From front page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today's top photos, chosen by Associated Press photo editors.
A student walks past a wall painting of Mariama Ba at the Mariama Ba school in Goree Island, Senegal, Thursday, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)
Smoke rises from a scorched field as a wildfire burns near Waimes, Belgium, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026. (Photo AP/Marius Burgelman)
A cow stands in a milking stall at a dairy farm in Hermosillo, Mexico, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Police officers inspect bodies of victims of a Russian air attack which killed at least ten civilians in Pechenihy, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)
U.S. Army's soldiers conduct a training exercise on a river in Yeoncheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Oliver Riggle holds a water-soaked journal inside his flooded trailer in Indianapolis, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Obed Lamy)
A view of a burned area a day after a wildfire in Peristeria village on the island of Salamina, west of Athens, Greece, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Soccer robots are prepared ahead of the World Humanoid Robot Games to be held in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Noemi Marrero, left, and her sisters sit at a cemetery in La Guaira, Venezuela, during the funeral of Marrero's two children, who died in the earthquakes, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Rescuers inspect the ruins of a mosque that collapsed during an earthquake in North Lamba Leda, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
A bouquet of sunflowers are displayed in a defused artillery shell at the Cambodia Landmine Museum in Siem Reap, Cambodia on Sunday, June 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado)
Yvette Allen, of Celebration, Fla., exercises while holding up a sign for a local school board election outside of the West Osceola Branch Library, during early voting for the Florida primary election, in Celebration, Fla., Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
A Palestinian vendor offers clothes for sale in Gaza City, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Student protesters shout slogans during a rally against the government's spending policies and what they described as the growing role of the military in civilian affairs in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
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A student walks past a wall painting of Mariama Ba at the Mariama Ba school in Goree Island, Senegal, Thursday, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)
Smoke rises from a scorched field as a wildfire burns near Waimes, Belgium, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026. (Photo AP/Marius Burgelman)
A cow stands in a milking stall at a dairy farm in Hermosillo, Mexico, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Police officers inspect bodies of victims of a Russian air attack which killed at least ten civilians in Pechenihy, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)
U.S. Army's soldiers conduct a training exercise on a river in Yeoncheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Oliver Riggle holds a water-soaked journal inside his flooded trailer in Indianapolis, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Obed Lamy)
A view of a burned area a day after a wildfire in Peristeria village on the island of Salamina, west of Athens, Greece, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Soccer robots are prepared ahead of the World Humanoid Robot Games to be held in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Noemi Marrero, left, and her sisters sit at a cemetery in La Guaira, Venezuela, during the funeral of Marrero's two children, who died in the earthquakes, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Rescuers inspect the ruins of a mosque that collapsed during an earthquake in North Lamba Leda, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
A bouquet of sunflowers are displayed in a defused artillery shell at the Cambodia Landmine Museum in Siem Reap, Cambodia on Sunday, June 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado)
Yvette Allen, of Celebration, Fla., exercises while holding up a sign for a local school board election outside of the West Osceola Branch Library, during early voting for the Florida primary election, in Celebration, Fla., Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
A Palestinian vendor offers clothes for sale in Gaza City, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
