Through the lens: The Citizen's Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.
Protesters gather during an anti immigrant march to the Diepkloof police station in Soweto, on July 9, 2026. (Photo by Mzingenkosi Sibanda / AFP)Performers prepare to play drums outside the venue for a community event with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Docklands Stadium in Melbourne on July 9, 2026. (Photo by WILLIAM WEST / AFP)A bead of sweat trickles down the face of a sentry of the Life Guards, a unit of the Household Cavalry, wearing his Albert helmet, whilst sat upon his horse outside Horse Guards in London on July 8, 2026, during a heatwave. Britain’s Met Office said on July 6 that the UK was entering its third heatwave of the year, although it was not expected to break any records. (Photo by CARLOS JASSO / AFP)A rickshaw puller wades through a flooded street after heavy rains in Chittagong on July 8, 2026. (Photo by AFP)The pack of riders (peloton) cycles during the 6th stage of the 113th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 186,2 km between Pau and Gavarnie-Gèdre in the French Pyrenees, on July 9, 2026. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP)A firefighter sprays water on burning cars during a fire in front of a camping site in Villeneuve-les-Beziers, Southern France on July 9, 2026. The largest wildfire recorded, which broke out July 8, in the departments of Aude and Herault, kept spreading, fanned by the wind, having already scorched about 900 hectares. (Photo by Gabriel BOUYS / AFP)A tourist enjoys the sunrise from a terrace of the Tuileries Garden in Paris on July 8, 2026. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)An aerial view shows a combine harvester driving across a field as it cuts the grain near Niederkassel, western Germany on July 8, 2026. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP)A woman holds an umbrella as she walks past a mural during rainfall in New Delhi on July 9, 2026. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP)This handout photograph taken and released by the Indian Press Information Bureau (PIB) on July 8, 2026 shows India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting the UNESCO World Heritage Site Prambanan Temple, Indonesia’s largest Hindu temple complex in Sleman, Yogyakarta. (Photo by Indian Press Information Bureau (PIB) / AFP)This handout photograph provided by the media office of the Imam Abbas Shrine shows mourners surrounding the coffins of relatives of late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who were killed alongside him, at the Imam Abbas Shrine in Karbala on July 8, 2026, ahead of a funeral procession. Iran began six days of public funeral ceremonies for Khamenei on July 4, including a dedicated day in neighbouring Iraq — a Shia powerhouse with close ties to Tehran and home to the faith’s most sacred shrines. (Photo by IMAM ABBAS SHRINE / AFP)This aerial view shows the Strombolicchio Island near Stromboli Island, north of Sicily, on July 8, 2026. Stromboli, one of Europe’s most active volcanoes, is part of the seven-island Aeolian Archipelago of Sicily in southern italy. (Photo by Marco BERTORELLO / AFP)SAMWU members during the SAMWU March to National Treasury of South Africa on July 09, 2026 in Pretoria, South Africa. The South African Municipal Workers Union members are marching against unfair labour practices, underfunding of municipalities and implementation of collective agreements. (Photo by Gallo Images/Frennie Shivambu)A tourist fills a bottle at the “Barcaccia” fountain in front of the Spanish Steps during a hot summer day in Rome on July 9, 2026. (Photo by Andreas SOLARO / AFP)A general view shows the new Onitsuka Tiger flagship store in Tokyo on July 9, 2026. (Photo by Toshifumi KITAMURA / AFP)People use umbrellas to shelter from the rain in Seoul on July 9, 2026. (Photo by Jade GAO / AFP)Bull runners sing a homily to San Fermin before the start of the second running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, on July 8, 2026. Thousands of people every year attend the week-long festival and its famous ‘encierros’, or running of the bulls, in which six bulls are released at 8:00 a.m. evey day to run from their corral to the bullring through the narrow streets of the old town over an 850 meters (yards) course while runners ahead of them try to stay close to the bulls without falling over or being gored. (Photo by ANDER GILLENEA / AFP)People ride escalators as they visit Dusit Central Park mall in Bangkok on July 8, 2026. (Photo by Amaury PAUL / AFP)A woman holds an umbrella as she waves to the photographer on the tenth day of the 2026 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 8, 2026. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)
