Beirut explosion, COVID-19, atomic bomb: week in photos

An aerial view shows the massive damage to the grain elevators in the Port of Beirut and the area surrounding it on August 5, 2020, a day after a mega-explosion ripped through the port.

The scene of an explosion at the port of Beirut on August 4.

An injured man sits outside a restaurant, one of many buildings destroyed in Beirut’s trendy Mar Mikhael neighborhood by the massive explosion in the Lebanese capital on August 5.

A damaged hospital is seen after a massive explosion in Beirut on August 5.

Relatives of Lebanese army lieutenant Ayman Noureddine, who was killed in Tuesday’s explosion that hit the port of Beirut, mourn over his coffin during his funeral procession in the village of Numeiriyeh, Lebanon, on August 7.

A Lebanese woman whose son went missing after the explosion that hit the port of Beirut on Tuesday, cries as she waits outside the port to receive information from rescue teams on August 6.

A man digs a grave during a funeral at San Miguel Xico cemetery in Valle de Chalco, Mexico, on August 5, amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Saki Morioki, 5, prays as paper lanterns float along the Motoyasu River in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome on August 6 in Hiroshima, Japan.

Inmate firefighters arrive at the scene of the Water fire, about 20 miles from the Apple fire in Whitewater, Calif., On August 2.

A man uses a garden hose to water his home before being evacuated as a forest fire burns in the background, in La Couronne, France, August 4.

Elderly people wade knee-deep in water on a flooded road during a heavy monsoon rain in Mumbai on August 4.

Floodwaters hit a street in Muhlenberg Township, Pa., Flooded after heavy rains from Tropical Storm Isaias on August 4.

A boy walks past a house with items hung out to dry after the storm surge from Hurricane Isaias August 4 in Holden Beach, North Carolina.

A teacher wearing a pink biosafety suit as a preventive measure against the spread of the coronavirus sits at a pink children’s table while instructing a girl at home in Cali, Colombia on August 4.

President Donald Trump holds up a walking stick given to him by Senator Lamar Alexander after signing the Great American Outdoors Act at the White House on August 4.

People gather at the Brandenburg Gate for a protest against coronavirus restrictions in Berlin on August 1.

Armed police officers and their wives attend a group wedding ceremony on August 6 in Kunming, China.

A clown in a face mask poses before a clown make-up image in the Puente Piedra neighborhood in the northern suburbs of Lima, Peru, on August 3.

Holidaymakers sunbathe on the Baltic Sea beach in Germany on August 6.

NASA astronauts Robert Behnken (left) and Douglas Hurley are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavor spacecraft aboard the SpaceX GO Navigator salvage ship shortly after touching down in the Gulf of Mexico off Pensacola, in Florida on August 2.

Marine police prepare to release green sea turtles on Kuta Beach near Denpasar on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on August 5, after authorities arrested seven people in Serangan waters for allegedly attempting to pass 36 animals.

Giuseppe Paterno, 96, the oldest student in Italy, obtains his graduation certificate after obtaining his undergraduate degree in History and Philosophy, upon graduation from the University of Palermo in Italy on 29 July.

The full moon rises behind the ancient temple of Zeus in Nemea on August 3