Olympic celebs, midnight dips and Comic-Con: photos of the weekend

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Pyongyang, North Korea

Kim Jong-un during celebrations to mark the 71st anniversary of the end of the Korean War, in front of the victory monument of the fatherland liberation war

Hundreds of people in front of a huge statue

Paynes Creek, California, US

A resident takes a drink of water while evacuating his wife and dog as the Park fire continues to burn near Paynes Creek

A man by the roadside next to a park fire unscrews a water bottle

Paris, France

Tom Cruise offers selfies with fans at the women’s Olympic gymnastics qualification event

Tom Cruise smiles as a crowd of fans take photos and selfies with him

Nusantara, Indonesia

Indonesian president Joko Widodo, accompanied by some Indonesian influencers, waves to residents during his working visit to Indonesia’s new capital city

Seven men on motorcycles, one waving

San Diego, California, US

Robert Downey Jr unmasks himself to reveal that he will play Doctor Doom in Marvel’s forthcoming film Avengers: Doomsday

A man in sunglasses and a green suit stands with his arms outstretched and a mask in one hand

Saltdean, UK

Bathers celebrate the restoration of iconic 1930s Saltdean Lido near Brighton with a moonlit dip. A £7.5m restoration project has restored the lido to its former glory

Aerial shot of a lido with dozens of people bathing in the water

Paris, France

UK prime minister Keir Starmer meets Team GB tennis player Andy Murray

Two men smiling at each other

Liverpool, UK

An image from Queen, an exhibition by Magnus Hastings, featuring portraits of drag superstars and iconic LGBTQ+ celebrities, which has opened at the Walker Art Gallery

A huge photograph in an art gallery of a drag artist, dressed as Tippi Hedren in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, with several birds flying near their head

Majdal Shams, Golan Heights

Mourners carry coffins during a funeral for children who were killed at a football pitch by a rocket fired from Lebanon

Aerial shot of several coffins in white cloth being carried through a crowd of people

Barcelona, Spain

A hellish beast explodes pyrotechnics during a correfoc (fire-run) at the Poble Sec quarter summer festival. A correfoc is an old Catalan custom in which people dress as devils and light firecrackers and flares while others look on or wear protective clothing and ‘run with the fire’

A vicious-looking cat character holds lit fireworks which are spraying sparks

Bangkok, Thailand

Government officials take selfies in front of a portrait of Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn during celebrations to mark his 72nd birthday outside the Grand Palace

Two men in white military uniform take selfies in front of a framed portrait of a man dressed in gold

Saltee Island, Ireland

A puffin returning from a successful fishing trip. Saltee Island off County Wexford is home to puffins, gannets, guillemots, razorbills, cormorants, great black-backed gulls, kittiwakes and manx shearwaters

A puffin in the air with its wings outstretched and fish in its beak

Forest Ranch, California, US

The sun sets over the remains of a house that was destroyed in the Park fire

Part of a wall and a chimney stand among debris

Deir al-Balah, Gaza

Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli strike on the Khadija school housing displaced people. The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said an Israeli strike on the school killed 30 people

Six people look and talk among the debris on an upper floor of a bombed building

Tokyo, Japan

Fireworks explode over the Sumida River during the Sumida River Fireworks Festival at Asakusa, as seen from the Tokyo Skytree tower

Aerial shot of a firework exploding over a city

Bath, UK

People cooling down on a summer’s day at Warleigh Weir on the River Avon

People in bathing costumes sit on a weir while others wade in the water or float on inflatables

San Diego, California, US

Harrison Ford at the Marvel Studios panel of Comic-Con International

Harrison Ford pulling a monster-like face
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