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Wendover, US
Cars are positioned in the staging area during the Southern California Timing Association’s Speed Week on the Bonneville salt flats in Utah. The event has resumed after a driver was killed when he lost control of his car during a speed-record attempt
Photograph: Brian Cahn/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock
Bucharest, Romania
Tudor Lakatos, who goes by the stage name Elvis Rromano, gets ready for his performance with the Taraful Frunzelor band
Photograph: Vadim Ghirdă/AP
Middlesbrough, UK
People take part in a tribute to the artist Frida Kahlo with 24 Mexican dancers and a 10-piece mariachi band to mark the launch of Billingham international folklore festival of world dance, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary year
Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA Media
Prayagraj, India
A stranded stray dog stands on the roof of a submerged house along the banks of the Ganga in Uttar Pradesh after heavy monsoon rains
Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP
Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
A western pygmy marmoset at an enclosure in the city’s zoo. The pygmy marmoset (Callithrix pygmaea), which is found in the north-western Amazon rainforest, is the world’s smallest higher primate and can leap as far as 5 metres
Photograph: Slávek Růta/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock
California, US
Stuffed toys are displayed below a balloon game at the Ventura county fair. The fair is held each August at Seaside Park and includes an agricultural show, carnival rides, food booths, and nightly concerts
Photograph: Allison Dinner/EPA
Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
Smoke rises from a wildfire in the Aude department just north of the Spanish border. Almost 2,000 firefighters are tackling the fire, which tore through an area the size of Paris overnight
Photograph: Olivier Chassignole/AFP/Getty Images
Tbilisi, Georgia
People visit the Chronicles of Georgia, a monument consisting of 16 massive columns on Keeni Hill. Designed by the Georgian-Russian artist Zurab Tsereteli, construction of the monument began in 1985. The upper sections of the columns depict kings, queens and national heroes from Georgian history
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Mumbai, India
A student takes part in a Hiroshima Day peace rally to mark the 80th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of the city
Photograph: Divyakant Solanki/EPA
Málaga, Spain
Rafael Lisboa of Portugal in action during a basketball match against Spain at the José María Martín Carpena sporting arena
Photograph: Joaquin Corchero/AFP7/Shutterstock
Deir al-Balah, Gaza
Naghma al-Aidi, a four-year-old Palestinian girl, is cuddled by her mother as they shelter in a tent at the Nuseirat refugee camp. Children and elderly people are the most vulnerable as Gaza’s famine deepens, experts warn. Aid agencies and others report evidence of worsening starvation, particularly among the under-fives
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Kostiantynivka, Ukraine
A view of anti-drone nets installed over a road in the frontline town in the Donetsk region as the US envoy Steve Witkoff and Vladimir Putin hold talks in Moscow
Photograph: Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters
Chiang Mai, Thailand
A Karen elephant keeper plays with a calf at the Elephant Freedom Village. Karen elephant keepers work to preserve traditional hill tribe methods of human coexistence with animals
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Chișinău, Moldova
An officer of Penitentiary N13 looks outside as supporters of the banned pro-Russia Șor party stage a protest opposite the prison. On Tuesday, a Moldovan court sentenced the leader of the autonomous Gagauzia region, Evghenia Guțul, to seven years in prison for funnelling Russian funds to the party between 2019 and 2022
Photograph: Dumitru Doru/EPA
Greenock, UK
The Glen Rosa, a car and passenger ferry, is inspected at a dry dock operated by the ship repair and maintenance company Dales Marine. Delivery of the vessel has been put back until next April to June, nearly eight years after it was originally due
Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA
Fayzabad, Afghanistan
A girl drinks water from a hand pump in a district of Badakhshan province. Afghanistan, is facing its fourth drought in five years
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Copenhagen, Denmark
A person arrives for the Anne Sofie Madsen show during the city’s fashion week
Photograph: Christian Vierig/Getty Images
