Week in pictures: 2-8 September 2023
A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.
Rolling Stones band members Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Mick Jagger attend a launch event for their new album Hackney Diamonds, at the Hackney Empire in London. This is their first album of original material since 2005, and the first since the death of drummer Charlie Watts.
Vehicles depart the Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nevada, US, after heavy rain caused a mudbath – with rainfall thought to have been the heaviest since the festival began more than 30 years ago.
Storm Daniel left cars stranded on a bridge in the village of Flamouli in Greece. More than a dozen people are now known to have died since the storm hit Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria this week.
A Ukrainian serviceman prepares an M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle for combat against Russian forces, near a front line in Zaporizhzhia.
Fans of Indian actor Shahrukh Khan wait outside a cinema in Mumbai to watch the first showing of Khan’s latest Bollywood film Jawan.
Gulls fly in front of the Moon as thousands of wading birds – including knot and oystercatcher – move onto dry sandbanks during the month’s highest tides at The Wash estuary, near Snettisham in Norfolk, UK.
Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus on her way to victory over Madison Keys of the US, during their semi-final at the US Open in Flushing Meadow.
Performers at the start of the Asian Games torch relay in Hangzhou, China. The games take place every four years and the competition will start later this month, having been postponed last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The peloton is seen during stage 12 – from Ólvega to Zaragoza – during the 78th La Vuelta, the Tour of Spain.
The Portuguese tall ship Sagres on the Tagus river in Lisbon during the Tall Ships Races. After Lisbon, the fleet headed to Cádiz in Spain.
A swimmer keeps cool in the glass-bottomed sky pool at Embassy Gardens in London as a UK record is broken for the number of consecutive September days reaching 30C (86F). The UK Health Security Agency issued an amber warning in nearly every area of England, indicating that the effects of high temperatures could be felt across the whole health service.
