbane Stadium on 7 August 2023.

Elsa/FIFA/Getty Images

People explore the Luminarium: Terceradix, created by Architects of Air to celebrate their 30th anniversary, at The Helix in Falkirk.

Jane Barlow/PA Media

Supporters of the opposition party Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), ahead of a manifesto launch event in Bulawayo on 8 August 2023.

ZINYANGE AUNTONY/AFP

South African surfer Griffin Colapinto rides a wave at Teahupo'o in Tahiti, on 9 August 2023.

MARTIN BUREAU/AFP

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