Big Shots: This Week's News In Photos

Model Skyline
London—A 120-meter long sculpture of the city's 17th-century awaits an event where it will be set alight, re-telling the story of the 1666 Great Fire of London, August 30. Peter Nicholls/Reutes
Roast Peppers
Kilis province, Turkey—A farmer checks hot peppers laid out on a road to dry under the sun before selling them to factories producing pepper products, August 29. Umit Bektas/Reuters
Head for Heights
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China—A man performs as he walks on a tightrope, Qingtongxia, August 26. Reuters
The Children’s Hour
Aleppo, Syria—Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh sits in an ambulance after he was wounded during an airstrike by either Russian or Syrian government forces in the Qaterji neighborhood of Aleppo on August 17. The photograph and video... Mahmud Rslan/Anadolu/Getty
Wedding Hell
Gaziantep, Turkey—A woman cries at the morgue as she waits for the coffin of a relative killed in a suicide bombing in southern Turkey on August 21. A child suicide bomber attacked a Kurdish wedding... AHMED DEEB/AFP/Getty
Ugly American
Rio de Janeiro—U.S Olympic swimmer Jack Conger leaves police headquarters at Galeão International Airport after he and Gunnar Bentz were pulled off a flight to be questioned about fellow swimmer Ryan Lochte’s claim that they... Chris McGrath/Getty
24-Hour Tube
London—Mayor Sadiq Khan, second from right, speaks to fellow passengers in the first Night Tube train along London’s Victoria line on August 20. The London Underground is the oldest such system in the world but... Jack Taylor/Getty

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