Rescue workers stand in the damaged road after gas explosions in southern Kaohsiung on August 1, 2014 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. A series of powerful gas blasts killed 25 people and injured up to 267 in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, overturning cars and ripping up roads, officials said. (Photo by Ashley Pon/Getty Images) The day’s best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world.
A general view shows the damaged road after the gas explosions in southern kaohsiung on August 1, 2014. A series of powerful gas blasts killed at least 24 people and injured up to 271 in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, overturning cars and ripping up roads, officials said. (SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)
A general view shows the damaged road after the gas explosions in southern kaohsiung on August 1, 2014. A series of powerful gas blasts killed at least 24 people and injured up to 271 in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, overturning cars and ripping up roads, officials said. (SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)
A general view shows the damaged road after the gas explosions in southern kaohsiung on August 1, 2014. A series of powerful gas blasts killed at least 24 people and injured up to 271 in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, overturning cars and ripping up roads, officials said. AFP PHOTO / SAM YEHSAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)
A relative, right, of a victim in the multiple explosions from an underground gas leak is consoled during a funeral service in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A series of explosions about midnight Thursday and early Friday ripped through Taiwan’s second-largest city, killing scores of people, Taiwan’s National Fire Agency said Friday. (AP Photo)
Alexandra Mae Van Kirk recovers from surgery at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich. The 2-pound Michigan newborn dubbed “Mighty Girl” by her parents is one of the smallest babies in the world to undergo a heart procedure to open up a blocked artery caused by a congenital defect. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Chris Clark)
Greyson Marchinko seven years from Portage la Prairie on the Wobbly Water Balls at the 2014 Queen City Ex in Regina, SK on August 01, 2014. (Don Healy/Leader-Post) (Story by Jeremy Simes) (NEWS)
Homer, an 18-week-old mastiff, is dressed as a bumblebee along with his owner, Eddyn Molden, 8, of Middletown, Va. during the judging for the Best Costumed Pet at the Frederick County Fair in Clear Brook, Va. Thursday, July 31, 2014. (AP Photo/The Winchester Star, Jeff Taylor)
Chandrakant Zanjare, who said he lost 13 family members to a landslide, wails near the site where his house stood in Malin village, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. Heavy rains hampered efforts Friday by hundreds of rescue workers digging through heavy mud and debris, as the death toll from a landslide that engulfed an entire village in western India crossed 50. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
People burn offerings to “Pachamama,” or “Mother Earth,” on La Cumbre, a mountain that is considered scared ground, on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. The month of August is the time people gather in the mountains of Bolivia to make offerings in honor of the earth goddess and ask for good fortune. According to local agrarian tradition, Mother Earth awakes hungry and thirsty in August and needs offerings of food and drink in order for to be fertile and yield abundant crops. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Against the setting sun the men’s 10,000 meters race starts at Hampden Park Stadium during the Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland, Friday Aug. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/ Scott Heppell)
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at an opening ceremony of the monument to the Heroes of the World War I, behind him, on the day of the 100th anniversary of its beginning in Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. Putin said in his Friday’s speech that it’s important today to remember how narrow ambitions and political interests triggered World War I in order to avoid new conflicts. (AP Photo/Yuri Kochetkov, pool)
Australian and Dutch investigators examine pieces of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane, near the village of Hrabove, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. The investigators from the Netherlands and Australia plus officials with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe traveled from the rebel-held city of Donetsk in 15 cars and a bus to the crash site outside the village of Hrabove. Then they started setting up a base to work from at a chicken farm. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
Palestinian Nidal Abu Rjeilah, 30, leans over the blanket-covered corpse of his disabled sister Ghadeer, 17, in the southern Gaza village of Khuzaa on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. Abu Rjeilah said he and other relatives had been forced to leave Ghadeer behind when fleeing Israeli firing nine days earlier because they could not push her wheelchair quickly enough for a safe escape. A brief lull Friday offered the first opportunity for Abu Rjeilah to find his sister’s body. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Palestinians run for cover during clashes with Israeli soldiers following a protest against the war in the Gaza Strip, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
Palestinians carry their belongings after salvaging them from their destroyed houses in the heavily bombed town of Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Palestinian onlookers and motorists pause to inspect an Israeli army bomb laying unexploded on the road that links northern and southern Gaza, in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, after at least eight people, including three children, where killed overnight, on August 1, 2014. . (MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)
A Hindu devotee pours milk on a snake as an offering during the annual Hindu Nag Panchami festival, dedicated to the worship of snakes, in Allahabad, India, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
A performer breathes out fire, for visitors attending a beach carnival, in Beijing, China, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A local resident looks at the gas explosion site in the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung on August 1, 2014. A series of powerful gas blasts killed at least 22 people and injured up to 270 in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, overturning cars and ripping open roads, officials said. (SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)
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