Week in pictures 13 August 2022
MATANZAS: Flames rise at a fuel depot in Matanzas, Cuba, on Monday, August 8. Lightning struck an oil storage and started the blaze (Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images)
SPACE: The Gemini North telescope in Hawaii captured this image showing two entangled galaxies that will eventually merge into one millions of years from now. It's a preview of the eventual fate of our own Milky Way galaxy (International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)
GAZA CITY: People run for cover after an explosion in Gaza City on Saturday, August 6, the second day of an Israeli military operation against Islamic Jihad, which responded with rocket fire towards Israel. Dozens of Palestinian militants and civilians were killed, among them children, before a ceasefire was restored Sunday night. Israel released videos it said showed some of the deaths were caused by errant rocket fire (Anas Baba/AFP/Getty Images)
HOLLYWOOD: Flowers are seen on Olivia Newton-John's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday, August 8. Newton-John, one of the biggest pop stars of the '70s who charmed generations of viewers in the movie musical "Grease," died Monday at the age of 73 (Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images)
FREETOWN: People run away during an anti-government protest in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Wednesday, August 10. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the capital, protesting inflation and the rising cost of living in the West African country (Reuters)
SAMEIRO: Firefighters drink water and recover while fighting a wildfire in the Portuguese village of Sameiro on Wednesday, August 10 (Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images)
TORONTO: Tennis legend Serena Williams waves to the crowd in Toronto after losing her first-round match at the Canadian Open on Wednesday, August 10. It was her first match since she announced her upcoming retirement (Cole Burston/Reuters)
LOS ANGELES: Someone receives a monkeypox vaccine in Los Angeles on Wednesday, August 10 (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)
FRANCE: Rescuers pull up a net as they rescue a beluga whale that was stranded in France's Seine River on Tuesday, August 9 (Jean-Francois Monier/AFP/Getty Images)
NEILA: A burnt landscape is seen in Neila, Spain, as cyclists compete during the fifth stage of the Vuelta a Burgos on Saturday, August 6 (Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno/Velo/Getty Images)