Elephant calves and golf dogs: photos of the day - Friday

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  • London, UK

    An art handler holds Andy Warhol’s Self-Portrait in front of Bridget Riley’s Gaillard 2, during a preview for Sotheby’s £200m artwork sale

    A man holds up the green Self-Portrait in which Warhol is wearing sunglasses, a shirt, a tie and a coat and is tilting his head. Behind the man is Gaillard 2 with multicoloured geometric shapes
  • London, UK

    Ocean Rebellion demonstrators perform on the Albert Embankment, on the final day of the MEPC 82 meetings

    One performer wears a gas mask and another wears a tangle of fishing nets and has their head inside a glass bowl
  • Dover, Kent

    Small boats and outboard motors, used by people to cross the Channel, at a warehouse facility

    Aerial shot of small boats and outboard motors
  • Ayutthaya, Thailand

    Twin elephant calves who have been named by the king. Twin elephants are rare but male-female twin births are extremely rare, according to Phra Kochaban Foundation for elephant care

    Two elephant calves and an adult elephant wear gold cloth around their ankles and on their heads
  • Seoul, South Korea

    Balloons filled with rubbish launched across the border by North Korea float in the sky. Relations between the two countries are at one of their lowest points in years

    White balloon against a clear blue sky
  • Undisclosed location, North Korea

    Troops take part in training at a base of the Korean People’s Army’s special operations forces in the western region. The country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, said his forces would use nuclear weapons “without hesitation” if Pyongyang’s territory was attacked by the South and the US

    One man lies across planks of wood with four other men, all in green khaki trousers, surrounding him. Two of the men are using mallets to break rocks on the man’s body
  • Puerto San Julián, Argentina

    People watch an annular solar eclipse

    A person wearing protective eyewear looks up at the sky
  • Tahai, Chile

    The moon moves across the sun during a solar eclipse

    The moon covers the sun apart from a thin orange ring around the edge against a pitch black sky
  • Manisa, Turkey

    The Kula-Salihli Geopark, known for its volcanic hills and lava-formed rock sea, where scientists discovered eight magma chambers at different depths beneath the Earth’s crust. Scientists have identified the largest, near-surface magma chamber as posing a potential eruption risk due to factors such as earthquakes

    Aerial shot of a barren volcanic hill
  • Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    A motorist drives past toppled shipping containers caused by Typhoon Krathon

    A person on a motorbike passes toppled shipping containers
  • Patikharka, Nepal

    The flood-affected areas of Kavrepalanchok District where homes have been severely damaged, making many families homeless

    Aerial shot of destroyed homes in a muddy and flooded area
  • Manila, Philippines

    People use airguns try to catch fish along a floodway

    A person points an airgun into the water
  • Beirut, Lebanon

    A man runs for cover as a smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike

    A man runs among rubble and fallen overhead lines
  • Deir al-Balah, Gaza

    Civil defence teams and local Palestinians work to retrieve the dead and injured after an Israeli army attack on a home in the city

    A man climbs on a smoking, burning pile of rubble
  • Kibbutz Reim, Israel

    A woman looks at pictures and memorials for Israeli festival goers who were killed last year by Hamas at the site of the Supernova Music Festival

    A woman looks at pictures and memorials for Israeli festival goers who were killed last year by Hamas at the site of the Supernova Music Festival
  • Cali, Colombia

    A man walks past a poster advertising the Cop16 biodiversity conference

    A man in profile walks past a colourful poster with images of animals
  • Freetown, Sierra Leone

    Former Kush users hug each other as they part ways after finishing their seven-week rehabilitation programme at a government operated centre. The country is battling a crisis caused by the synthetic drug, a mix of chemicals and plants, which has led to widespread addiction, health issues and crime among young people

    Two people embrace
  • St Andrews, Scotland

    A dog wearing a Callaway cap looks across the golf course on day two of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship

    A small, fluffy dog wearing a black cap
  • Dortmund, Germany

    Visitors watch the audiovisual presentation Ocean Odyssey, projected on the walls of a former steelworks at the Phoenix des Lumieres exhibition

    Visitors watch the audiovisual presentation Ocean Odyssey at the Phoenix des Lumieres exhibition, Dortmund
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