Week in pictures 31 August 2024
PARIS: French tennis player Michaël Jérémiasz carries the Paralympic flame during the torch relay at the opening ceremony in Paris on Wednesday, August 28. The Paralympics are taking place through September 8 (Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool/Reuters)
SEOUL: A vehicle is swallowed by a sinkhole in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, August 29. Emergency workers rescued the 82-year-old driver and a 76-year-old passenger who were both injured, according to the Associated Press (Seo Dae-yeon/Yonhap/AP)
VENICE: Actress Sigourney Weaver kisses the Golden Lion lifetime achievement award she won at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on Wednesday, August 28 (Yara Nardi/Reuters)
CHORZOW: Armand “Mondo” Duplantis breaks his pole vault world record during a Diamond League event in Chorzow, Poland, on Sunday, August 25. Duplantis cleared 6.26 meters (20.5 feet). It was one centimeter higher than the world record he set at the Paris Olympics earlier this month, and it’s the 10th time in his career that he has broken the world record (Aleksandra Szmigiel/Reuters)
BUÑOL: People covered in tomato pulp take part in La Tomatina, an annual festival/food fight in Buñol, Spain, on Wednesday, August 28 (Burak Akbulut/Anadolu/Getty Images)
NEW YORK: Naomi Osaka wears an eye-catching green bow before her first-round win at the US Open on Tuesday, August 27. Osaka, a two-time US Open champion, defeated No. 10 seed Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 6-2 (Javier Garcia/Shutterstock)
ZANDVOORT: Formula One driver Lando Norris, center, celebrates his Dutch Grand Prix win on the podium in Zandvoort, Netherlands, on Sunday, August 28. Norris produced a dominant performance to potentially reignite the drivers’ world championship with nine races left in the season (Vince Mignott/MB Media/Getty Images)
MUMBAI: People in Mumbai, India, pay respect before forming human pyramids to reach an overhanging earthen pot during Janmashtami, the festival that marks the birth of the Hindu god Krishna, on Tuesday, August 27 (Rafiq Maqbool/AP)
TOLUCA: A lightning bolt strikes during a thunderstorm in Toluca, Mexico, on Tuesday, August 27 (Mario Vazquez/AFP/Getty Images)
FRANKFURT: A bee flies to a sunflower on the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, on Wednesday, August 28 (Michael Probst/AP)