World in pictures this week, July 23, 2026

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editorsJuly 22, 2026 — 7:46pm1/18Icelandic foals stand together at a stud farm as the sun rises in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany.Credit:AP Photo/Michael Probst2/18A street musician shelters with a hat against the sun as he performs for money during a hot day in Istanbul.Credit:AP Photo/Francisco Seco3/18Fatima Mokdad stands amid the rubble of her home, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike during the Israel-Hezbollah war, where she and her family continue to live, using the only room that remained intact, in Froun village, southern Lebanon.Credit:AP Photo/Hassan Ammar4/18The sun rises behind geese at Pier A Park in Hoboken, New Jersey, as the sun rises behind the New York City skyline on the day of the World Cup final soccer match between Spain and Argentina to be played in East Rutherford, near New York.Credit:AP Photo/Julio Cortez5/18A Shiekh speaks to visitors at the Sultan Ashraf Qaytbay Mosque, built between 1472 and 1474 AD, and considered a masterpiece of late Mamluk architecture, in Cairo, Egypt.Credit:AP Photo/Amr Nabil6/18Believers and volunteers place fresh flowers on an earthen communal tomb under draped rainbow canopies during the memorial flower-offering ceremony for flood victims in Yunlin, Taiwan.Credit:Cheng Chia Huang/Getty Images7/18Larry the cat, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, sits on the doorstep to No10 Downing Street as Labour Party leader Andy Burnham is set to become the U.K.’s new prime minister on Monday, succeeding Keir Starmer in London.Credit:AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth8/18Argentina’s Lionel Messi casts a shadow during the World Cup final soccer match between Spain and Argentina in East Rutherford, New Jersey.Credit:AP Photo/Matt Slocum9/18Crosses stand on the graves of Greek and Greek Cypriot soldiers killed in the 1974 Turkish invasion in Cyprus at the Tymvos Macedonitissas military cemetery in the divided capital of Nicosia, Cyprus.Credit:AP Photo/Petros Karadjias10/18Spectators look at the breakaway during the fourteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race with start in Mulhouse and finish in Le Markstein Fellering, France.Credit:AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy11/18Firefighters and local police are on the scene of a wildfire in Rome.Credit:Francesco Benvenuti/Lapresse via AP12/18Toronto Tempo’s Isabelle Harrison reacts as she is introduced before a WNBA basketball game against the Las Vegas Aces in Toronto.Credit:Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP13/18The final springboard chop event is underway during the Lumberjack World Championships in Hayward, Wisconsin.Credit:AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt14/18A tourist walks through the Stoa of Attalos at the Ancient Agora during a heat wave in Athens, Greece.Credit:AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris15/18Julia Sosnovska hugs her dog Perry inside her apartment in the Lukianivka neighbourhood of Kyiv, Ukraine, the morning after it was damaged by a Russian attack.Credit:AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko16/18The flooded surroundings at Mallplaza Oesta in Cerrillos after heavy rains affected the metropolitan area of Santiago, Chile.Credit:Marcelo Hernandez/Getty Images17/18Rescue workers try to put out a fire of a residential building burning after a Russian air guided bomb strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.Credit:AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko18/18Supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party push against a barricade as they attempt to march to India’s Parliament, demanding the resignation of the education minister, in New Delhi.Credit:AP Photo/Shekhar Yadav