Bookstores in the sky, migrants at sea, and more from the world

Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP
Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP

Migrants run to board a smuggler's boat in an attempt to cross the English Channel off the beach of Gravelines, northern France, on August 12, 2025.

REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki
REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki

A migrant is assisted by a medic from NGO Sea-Watch in the search and rescue (SAR) zone in the central Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Libya, on August 11, 2025.

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Long Tao / Getty

A view of the Cliff Bookstore within the Cotton Sinkhole on August 9, 2025, in Hechi, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China.

REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

Mourners attend the funeral of Al Jazeera journalists Anas Al Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and another colleague, who were killed in an Israeli strike, in Gaza City on August 11, 2025.

REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa

The sister of Palestinian man Mohammed Qandeel, who was killed by Israeli fire while seeking aid on Saturday, according to medics, grieves as she is comforted by her daughter during his funeral in Gaza City on August 10, 2025.

REUTERS/Edgar Su
REUTERS/Edgar Su

Performers during the opening ceremony of the World Games in Chengdu, China, on August 7, 2025.

REUTERS/Efekan Akyuzc
REUTERS/Efekan Akyuzc

A drone view shows burnt trees after a wildfire near the northwestern city of Canakkale, Türkiye, on August 9, 2025.

REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak
REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak

A resident holds his cat as he leaves the site of an apartment building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Bilozerske in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on August 10, 2025.

Abdel Majid BZIOUAT / AFP
Abdel Majid BZIOUAT / AFP

Moroccan horsemen ride during a performance to celebrate the annual Moussem festival in El Jadida on August 11, 2025.

REUTERS/Issei Kato
REUTERS/Issei Kato

A miko, or shrine maiden, takes part in a ceremony to commemorate the victims of the atomic bomb, a day ahead of the 80th anniversary of the bombing in the city, at Hypocenter Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan on August 8, 2025.