Stranded whales and a vegetarian festival: photos of the day – Wednesday

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  • Mexico City, Mexico

    Supporters of President Claudia Sheinbaum gather in Zócalo Square for an event in which she will receive a ceremonial staff from Indigenous people

    Aerial image of a huge crowd gathered on the street
  • Asheville, US

    Storm damage from Hurricane Helene in North Carolina

    Cars on a road after storm damage
  • Paris, France

    Kylie Jenner, left, presents a creation by the designers Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant as part of their spring/summer 2025 women’s ready-to-wear collection show for Coperni during Paris fashion week at Disneyland Paris

    Kylie Jenner on a catwalk during Paris fashion week at Disneyland Paris
  • Kolkata, India

    A vendor prepares food on his mobile cart on a railway track after train services were suspended temporarily due to a festival rush

    A vendor prepares food on his mobile cart on a railway track in Kolkata, India
  • Adana, Turkey

    Police special operations teams perform with a helicopter during the Teknofest technology and aerospace event

    Turkish police take part in a helicopter display
  • Hong Kong, China

    Fireworks illuminate the sky over Victoria Harbour to celebrate the 75th anniversary of China’s National Day

    Fireworks illuminate the sky over Victoria Harbour
  • Mumbai, India

    Hindu devotees perform the Tarpan ritual during Mahalaya prayers at the Banganga water tank. Mahalaya is observed seven days before the festival Durga Puja, with devotees offering prayers to their deceased

    Hindu devotees perform a ritual
  • Brampton, UK

    A person makes their way along a flooded cul-de-sac in Cambridgeshire

    A person on a flooded road
  • Rome, Italy

    Advocates for women’s ordination show a banner during the Don’t Kick the Can, Women Can Be Priests flash mob, as Pope Francis opened the synod of bishops with a mass at the Vatican

    Advocates for women’s ordination hold a banner
  • Bangkok, Thailand

    People perform a lion dance at a shrine to honour Chinese deities on the eve of the annual vegetarian festival. During the nine-day period, people will abstain from consuming meat to cleanse their body and mind

    People perform a lion dance
  • Kamchatka, Russian

    Rescuers and volunteers try to save four killer whales stranded at the mouth of the Bolshaya Vorovskaya River at the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk

    Rescuers and volunteers try to save four stranded killer whales
  • Kathmandu, Nepal

    Students walk past debris, mostly plastic waste dumped into the river, as flood water recedes from the banks of the Bagmati after heavy rains

    Students walk past debris, mostly plastic waste, after flood water recedes from the banks of the Bagmati River
  • Khan Younis, Gaza

    A 14-year-old Palestinian girl, Razan Arafat Barbah, who lost both of her legs in an Israeli attack on their home in Rafah, is treated with limited facilities at Nasser hospital

    A Palestinian girl who lost both of her legs in an Israeli attack is treated in hospital
  • Beirut, Lebanon

    Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike

    Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike
  • Khan Younis, Gaza

    Injured Palestinians mourn loved ones killed in Israeli strikes, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict

    Palestinians mourn loved ones killed in Israeli strikes
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