World in pictures this week, July 16, 2026

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editorsJuly 16, 2026 — 7:24pm1/15Men sit on the trunk of a car during a blackout in Havana, Cuba.Credit:AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa2/15A woman takes pictures of 400 gold colored plastic Mozart sculptures by German artist Ottmar Hoerl from Nuremberg before the 270th birthday of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Salzburg, Austria.Credit:AP Photo/Matthias Schrader3/15A stork walks on a field with straw bales in the Taunus region near Frankfurt, Germany.Credit:AP Photo/Michael Probst4/15A helicopter flies past the Golden Gate Bridge while searching for missing victims after a boat accident near Alcatraz Island off San Francisco.Credit:AP Photo/Noah Berger5/15People shelter under the shade of trees during a heat wave in Lleida, Spain.Credit:Angel Garcia/Bloomberg6/15A Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station carrying Expedition 75 crewmembers, NASA astronaut Anil Menon, Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Credit:Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP7/15A dog passes by on a bicycle taxi sitting next to its caretaker during a blackout in Havana, Cuba.Credit:AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa8/15Participants parade with flaming tourches during a festival in Nachikatsuura town, Wakayama prefecture, Japan.Credit:Kyodo News via AP9/15A deer leaps through a canola field in Fort St. John, British Columbia.Credit:Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP10/15Members of the firefighter brigade of Paris march during the Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees avenue, in Paris.Credit:AP Photo/Thomas Padilla11/15A portrait of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, the man killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is displayed among flowers and tributes at a makeshift memorial in Biddeford, Maine.Credit:AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty12/15The pack rides during the eleventh stage of the Tour de France cycling race with start in Vichy and finish in Nevers, France.Credit:AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy13/15Yolimar Torres, left, cries after she and other family members found her daughter's body, which they recovered themselves from the rubble of a building collapsed by the earthquake in La Guaira, Venezuela.Credit:AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos14/15A ragpicker boy searches for recyclable materials among plastic and other waste washed ashore by high tide on the Juhu Beach on the Arabian Sea coast in Mumbai, India.Credit:AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool15/15A car drives past straw bales on fields in the Taunus region near Frankfurt, Germany.Credit:AP Photo/Michael Probst