It’s never been easier to keep up with what’s going on in the world. The news is everywhere – in our Facebook feeds, on the morning commute, during that lazy half hour before you switch off the TV and go to bed. But the tide of global affairs is often more upsetting than uplifting and it can be tempting to bury our heads in the sand. As the saying goes: a picture is worth a thousand words, so to offer a different perspective we've rounded up some of the most memorable images of the week's events, captured by the best photojournalists on the planet.
A member of the public views the paper hearts adorning a fence in Kensington, near the burnt-out remains of Grenfell Tower in London on 25th August 2017 ahead of the Notting Hill Carnival. The artwork is being made by volunteers from the community devastated by the Grenfell tower fire as part of a project called Green for Grenfell in which paper hearts, banners, posters and bunting relating to the tragedy are being made out of recycled materials to adorn the streets in time for the Notting Hill Carnival.
Photo: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images
In this NASA handout image, Hurricane Harvey is photographed from the International Space Station as it intensified on its way towards the Texas coast on 25th August 2017. The Expedition 52 crew on the station has been tracking this storm for the past two days and capturing Earth observation photographs and videos from their vantage point in low Earth orbit. Now at category 4 strength, Harvey's maximum sustained winds had increased to 130 miles per hour.
Photo: NASA/Getty Images
A view taken on the Rambla boulevard in Barcelona on 26th August 2017 shows people gathering around a flower tribute for the victims of last week's deadly attacks during a march against terrorism for which the slogan is #NoTincPor (I'm Not Afraid). The Mediterranean city is in mourning after a van ploughed into crowds on Las Ramblas boulevard on 17th August, followed hours later by a car attack in the seaside town of Cambrils.
Photo: Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images
In this photo taken on 26th August 2017, a model checks her makeup during the Daegu International Bodypainting Festival in Daegu. The bodies of dozens of female models turned into living canvases this weekend as they allowed delicate brush strokes and flamboyant illustrations to cover up their bare skin. Top artists from 10 countries take part in the festival, which runs until 27th August in South Korea's southeastern city of Daegu.
Photo: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images
Senior couples attend a group wedding at Laojun Mountain on 27th August 2017 in Luoyang, Henan Province of China. Eighty-six senior couples, who hadn't held weddings due to certain conditions of the time, participated in the group wedding on Sunday, the day before Qixi (or Chinese Valentine's Day).
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This photograph, taken on 28th August 2017, shows female panda Huan Huan holding her cub inside her enclosure at Beauval Zoo in Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, central France. The female panda gave birth to twins on 4th August 2017, but one died soon afterwards. Nine-year-old Huan Huan and her male partner Yuan Zi arrived at Beauval Zoo in January 2012 on a 10-year loan from China after intense, high-level negotiations between Paris and Beijing. Huan Huan (meaning 'happy') and Yuan Zi ('chubby') are the only giant pandas living in France. Breeding pandas is notoriously difficult and this is the first time a cub has been born in France.
Photo: Guillaume Souvant/AFP/Getty Images
Lightning strikes off the coast of Montevideo, late on 28th August 2017. Following days of heavy rains, flooding in Uruguay has forced almost 900 people to flee their homes, authorities said on Monday. Flooding in the country has grown increasingly common.
Photo: Marina Suarez/AFP/Getty Images
A Houston resident walks through waist-deep water while evacuating her home after severe flooding following Hurricane Harvey in north Houston, Texas on 29th August 2017. Harvey, which made landfall north of Corpus Christi late Friday evening, is expected to dump upwards of 40 inches of rain over the next couple of days.
Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images
A baby lion named Cesur, which was found in a car during traffic control in the Cizre district of Sirnak province, and a baby monkey named Can play together at the Gaziantep Zoo in Gaziantep, Turkey on 29th August 2017.
Photo: Kerem Kocalar/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
A reveller covered in tomato pulp takes part in the annual Tomatina festival in the town of Buñol in eastern Spain, on 30th August 2017. The iconic fiesta – which celebrates its 72nd anniversary and is billed as 'the world's biggest food fight' – has become a major draw for foreigners, in particular from Britain, Japan and the United States.
Photo: Jaime Reina/AFP/Getty Images
A picture shows the shadow of a spider as he spins a web at sunrise in the village of Krevo, some 100km northwest of Minsk, on 30th August 2017.
Photo: Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty Images
A firefighter plane flies over a forest fire in the northern area of Brasilia's National Park (PNB) in Brasilia on 30th August 2017. The PNB extends through 42,000 hectares amid Brasilia's urban area, where no rain has fallen in 100 days and the relative air humidity reaches 10%.
Photo: Evaristo Sa/AFP/Getty Images
An aerial view shows buses parked after dropping Muslim pilgrims off near Mount Arafat, also known as Jabal al-Rahma (Mount of Mercy), southeast of the Saudi holy city of Mecca, on Arafat Day, which is the climax of the Hajj pilgrimage on 31st August 2017. Arafat is the site where Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad gave his last sermon about 14 centuries ago after leading his followers on the pilgrimage.
Photo: Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images
A seagull steals a fish from the shelf where Robert Johnson Sr is selecting the prawns on 31st August 2017 near Edinburgh, Scotland. Port Seton is one of the few East Lothian harbours to maintain a fishing fleet, but the harbour has seen a sharp drop in fishing in recent years, forcing many to abandon the industry. Together with his son, Johnson was forced to sell one of his trawlers due to a decrease in crustacean yields, but they still continue to brave the North Sea conditions to bring in their daily catch.
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