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IN PHOTOS | This week's most compelling images

Photographers from CBC News, The Canadian Press, Reuters and others document our changing world every day. Here’s a selection of the week's top images.

Top photos include the auction of the first Birkin handbag and bullfighting in Spain.

People walk through green tall grass towards a stadium in the distance.
Concert-goers walk through fields as they make their way toward the gates at Rogers Stadium in Toronto on Monday. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press)

Photographers from CBC News, The Canadian Press, Reuters and others document our changing world every day. Here's a selection of the week's top images.

A man in a white uniform touches the body of a large black whale while in a blue body of water.
A coastal police approaches a presumed-dead whale on the shore of Vicente Lopez, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)
A woman points toward a black leather bag inside a glass enclosure while standing at a white podium.
Auction officer Aurélie Vandevoorde gestures as the original Birkin bag created by Hermès for Jane Birkin was sold at auction for 7 million euros or $8.2 million in Paris on Thursday. (Michel Euler/AP)
A realistic looking robot is adjusted by hands fixing wires.
A man works on the electronics of Jules, a humanoid robot from Hanson Robotics that uses artificial intelligence, at a stand during the International Telecommunication Union AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva on Tuesday. (Valentin Flauraud/AFP via Getty Images)
A man holds up a yellow and pink cape in the sunlight as a large bull stands in the distance.
Peruvian bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey performs in a bullfight at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, on Wednesday. (Miguel Oses/AP)
A man holds a large pole with a red white and blue flag on it as people on bicycles are blurred as they ride by.
A spectator waves a France flag as the riders pass during Stage 6 on Thursday. (Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters)
A woman holds her phone up while walking through white smoke.
A woman holds a cellphone and covers her face as U.S. federal agents use tear gas while blocking a road leading to an agricultural facility where U.S. federal agents and immigration officers conducted an operation, in Camarillo, California, on Thursday. (Daniel Cole/Reuters)
A woman holds up a cell phone to take a picture of cracked glass in a window.
A woman takes pictures of bullet holes in the windows of Kap's Cafe owned by Bollywood celebrity Kapil Sharma in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday. (Ethan Cairns/CBC)
A woman wears a bright red skirt in front of a neon sign.
A French Cancan dancer performs in front of the Moulin Rouge cabaret during celebrations marking the restart of its iconic windmill with red sails in Paris. (Tom Nicholson/Reuters)
The shadow of a cross is pictured on a street of a small town as the sun sets.
People visit a memorial for flooding victims on Thursday in Kerrville, Texas. (Ashley Landis/AP)
A woman holds a blue microphone to the face of a cat lying on the street.
A journalist holds a microphone to Larry the Cat, on the day Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer meet with France's President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron at Downing Street in London on Wednesday. (Chris J. Ratcliffe/Reuters)
A orange moon rises over a stone column structure at night.
The July full moon, or 'Buck Moon,' shines brightly over Greece's 2,500-year-old Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounio, about 70 kilometres (45 miles) south of Athens, Greece, on Thursday. (Petros Giannakouris/AP)