Pictures of the day: July 27, 2016

We look at 13 pictures of events around the world
Multimedia Desk | July 27, 2016

This picture taken from Concorde bridge over the river Seine in Paris shows a group of young people looking at the Eiffel tower, the Alexandre III bridge and night lights of the city. PHOTO: AFP

Israeli border police officers stand guard as Israeli machinery demolish Palestinian houses in the West Bank village of Qalandia near Ramallah. PHOTO: REUTERS


A convoy of firetrucks drives through Bear Canyon after it was burned bare by the Sand Fire on July 25, 2016 in Santa Clarita, California. Triple-digit temperatures and dry conditions are fueling the wildfire at a rate of about 10,000 acres per day and is only 10% contained. PHOTO: AFP


Bangladeshi onlookers gather near the house where police killed nine suspected militant extremists in Dhaka. PHOTO: AFP


A plane fights a wildfire burning in Artana, near Castellon, eastern Spain, on July 26, 2016. PHOTO: AFP


Shephard, Ntoaesele Mashongoane, 32 years old, calls his sheep as he stands in front of the controversial Katse dam, which only provides water to South Africa on July 13, 2016 in Katse. Farmers in Lesotho have been struggling with an almost year long drought that has devastated crops and left rural areas without water. PHOTO: AFP


A Palestinian man walks atop the rubble of a house, that was demolished by Israeli army bulldozers, in the village of Qalandia, next to Israel's controversial separation barrier, between the Israeli occupied West Bank town of Ramallah and East Jerusalem. PHOTO: AFP



Labourers wash up at the end of a work day at a brick factory on the outskirt of Sanaa, Yemen. PHOTO: REUTERS


A man who fell off a bridge while waiting to watch tidal wave struggles as waves come towards him, on the banks of Qiantang River in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. PHOTO: REUTERS


People sitting on a dam wait to catch fish from a flooded river in Dezhou, Shandong province. PHOTO: REUTERS


Children take shelter under a tree as it rains in New Delhi, India. PHOTO: REUTERS


Four F22 Raptors fly in formation after a mid-air refueling exercise with a KC-135R Stratotanker as they participate in the multi-national military exercise RIMPAC in Honolulu, Hawaii. PHOTO: REUTERS


Former US President Bill Clinton acknowledges the audience on stage at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. PHOTO: REUTERS


This picture shows workers gathering pebbles at a sand excavation site along the Mekong River in Vientiane. Grain by grain, truckload by truckload, Laos' section of the Mekong river is being dredged of sand to make cement -- a commodity being devoured by a Chinese-led building boom in the capital. But the hollowing out of the riverbed is also damaging a vital waterway that feeds hundreds of thousands of fishermen and farmers in the poverty-stricken nation. PHOTO: AFP
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