• An Indian child takes shelter from the rain under a plastic sheet in New Delhi. The monsoon rains have started in the Indian capital following a spell of record hot weather, bringing down temperatures and increasing humidity at the start of a monsoon season which is expected to be “deficient”, according to the met department. Sajjad Hussain / AFP
    An Indian child takes shelter from the rain under a plastic sheet in New Delhi. The monsoon rains have started in the Indian capital following a spell of record hot weather, bringing down temperatures and increasing humidity at the start of a monsoon season which is expected to be “deficient”, according to the met department. Sajjad Hussain / AFP
  • Revellers run with Torrestrella’s fighting bulls along the Calle Estafeta during the second day of the San Fermin Running Of The Bulls festival in Pamplona, Spain. Pablo Blazquez Dominguez / Getty
    Revellers run with Torrestrella’s fighting bulls along the Calle Estafeta during the second day of the San Fermin Running Of The Bulls festival in Pamplona, Spain. Pablo Blazquez Dominguez / Getty
  • An Afghan resident sweeps the courtyard of the Hazrat-e-Ali shrine, or Blue Mosque, during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in Mazar-i-Sharif. Farshad Usyan / AFP
    An Afghan resident sweeps the courtyard of the Hazrat-e-Ali shrine, or Blue Mosque, during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in Mazar-i-Sharif. Farshad Usyan / AFP
  • An Indian man carries a clay pitcher of water on his head as he crosses parched land on a hot day at the village Bhunerheri, some 12 kms from Patiala. Sultry conditions and high humidity levels prevailed as temperatures hovered in the region of 38 degree Celsius. AFP
    An Indian man carries a clay pitcher of water on his head as he crosses parched land on a hot day at the village Bhunerheri, some 12 kms from Patiala. Sultry conditions and high humidity levels prevailed as temperatures hovered in the region of 38 degree Celsius. AFP
  • Lotus F1 team driver Pastor Maldonado goes off the track after colliding with Sauber driver Esteban Guitiererrez during the British Grand Prix at the Silverstone Race Circuit, central EnglandPaul Hackett / Reuters
    Lotus F1 team driver Pastor Maldonado goes off the track after colliding with Sauber driver Esteban Guitiererrez during the British Grand Prix at the Silverstone Race Circuit, central EnglandPaul Hackett / Reuters
  • A worker rappels from the Cristo Redentor statue at the Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro. Alessandro Garofalo / Reuters
    A worker rappels from the Cristo Redentor statue at the Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro. Alessandro Garofalo / Reuters
  • A participant gets a shower after a handball match at the “Wattoluempiade,” or Mud Olympics, in the northern German city of Brunsbuettel. Morris Mac Matzen / Reuters
    A participant gets a shower after a handball match at the “Wattoluempiade,” or Mud Olympics, in the northern German city of Brunsbuettel. Morris Mac Matzen / Reuters
  • Syrians walk amid dust following a reported barrel-bomb attack by Syrian government forces in the Tariq al-Bab neighbourhood in the northern city of Aleppo. Zein Al-Rifai / AFP
    Syrians walk amid dust following a reported barrel-bomb attack by Syrian government forces in the Tariq al-Bab neighbourhood in the northern city of Aleppo. Zein Al-Rifai / AFP
  • A Palestinian holds a knife near the home of slain 16 year-old Palestinian Muhammad Abu Khdair, at the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Shuafat. Clashes erupted between police and protesters in East Jerusalem and in Arab villages in northern Israel, as Palestinians said a slain teenager was burnt alive this week. Atef Safadi / EPA
    A Palestinian holds a knife near the home of slain 16 year-old Palestinian Muhammad Abu Khdair, at the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Shuafat. Clashes erupted between police and protesters in East Jerusalem and in Arab villages in northern Israel, as Palestinians said a slain teenager was burnt alive this week. Atef Safadi / EPA
  • Palestinian Musahartis call on observant Muslims to wake up for their overnight “suhur” meal before the next day’s fast and to perform the dawn prayer in the Muslim quarter during the holy month of Ramadan in Gaza City. Mohammed Abed / AFP
    Palestinian Musahartis call on observant Muslims to wake up for their overnight “suhur” meal before the next day’s fast and to perform the dawn prayer in the Muslim quarter during the holy month of Ramadan in Gaza City. Mohammed Abed / AFP
  • A man walks along the bank of the Yellow River to fish as the Sammenxia Dam discharges flood waters downstream, in Pinglu, Shanxi province. China Daily
    A man walks along the bank of the Yellow River to fish as the Sammenxia Dam discharges flood waters downstream, in Pinglu, Shanxi province. China Daily

Best photography from around the world July 7

Rob Gurdebeke

July 07, 2014

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The National View’s photo editors pick the best images from around the world

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