Photos of the week: 7/29 - 8/5

This past week in news was another filled with severe weather, politics and battling crises around the world. Stateside, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump continued their respective campaigns for president, while tensions rose in Chicago between citizens and police and the first man to skydive without a parachute landed safely in California.

Elsewhere, Rio de Janeiro continued to prep for the Olympics, while South Africa went to the polls and Britain held a kite festival.

Click through the slideshow above for photos from all of these stories and more, and be sure to check back next weekend for our selection of the best photography from the next seven days.