An octagonal city and the closed Acropolis: photos of the day – Friday

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  • Dover, UK

    Holidaymakers and lorry drivers come to a standstill as traffic builds at the border

    A queue of lorries on the A20 flanked by fields
  • Athens, Greece

    Authorities have closed the Acropolis to visitors during the hottest part of the day as a heatwave engulfs the country

    The Acropolis and Parthenon
  • Manchester, UK

    A picket line at Manchester Royal Infirmary as up to 50,000 resident doctors in England, formerly known as junior doctors, begin five days of industrial action over pay and conditions

     'Pay restoration for doctors'
  • Seoul, South Korea

    Children try to stay cool in a fountain. The peninsula has been blanketed by a double layer of high pressure that has nudged the temperature to a scorching 37C (100F)

    Children play in a fountain
  • San Diego, US

    A man wades past kelp as he goes for a swim in the Pacific Ocean at La Jolla Shores in California

    A man wades past kelp as he goes for a swim
  • Neuf-Brisach, France

    An aerial view of an octagonal fortress that forms one of the most extraordinary cities in the world. Constructed in the 17th-century by Sébastien Le Prestre, a military architect serving King Louis XIV, the city in Alsace features evenly spaced bastions, perpendicular streets and star-shaped fortifications

    Aerial image of an octagonal fortress city
  • Donetsk region, Ukraine

    A Ukrainian soldier fires D-20 artillery

    A soldier fiers a weapon
  • Hoboken, US

    The sun rises over the New York City skyline. An extreme heat warning is in place in New Jersey from 10am to 9pm on Friday

    The sun rises over New York City skyline as a person walking is silhouetted along the riverfront
  • Gaza City

    Yusuf al-Ladavi, an eight-year-old Palestinian boy, at al-Ehli Baptist hospital, where he is receiving treatment after being injured in an Israeli attack on the strip. There are more child amputees in Gaza than anywhere else in the world

    A man helps a heavily bandaged boy drink from a cup
  • Malabon, Philippines

    People use poles to ride an improvised float along a flooded road. Typhoon Co-may has intensified seasonal monsoon rains

    Men use poles to ride an improvised float along a flooded road
  • Marcona, Peru

    An environmental group carry a portable wildlife observation booth at the Punta San Juan reserve, where a decline in guano birds, sea lions and penguins has alarmed scientists

    People walk under a box
  • Singapore

    Xantheia Pennisi of Australia competes during the women’s 20-metre high-diving event at the World Aquatics Championships

    An upside-down diver leaps
  • Peaje Mendoza, Uruguay

    Dead palm trees line a road as authorities battle an influx of red palm weevils, which have been devouring the usually hardy species

    Dead palm trees line a road
  • Athens, Greece

    A woman at a pro-Palestinian rally holds aloft an image of a starving child. Gaza is facing human-made mass starvation caused by the blockade of aid into the territory, the head of the World Health Organization has said

    A woman at a pro-Palestinian rally holds aloft an image of a starving child
  • Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Joaquín Romero blows air into the face of a Hereford cow to calm the animal during a livestock sale at the Rural Society’s annual exposition

    Joaquín Romero blows air into the face of a cow
  • Nashville, US

    The country singer-songwriter Craig Campbell performs at the Kenny Campbell Foundation benefit concert in Tennessee. The event aims to raise funds and awareness for colorectal cancer

    Craig Campbell performs
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