Through the lens: The Citizen's Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.
A woman carrying a child walks at a memorial for fallen soldiers in Kyiv on August 4, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)Ukrainian farmers work in a field in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, 03 August 2025, amid the ongoing Russian invasion. Picture: EPA/MAXYM MARUSENKOAn artwork by Canadian artist, activist, and photographer Benjamin Von Wong entitled “The Thinker’s Burden” a 6-meter-tall sculptural remix of Rodin’s iconic Thinker, which is being created for the Plastics Treaty negotiations is seen in front of the United Nations Offices in Geneva on August 4, 2025. Negotiators will take another stab at reaching a global pact on plastic pollution at talks opens from August 5 to 14, 2025 in Geneva but they face deep divisions over how to tackle the health and ecological hazard. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)White storks sit in their nest in Stubno village, south-eastern Poland, 04 August 2025. Picture: EPA/DAREK DELMANOWICZAn Israeli border guard looks through the scope of his rifle during the demolition of a building in the village of Judeira, south of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on August 4, 2025, built without permit in the so-called Area C designated by the 1995 Oslo Accords: occupied Palestinian territory which remains under full Israeli control. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)A devotee takes a holy dip in the Bagmati River before offering prayers to the Hindu god Shiva at the Pashupatinath Temple during Shravan festivities on the outskirts of Kathmandu on August 4, 2025. (Photo by Prakash MATHEMA / AFP)A burst water pipe at the corner of Milner Avenue in Montgomery Park in Johannesburg, 4 August 2025. According to the local councillor this is the fourth time the pipe has burst in a year. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/The CitizenA man wades through floodwaters inside his partially submerged house after heavy monsoon rains induced a rise in water level of river Ganges in Varanasi on August 4, 2025. (Photo by Niharika KULKARNI / AFP)England’s Chris Woakes reacts on the fifth and final day of the fifth Test cricket match between England and India at The Oval in London on August 4, 2025. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)A cosplayer is seen during the China Digital Entertainment Expo and Conference known as ChinaJoy, at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre in Shanghai on August 4, 2025. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)Humanoid robots vie for the ball during an exhibition football match ahead of the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on August 4, 2025. Beijing will host the World Humanoid Robot Games from August 15 to 17. (Photo by Pedro PARDO / AFP)
