AP’s best photos of the week

Palestinians rush to collect humanitarian aid airdropped by parachutes into Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Aug. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinians ride on a truck loaded with food and humanitarian aid as it moves along the Morag corridor near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)

A Palestinian carries the body of a man killed while trying to receive aid near a distribution center operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in Netzarim, in the Gaza Strip, Aug. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Ali Abbas, 11, who was wounded in the pagers attack carried out by Israel on September 17, 2024, poses for a photograph in the southern village of Barish, Lebanon, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Kyrgyz hunters ride horses with their golden eagles during the Traditional Eagle Hunting Salbuurun Festival on the southern shore of Issyk-Kul lake, Kyrgyzstan, Aug. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Vladimir Voronin)

Matt Ludwig competes in the pole vault finals during the U.S. Championships athletics meet in Eugene, Ore., Aug. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

A priest stands amid young people camping out on the Tor Vergata field, before the start of a Mass led by Pope Francis celebrating the Jubilee of the Catholic Church, in Rome, Aug. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Paper lanterns float along the Motoyasu river in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome on the 80th anniversary of the WWII U.S. atomic bombing, in Hiroshima, Aug. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

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, June 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Smoke from the Gifford Fire fills the sky as the sun sets over Los Padres National Forest, Calif., Aug. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Raed Salem Aslyieh, left, from Jabaliya, hugs his relatives after the death of his son, Ahmed Raed Aslyieh, 18, who succumbed to injuries sustained in an Israeli strike that killed eight other family members four months earlier, worsened by a lack of proper treatment due to medicine shortages, at the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Aug. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A bolt of lightning strikes in Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

A man, holding a dog, runs from a blaze raging through a neighborhood of Salta, Argentina, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Javier Corbalan)

Residents salvage electrical wire for selling, after a massive fire broke out in the residential area of Manila, Philippines, Aug. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Seattle Mariners’ Julio Rodriguez, left, douses J.P. Crawford after Crawford hit a game-winning home run to beat the Texas Rangers in a baseball game in Seattle, Aug. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Max Litchfield of Great Britain competes in the men’s 400-meter individual medley heats at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, Aug. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Children play before a circus performance during their mid-year winter break, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One at Lehigh Valley International Airport, in Allentown, Pa., Aug. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Barbary lions Bart and Khalila nuzzle in their enclosure at the at Dvur Kralove Safari Park, in Czech Republic, Aug. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Supporters of President Gustavo Petro’s government, right and center, scuffle with backers of former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez after disrupting a march in support of Uribe, who was sentenced to 12 years under house arrest for witness tampering and bribery, in Cali, Colombia, Aug. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)

Australia’s Harry Wilson is tackled by Tadhg Beirne, right, and Jac Morgan of the British & Irish Lions during the third and final rugby union test between the Lions and the Wallabies in Sydney, Australia, Aug. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Members of India’s National Disaster Response Force distribute food supplies to stranded residents in a submerged area following heavy monsoon rains along the banks of the River Ganga, in Prayagraj, India, Aug. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Coconut catches a wave during the World Dog Surfing Championships in Pacifica, Calif., Aug. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Eakin Howard)

People gather on a rooftop to get a view of the site where a plane belonging to an air ambulance service provider crashed into a residential area killing several people, in the Mwihoko area of Ruiru, just outside Kenya’s capital, Aug. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Samson Otieno)

Birds perch on a park bench as a dense fog envelopes the Sydney skyline causing major commuter delays, Aug. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

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, Aug. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Circus performers prepare for Karandash-Fest, a street festival of circus performers in Staritsa, Russia, Aug. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)

Residents walk past a home flattened by a Russian air strike in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Yevhen Titov)