The weekend in pictures

A Palestinian woman walks past a mosque and water tower damaged by Israeli air strikes and shelling in Khuzaa in the southern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Finbarr O’reilly/Reuters

Rescuers search for a missing person inside a car swept away by floods near Treviso, northern Italy. Four people died in heavy downpours. Photograph: Stefano Covre/EPA

Men protest against the burial of victims of the Ebola virus in their community outside Monrovia, Liberia. Over 729 people have died of Ebola in west Africa in 2014, making it the world’s deadliest outbreak to date. Photograph: Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA

Some of 5,000 figures made out of ice forming the Minimum Monument by Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo, on the steps of Birmingham’s Chamberlain Square. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA

Usain Bolt greets fans after winning the 4x100m final for Jamaica during the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian

A religious ceremony passes near the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 near Hrabove. Shelling has forced international experts to abandon part of the crash scene. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images

Women sing folk songs and perform a folk dance from the Punjab dedicated to their husbands or husbands-to-be during the Teej festival in Amritsar. Photograph: Raminder Pal Singh/EPA

Children play on the beach in Xiangshan, on the East China Sea, as temperatures rose to over 35C (95F). Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images

A participant dances during the gay pride parade in Stockholm. Photograph: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images

A boy takes part in a ceremony commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first world war at the former residence of Russian Tsars in Tsarskoye Selo outside St Petersburg. Photograph: Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images

Jennifer Abel of Canada dives during the women’s 3m springboard final at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters

Smoke fills the sky over Tripoli after rockets fired by one of Libya’s militias struck and ignited a tank in the capital’s main fuel depot. Photograph: Sabri Elmhedwi/EPA

A fisherman transports a five-metre-long dead whale shark weighing over 2 tonnes after it was caught in a net in Yangzhi county, China. Photograph: China Stringer Network/Reuters

People light candles and pray for victims of a factory blast in Kunshan. An explosion killed 65 people as it ripped through a factory in eastern China. Photograph:ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images