Today's best photos: from a large melt hole to Dutch farmers protest
A farmer plays in a rice paddy during 'National Paddy Day', which marks the start of the annual rice-planting season, near Kathmandu, Nepal. AFP
Players on the pitch during the women's international cricket Test match between England and South Africa, in Taunton, Britain. Reuters
Pope Francis leads the mass for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul at Vatican Basilica in Vatican City, Vatican. Getty Images
Farmers protest against the government's nitrogen plans, in the Netherlands. Dutch farmers are against the plans aimed at halving nitrogen emissions by 2030, which they say are particularly drastic for the agricultural sector. EPA
A shepherd watches as his buffalos cool off in the shallow waters of the Diyala River, which has turned into pools of sewage water due to desertification and pollution, east of Baghdad, Iraq. Low rainfall and upstream damming in neighbouring Iran and Turkey have led to drops in the Tigris and Euphrates water levels. EPA
Abena Osei Asare, Ghana's Deputy Minister of Finance, is protected by the police at the ministry offices on the second day of a demonstration over soaring living costs, in the capital Accra. AFP
A Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, walks along a path next to another person during the pilgrimage to the Armarnath cave shrine in Indian-administered Kashmir. AFP
Women collect water from a well in Agrotha village, in India's Madhya Pradesh state. As the monsoon storms bear down on the country, the women hope that water shortages will no longer leave their village high and dry. AFP
The Berwick Charities Cup celebrates it's centenary this year. Matches are played at The Stanks, a pitch at the foot of the Elizabethan walls of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Berwick Rangers XI play the Flying Dutchmen in their Group F fixture, Britain. Reuters
Alfonso holds a picture in Nahuala, Guatemala, of Pascual Melvin Guachiac, 13, who died in the trailer of a lorry along with other migrants in San Antonio, Texas. Reuters
Fishermen follow a statue of St Peter being carried on a boat, centre, as part of his feast day procession in the Pacific Ocean, in honour of the Catholic patron saint of fishermen in Pucusana, Peru. AP
Turquoise water gathers in a large melt hole at the top of an iceberg in the Disko bay, western Greenland. The iceberg originates from the Jakobshavn glacier, the most productive in the Northern Hemisphere. The massive icebergs that detach from the glacier float for years in the waters in front of the fjord before being carried south by ocean currents. AFP
