World in focus - best photos for August 17, 2020

Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

Lightning forks over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge as a storm passes over. AP Photo

People form a heart as they take part in a demonstration in support of protests against the results of the Belarusian presidential election in Prague, Czech Republic. AFP

A female devotee lights butter lamps in front the Rato Machindranath chariot in Lalitpur, Nepal. EPA

Belarus opposition supporters hold a giant former white-red-white flag of Belarus used in opposition to the government, during a demonstration in central Minsk. AFP

Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton jumps from his car in the parc ferme after winning the Spanish Formula One Grand Prix at the Circuit de Catalunya in Montmelo near Barcelona. AFP

A volunteer wearing a costume of Pokemon character Pikachu hugs a child during Children's Day in Fuerte Apache, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Reuters

People watch a performance as they cool off in a swimming pool in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. AFP

An aerial view taken in Mauritius shows the MV Wakashio bulk carrier, belonging to a Japanese company but Panamanian-flagged, that had run aground and broke into two parts near Blue Bay Marine Park. AFP

An employee of the Fontibon Cemetery Garden Foundation rests during the cremation of a Covid-19 victim in Bogota. AFP

People watch a performance as they cool off in a swimming pool in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. AFP

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