Fire festivals, rally cars and a robo-dog: photos of the day – Wednesday

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  • Istanbul, Turkey

    Police officers guard the provincial police headquarters where the city’s mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, is being held after his arrest as part of a corruption investigation

    Police officers stand in a row holding up riot shields outside the police station
  • Phoenix, US

    Apache tribe members gather at Wesley Bolin memorial plaza to honour 14-year-old Emily Pike before marching to the Arizona State Capitol. Pike’s remains were found last month and the search for her killer continues

    Close up photo of a young man wearing a colourful bandana and with a red hand print painted across his mouth and cheek
  • Mexico City, Mexico

    Pedro Enrique Haces Lago, a Morena party representative in the Mexico City congress, is protected by police after a ruling banning violent bullfights is approved

    Pedro Enrique Haces Lago, wearing a suit, surrounded by police wearing riot helmets
  • New York, US

    Protesters chant and brandish signs outside the headquarters of News Corp, the owner of Fox News, in Manhattan

    People hold up signs that read ‘Fox is poison’ and ‘No Dictators in the USA’
  • Tehran, Iran

    People light fireworks during Scarlet Wednesday, or Chaharshanbeh Suri, which is held annually on the evening of the last Wednesday before the spring holiday of Nowruz

    People light fireworks and Catherine wheels on a hilltop at night overlooking Tehran’s city centre
  • Glasgow, Scotland

    Robbie the RoboGuide, an autonomous robot dog designed to assist blind people, meets his canine counterpart Peggy at Scotland’s Inclusive Design for Sustainability conference

    A four legged robot dog that looks quite a lot like a metal grasshopper is sniffed at by a white labrador retriever
  • Srinagar, India

    Tourists enjoy a boat ride on the waters of Lake Dal

    A view from a colourfully decorated boat across the lake
  • Tokyo, Japan

    A model presents a creation by the Japanese designer Lim Asafuji during Tokyo Fashion Week

    A woman dressed in a pink and blue floral suit walks down a runway
  • Basingstoke, England

    Staff conduct conservation work to safeguard the future of the Tudor oak gallery at The Vyne, a National Trust property in Hampshire

    Two people with vacuum cleaner backpacks brush dirt from the finely-carved heraldic panels of the most highly-decorative Tudor gallery in Europe
  • Chennai, India

    Workers paint a merry-go-round on a hot afternoon at Marina beach

    A man stands on top of the frame of a merry-go-round with a can of paint in one hand and a brush in the other on a day of clear blue skies
  • Vancouver, Canada

    Members of the Iranian community take part in a fire festival at Ambleside Park as they celebrate Nowruz

    A man leaps over a bonfire with his child in his arms
  • Tijuana, Mexico

    A member of Mexico’s national guard patrols the primary fence on the Mexico-US border, part of the government’s response to Donald Trump’s demand they crack down on illegal migration and drug smuggling

    A national guard member in combat gear stands on a hilltop overlooking the border fence
  • Bali, Indonesia

    Workers clean up a river filled with rubbish in the city of Denpasar

    Workers wade up to their waste to clean up plastic bottles and other bits of waste from nets obstructing the flow of rubbish
  • Nairobi, Kenya

    A car drives through the dirt during the Safari Rally in the third round of the 2025 WRC World Rally Car Championship

    A car is almost entirely obscured by a giant cloud of dust and dirt as it roars along a dirt track
  • Kocani, North Macedonia

    Mourners use their mobile phones as torches at a vigil in tribute to victims of a nightclub fire that killed 59 people

    Members of the public hold mobile phones with lit flashlights in a public square
  • Khartoum, Sudan

    A child with malnutrition lies on a bed in Alban Jadeed hospital. As civil war continues to ravage the country’s capital, young children are being admitted into wards in greater numbers

    A child suffering from malnutrition lies on a bed
  • Beit Hanoun, Gaza

    A girl rests while ferrying water. Palestinians are heading towards Gaza City in large numbers after Israeli evacuation orders

    A girl crouches down with a large yellow jerrycan in front of her on a dusty road
  • Daraa, Syria

    Mourners carry the body of a man killed in Israeli strikes during his funeral procession

    A large number of mourners carry a body and follow it through the streets
  • Jerusalem, Israel

    Israelis march in protest against plans by the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to dismiss the head of the Shin Bet internal security service

    A procession of people walk along a road carrying national flags of Israel
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