Here are the top 10 images from the big news that shook the world in the previous week.
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Kashmiri men wait before Eid-al-Adha prayers during restrictions after the scrapping of the special constitutional status for Kashmir by the Indian government in Srinagar. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
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Police fire tear gas at anti-extradition bill protesters during clashes in Sham Shui Po in Hong Kong, China. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters
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Fireworks explode in front of the full moon during celebrations marking the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady in Mosta, Malta. Photograph: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters
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A boy competes in mutton busting at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, US. Photograph: Eric Thayer/Reuters
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Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg waves from a yacht as she starts her trans-Atlantic boat trip to New York, in Plymouth, Britain. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters
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A firefighter removes a goat from a farm as a wildfire burns in the village of Makrimalli on the island of Evia, Greece. Photograph: Costas Baltas/Reuters
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Workers carrying sacks containing sands affected by oil spill, queue to load them onto a truck at a shoreline in Karawang, West Java province, Indonesia. Photograph: Willy Kurniawan/Reuters
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A policeman adjusts his mask as smoke billows from a building after a fire broke out at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences hospital in New Delhi. Photograph: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters
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Workers of a wedding hall inspect after a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photograph: Mohammad Ismail/Reuters
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Susanne Russeler of the Netherlands works on her fairytale sand sculpture as she prepares before the opening of the International Sand Sculpture Festival in Ashkelon, Israel. Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters