• A young girl watches the fireworks display during Territory Day celebrations at Mindil Beach in Darwin, Australia. Mark Kolbe / Getty Images
    A young girl watches the fireworks display during Territory Day celebrations at Mindil Beach in Darwin, Australia. Mark Kolbe / Getty Images
  • A football fan shows his skills next to a poster of Brazil's Neymar in a lane decorated with Brazilian flags and painted walls at the Sonagachi district in Kolkata, eastern India. Piyal Adhikary / EPA
    A football fan shows his skills next to a poster of Brazil's Neymar in a lane decorated with Brazilian flags and painted walls at the Sonagachi district in Kolkata, eastern India. Piyal Adhikary / EPA
  • A model presents a creation by designer Iris Van Herpen as part of her Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2018/2019 collection show in Paris, France. Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters
    A model presents a creation by designer Iris Van Herpen as part of her Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2018/2019 collection show in Paris, France. Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters
  • A Nepalese farmer covers herself with plastic sheet as she works in a paddy field during a drizzle in Kathmandu, Nepal. Niranjan Shrestha / AP Photo
    A Nepalese farmer covers herself with plastic sheet as she works in a paddy field during a drizzle in Kathmandu, Nepal. Niranjan Shrestha / AP Photo
  • People cool off in a water amusement park in Lianyungang in China's eastern Jiangsu province. AFP
    People cool off in a water amusement park in Lianyungang in China's eastern Jiangsu province. AFP
  • Visitors walk along the ruins of the Lohagad hill fort, near Lonavla in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. First built upon by Indian dynasties stretching back to the Satavahana Empire around the first century BC, the fortified Lohagad, meaning Iron Fort, is based on a flat-top hill in India's Western Ghats mountain range and was still in use by successive empires up until the 1800s. The fort is a popular destination for hikers during the monsoon season when heavy rains brings out fresh foliage in the region. Alex Ogle / AFP
    Visitors walk along the ruins of the Lohagad hill fort, near Lonavla in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. First built upon by Indian dynasties stretching back to the Satavahana Empire around the first century BC, the fortified Lohagad, meaning Iron Fort, is based on a flat-top hill in India's Western Ghats mountain range and was still in use by successive empires up until the 1800s. The fort is a popular destination for hikers during the monsoon season when heavy rains brings out fresh foliage in the region. Alex Ogle / AFP
  • Students play basketball at Mae Sai Prasitsart school, where some of the members of an under-16 soccer team that went missing with their coach at a flooded cave were studying at, in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand. Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters
    Students play basketball at Mae Sai Prasitsart school, where some of the members of an under-16 soccer team that went missing with their coach at a flooded cave were studying at, in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand. Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters
  • A vegetable vendor rows his boat towards a floating market on Dal lake in Srinagar. Danish Ismail / Reuters
    A vegetable vendor rows his boat towards a floating market on Dal lake in Srinagar. Danish Ismail / Reuters

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World in focus - best pictures for July 2, 2018

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