The day’s best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world.
Palestinians try to salvage what they can of their belongings from the rubble of a house destroyed by an overnight Israeli airstrike in Gaza City Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Israel launched what could be a long-term offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the military said, striking at least 50 sites in Gaza by air and sea and mobilizing troops for a possible ground invasion in order to quell rocket attacks on Israel. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Indian children of railway workers play in water from a tap inside a railway yard in Ahmadabad, India, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. India’s new rail minister Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday proposed allowing foreign investment to modernize the country’s cash-strapped state railways. India has one of the world’s largest railways, which transports 23 million passengers a day. Indian Railways is one of the world’s biggest employers with more than 1.3 million employees. The network lost 300 billion rupees ($5 billion) last year. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
Smoke and fire rise from an Israeli missle strike in Rafah, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. The Israeli military launched what could be a long-term offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday striking nearly 100 sites in Gaza and mobilizing troops for a possible ground invasion aimed at stopping a heavy barrage of rocket attacks against Israel. . (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)
A man swims in the Hsintien river in the New Taipei City as typhoon Neoguri nears the eastern Taiwan on July 8, 2014. Japan was bracing for one of its worst storms in over a decade as typhoon Neoguri barreled towards the southern Okinawa island chain, with 55,000 people urged to evacuate as the weather agency issued its highest alert. (SAM YEHSAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)
A picture taken on July 8, 2014 shows a railway bridge, damaged during the night of July 6-7, near the village of Novobakhmutivka, 30 km north of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, over the road leading to the city of Slavyansk. Ukraine on July 8 brushed off strong European pressure and rejected talks with pro-Russian rebels about a truce halting a bloody insurgency convulsing the ex-Soviet nation until they laid down their arms. (DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images)
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