Read more:Sheikh Hamdan shares selfie taken during train journey in UK cityAirline executives asked to help with baggage handling for three monthsSinger and actress Olivia Newton-John dies aged 73WhatsApp to roll out changes across its platform later this monthLondon museum agrees to return looted Benin Bronzes to African countryTennis great Serena Williams hints at retirement in post on InstagramUN warns many species are at risk of extinction due to human-induced environmental changeBritney Spears to collaborate with music legend on comeback song 'Hold Me Closer'Stranded whale dies after being winched from river in rescue attemptNew virus detected in China after dozens of people become sick following contact with animalsPictures of the week: from a supernova to a heatwaveAustralia’s newest supercomputer, Setonix, has produced a highly detailed image of a supernova remnant. Photo: CSIRO AustraliaConstruction of the new Etihad Rail track in Fujairah. Photo: Etihad RailBandages on the hands of tennis star Emma Raducanu during her women's singles match against Ludmilla Samsonova of Russia at the Citi Open in Washington. EPAA child swims in the floodwater after heavy rain in Manila, the Philippines. ReutersPeople enjoy the beach near the smoke of a fire after fuel storage tanks exploded in Matanzas, Cuba. ReutersEngland's Matthew Lee dives at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. ReutersAn empty road as Hainan in southern China is locked down after a Covid-19 outbreak. AFPMigrants from Tunisia are assisted by crew members of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, sixteen miles west of the Italian island of Pantelleria in the Mediterranean. AP PhotoMembers of the Kenya Police Band walk inside the Kenya International Conference Centre during an interfaith prayer meeting attended by veteran Kenyan politician Raila Odinga in Nairobi. AFPIsrael's Iron Dome air defence system intercepts a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip above the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. AFPDr Rafeeya Sultan Pasha, 84, at her home in Abu Dhabi. She spoke of her memories of Partition in India. Khushnum Bhandari / The NationalFireworks during the 2022 Commonwealth Games closing ceremony in Birmingham. ReutersProtesters with umbrellas bearing the number 8 during a rally to mark the anniversary of the August 8, 1988 uprising against a previous junta, in Yangon, Myanmar. AFPFirefighters at work in the Galicia region of Spain. It has been the worst year of wildfires in the country for 30 years. EPASmoke clouds rise over the village of Verdelhos during a forest fire in Castelo Branco, Portugal. EPAThe Roman camp Aquis Querquennis on the banks of the Limia river in Spain is usually underwater but is now visible due to the low level of As Conchas reservoir. EPAAn art installation created by Tal Tenne Czaczkes of a large beach ball made of plastic waste, on display at Gordon beach in Tel Aviv, Israel. EPAAn Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo plane, the world's biggest aircraft, lies destroyed by Russian troops in the Kyiv region of Ukraine. ReutersThe opening ceremony of the European Championships in Munich, which will feature nine Olympic sports: athletics, beach volleyball, canoe sprint, cycling, artistic gymnastics, rowing, sport climbing, table tennis and triathlon. EPABoats lie on a dry lake bed in a port in Velence, Hungary, as a huge drought sweeps across Europe. AP PhotoThe sun rises over the Baltic Sea and a pier with a tea house in Timmendorfer Strand, Germany. AP PhotoA Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite image shows low water levels in the Po River in northern Italy. ReutersA boy stands in a yurt, the traditional portable dwelling of nomads on the Suusamyr Plateau in Kyrgyzstan. AFPEmma Slevin of Ireland competes on the balance beam at the European Championships in Munich. Getty ImagesA woman crosses train tracks to reach a residential area of town in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. AP PhotoYoung Palestinian girls are overcome at the funeral of 11-year-old Layan al-Shaer in Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip. She was killed by an Israeli air strike. AP PhotoLocal people watch clouds of smoke during a forest fire in Linhares da Beira, northern Portugal. EPABassam Hussein in a police car in Beirut. He turned himself in after taking staff hostage for several hours in a bank branch in Lebanon's capital. AFPThe supermoon rises behind The Shard in London. AP PhotoA man jumps off Blackrock diving boards during a heatwave at Salthill beach, in Galway, Ireland. ReutersUpdated: August 12, 2022, 6:00 PM