• Taylor Swift arrives at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Centre in Newark, New Jersey. Reuters
    Taylor Swift arrives at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Centre in Newark, New Jersey. Reuters
  • The remains of the submerged Gary Qasruka village, abandoned 36 years ago, have partly resurfaced after receding water levels at the Dohuk Dam due to drought, in northern Iraq. AFP
    The remains of the submerged Gary Qasruka village, abandoned 36 years ago, have partly resurfaced after receding water levels at the Dohuk Dam due to drought, in northern Iraq. AFP
  • More than 3,300 people set a new Guinness World Record for 'the most people sculpting with modelling clay' in Bangalore, India, creating busts of the elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesha. EPA
    More than 3,300 people set a new Guinness World Record for 'the most people sculpting with modelling clay' in Bangalore, India, creating busts of the elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesha. EPA
  • A classmate of Palestinian student Lian Al Shaer, 10, who was killed in recent Israel-Gaza fighting, is in grief as the new school year begins in Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip. Reuters
    A classmate of Palestinian student Lian Al Shaer, 10, who was killed in recent Israel-Gaza fighting, is in grief as the new school year begins in Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip. Reuters
  • Dancing and drumming on the streets of west London at the Notting Hill Carnival. Reuters
    Dancing and drumming on the streets of west London at the Notting Hill Carnival. Reuters
  • Women row their boats on algae-polluted water of Dal Lake in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. EPA
    Women row their boats on algae-polluted water of Dal Lake in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. EPA
  • French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki as he arrives for a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Reuters
    French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki as he arrives for a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Reuters
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers joke around as they arrive at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards in Newark. Reuters
    The Red Hot Chili Peppers joke around as they arrive at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards in Newark. Reuters
  • A man looks for his belongings in his destroyed apartment after a recent Russian air strike on Bakhmut in Ukraine. AFP
    A man looks for his belongings in his destroyed apartment after a recent Russian air strike on Bakhmut in Ukraine. AFP
  • Residents gather beside a road damaged by floodwater after heavy monsoon rain in the Charsadda district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The death toll from monsoon flooding in Pakistan since June has reached 1,061 to date, the country's National Disaster Management Authority said. AFP
    Residents gather beside a road damaged by floodwater after heavy monsoon rain in the Charsadda district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The death toll from monsoon flooding in Pakistan since June has reached 1,061 to date, the country's National Disaster Management Authority said. AFP
  • A dramatic accident at a Nascar Cup Series race at Daytona Beach, Florida. AP
    A dramatic accident at a Nascar Cup Series race at Daytona Beach, Florida. AP

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The National

August 29, 2022

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