A pond cluster and Santa school: photos of the day – Monday

Baku, Azerbaijan

Soledad Secca Noa speaks during a demonstration at the Cop29 UN climate summit

Rovaniemi, Finland

Members of the Finnish artillery Karelia Brigade fire shells from a K9 mobile howitzer during live fire testing. The exercise includes service personnel from 28 allied and partner nations, and is taking place between 4 and 24 November across locations in Finland, Estonia, Germany, Poland and Romania

London, UK

Men dressed as Father Christmas take part in the Ministry of Fun’s annual Santa school training, at the London Postal Museum, which is known for its archives of letters to Santa dating back to 1963

London, UK

Harry Kane attends the unveiling of a statue of himself at the Peter May Centre

Hong Kong, China

A vendor of carved Taoist deities closes his shop for the night

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Keir Starmer and Xi Jinping leave after their bilateral meeting at the Sheraton Hotel, on the sidelines of the G20 summit

Jakarta, Indonesia

Children return home from school through high-tide floods that hit the Muara Angke area. The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has provided an early warning to people in coastal areas to be aware of high waves and high tides until 21 November

Khiam, Lebanon

Buildings as seen from the southern Lebanese town of Marjayoun, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah

Kőszegpaty, Hungary

Activists care for a rescued dog at a breeding site close to the Austrian border, after the property was raided by authorities and animal welfare groups thanks to a cross-border operation. Activists took frightened animals out of kennels and dog crates from two warehouse-like buildings, where animals were kept in very poor conditions

Wernigerode, Germany

A steam train drives through the autumnal colours of Harz forest

A colourful pond cluster at the Huanglong scenic area after snow in the Tibetan-Qiang autonomous prefecture

Ariana, Tunisia

Olives are unloaded from a truck at an oil press in Cebalat Ben Ammar

Khan Younis, Gaza

Palestinians wait in a queue to receive bread outside a bakery amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas

New Delhi, India

Pedestrians walk across a street on a cold smoggy morning. India’s capital switched schools to online classes until further notice because of worsening toxic smog, the latest bid to ease the sprawling megacity’s health crisis

Ilagan, Philippines

Submerged homes at a village in Isabela province, after continuous heavy rains from Super Typhoon Man-yi. People cleared fallen trees and repaired damaged houses on 18 November after the sixth major storm to batter the Philippines in a month smashed flimsy buildings, knocked out power and claimed at least one life

Paris, France

Marine Le Pen arrives at the criminal courthouse for her trial on suspicion of embezzlement of European Union public funds. The French far right party leader and two dozen other Rassemblement National chiefs are accused of embezzling European parliament money by creating fake jobs. Possible sanctions include jail as well as a decade-long ban from public office, which could wreck Le Pen’s hopes of succeeding the incumbent president in a 2027 election

Odesa, Ukraine

Rescuers work at the site of a Russian missile attack. Kiev’s latest figures are 10 dead and 43 wounded after the strike