Pictures of the day: August 1, 2016

We look at 13 pictur­es of events from around the world
Multimedia Desk | August 01, 2016

Volunteers walk between Coca Cola branded tables near the main press centre and broadcast centre, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. PHOTO: REUTERS

Tom Stokesberry with the U.S. Forest Service surveys a destroyed home after the Soberanes Fire burned through the Palo Colorado area, north of Big Sur, California, US. PHOTO: REUTERS


Men walk past burning tires, which activists said are used to create smoke cover from warplanes, in Aleppo, Syria. PHOTO :REUTERS


A man stands on the Samsung stand in the Olympic Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. PHOTO: REUTERS


Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waves to the crowd while walking in the Vancouver Pride Parade with his family in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. PHOTO: REUTERS


Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team's British driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates winning at the Hockenheim circuit, southern Germany during the Formula One Grand Prix of Germany. PHOTO: AFP


Afghan children ride a bike along a road during sunset on the outskirts of Herat. PHOTO: AFP



Kyrgyz men fight on horses as they take part in the "Oodarysh" horse fights during a traditional folk festival at Son-Kul lake, 3016 metres above the sea level, some 350 kms from Bishkek. The festival marks the 220th anniversary of the national hero Tailak Baatyr. PHOTO: AFP


Thousands of pilgrims light candles as they take part in a night vigil held by Pope Francis at Campus Misericordiae in Brzegi as part of the World Youth Days (WYD). Pope Francis is in Poland for an international Catholic youth festival with a mission to encourage openness to migrants. PHOTO: AFP


Inmates sleep on the steps of a ladder inside the Quezon City jail at night in Manila. There are 3,800 inmates at the jail, which was built six decades ago to house 800, and they engage in a relentless contest for space. Men take turns to sleep on the cracked cement floor of an open-air basketball court, the steps of staircases, underneath beds and hammocks made out of old blankets. PHOTO: AFP


An F-16 FAB fighter jet from the Belgian Air Force flies over a beach during an airshow in Torre del Mar, southern Spain. PHOTO: REUTERS


A sanitation worker looks on while a diver practices. PHOTO: REUTERS


Jennelyn Olaires, 26, weeps over the body of her partner, who was killed on a street by a vigilante group, according to police, in a spate of drug related killings in Pasay city, Metro Manila, Philippines. A sign on a cardboard found near the body reads: "Pusher Ako", which translates to "I am a drug pusher." PHOTO: REUTERS


A Muslim take part in a mass in Santa Maria in trastevere church in Rome. Muslims participate in Catholic ceremonies in churches of Italy, as in France, in solidarity after the jihadist murder of French priest priest Jacques Hamel, the latest in a string of attacks. PHOTO: AFP
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