Week in pictures: 23-29 July, 2016 - BBC News

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GENE BLEVINS / REUTERS
Fire crews in California struggled to contain a wildfire that has destroyed a number of homes and threatens hundreds of others in mountains north of Los Angeles. The blaze, known as the Sand Fire, broke out on Friday in the Sand Canyon area near Santa Clarita, on the edge of the Angeles National Forest.





OSSERVATORE ROMANO / AFP
Pope Francis offered a private prayer at the former Auschwitz death camp. He walked alone and in silence around the concentration and extermination camp in what was Nazi-occupied Poland where 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were killed.





DAVID GRAY / REUTERS
Members of the Maroubra Winter Seals swimming club took to the water in Sydney, Australia.





SAUL LOEB / AFP
Hillary Clinton told voters the presidential election is a "moment of reckoning", as she made history by accepting the Democratic nomination. Mrs Clinton will take on the Republican nominee Donald Trump in an election battle widely considered to be a tight race when voters head to the polls in November.





ARUN SANKAR / AFP
Indian schoolchildren held masks bearing the image of former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam at a school in Chennai in a ceremony marking the anniversary of his death. The much-loved Mr Kalam died last year while addressing a gathering of students at a university in Shillong, the capital of the north-eastern state of Meghalaya.





PAVEL GOLOVKIN / AP
Russia's Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko posed with members of the country's Olympic team in Moscow. Russia had hoped to send 387 athletes to Rio but more than 100 have been suspended following a report that the country operated a state-sponsored doping programme for four years across the "vast majority" of summer and winter Olympic sports.





JEAN REVILLARD / AFP
Solar Impulse 2 landed in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, successfully completing the first solar-powered flight around the globe.





THOMAS PETER / REUTERS
In Beijing, a giant keyboard was on show at a shopping centre as part of a promotional event.





JEFF PACHOUD / AFP
Chris Froome became Britain's first three-time winner of the Tour de France when he crossed the finish line of the 21-stage race in Paris on Sunday. He is pictured here with second and third place riders celebrating on the podium on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.





YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP
Trainer Moacyr Lima (left) worked with Leandro Guignoni at his ring on the beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ahead of next week's Olympics.