A turtle rescue, mud wrestlers and a Syrian rose garden: photos of the day – Friday

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  • Idlib, Syria

    A child working in a rose garden. Growing roses provides financial opportunities for farmers and displaced people in the rural outskirts of Idlib, Damascus and other cities

    A child sitting between rows of rose bushes throws pink petals in the air
  • British Columbia, Canada

    Smoke rises from the Kiskatinaw River wildfire, which has prompted evacuation orders

    Aerial view of smoke rising from a large area of rural land
  • Los Angeles, US

    Violet Chachki performs at the Betsey Johnson and the Elton John Aids Foundation Pride party at the Hole Gallery

    Drag artist Violet Chachki stands in a spotlight
  • London, UK

    Swans, cygnets and geese in Hyde Park

    A swan, cygnets and geese on water
  • London, UK

    Manet’s painting At the Cafe (1878, left) on display with Corner of a Cafe-Concert (1878-80) at the National Gallery. They originally formed part of a larger composition known as Reichshoffen, the name of a Parisian brasserie and cafe-concert

    Two people look at Manet’s paintings At the Cafe and Corner of a Cafe-Concert
  • Dallas, US

    Edmonton Oilers superfan Dale Steil wears face paint and lights before game five of the Western Conference finals in the NHL Stanley Cup ice hockey playoffs

    Dale Steil wears face paint and lights
  • Kolhapur, India

    Young mud wrestlers rest as they watch others train at the Shree Shahu Vijayi Gangavesh Talim, a residential gymnasium

    Muddy young mud wrestlers sit against a wall
  • Zeebrugge, Belgium

    The first of eight sections of the Scheldt tunnel is transported from the construction dock in Zeebrugge to Antwerp. Each section is 160 metres long and weighs 60,000 tonnes

    Four boats transport a tunnel section along a waterway
  • Seoul, South Korea

    People vote at a polling station during the second day of voting in the presidential election

    People stand at tables with shields around them
  • California, US

    Tourists visit Badwater Basin as an extreme heat warning is issued in Death Valley national park

    Tourists walk past a stop sign warning of extreme heat
  • Mexico City, Mexico

    A moth emerges from a cocoon hanging from a clothesline in the gardens of the Natural History Museum

    A moth emerges from a cocoon
  • Giza, Egypt

    A child stands next to sacrificial camels at the camel market before the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha

    A child stands next to camels
  • Van, Turkey

    Seagulls hunt pearl mullet during their annual migration from Lake Van

    Seagulls fight over a fish on the surface of water
  • Java, Indonesia

    Rescuers search for victims after the collapse of a natural stone quarry in the Cirebon district

    Rescuers and rescue vehicles in the bottom of an open quarry
  • Watamu, Kenya

    A mature loggerhead sea turtle is hoisted into a truck for observation after being caught in fishing gear. Since 1998, a rescue centre in the coastal town of Watamu has assessed, tagged and released more than 24,000 turtles

    A mature loggerhead sea turtle is hoisted into a truck
  • Multan, Pakistan

    Allah Bakhsh, a 55-year-old farmer living by the Chenab River, tends to his morning chores

    A farmer with cattle
  • Masada, Israel

    Newly recruited soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces on a 40km hike near the Dead Sea

    Soldiers silhouetted walking in a line up a hill
  • Jabaliya, Gaza

    Palestinians at the site of an overnight Israeli strike on Jabaliya, north of Gaza City

    Palestinian women and children sit on blocks of rubble
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