World in pictures, August 9, 2026

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors.September 9, 2026 — 8:59am1/8Scottish Ballet dancers Jessica Fyfe, Andrea Azzari and Urara Takata during a photocall for “Emergence” at Scottish Ballet headquarters on September 08, 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland.Credit:Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images2/8Dale Sanders, 91, climbs a section of Mt. Katahdin, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026 in Baxter State Park in Piscataquis County, Maine. Credit:Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo3/8An amputee war veteran wears a creation by designer Julya Kros during the Ukrainian Fashion Week show in short breaks between Russian regular air attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine.Credit:Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo4/8The Barroso family travels by horse-drawn carriage as they head to school for their two daughters’ first day back to classes in Minas, Cuba’s Havana province.Credit:Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo5/8Anastasia Potapova of Austria returns a shot against Mirra Andreeva during their Women’s Singles Fourth Round match on Day Nine of the 2026 US Open.Credit:Sarah Stier/Getty Images6/8A young man carries the cross of the former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, who died last week while serving a life sentence for genocide and other atrocities during the war in Bosnia, at the Topcider Cemetery, in Belgrade, Serbia.Credit:Marko Drobnjakovic/AP Photo7/8A couple have their wedding photos taken next to the chalk cliffs on September 7, 2026 in Birling Gap, England. The famous chalk cliffs at England’s South Downs are losing around 30 to 50 centimetres every year due to continuous coastal erosion.Credit:Carl Court/Getty Images8/8A partial lunar eclipse is seen in Louisville, Kentucky.Credit:Jon Cherry/AP Photo