The best photos from around the world this week

Night view of Italy from space, gas explosions in southern Taiwan, the transfer of a historic building in Washington, wrestling dances - see these and many other photos in our selection of the best photos from around the world over the past week.

(Total 25 photos)

1. On the famous Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, an old water pipe broke through, as a result of which a fountain gushing from under the torn asphalt began to flood everything in the neighborhood. (© AP)

2. Protesters show red-painted hands in Barcelona to protest against the bombing of the Gaza Strip. (© AP)

3. A NASA image taken from the International Space Station shows a night in Italy. (© AP/NASA)

4. South Korean student participates in a protest near the Israeli embassy in Seoul against the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip. (© AP)

5. July 31, as a result of several powerful gas explosions in the city of Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan, at least 20 people were killed and 270 were injured. (© Reuters)

6. Children play near the fountain on Gwanghwamun Square in downtown Seoul on a hot day. (© Reuters)

7. Washington began moving the 1902 building to another location. (© AFP)

8. King Mohammed VI of Morocco welcomes the crowd at the Royal Palace in Rabat. In Morocco, a national holiday is celebrated - Throne Day - in honor of the ascension to the throne of King Mohammed VI. (© Fadel Senna / AFP)

9. Firefighters use search dogs at the site of severe gas explosions in the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, which killed at least 22 people, including four firefighters, and injured 270 more. (© Toby Chang/Reuters)

10. A man who (according to him) lost 13 members of his family sits and cries on the site where his house was, in the village of Malin in the state of Maharashtra. The death toll from a landslide in India has exceeded 70 people. (© AP)

11. People in Poland celebrate the 70th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Uprising. (© AP)

12. "Sunken House" in the museum's pond in Rostock, Germany. (© AP)

13. Beach in the Greek village of Toroni. (© Reuters)

14. Indonesian Muslims pray during Eid al-Fitra on the black sand beach of Parangkusumo in Yogyakarta. (© Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images)

15. The military march on the square in front of the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun during events in honor of the 61st anniversary of the end of the Korean War. (© Reuters / KCNA)

16. Fireworks light up the sky on the third day of the Tomorrowland music festival in the small Belgian town of Boom. (© AFP / Getty Images)

17. Wrestlers dance during the traditional Nadam Fair in the city of Shilin Gol, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. About 768 people, including children and women, took part in traditional battles. (© Reuters)

18. A Buddhist monk takes part in the funeral of Shamar Rinpoche at a monastery in Kathmandu. (© Reuters)

19. People walk inside a circle in a wheat field in the commune of Reisting, near Munich. In the south of Germany, aeronauts discovered a strange circle with a diameter of about 75 meters with an unusual pattern inside. The owner of the field, Christoph Gütner, said he did not know who owns the authorship. (© DPA)

20. An elderly Indian wrestler Ram Gopal shows his flexibility during traditional fights on the occasion of the Nag Panchami festival in Allahabad. (© AFP Photo)

21. Fringe Arts Festival in Edinburgh. (© PA Wire)

22. An Iranian walks past drawings on a wall on a street in the Iranian capital Tehran, which depict US President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel with spears. Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on the entire Islamic world to arm the Palestinians so they could resist, calling Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip a genocide and a historical catastrophe. (© Behruz Mehri / AFP Photo)

23. A giant grandmother walks down the streets of Liverpool during events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War. (© Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

24. Military-historical reconstruction of the main battle near the village of Molodi in 1572 during the VI International military-historical festival "Battle of Molodi" in the Chekhov district near Moscow. (© Yuri Kochetkov / EPA)

25. North Korean refugees and South Korean activists send balloons with chocolate cakes and cookies to North Korea. (© AP)