Food and faith, Peru People eat soup during ‘La Porciuncula’, a religious tradition in which Franciscan monks serve food to homeless and poor people at Los Descalzos monastery in Lima, Peru Photographer: Martin Mejia/AP

Food and faith, Peru

People eat soup during ‘La Porciuncula’, a religious tradition in which Franciscan monks serve food to homeless and poor people at Los Descalzos monastery in Lima, Peru

Photographer: Martin Mejia/AP

Sun, sea and solidarity An Israeli woman plays with a Palestinian girl on a beach in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, during a weekly visit for children from the West Bank to the seaside Photographer: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images

Sun, sea and solidarity

An Israeli woman plays with a Palestinian girl on a beach in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, during a weekly visit for children from the West Bank to the seaside

Photographer: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images

Blue moons A composite image of four photographs of moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita), photographed from the surface of Loch Na Keal, a sea loch on the west coast of Mull, Scotland Photographer: Nick Garbutt/Steve Bloom Images

Blue moons

A composite image of four photographs of moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita), photographed from the surface of Loch Na Keal, a sea loch on the west coast of Mull, Scotland

Photographer: Nick Garbutt/Steve Bloom Images

Monsoon festival celebrations Indian college students ride on a decorated swing during monsoon festival celebrations in Amritsar, India Photographer: Altaf Qadri/AP

Monsoon festival celebrations

Indian college students ride on a decorated swing during monsoon festival celebrations in Amritsar, India

Photographer: Altaf Qadri/AP

Evacuation from the floods A volunteer helps to evacuate people by boat in Nowshera, Pakistan. Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rains have killed more than 320 people in Pakistan in three days, and affected at least 300,000 Photographer: A. Majeed/AFP/Getty Images

Evacuation from the floods

A volunteer helps to evacuate people by boat in Nowshera, Pakistan. Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rains have killed more than 320 people in Pakistan in three days, and affected at least 300,000

Photographer: A. Majeed/AFP/Getty Images

The big sleep A southern elephant seal dozing on the Falklands Islands. The south Atlantic has the largest population of the giant mammals. Males can be 5m long and weigh 3,000kg Photographer: Andy Rouse/Rex Features

The big sleep

A southern elephant seal dozing on the Falklands Islands. The south Atlantic has the largest population of the giant mammals. Males can be 5m long and weigh 3,000kg

Photographer: Andy Rouse/Rex Features

Afghan national army Six of almost 40 soldiers from the Afghan national army who patrol from a US outpost in the Arghandab valley, near Kandahar. The army is largely made up of northerners, who fought the Pashtun-dominated Taliban from the south of the country Photographer: Kevin Frayer/AP

Afghan national army

Six of almost 40 soldiers from the Afghan national army who patrol from a US outpost in the Arghandab valley, near Kandahar. The army is largely made up of northerners, who fought the Pashtun-dominated Taliban from the south of the country

Photographer: Kevin Frayer/AP

Divers in the Bahamas Divers in the Bahamas in an image from August’s issue of National Geographic Photographer: Wes C Skiles/National Geographic

Divers in the Bahamas

Divers in the Bahamas in an image from August’s issue of National Geographic

Photographer: Wes C Skiles/National Geographic

Mad for it Thousands gather in Times Square to watch a screening of the season four premiere of Mad Men, the Emmy award-winning US drama set in the world of advertising in 1960s New York Photographer: Evan Agostini/AP

Mad for it

Thousands gather in Times Square to watch a screening of the season four premiere of Mad Men, the Emmy award-winning US drama set in the world of advertising in 1960s New York

Photographer: Evan Agostini/AP

Mud, glorious mud A voodoo follower swims in a mud pool during a mass ritual in which thousands sacrifice animals and pray in pools to ask for help with the future and children, at the Plaine du Nord festival in Haiti Photographer: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters

Mud, glorious mud

A voodoo follower swims in a mud pool during a mass ritual in which thousands sacrifice animals and pray in pools to ask for help with the future and children, at the Plaine du Nord festival in Haiti

Photographer: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters