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August 7, 2014

Photos August 7: Top images from around the world

This picture shows college students cooling themselves off inside an inflatable pool at their dormitory during summer in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province. Wuhan central meteorological observatory issued an orange alert for high temperatures, as the temperature for most areas in Hubei province reached 37 degrees celsius on August 5. (AFP/Getty Images) This picture shows college students cooling themselves off inside an inflatable pool at their dormitory during summer in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province. Wuhan central meteorological observatory issued an orange alert for high temperatures, as the temperature for most areas in Hubei province reached 37 degrees celsius on August 5. (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.

Buddhist monks and volunteers clean the 15-metre-tall great Buddha statue during the annual Ominugui ceremony at Todaiji Temple in Japan's ancient capital Nara, western Japan on August 7, 2014. People visited the temple as they believe that a person who collects the dust during the ceremony will be trouble-free for a year.(JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images)

Buddhist monks and volunteers clean the 15-metre-tall great Buddha statue during the annual Ominugui ceremony at Todaiji Temple in Japan’s ancient capital Nara, western Japan on August 7, 2014. People visited the temple as they believe that a person who collects the dust during the ceremony will be trouble-free for a year.(JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images)

Cambodian former Khmer Rouge survivors, Soum Rithy, left, and Chum Mey, right, embrace each other after the verdicts were announced at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thurdday, Aug. 7, 2014. Three and a half decades after the genocidal rule of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge ended, the tribunal on Thursday sentenced two top leaders of the former regime to life in prison on war crimes charges for their role in the country's terror period in the 1970s. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodian former Khmer Rouge survivors, Soum Rithy, left, and Chum Mey, right, embrace each other after the verdicts were announced at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thurdday, Aug. 7, 2014.  (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

A swimmer trains at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center before renovation works to be Barra Aquatic center for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic games, in Barra de Tijuca, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 6, 2014. AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBAYASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)

A swimmer trains at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center before renovation works to be Barra Aquatic center for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic games, in Barra de Tijuca, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBAYASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)

An Afghan woman buys silk yarn for weaving from a shop in Herat . Western Afghanistan, once a stop along the Silk Road trade route, has a long tradition in the silk production process dating back thousands of years. Carpets are Afghanistan's best-known export, woven mostly by women and children in the north of the country, a trade which once employed, directly or indirectly, six million people, or a fifth of the country's population, but that figure has dropped sharply. (Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images)

An Afghan woman buys silk yarn for weaving from a shop in Herat . Western Afghanistan, once a stop along the Silk Road trade route, has a long tradition in the silk production process dating back thousands of years. . (Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images)

This picture shows rescue workers carrying the remains of an earthquake victim in Longtoushan township of Ludian county in Zhaotong, southwest China's Yunnan province. The death toll from an earthquake that devastated a remote region of China jumped to nearly 600 people August 6, authorities said, as volunteer rescuers were warned away. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

This picture shows rescue workers carrying the remains of an earthquake victim in Longtoushan township of Ludian county in Zhaotong, southwest China’s Yunnan province. The death toll from an earthquake that devastated a remote region of China jumped to nearly 600 people August 6, authorities said, as volunteer rescuers were warned away. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

In this photo provided by the Spanish Defense Ministry, aid workers and doctors transfer Miguel Pajares, a Spanish priest who was infected with the Ebola virus while working in Liberia, from a plane to an ambulance as he leaves the Torrejon de Ardoz military airbase, near Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. A Spanish missionary priest who tested positive for the Ebola virus was in stable condition at a Madrid hospital on Thursday after being evacuated from Liberia, health officials said. (AP Photo/Spanish Defense Ministry)

In this photo provided by the Spanish Defense Ministry, aid workers and doctors transfer Miguel Pajares, a Spanish priest who was infected with the Ebola virus while working in Liberia, from a plane to an ambulance as he leaves the Torrejon de Ardoz military airbase, near Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. . (AP Photo/Spanish Defense Ministry)

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