Gallery icon13 ImagesThe best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors.August 12, 2026 — 2:39pm1/13A punk rocker makes her way to the Rebellion festival in Blackpool, the longest-running British punk rock festival started in 1996, initially known as Holidays In The Sun.Credit:Christopher Furlong/Getty Images2/13Comedian Drew Lausch poses to promote his show during a photocall for “Friendliest” at Camera Obscura & World of Illusions in Edinburgh, Scotland.Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images3/13Eruptive activity continues on Mount Etna, where lava flows continue to descend on the slopes of the volcano, as seen from Serracozzo near Catania, Italy.Credit:AP Photo/Simone Genovese4/13An Indigenous youth holds a candle during a protest calling for the protection of Indigenous land rights and demarcations outside the Supreme Court in Brasilia, Brazil.Credit:AP Photo/Eraldo Peres5/13A herd of elephants walks across Amboseli National Park in Kajiado County, Kenya.Credit:AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku6/13People sit on dried grass in a park outside the Houses of Parliament in London.Credit:AP Photo/Kin Cheung7/13People walk on a sandbank on the Danube River as usually submerged areas are exposed amid exceptionally low water levels, in Rasova, Romania. Credit:AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru8/13Residents and rescue workers search through the rubble after an earthquake struck Cali, Colombia.Credit:AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga9/13A view of people on the Baltic Sea beach, in Travemuende, Germany.Credit:AP Photo/Michael Probst10/13Szabo Sopov Kristof of Hungary practices ahead of the World Cable Wakeboard & Wakeskate Championships in Beijing, China.Credit:Lintao Zhang/Getty Images11/13Eliana Bandeira makes an attempt in the women’s shot put final at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England.Credit:AP Photo/Matthias Schrader12/13A fly feeds on flower nectar in a forest on a sunny day in outskirts of Tallinn, Estonia.Credit:AP Photo/Sergei Grits13/13Hot air balloons take to the sky on the opening day of Bristol International Balloon Fiesta.Credit:Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images