The world’s largest warship and a sumo ceremony: photos of the day – Friday

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  • Gaza City

    A Palestinian sits near the site of Israeli airstrikes on houses at al-Shati refugee camp

    A Palestinian sitting alone with his head in his hand, leaning forward looking desolate, in a hole in the side of a wall
  • Garissa county, Kenya

    Somali students at the Dadaab refugee camp. Humanitarian agencies are warning of the severe impact of global aid reductions on vulnerable populations

    A group of girls, two girls look into the camera
  • Ashdod, Israel

    A mural honouring US conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, after he was shot dead while speaking at Utah Valley University on 10 September

    A man looking at a mural on a wall of Charlie Kirk, depicted with a halo and angel wings
  • Gaza City, Gaza

    Palestinians carry food from the aid centre in the Netzarim area to their tents

    A large number of Palestinian people silhouetted against a landscape, in the foreground, and into the distance
  • Southern Israel

    A convoy of Israeli army vehicles move along the border fence with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel. Israel’s military said on 9 September that it will act with ‘great force’ in Gaza City and told residents to leave as it stepped up a deadly assault on the Palestinian territory’s largest urban centre

    Three Israeli tanks drive in the sand
  • Gaza City, Gaza

    Free food being provided to displaced people in the northern Gaza Strip. According to the UN, about 90% of the population in Gaza, or 1.9 million people, have been displaced since the start of the conflict

    Palestinians, including children, hold pots as they queue to receive food from a kitchen, a girl in the foreground is having pasta poured into a bowl from a large saucepan
  • Kathmandu, Nepal

    A vendor waits for customers during relaxation hours amid a curfew imposed to restore law and order. The army imposed the curfew, with soldiers patrolling the largely quiet streets, after the worst violence in two decades

    A woman sits in the foreground under a parasol in a market, with vegetables laid out around her
  • Incheon, South Korea

    Members of the press interview a South Korean worker, who was detained in a huge immigration raid last week at the site of a US car battery project, as they arrive at the Incheon international airport

    Members of the media gather around a person being interviewed, withe cameras and microphones. Someone has there arm around the person being interviewed
  • Srinagar, India

    Muslim devotees pray on the first Friday after Eid Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of prophet Muhammad, at the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir

    A dramatic image of a crowd of women looking to the sky, seeming to pray
  • Seoul, South Korea

    Jang Dong-hyeok, leader of the main opposition People Power party, speaks at a protest rally in front of the National Assembly, criticising the Lee Jae Myung government for what they call dictatorship and oppression of the opposition

    A man in a suit speaking into a microphone in front of a crowd of people holding placards
  • Tokyo, Japan

    Grand champion-ranked sumo wrestler Ōnosato Daiki takes part in a ring-entering ceremony on the grounds of the Nomi no Sukune shrine, ahead of the start of the 15-day grand sumo tournament in the Japanese capital

    Four sumo wrestlers pose in a Japanese garden
  • Sydney, Australia

    The New South Wales mounted police unit celebrate 200 years of service, making it the oldest continuous mounted police unit in the world

    A group of police on horseback in uniform and helmets in front of the Sydney Opera House
  • Hong Kong, China

    Tomoka Miyazaki of Japan hits a return against Lin Hsiang-Ti of Taiwan in their women’s singles quarter-final match during the Hong Kong Open badminton tournament

    A Badminton player lunges dramatically with her racket to reach the shuttlecock on a Badminton court
  • Cered, Hungary

    An aerial view, taken with a drone, of morning fog

    A vast dawn landscape with fog and mountains visible in between, and a church in the distance
  • Beijing, China

    A model backstage, before the spring/summer 2026 collection show by Yi-Ming during China fashion week

    A model with eyes closed as two hands holding make-up brushes reach towards their face
  • Drøbak, Norway

    The US aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford, on its way into the Oslofjord. The ship is the world’s largest warship

    A rainbow spans over a large military ship in a fjord, an islet behind it
  • Tokyo, Japan

    Workers practise removing hurdles from the track before the World Athletics Championships

    An athletics track with dismantled hurdles organised into two rows, attached to buggies, with people  organising them
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