• The sun sets on the beach volleyball arena on the first day of the Rio Olympics. Quinn Rooney / Getty Images
    The sun sets on the beach volleyball arena on the first day of the Rio Olympics. Quinn Rooney / Getty Images
  • Spain’s Francisco Garrigos, in white, competes with Germany’s Tobias Englmaier during their 60kg judo contest. Jack Guez / AFP
    Spain’s Francisco Garrigos, in white, competes with Germany’s Tobias Englmaier during their 60kg judo contest. Jack Guez / AFP
  • People watch floating paper lanterns on the Motoyasu River at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan. Kiyoshi Ota / EPA
    People watch floating paper lanterns on the Motoyasu River at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan. Kiyoshi Ota / EPA
  • Visitors ride on a swing and on a Ferris wheel at the 581st ‘Cranger Kirmes’ funfair in Herne, Germany. Ina Fassbender / EPA
    Visitors ride on a swing and on a Ferris wheel at the 581st ‘Cranger Kirmes’ funfair in Herne, Germany. Ina Fassbender / EPA
  • Ten-year-old Dylan Pacheco, from Jerome, Idaho, skates along a a ribbon of sunlight at the Rhodes Skate Park grand opening in Boise, Idaho. Kyel Green / Idaho Statesman via AP
    Ten-year-old Dylan Pacheco, from Jerome, Idaho, skates along a a ribbon of sunlight at the Rhodes Skate Park grand opening in Boise, Idaho. Kyel Green / Idaho Statesman via AP
  • The moon is seen over a slum near Copacabana Beach in Rio. Carlos Barria / Reuters
    The moon is seen over a slum near Copacabana Beach in Rio. Carlos Barria / Reuters
  • Egyptian policemen lookout from a parked vehicle as they wait for the arrival of the body of Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail at Cairo airport. Khaled Desouki / AFP Photo
    Egyptian policemen lookout from a parked vehicle as they wait for the arrival of the body of Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail at Cairo airport. Khaled Desouki / AFP Photo
  • Participants climb up a pier wall on the Danube during the ‘Urban Waters Cup 2016’ competition in Vienna. Christian Bruna / EPA
    Participants climb up a pier wall on the Danube during the ‘Urban Waters Cup 2016’ competition in Vienna. Christian Bruna / EPA

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World in focus — best photos for August 7, 2016

Rob Gurdebeke

August 07, 2016

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A look at the best photos from around the world today.

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