Today's best photos: from Taylor Swift at MTV awards to Nascar smash

'The National' picks the most striking images from around the world

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

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

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

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

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

A dramatic accident at a Nascar Cup Series race at Daytona Beach, Florida. AP

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Updated: August 29, 2022, 2:08 PM