Today's best photos: from a library in a basement to a football match on a mountain

'The National' picks the most striking images from around the world

Abdallaa Abu Dawh, 82, a former teacher at Egypt's Al-Azhar university, reads in his basement home which contains about 15,000 books collected in the course of his life in the hope of offering young people in his village in the Nile Delta books to read for free. Reuters

Former US president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama attend the unveiling of their official White House portraits, painted by Robert McCurdy and Sharon Sprung, respectively, at the White House. Reuters

A teacher shows students a protective position during an earthquake drill at an elementary school in Quezon City, Metro Manila, in the Philippines. EPA

Children of brick kiln workers attend a class at a brick kiln site in Lahore. AFP

A girl displaced due to flooding from monsoon rains at a temporary tent housing camp for flood victims organised by the Chinese government, in Sukkur, Pakistan. AP

Members of the Urban Search And Rescue team work on a collapsed crane in Hong Kong, where two people died and six were injured at a construction site. AFP

Rescuers search for victims and survivors amid the rubble of a building that collapsed in Syria's northern city of Aleppo. Ten people were killed when a five-story building collapsed in the Ferdaws neighbourhood of Aleppo, state media said. AFP

Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gather during a celebration of Brazil's 200th anniversary of independence, in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. AFP

Aymara indigenous women members of the Climbing Cholitas of Bolivia Warmis play a football match at about 6. 000 m, in the last flat area before making summit at the 6. 088-metre Huayna Potosi mountain, near El Alto, Bolivia, on August 14, 2022. - The Climbing Cholitas of Bolivia Warmis is a group dedicated to campaigning for the rights of indigenous women through mountaineering. (Photo by Martín SILVA / AFP)

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