A cyclone, ice skating and historic lamps: photos of the day – Wednesday

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  • Soham, UK

    A Christmas lights display at the home of Helen and John Attlesey in Cambridgeshire, who decorate their house every year to raise money for three charities that supported their grandson Jacob, who was diagnosed with epilepsy

    A house lit up with lots of christmas lights
  • Essen, Germany

    People skate on an ice rink in what was once the hottest place in the city, the former coking plant

    People skate on an ice rink in a former industrial site
  • Dunbar, Scotland

    Workers at W&R Logan pick some of the 250m sprouts they harvest for the Christmas period. They are the third generation vegetable farm’s main crop, raising more than 210 hectares’ worth of sprouts each year

    Workers pick brussels sprouts
  • Yogyakarta, Indonesia

    A worker arranges a figurine of the Virgin Mary at a workshop producing items to be sold locally and for export before Christmas

    A worker holds a fiurine of the Virgin Mary with many identical items on the shelves in front of him
  • Newhaven, UK

    Waves crash into the harbour wall and lighthouse as the Met Office forecast gales across parts of England and Wales

    Waves crash into a harbour wall
  • Damascus, Syria

    People take photos as they look at the view over the city. The fall of the Assad regime marks a new chapter for Syria

    People take photos on a hill with the city’s streets far below them
  • Mamoudzou, Mayotte

    Damaged housing in a slum after Cyclone Chido hit the French Indian Ocean territory destroying homes and leaving many dead across the islands

    Damaged housing
  • Khan Younis, Gaza Strip

    A Palestinian girl holds glasses in her hands as she stands amid the damage at a tent camp sheltering displaced people, following an Israeli strike

    A girl holds glasses with damaged tents in the background
  • Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip

    A Palestinian man tries to extinguish a fire at a house near Kamal Adwan hospital, during the ongoing Israeli military operation

    A figure throws water on to flames
  • Port-au-Prince, Haiti

    A woman cries outside her house after armed gangs set it on fire in the Post Marchand neighbourhood

    A woman cries in front of a badly fire-damaged building
  • Damascus, Syria

    Rescuers search for missing prisoners at Sednaya prison

    A man looks up from a tunnel
  • Metro Manila, Philippines

    Mary Jane Veloso is kissed by her sons as she arrives at the correctional institution for women, after nearly 15 years on death row in Indonesia for drug smuggling, which she always denied

    Mary Jane Veloso grins as she is kissed by her sons
  • Srinagar, India

    Trainee artisans prepare a gabba, a traditional Kashmiri winter rug, at a training centre where the embroidery technique is passed down through generations

    A row of people working on embroidering a large rug
  • Stourhead, UK

    Visitors walk under illuminated feathers, part of the Christmas at Stourhead seasonal lights trail

    People walk under illuminated feathers
  • Prague, Czech Republic

    People watch as Jan Tater lights one of the historic gas lamps on the city’s Charles Bridge. During Advent all 46 lanterns are manually lit daily, a tradition started in 1847

    A man holds a pole up to a light a lamp on a bridge over a river, with people looking on and taking pictures or filming with their phones
  • Prayagraj, India

    A vendor arranges trinkets after opening her stall on a cold morning, before the Hindu Maha Kumbh Mela festival

    A vendor arranges trinkets after opening her stall on a cold morning
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