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Week in pictures 10 August 2024

PARIS: Olympic sprinters reach for the finish line during the men’s 100 meters on Sunday, August 4. American Noah Lyles, in Lane 7, won the incredibly close race (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

 

MANCHESTER: Police clash with right-wing protesters in Manchester, England, on Saturday, August 3. Protests first broke out late last month after an anti-immigrant misinformation campaign stoked outrage over a stabbing attack that left three children dead in Southport, England (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

 

PARIS: British athlete Lina Nielsen lies on the track after falling during a 400-meter hurdles race at the Olympics on Tuesday, August 6 (Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

 

MILL CREEK: A firefighter uses a drip torch to burn vegetation while trying to stop the Park Fire near Mill Creek, California, on Wednesday, August 7. The wildfire, one of the largest in California’s history, has burned more than 400,000 acres (Noah Berger/AP)

 

PARIS: Sweden's Armand "Mondo" Duplantis completes his world-record pole vault at the Paris Olympics on Monday, August 5. On his final attempt, Duplantis cleared 6.25 meters (20 feet, 6 inches), breaking the world record for the ninth time in his career (Adam Pretty/Getty Images)

 

DHAKA: Anti-government protesters display Bangladesh's national flag as they storm the palace of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on Monday, August 5. Hasina resigned and fled to neighboring India (K M Asad/AFP/Getty Images)

 

EDINBURGH: Italian illusionist Arturo Brachetti performs in the mirrored mazes of Camera Obscura in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Tuesday, August 6 (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

 

TAIZHOU: This aerial photo shows farmers harvesting gorgon fruit in a pond in Taizhou, China, on Tuesday, August 6 (AFP/Getty Images)

 

SANTIAGO: Cars are driven along a snow-covered road in Santiago, Chile, on Tuesday, August 6 (Matias Basualdo/AP)

 

PARIS: Goggles slide down the face of Congo's Vanessa Bobimbo as she swims in the 50-meter freestyle at the Paris Olympics on Saturday, August 3 (Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)

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