A robot-boxing match in Shanghai, widespread flooding in China, a train derailment in Germany, abandoned buses in India, a performing-dog show in Canada, and much more

Crowds on either side of a city street cheer racing cyclists as they ride past.Abdul Saboor / ReutersCrowds cheer on riders during Stage 21 of the Tour de France, in Paris, on July 27, 2025.A dog crashes through a barrier during an obstacle run.Artur Widak / Anadolu / GettySpurt, an Australian shepherd, performs an obstacle run during Wild Wild Woof, at the 2025 KDays festival, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on July 26, 2025.A swimmer crashes through the water during a performance.Yong Teck Lim / GettySabina Makhmudova of Team Uzbekistan competes in the women’s solo free preliminaries on Day 10 of the World Aquatics Championships, in Singapore, on July 20, 2025.A motorcycle stunt rider extends their arms and legs during a jump, with the ocean visible in the background.Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times / GettyFreestyle-motocross rider Taka Higashino does a no-hands Superman trick high over the beach, with Catalina Island in the background, on opening day at the U.S. Open of Surfing, in Huntington Beach, California, on July 26, 2025.A seabird flips a fish into its beak.Ronen Tivony / NurPhoto / GettyAn anhinga flips a fish into a headfirst position just before swallowing it, in Lake Eola Park, in Orlando, Florida.A person uses a power washer to clean a large statue of a dinosaur.Eric Gay / APAngel Hernandez power washes a dinosaur figure at the Witte Museum, in San Antonio, on July 29, 2025.A woman in traditional clothing stands beside a llama.Juan Karita / APAn Aymara woman and her llama participate in the 15th National Camelid Expo, in El Alto, Bolivia, on July 26, 2025.A large group of people, all wearing red dresses, dances in a field.Anthony Devlin / GettyParticipants dance during a performance in tribute to the Emily Brontë–inspired Kate Bush song “Wuthering Heights,” in Haworth, England, on July 27, 2025.An overgrown lot filled with abandoned red buses.Indranil Mukherjee / AFP / GettyAbandoned buses, discontinued from active service, stand overgrown with creeper vines and other vegetation at a bus depot in Mumbai, India, on July 26, 2025.A section of the Great Wall of China, seen on a hilltopMa Weibing / Xinhua / GettyA view of the Great Wall on Taihang Mountains in Laiyuan County, in China’s Hebei province, on July 26, 2025A long line of people attending a memorial are seen standing on a winding path on the side of a rocky mountain.Connie France / AFP / GettyRelatives of people killed during 2022–23 antigovernment protests, dressed in red, take part in a memorial ceremony at Cerro San Cristobal, in Lima, Peru, on July 27, 2025, on the eve of Peru’s Independence Day. On January 9, 2023, protesters from the Puno Region joined nationwide demonstration that had erupted in December 2022, resulting in the death of 18 people during clashes with the police in the highland city of Juliaca.An aerial view of a zig-zagging wooden walkway, going through a large patch of lotus plants.Liu Chaofu / VCG / GettyTourists enjoy the scenery at a large patch of lotus flowers and green leaves at a national wetland park in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou province, China, on July 26, 2025.A crane works to lift a car that is part of a train wreck.Bernd Weißbrod / DPA / GettyA crane lifts a car from the scene of an accident where a regional train derailed, in Riedlingen, Germany, on July 28, 2025.A view of many passenger cars parked on rail carrier cars.Sina Schuldt / DPA / GettyCar trains are parked at the marshaling yard in Bremen’s Gröpelingen district, in Germany, on July 28, 2025.Workers attend to fishing nets that have been laid out in long lines on pavement.Zhu Haiwei / Zhejiang Daily Press Group / VCG via Getty / VCGWorkers repair fishing nets in preparation for the upcoming fishing season, in Taizhou City, Zhejiang province, China, on July 27, 2025.A pack of racing cyclists passes by a sunflower field.Tim de Waele / GettyDuring Stage 5 of the fourth Tour de France Femmes, the peloton passes through a flowery landscape, in Gueret, France, on July 30, 2025.Two oxen that are yoked together run through shallow water, splashing during a race.Avishek Das / SOPA Images / LightRocket / GettyFarmers take part in a traditional rural-cattle race known as Moichara, ahead of the harvesting season, in Canning, India, on July 27, 2025.Rushing water cascades down a waterfall as a group of people watch from a nearby overlook.Liu Hongda / Xinhua / GettyPeople visit the Hukou Waterfall, on the Yellow River in Jixian County, in China’s Shanxi province, on July 27, 2025.An underwater view of a diver plunging into a pool, leaving a stream of bubbles behind them.Francois-Xavier Marit / AFP / GettyChen Yuxi, a diver with Team China, competes in the semi-final of the women’s 10-meter platform-diving event during the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, in Singapore, on July 31, 2025.Several children play in a small swimming pool set up in a city in Egypt.Khaled Desouki / AFP / GettyBoys cool down in a portable swimming pool in the al-Duwaiqa neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, on July 29, 2025.Rescuers pull on a rope, towing people across a flooded river in a round plastic basin.Zhao Wenyu / China News Service / VCG / GettyFlood-affected villagers are transferred to a safe site in a plastic basin, at Liulimiao Town, Huairou District, Beijing, China, on July 28, 2025.A person looks at a nearby wildfire that is burning through a forest.Mustafa Bikec / Anadolu / GettyEfforts to bring a forest fire under control continue in the Orhaneli district of Bursa, Turkey, as the blaze enters its third day, on July 28, 2025.A firefighter walks through the wet and smoky ruins of a warehouse following a bomb attack.Scott Peterson / GettyUkrainian firefighters battle a food-warehouse blaze that two Russian missiles caused in a strike that killed one security guard, on July 30, 2025, in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Russia has intensified missile and drone attacks against Ukraine, firing more than 700 in a single night and generally against civilian targets, amid a surge of daily aerial bombardments of urban centers, 3 and a half years since Russia invaded Ukraine.Nine or ten parachutes are seen descending over Gaza, carrying humanitarian aid.Abdel Kareem Hana / APHumanitarian aid is airdropped to Palestinians over the central Gaza Strip, pictured from Khan Younis, on July 28, 2025.A child enjoys a public fountain on a hot day.Chung Sung-Jun / GettyChildren play in a water fountain on a hot day, in Seoul, South Korea, on July 25, 2025.Worshippers carry a portable shrine into the sea, seen from the water's surface.Eugene Hoshiko / APParticipants carry a portable shrine, or mikoshi, into the sea during a purification rite at the annual Kurihama Sumiyoshi Shrine Festival, in Yokosuka, Japan, on July 27, 2025.A worker moves through a refrigerated storage space filled with large blocks of ice.Buddhika Weerasinghe / GettyA worker moves a large ice block at the Honda Reizo Company factory in Taishi, Japan, on July 28, 2025. As scorching temperatures persist across Japan, ice production is in full swing. Honda Reizo’s factory produces 113 tons of ice cubes daily to help people beat the summer heat.A crowd stands around a boxing ring as two small humanoid robots wearing boxing gloves face off in the center.AFP / GettyPeople watch humanoid robots box at an exhibition during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, in Shanghai, China, on July 26, 2025.

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