Tennis champions and the southern lights: photos of the day – Monday

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  • Hamilton, UK

    Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Labour leader, along with candidate Davy Russell launch a van at Raploch bowling club highlighting the choice voters face. The byelection to decide the successor to the late SNP MSP Christina McKelvie is to be held on 5 June

    Reporters crowd around Anas Sarwar
  • Paris, France

    Coco Gauff of the US in action during her fourth-round match against Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova, which Gauff won. Follow our French Open coverage here

    Coco Gauff slides towards a backhand ball on a clay court
  • Glasgow, UK

    Keir Starmer leaves the stage after delivering a speech on defence spending, during a visit to BAE Systems’ Govan facility

    Keir Starmer smiles as he shakes hands with a BAE worker
  • London, UK

    Paloma Faith joins Choose Love activists unveiling a banner on Westminster Bridge with a message from a Palestinian child, which says: ‘Prime minister I don’t want to die’

    People stand on a bridge with a banner and the Houses of Parliament in the background
  • Khan Younis, Gaza

    Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen

    People hold pans aloft as they await food at an outdoor community kitchen
  • Frankfurt, Germany

    People swim in a public pool in Wehrheim

    A drone view of swimmers in a pool
  • Catania, Italy

    Mount Etna exhibits a Strombolian eruption, with a volcanic plume rising from the south-east crater. An orange aviation warning has been issued

    A volcano with smoke above it with the city of Catania in the foreground
  • Mecca, Saudi Arabia

    Muslims perform morning prayers in the Grand Mosque during the annual hajj pilgrimage

    An aerial view of Muslims at morning prayers at the Grand Mosque in Mecca
  • Wisconsin, US

    Ash plumes from Canadian wildfires that have been drifting across the Upper Midwest render an evening sunset in hues of orange behind Lac La Belle in Oconomowoc

    Four people in silhouette, with two of them seated on a swing, against a deep red sunset
  • Jakarta, Indonesia

    Performers react to music on Pancasila Day, a celebration of Indonesia’s national ideology based on five principles: belief in one God, just and civilised humanity, national unity, democracy guided by the wisdom of people’s representatives, and social justice for all Indonesians

    Performers react to music by the Pancasila building in Jakarta
  • Christchurch, New Zealand

    People take photos of Aurora Australis, also known as the southern lights, as it glows on the horizon over Lake Ellesmere in Lincoln

    Aurora Australis glows on the horizon over Lake Ellesmere in Lincoln
  • Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan

    An official pours a chemical to set fire to a heap of seized expired medicines at a field

    A man pours a substance over a pile of boxes of medicine
  • London, UK

    The Australian acrobatic troupe Head First Acrobats perform in front of the classical Greek statue of Achilles in Hyde Park. This is to launch their Greek myth themed show GODZ before its run at the Sadlers Wells Peacock theatre from 11-14 June

    Acrobats perform in front of the statue of Achilles in Hyde Park
  • St Petersburg, Russia

    An employee of the Museum of Urban Sculpture cleans one of the four horse sculptures of the Anichkov Bridge over the Fontanka River

    A worker in silhouette cleans a horse statue
  • Seongnam, South Korea

    Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate of the Democratic party, attends his election campaign rally. The Korean presidential election race is in its final stretch, with the main candidates focusing their campaigns on the domestic political agenda.

    Lee Jae-myung attends a campaign event
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