For the first time in decades, the Hundred Flowers Awards are back in Beijing â the city where they were born.Founded in 1962 and decided entirely by public vote, the awards have always been shaped by audience choice. Returning to Beijing feels like
Mourners carry bodies wrapped in Palestinian flags during a mass funeral for members of the Hassayna and Abu Sharia families, whose remains were recovered from rubble nearly three years after an Israeli air raid in Gaza City. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP]
A woman caresses her pet dog at an emergency shelter set up in the Bordeaux Exhibition Centre in Bordeaux, France, for those who had to leave their homes outside town due to the raging wildfires. [Caroline Blumberg/AP Photo]
“I have lived through many wars, but I have never seen one like this,” says Salah al-Tawil. “It has consumed everything. The most painful thing about this war has been losing the right to have a home.” Salah and his family spent much of the war repeatedly fleeing bombardment and attacks before returning to their destroyed home in Maghazi. Over two months, he cleared rubble and repaired what he could, making clay bricks by hand to rebuild part of the house. [Mahmoud Abu Hamda/IOM]
Argentina's Lautaro Martinez scores their second goal during the World Cup semifinal match between England and Argentina in Atlanta. [Erik S. Lesser/AP Photo]
A fire engine sprays fire retardant to douse the Fontainebleau forest fire near Noisy-sur-Ecole in the Ile-de-France region of France. [Thomas Samson/AFP]