Here are some of the most striking images taken from around the world over the past week.

Bronze statues of Nelson Mandela and his wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela are displayed at a tourist spot in Cape Town, South Africa, July 18, 2021. In November 2009, the UN General Assembly declared July 18, Mandela's birthday, as "Nelson Mandela International Day" in recognition of the former South African president's contributions to peace and freedom. [Photo/Xinhua]

Participants march during the annual Bastille Day military parade at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France, July 14, 2021. France on Wednesday held its annual Bastille Day celebrations with a traditional military parade down the famous avenue of the Champs Elysees in Paris amid restrictions on public gatherings due to COVID-19. [Photo/Xinhua]

Tourists have fun in a lavender field in Brihuega, Spain, July 13, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]

Photo taken with a mobile phone shows the wreck of a bus plunged into a ravine following a blast in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on July 14, 2021. A blast happened Wednesday in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, leaving 12 people including 9 Chinese dead, the Chinese embassy in Pakistan confirmed. [Photo/Xinhua]

A view of a sunflower field is seen during a summer season in Tekirdag, Turkey on July 16, 2021. [Photo/IC]

Volunteers begin a cleanup campaign in Anton Lembede street in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, on July 14, 2021 after several shops, businesses and infrastructure were damaged in the city, following five nights of continued violence and looting sparked by the jailing of ex-president Jacob Zuma. [Photo/Agencies]

Margarita Matveyeva and Alexei Matveyev share a kiss during their wedding ceremony on the top of Vilyuchik, a stratovolcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia on July 13, 2021. [Photo/IC]

A 2-month-old female Siberian tiger cub frolics at the Toronto Zoo in Toronto, Canada, on July 12, 2021. The Toronto Zoo's female endangered Siberian tiger cub, born on May 1, was on display on July 12. [Photo/Xinhua]

Afghan security force members take part in a military operation against Taliban militants in Kunduz city, Afghanistan, July 17, 2021. At least 53 Taliban militants were killed and 38 others wounded in multiple airstrikes and battles in Afghanistan on Saturday, the Afghan Ministry of Defense said on Sunday. [Photo/Xinhua]

A UN Security Council meeting on Yemen is held at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, July 14, 2021. The Security Council adopted a resolution on Wednesday to renew the mandate of the UN Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA) for 12 months, till July 15, 2022. Resolution 2586, which won the unanimous support of the 15-member council, decides that UNMHA shall continue to facilitate and coordinate UN support to assist the parties to fully implement the Hodeidah agreement as set out in the December 2018 Stockholm Agreement between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels. [Photo/Xinhua]