Best photos of August 4: Gold medal winners to World Dog Surfing Championships

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

TOPSHOT - Gold medallists team France pose for a photo after the podium of the judo mixed team event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in the Champ-de-Mars Arena, in Paris on August 3, 2024. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP)

On August 3, the US Army Corps of Engineers announced it has cleared wildfire debris from 1,372 out of 1,399 residential properties and 69 out of 159 commercial properties in Lahania, Hawaii, five days before the first anniversary of the Maui wildfires which killed 102 people. AFP

Kyrgyz riders in the Traditional Eagle Hunting Festival at Salbuurun near the Issyk-Kul Lake, 213km south-east of Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan. AP

Residents try to put out a fire after an Israeli attack on a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir Al Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Reuters

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado tours Caracas on a lorry during a protest demonstration after President Nicolas Maduro's election victory was ratified. AFP

A photograph of athlete Julien Alfred of Team Saint Lucia celebrating winning the gold medal during the Women's 100m final is part of Parisienne Projections in Paris. Getty Images

The peloton passes the Louvre Museum during the Men's Road Race on day eight of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at the trocadero gardens. Getty Images

Protesters confront police officers in the English city of Manchester after demonstrations by members of far-right groups sprung up in the aftermath of a fatal stabbing attack in the town of Southport near Liverpool. EPA

Jockeys compete in the annual buffalo race festival in Chonburi province, Thailand. Reuters

Demonstrators occupy a street in Dhaka during a protest demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina following weeks of demonstrations by students against government jobs given to select groups in Bangladeshi society. Reuters

Carson catches a wave in the first heat of the small dogs contest during the World Dog Surfing Championships in Pacifica in central California. AP