The day’s best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world.
People look at a light show by French artist Daniel Buren entitled “Catch” which is on display until Oct. 12, 2014 at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, northeastern England, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/PA, Owen Humphreys)
An aerial view shows houses cut-off by monsoon floods in Kendrapara district of eastern Orissa state, India, Wednesday, Aug.6, 2014.The annual monsoon season, which runs from June through September, is vital for the largely agrarian economies of South Asia but every year also brings floods and landslides that kill thousands and submerge hundreds of villages. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)
A beluga whale sprays water onto visitors at a summer attraction at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo on August 6, 2014. Tokyo’s temperature climbed over 35 degree Celsius on August 6 following a heatwave in the area. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)
An Indian vendor displays colored threads used for flying kites in Jammu, India, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. The demand for these threads go up in the first half of August when people in northern India fly kites to celebrate Indias Independence Day that falls on Aug.15. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
Palestinians salvage items from the rubble of destroyed buildings in part of Gaza City’s al-Tufah neighbourhood as the fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip entered a second day on August 6, 2014 while Israeli and Palestinian delegations prepared for crunch talks in Cairo to try to extend the 72-hour truce. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)
A Palestinian boy plays inside a shrapnel riddled car in Gaza City’s al-Shejaea neighborhood on August 6, 2014, as a 72-hour humanitarian truce went into effect in the Gaza Strip after a month of fighting between Hamas and Israeli forces. Hamas may have haemorrhaged rockets and fighters, but its latest war with Israel has boosted its popularity in the Gaza Strip even if long-term gains look remote, analysts say. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)
Members of South Korean Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) aim their machine guns during an anti-terror drill ahead of the 2014 Incheon Asian Games outside of Incheon Asiad Main Stadium in Incheon, South Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. The Asian Games will take place from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4 in Incheon. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
A Palestinian boy writes on a shrapnel riddled backboard at the heavily damaged Sobhi Abu Karsh school in Gaza City’s al-Shejaea neighborhood on August 6, 2014, as a 72-hour humanitarian truce went into effect in the Gaza Strip after a month of fighting between Hamas and Israeli forces. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)
A visitor looks at the main stupa in Choeung Ek Killing Fields, which is filled with thousands of skulls of those killed during the Pol Pot regime on August 6, 2014 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Photo by Omar Havana/Getty Images)
A Palestinian woman walks through the rubble of destroyed buildings in part of Gaza City’s al-Tufah neighbourhood as the fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip entered a second day on August 6, 2014 while Israeli and Palestinian delegations prepared for crunch talks in Cairo to try to extend the 72-hour truce. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)
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