A look at the best news photos from around the world.
July 29, 2016
1
Karla Ortiz, 11, of Las Vegas, dives into balloons on the floor after the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
2
Pope Francis, background, is framed by a barbed wire as he prays in front of the memorial at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland. Francis paid a somber visit to the camp Friday, becoming the third consecutive pontiff to make the pilgrimage to the place where Adolf Hitler's forces killed more than 1 million people, most of them Jews.
3
A man walks behind a giant Turkish flag at Besiktas area in Istanbul. The government crackdown in the coup's aftermath has strained Turkey's ties with key allies including the United States.
4
An elderly man rows a boat past flooded houses at Sildubi village, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. Torrential monsoon rains have caused widespread flooding in Assam state and forced around 1.2 million people to leave their water-logged homes.