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August 5, 2014

Photos August 5: Top images from around the world

Displaced Palestinians leave a United Nations (UN) school in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes on August 5, 2014, after a 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip brokered by Egypt came into effect at 8:00 am.  The Israeli army said it would withdraw completely from the Gaza Strip, when the agreed ceasefire with Hamas takes effect. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images) Displaced Palestinians leave a United Nations (UN) school in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes on August 5, 2014, after a 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip brokered by Egypt came into effect at 8:00 am. The Israeli army said it would withdraw completely from the Gaza Strip, when the agreed ceasefire with Hamas takes effect. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/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.

 Israeli ultra orthodox Jews watch as Israeli police work at the scene after a Palestinian man rammed an excavator into a bus, on August 4, 2014 in Jerusalem, killing one person and lightly injuring five others. The incident took place on the seamline between east and west Jerusalem and came as Israel pressed a major military campaign in Gaza which has killed more than 1,800 Palestinians. Police said the excavator had overturned a bus, prompting two police officers who were in the vicinity to open fire, killing the driver and foiling what they described as a "terrorist attack".(GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images)

Israeli ultra orthodox Jews watch as Israeli police work at the scene after a Palestinian man rammed an excavator into a bus, on August 4, 2014 in Jerusalem, killing one person and lightly injuring five others. “.(GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images)

TOPSHOTS Displaced Palestinians leave a United Nations (UN) school in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes on August 5, 2014, after a 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip brokered by Egypt came into effect at 8:00 am.  (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

TOPSHOTS Displaced Palestinians leave a United Nations (UN) school in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes on August 5, 2014, after a 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip brokered by Egypt came into effect at 8:00 am. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is pictured during a visit to the Tower of London's 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' poppy installation, in central London, on August 5, 2014. The installation will eventually consist of 800,000 ceramic poppies planted in the dry moat over the summer to create a major art installation. In total, 888,246 ceramic poppies will be planted in the moat, one for each British and Colonial fatality during WWI. AFP PHOTO / CARL COURTCARL COURT/AFP/Getty Images)

Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is pictured during a visit to the Tower of London’s ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ poppy installation, in central London, on August 5, 2014. (CARL COURT/AFP/Getty Images)

Britain's Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, centre, walks with Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, centre left and Prince Harry, as they view the Tower of London's 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' poppy installation, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WWI, in London, Tuesday Aug. 5, 2014. Their visit to the work in progress installation, which currently consists of approximately 120,000 ceramic poppies and will finish with 888,246 poppies, was held Tuesday to mark the centenary of World War I. The final ceramic poppy will be placed on Armistice Day on November 11, with each poppy representing a British and Commonwealth military fatality from World War I.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Britain’s Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, centre, walks with Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, centre left and Prince Harry, as they view the Tower of London’s ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ poppy installation, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WWI, in London, Tuesday Aug. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Palestinian men ride a donkey cart past destroyed buildings in the northern Gaza Strip on August 5, 2014, as a 72-hour humanitarian truce went into effect following intense global pressure to end the bloody conflict. Israel announced that all of its troops had withdrawn from the Gaza Strip after completing a mission to destroy a sophisticated network of cross-border attack tunnels, ending a ground operation which began on July 17. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMSMAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)

Palestinian men ride a donkey cart past destroyed buildings in the northern Gaza Strip on August 5, 2014, as a 72-hour humanitarian truce went into effect following intense global pressure to end the bloody conflict. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)

A Palestinian inspects destroyed houses and the area where the Al-Wafaa hospital used to stand in the Al-Shejaea neighbourhood of Gaza City on August 5, 2014, after a 72-hour truce agreed by Israel and Hamas went into effect following intense global pressure to end the bloody conflict.  (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

A Palestinian inspects destroyed houses and the area where the Al-Wafaa hospital used to stand in the Al-Shejaea neighbourhood of Gaza City on August 5, 2014, after a 72-hour truce agreed by Israel and Hamas went into effect following intense global pressure to end the bloody conflict. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

 Palestinian brothers sit on the rubble of their house in front of an apartment block in part of the northern Beit Hanun district of the Gaza Strip after a 72-hour truce accepted by Israel and Hamas came into effect on August 5, 2014. Israel and Hamas said they have agreed a new 72-hour truce, after increasingly vocal international demands for a ceasefire in the bloody 29-day-old Gaza conflict. AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARIMARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)

Palestinian brothers sit on the rubble of their house in front of an apartment block in part of the northern Beit Hanun district of the Gaza Strip after a 72-hour truce accepted by Israel and Hamas came into effect on August 5, 2014. Israel and Hamas said they have agreed a new 72-hour truce, after increasingly vocal international demands for a ceasefire in the bloody 29-day-old Gaza conflict. (MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)

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