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Hard-hitting shots: This week’s best photos include Sam Kerr, boxing, prison, fires and floods

1 min read·August 02, 2023 - 8:19AM
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Incredible sports photos vie with global protests, fires and floods as picture editor Neil Bennett picks the best photos from around the world this week.

A long exposure image of Mount Merapi spewing lava onto its slopes during an eruption as seen from Sleman in Indoneisa. Picture: Devi Rahman/AFP
A long exposure image of Mount Merapi spewing lava onto its slopes during an eruption as seen from Sleman in Indoneisa. Picture: Devi Rahman/AFP

 

Matilda’s superstar Sam Kerr gives her shirt to an excited fan after Australia’s win v Canada in the critical World Cup game in Melbourne. Picture: Alex Pantling/Getty Images
Matilda’s superstar Sam Kerr gives her shirt to an excited fan after Australia’s win v Canada in the critical World Cup game in Melbourne. Picture: Alex Pantling/Getty Images

 

Dutch rider Demi Vollering takes a moment, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey in the Womens Tour de France. Picture: Jeff Pachoud/AFP
Dutch rider Demi Vollering takes a moment, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey in the Womens Tour de France. Picture: Jeff Pachoud/AFP

 

Where the streets have no name in the Mojave National Preserve, fires have burned over 70,000 acres including Joshua trees, as dangerously high temperatures and raging winds drive the fires cross the state line from California into Nevada. Picture: David Swanson/AFP
Where the streets have no name in the Mojave National Preserve, fires have burned over 70,000 acres including Joshua trees, as dangerously high temperatures and raging winds drive the fires cross the state line from California into Nevada. Picture: David Swanson/AFP

 

A champagne celebration for golfer Celine Boutier after winning the Evian Championship, in the French Alps. Picture: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP
A champagne celebration for golfer Celine Boutier after winning the Evian Championship, in the French Alps. Picture: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP

 

The National Bush Summit 2023 is a News Corp campaign to highlight the importance of rural and regional Australia to the rest of the nation. Seafood providores Sebastian Mezzino and son Maurie, from Port Pirie in South Australia, have operated in the region for over 70 years. Picture: Toby Zerna
The National Bush Summit 2023 is a News Corp campaign to highlight the importance of rural and regional Australia to the rest of the nation. Seafood providores Sebastian Mezzino and son Maurie, from Port Pirie in South Australia, have operated in the region for over 70 years. Picture: Toby Zerna

 

Football crazy Colombia fans set Sydney alight for their nations game versus Germany in the Womens World Cup group stages. Picture: Franck Fife/AFP
Football crazy Colombia fans set Sydney alight for their nations game versus Germany in the Womens World Cup group stages. Picture: Franck Fife/AFP

 

A memorial in front of the closed Russian Embassy, one year after the Olenivka prison attack, where dozens of Ukrainian soldiers died in the bombardment of the Moscow-controlled jail. Picture: Roman Pilipey/AFP
A memorial in front of the closed Russian Embassy, one year after the Olenivka prison attack, where dozens of Ukrainian soldiers died in the bombardment of the Moscow-controlled jail. Picture: Roman Pilipey/AFP

 

Gold Logie winner Sonia Kruger enjoys the front pages at The Darling Pyrmont, Sydney, recreating the classic 1977 portrait of American actress Faye Dunaway, by photographer Terry O’Neill. Picture: Richard Dobson
Gold Logie winner Sonia Kruger enjoys the front pages at The Darling Pyrmont, Sydney, recreating the classic 1977 portrait of American actress Faye Dunaway, by photographer Terry O’Neill. Picture: Richard Dobson

 

Russia's Pacific Fleet warships parade off the port city of Vladivostok during Navy Day celebrations. Picture: Pavel Korolyov/AFP
Russia's Pacific Fleet warships parade off the port city of Vladivostok during Navy Day celebrations. Picture: Pavel Korolyov/AFP

 

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activists set a bus on fire as they blocked a highway in Dhaka in a protest calling for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation. Picture: AFP
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activists set a bus on fire as they blocked a highway in Dhaka in a protest calling for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation. Picture: AFP

 

A protester resists Turkish police during clashes as local residents and environmental activists demonstrate against a deforestation project. Picture: Bulent Kilic/AFP
A protester resists Turkish police during clashes as local residents and environmental activists demonstrate against a deforestation project. Picture: Bulent Kilic/AFP

 

Female fencers clash at the World Championships in Milan. Picture: Andreas Solaro/AFP
Female fencers clash at the World Championships in Milan. Picture: Andreas Solaro/AFP

 

Golden Girl. An incredible image taken using an underwater remote camera shows Ariarne Titmus entering the water on her way to a Gold Medal at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. Picture: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images
Golden Girl. An incredible image taken using an underwater remote camera shows Ariarne Titmus entering the water on her way to a Gold Medal at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. Picture: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

 

As part of President Nayib Bukele’s war on crime, new inmates are stacked closely together from MS-13 and 18 gangs at the Terrorist Confinement Centre (CECOT) in San Salvador. Picture: AFP
As part of President Nayib Bukele’s war on crime, new inmates are stacked closely together from MS-13 and 18 gangs at the Terrorist Confinement Centre (CECOT) in San Salvador. Picture: AFP

 

