A look back at the highlights of the week’s news and the most striking images: a devastating flood in Nepal and Tibet, the death of icon Dolly Parton, a tornado in the south of France and the World Humanoid Robot Games in China.
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Aerial view showing houses buried under mud after flash floods in Devighat, Bidur municipality, Nuwakot district, Nepal, August 27, 2026. © Prabin Ranabhat, AFP
Houses stuck in mud in Devighat, Bidur municipality, Nuwakot district, Nepal, August 27, 2026. © Prabin Ranabhat, AFP
A statue remains amid the rubble of a home destroyed by the Hawk Fire, in Reno, Nevada (United States), August 24, 2026. © Josh Edelson, AFP
A woman mourns in front of the improvised memorial in tribute to Ukrainian and foreign soldiers who fell in combat, on the occasion of Ukraine’s Independence Day, on Independence Square, in kyiv, August 24, 2026. © Roman Pilipey, AFP
A woman reacts in front of flowers and a wreath placed on the star of American singer and songwriter Dolly Parton after her death, on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, August 25, 2026. © Valerie Macon, AFP
Participants take part in the traditional “Tomatina” tomato fight in the town of Buñol, eastern Spain, on August 26, 2026. © Jose Jordan, AFP
An explosion during an Israeli strike carried out in the central Gaza Strip, August 23, 2026. The Gaza Health Ministry reported on August 23 that the total death toll since the start of the war on October 7, 2023, now stood at 73,420, adding that 1,286 Palestinians had been killed since the ceasefire took effect on October 10 2025. © Eyad Baba, AFP
A man stands amid the rubble of a damaged house in Pomas, southwest France, August 25, 2026, following a tornado that hit the Aude department on August 24. © Idriss Bigou-Gilles, AFP
Humanoid robots compete in the 100-meter race during the second edition of the World Humanoid Robot Games, at the National Speed Skating Palace in Beijing, China, August 25, 2026. © Wang Zhao, AFP
Residents of Kenscoff, near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, angry in front of the body of a person killed during violence on the night of August 23 to 24, 2026, during which more than forty people were killed by armed gangs. © Clarens Siffroy, AFP
An Israeli settler attacks a left-wing activist at an Israeli outpost in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian village of Jannatah, just south of the city of Bethlehem, on August 25, 2026. © Ilia Yefimovich, AFP
The overall winner of the cosplay competition, Yvonne Chockey, poses for photos with fans as she plays Angewomon, a character from the popular Japanese animation series “Digimon”, during the Otamatsuri convention in Nairobi, Kenya, August 22, 2026. © Luis Tato, AFP
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