Best photos of August 24: Floods in Bangladesh and Ukrainian Independence Day

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

A child wearing a life jacket swims through flood waters after collecting relief materials in Feni, in south-eastern Bangladesh, on August 24, 2024. Nearly 300,000 Bangladeshis were taking refuge in emergency shelters on August 24 from floods that inundated vast areas of the low-lying South Asian country, disaster officials said. The floods were triggered by heavy monsoon rains and have killed at least 42 people in Bangladesh and India since the start of the week, many in landslides. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman / AFP)

Williams driver Logan Sargeant jumps out of his car after a crash during the final practice before the Dutch Formula 1 Grand Prix in Zandvoort. AP

South African actress Emily Child poses on the set of A Streetcar Named Desire at Theatre on the Bay in Cape Town. Child plays Blanche DuBois in the Tennessee Williams play. AFP

Passengers ride on a bus in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti. AP

Police and forensic experts working at the scene after a knifeman killed three people and injured eight others at a festival in Solingen, western Germany. Reuters

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is seen through the window of a door before speaking at a campaign event at a restaurant in Las Vegas. AP Photo

Lightning forks through the sky above the churches of Suzdal Kremlin in central Russia. Reuters

Addison Barger of the Toronto Blue Jays shakes off water after his baseball team defeated the Los Angeles Angels at Rogers Centre in the Canadian city. AP

People walk among graves at the Field of Mars cemetery in Lviv to commemorate the fallen soldiers on the occasion of the Independence Day of Ukraine. AFP