Bosphorus swimmers and a Caribbean drug bust: photos of the weekend

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

Main image: Competitors ride on a ferry on the Bosphorus before the Turkish National Olympic Committee’s 36th Samsung Bosphorus cross-continental swimming race. Photograph: Erdem Şahin/EPA

  • Strathdon, Scotland

    Lonach Highlanders stop for a dram of whisky as they march through Donside, Aberdeenshire, to the Lonach Highland gathering and games. The event is organised by the Lonach Highland and Friendly Society, which was founded in 1823 by Sir Charles Forbes
    Men in traditional Highland dress stand and drink whisky from small glasses

  • Wollongong, Australia

    Alexis Tauaneai and Keele Browne of the St George Illawarra Dragons tackle Annessa Biddle of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks during a rugby league match at WIN Stadium in New South Wales
    Annessa Biddle grimaces and holds a rugby ball as Alexis Tauaneai and Keele Browne tackle her

  • Dumon, Brazil

    A firefighter tries to put out fire at a sugar cane plantation during wildfires across São Paulo state
    A firefighter standing on a truck aims a jet of water at flames engulfing a field of sugar cane

  • East Boldon, UK

    People walk through a field of sunflowers at Mundles Farm in Tyneside
    A smiling woman carries a young boy on her shoulders as she walks through a field of sunflowers

  • Seekirchen am Wallersee, Austria

    Northern bald ibises migrate from Austria to the Orbetello lagoon in Tuscan, Italy, as foster parents of the birds support them from a microlight
    Birds with long red beaks and black wings fly over a rural landscape as a microlight accompanies them

  • Inglewood, US

    The Mexican singer Peso Pluma performs on his Éxodo Tour at the Intuit Dome in California
    Peso Pluma shouts as he gestures upwards with his hands while onstage amid yellow and orange lights

  • London, UK

    A 2.5-tonne block of ice, suspended over the Royal Albert Dock in east London, forms the stage for Thaw, an Australian physical theatre production at the Greenwich+Docklands international festival. Performed over eight hours, the production sends an urgent call over climate action
    A performer attached to a harness leans out from the edge of a block of ice suspended over water, with skyscrapers in the background

  • Carribean Sea

    Royal Marines from HMS Trent take part in a drug bust that seized 506kg of class A narcotics worth more than £40m
    Royal Marines operate small boats in open water

  • Zibqin, Lebanon

    Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike amid an escalation in fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants
    Smoke billows next to buildings in a semi-rural landscape

  • Aleppo, Syria

    Displaced Syrian children at the Kafr Naseh camp play in a mobile swimming pool set up by the Smile Younited charity during sweltering summer heat. The pools at the camp for displaced people provide rare entertainment to young boys and girls whose lives have been scarred by war and poverty
    Children laugh and smile as they splash around in a round inflatable swimming pool

  • Kramatorsk, Ukraine

    Ukrainian emergency services conduct a search and rescue operation in the rubble of a destroyed hotel after a Russian strike. The strike wounded two journalists, while a third was missing in the rubble, authorities said on Sunday
    Members of the emergency services shine torches in the rubble of a destroyed building at night-time

  • Pattaya, Thailand

    Contestants get ready for the Miss International Queen transgender beauty pageant
    Contestants sit and stand backstage next to mirrors surrounded by lightbulbs

  • Istanbul, Turkeyye

    Competitors ride on a ferry on the Bosphorus before the Turkish National Olympic Committee’s 36th Samsung Bosphorus cross-continental swimming race. The race starts on the Asian side of Istanbul in the harbour of the Kanlıca district and finishes in the Kuruçeşme district on the European side
    People in swimming gear look out as they lean on the railings of a ferry

  • Warsaw, Poland

    Ukrainian citizens living in Poland hold up their phones as they attend an event in Castle Square marking Ukraine’s independence day
    A large crowd of people in a square hold up phones giving off light

  • Claddaghduff, Ireland

    Jockeys compete in beach horse-racing on Omey Island
    Three jockeys ride horses across a beach

  • Ripon, UK

    A firework display light up the sky during the Fireworks Championships at Newby Hall. Three of the UK’s best firework companies compete against each other with a 10-minute firework display choreographed to music. The event ends with a large finale display
    People sitting in fold-out chairs watch as fireworks burst in the sky
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