Frogmen, a Vatican visit and an elephant thief: photos of the day – Wednesday

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  • Dakar, Senegal

    Children wash their sacrificial sheep in the sea ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha

    children with sheep in the sea
  • Çanakkale, Turkey

    Frogmen from the police force, known as ‘evidence hunters of dark waters’, take part in a training exercise

    two divers submerged in water
  • Dharamshala, India

    Exiled Tibetans pray for the longevity of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who presides over the event

    lots of people in red robes sitting in a room
  • Bouée, France

    A stork with two chicks in a nest built on a high-voltage line mast

    An aerial picture of a stork with two chicks in a nest
  • Guwahati, India

    Municipality workers use excavators to search for recyclable materials at the Boragaon garbage dumping site

    excavators and people and cows among rubbish
  • Karachi, Pakistan

    People ferry cattle on a vehicle ahead of Eid al-Adha

    people sitting on top of a van with cattle in it
  • Seoul, South Korea

    President Lee Jae-myung gestures to the people outside the national assembly as he leaves following his inauguration ceremony

    a man in a suit with his arms over his head
  • Colombo, Sri Lanka

    A train arrives at a station next to the sea

    aerial photo of a train next to the sea
  • Seville, Spain

    The Simpecado float of the Brotherhood of El Rocío of Seville-El Salvador departs on its pilgrimage to the village of Almonte. About 1 million people from across Spain make the journey to pay homage to Our Lady of Rocío each year

    a man on a horse in front of a church
  • Vatican City

    Visitors from Mexico wait for the arrival of Pope Leo XIV for his weekly general audience in St Peter’s Square

    a row of women with red and green ribbons in their hair
  • Tokyo, Japan

    People on a pedestrian crossing on a shopping street in the city

    people crossing a road
  • Nakhon, Thailand

    An elephant, named Plai Biang Lek, ransacks sweet rice crackers at a shop in Ratchasima province

    an elephant in a shop
  • London, UK

    Activists unfurl a banner protesting against the war in Gaza outside the Houses of Parliament on Westminster Bridge

    people walk in front of a banner reading 'starving children is a red line'
  • Praia da Luz, Portugal

    Officers investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann carry out searches in the countryside a few miles from the resort where she was last seen in 2007

    a hillside with police vans
  • Banda Aceh, Indonesia

    An Acehnese woman receives up to 100 lashes of the cane in front of the public, as punishment for alleged adultery and breaking Sharia law

    a person in a headscarf hits a woman with a cane
  • Kharkiv, Ukraine

    Rescuers work at the site of a Russian drone strike where large-scale fires broke out in an industrial area

    a firefighter in the door of a burning building
  • Gaza City, Gaza

    Palestinians mourn the loss of family members killed in an Israeli attack on makeshift tents for displaced civilians

    a grieving woman and child
  • Tel Aviv, Israel

    Israeli activists gather for the start of a three-day march calling for an end to the war in Gaza and the release of hostages

    people march holding signs
  • Tehran, Iran

    People gather for a ceremony to mark the 36th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, at Khomeini’s shrine

    lots of people in a huge room with pillars
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