Devastating earthquake in Colombia, and suffocating heat in Gaza

A woman walks past the rubble of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Pereira, Colombia on August 11, 2026. A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Colombia on 10 August 2026 and killed at least 111 people.

A young Palestinian pours water from a plastic container over their head amid the rubble of buildings destroyed during the war, at Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, on 5 August 2026.

A person observes flames during wildfires on a hill slope in Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park in Probolinggo, East Java province, Indonesia, on 9 August 2026.

A gaping hole scars the wall of a church following Israeli military activity in the southern Lebanese village of Zawtar al-Gharbiyah on 8 August 2026.

An athlete jumps from the Women's 20m Platform during training at the LEN European Aquatics Championships, alongside the Seine River, with the Eiffel Tower in the background, in Paris on 5 August 2026.

Hot air balloons take to the air in a Mass Ascent at dawn during the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta in Bristol, western England, on 7 August 2026.

A man runs as smoke billows from a wildfire in Deliblatska Pescara (Deliblato Sands), near the village of Sumarak, some 70 kilometres northeast of Belgrade, on 7 August 2026.

This aerial photograph shows a man walking on the sandbanks exposed by the receding waters of the Danube river in Batina, northeastern Croatia on 9 August 2026.

The sons of Ibrahim al-Dabba (unseen), head of the Beekeepers Cooperative in the Gaza Strip, tend to beehives with their father on the roof of a destroyed building in Gaza City's Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood, on 5 August 2026.

Firefighters put out a fire after Russian missiles hit a warehouse in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 5 August 2026.