Despite losing her limbs from a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection, Kerrie McDonald, from South Australia, is determined to live life to the fullest, continuing to visit friends and riding her horse, Bella. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe
Despite losing her limbs from a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection, Kerrie McDonald, from South Australia, is determined to live life to the fullest, continuing to visit friends and riding her horse, Bella. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe

 

Max Gawn, of the Demons, leads the team down the race after the round 20 match between Richmond and Melbourne at the MCG in Melbourne. Picture: Michael Klein
Max Gawn, of the Demons, leads the team down the race after the round 20 match between Richmond and Melbourne at the MCG in Melbourne. Picture: Michael Klein

 

Cheeky Cat! Eight-year-old tiger Akasha is settling into life at Ballarat Wildlife Park. Picture: David Caird
Cheeky Cat! Eight-year-old tiger Akasha is settling into life at Ballarat Wildlife Park. Picture: David Caird

 

Rescuers help residents in a flooded area after Typhoon Doksuri made landfall in Quanzhou, China. Picture: CN/AFP
Rescuers help residents in a flooded area after Typhoon Doksuri made landfall in Quanzhou, China. Picture: CN/AFP

 

France's President Emmanuel Macron meets Managalas people at APEC Haus in Port Moresby. Picture: Ludovic Marin/AFP
France's President Emmanuel Macron meets Managalas people at APEC Haus in Port Moresby. Picture: Ludovic Marin/AFP

 

A man jumps over a cow as people watch races during the 91st Bayonne festival in southwestern France. Picture: Gaizka Iroz/AFP
A man jumps over a cow as people watch races during the 91st Bayonne festival in southwestern France. Picture: Gaizka Iroz/AFP

 

The sad image of a crane lifting the wreckage of a MRH-90 military helicopter in the Whitsundays. The helicopter crashed with four Australian servicemen on board on July 29. Picture: Michaela Harlow
The sad image of a crane lifting the wreckage of a MRH-90 military helicopter in the Whitsundays. The helicopter crashed with four Australian servicemen on board on July 29. Picture: Michaela Harlow

 

Scorched earth. A woman enters the sea where wildfires have destroyed the woods, in the southern part of the Greek island of Rhodes. Wildfires have been raging in Greece amid scorching temperatures, forcing mass evacuations in several tourist spots. Picture: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP
Scorched earth. A woman enters the sea where wildfires have destroyed the woods, in the southern part of the Greek island of Rhodes. Wildfires have been raging in Greece amid scorching temperatures, forcing mass evacuations in several tourist spots. Picture: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP

 

A picture showing the brutality of the sport of boxing, as Ella Boot punches Annie Thatcher in their super-lightweight bout in Sydney. Picture: Mark Evans/Getty Images
A picture showing the brutality of the sport of boxing, as Ella Boot punches Annie Thatcher in their super-lightweight bout in Sydney. Picture: Mark Evans/Getty Images

 

Beekeepers move bees to places with water sources to help them more easily survive predicted droughts caused by the El Nino atmospheric phenomenon in Colombia. Picture: Yair Suarez/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Beekeepers move bees to places with water sources to help them more easily survive predicted droughts caused by the El Nino atmospheric phenomenon in Colombia. Picture: Yair Suarez/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

 

The instantly recognisable silhouette of former US President Donald Trump entering a political rally while campaigning for the GOP nomination in Pennsylvania. Picture: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images via AFP
The instantly recognisable silhouette of former US President Donald Trump entering a political rally while campaigning for the GOP nomination in Pennsylvania. Picture: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images via AFP

 

Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy! Dressed in red, Kate Bush fans take part in a mass dance event for the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever, in the UK. Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA Images
Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy! Dressed in red, Kate Bush fans take part in a mass dance event for the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever, in the UK. Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA Images

 

Too-wit too-woo, thank you, says Snickers, a great horned owl being sprayed down in Phoenix, Arizona, during afternoon temperatures above 40 degrees amid the city's worst heatwave on record. Picture: Mario Tama/Getty Images via AFP
Too-wit too-woo, thank you, says Snickers, a great horned owl being sprayed down in Phoenix, Arizona, during afternoon temperatures above 40 degrees amid the city's worst heatwave on record. Picture: Mario Tama/Getty Images via AFP

 

Glastonbury? No, this is the 24th world meeting of Citroen 2CV friends in Switzerland to celebrate the classic French car. Around 5000 Citroen 2CVs from across the globe tootled into the Swiss countryside, taking over an area equivalent to 75 football fields, with a festival zone and camping ground. Picture: Gabriel Monnet/AFP
Glastonbury? No, this is the 24th world meeting of Citroen 2CV friends in Switzerland to celebrate the classic French car. Around 5000 Citroen 2CVs from across the globe tootled into the Swiss countryside, taking over an area equivalent to 75 football fields, with a festival zone and camping ground. Picture: Gabriel Monnet/AFP

 

The battle of Karbala is re-enacted during commemoration of the martyrdom of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussain and his 72 loyal companions, who were killed in the battle, in Suq al-Shuyukh district of Dhi Qar, Iraq. Picture: Haidar Mohammed Ali/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
The battle of Karbala is re-enacted during commemoration of the martyrdom of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussain and his 72 loyal companions, who were killed in the battle, in Suq al-Shuyukh district of Dhi Qar, Iraq. Picture: Haidar Mohammed Ali/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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