Week in pictures: devastating floods in Nepal, death of Dolly Parton and a tornado in France

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A look back at some of the week's key news stories and the most striking images: a devastating flood tears through Nepal and Tibet, the death of global icon Dolly Parton, a tornado devastates a village in southern France and the Humanoid Robot World Games in China offers a peek at the future.

Issued on: 30/08/2026 - 16:47

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An aerial view showing houses buried under mud following flash floods in Devighat, in the municipality of Bidur, Nuwakot District, Nepal, on August 27, 2026. © Prabin Ranabhat, AFP

Houses buried in mud in Devighat, in the municipality of Bidur, Nuwakot District, Nepal, on August 27, 2026. © Prabin Ranabhat, AFP

A statue stands amid the rubble of a house destroyed by the Hawk Fire in Reno, Nevada in the United States on August 24, 2026. © Josh Edelson, AFP

A woman pays her respects at the makeshift memorial honouring Ukrainian and foreign soldiers who fell in battle, on the occasion of Ukraine’s Independence Day, in Independence Square, Kyiv, on August 24, 2026. © Roman Pilipey, AFP

A woman reacts to the sight of flowers and a wreath laid at the star of the American singer and songwriter Dolly Parton following her death, on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, on August 25, 2026. © Valerie Macon, AFP

Participants take part in the traditional ‘Tomatina’ tomato fight in the town of Buñol, in eastern Spain, on August 26, 2026. © Jose Jordan, AFP

An explosion during an Israeli air strike in the centre of the Gaza Strip on August 23 2026. The Gaza ministry of health reported on August 23 that the total death toll since the start of the war on October 7, 2023 now stood at 73,420, adding that 1,286 Palestinians had been killed since the ceasefire came into effect on October 10, 2025. © Eyad Baba, AFP

A man stands amid the rubble of a damaged house in Pomas, in southwest France, on August 25, 2026, following a tornado that struck the Aude department on August 24. © Idriss Bigou-Gilles, AFP

Humanoid robots take part in the 100-metre dash during the second edition of the World Humanoid Robot Games, at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing, China, on August 25, 2026. © Wang Zhao, AFP

Residents of Kenscoff, near Port-au-Prince in Haiti, stand in anger beside the body of a person killed during violence that took place on the night of August 23-24, 2026, in which more than forty people were killed by armed gangs. © Clarens Siffroy, AFP

An Israeli settler attacked a leftwing activist at an Israeli outpost in the Palestinian village of Jannatah, under Israeli occupation, just south of the city of Bethlehem, on August 25, 2026. © Ilia Yefimovich, AFP

The winner of the cosplay competition, Yvonne Chockey, poses for photos with fans whilst dressed as Angewomon, a character from the famous Japanese animated series ‘Digimon’, at the Otamatsuri convention in Nairobi, Kenya, on August 22, 2026. © Luis Tato, AFP

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