July 2, 2021

A mother and child holding flowers are stopped by police as they try to remember the life of a man who stabbed a policeman then stabbed himself and died on the anniversary of the city's return to Chinese rule, at Causeway Bay in Hong Kong, China.

In this picture, fire surround a drought-stricken Shasta Lake during the Salt Fire in Lakehead, California, as firefighters battle many wildfires in the area following a heatwave and several lightning strikes.

Kashmiri villagers are seen through a window of the house where suspected rebels were taking refuge, after a gunfight in Pulwama, south of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir.

A boy jumps into a stepwell, built inside the shrine of Sufi Saint Nizamuddin Auliya, to cool off on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India.

People are seen running after Israeli security forces fired tear gas canisters during clashes with Palestinians following Friday prayers amid tension over the expected destruction of homes in the Silwan neighborhood in East Jerusalem.

Warthogs gather on a hill at Leofoo Village theme park in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

This image from above shows a flooded street along the Rongjiang river after heavy rains in Rongan, in China's southern Guangxi area.

A woman cries as she prays before the cremation of a relative who died of COVID-19 in Gauhati, India. India on Friday passed more than 400,000 people lost to the coronavirus.

A man feeds fish in front of a hill covered with ash from the Taal volcano in the town Agoncillo, Batangas province, Philippines. Thousands of people were told to leave villages around the volcano near the Philippine capital.