![RIGHT SIDEBAR TOP AD](/site/uploads/2023/Apr/04/ad12.jpg)
Picanya, Spain
Damaged vehicles on a flood-hit street. Intense rainfall and flooding in the eastern and southern part of the country resulted in at least 62 deaths in the province of Valencia
Photograph: Biel Aliño/EPA
![People walk past cars tilted at steep angles on a street still running with water](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/87deae4c215be91edaa3c46ce39b75528aff34ac/0_0_5956_3971/master/5956.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ccb6686cddd1774c74b5dba929f4110d)
Bali, Indonesia
Young people taking part in the Ngerebeg ritual in the village of Tegallalang. The sacred tradition takes place every six months and aims to pacify spirits in order to protect the village. Participants paint their bodies in various colours and patterns and join a procession
Photograph: Made Nagi/EPA
![Young people with their bodies painted in stripes of red, black and white sit on a bench](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b316665c62c9ed7fb1bea837da9f440c9e27999c/0_0_5472_3648/master/5472.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d11da708b4ea92d53018280819498aab)
London, UK
The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, the Treasury chief secretary, Darren Jones, and the Treasury team prepare to leave 11 Downing Street before delivering the budget in parliament
Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
![Rachel Reeves and Darren Jones walk out of No 11 Downing Street](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5628e8af99e572fd338570a979f6203da660f980/0_0_5075_3383/master/5075.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6d35245d908639e98546c4ecfa44b6e2)
Photograph: Alberto Saiz/AP
![A woman looks out from her balcony at a street filled with flood water and cars densely jammed at chaotic angles](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4068dd4ae5a517eb33ba605b1aef27e9984d4b8f/0_0_6000_4000/master/6000.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=df4096ab15bb412df062994693a8e01c)
Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip
People search the rubble for missing people at the site of an Israeli strike that hit a family home the day before
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
![People dig in the rubble of a collapsed building](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/41eac7e4d81269912d4048a57552a14f2eb7d979/0_0_4032_2688/master/4032.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=52cdff60c7934c3736ccc6cb2fee558a)
Baalbek, Lebanon
People evacuate from the eastern city in the Bekaa valley after the Israeli army warned residents of incoming strikes
Photograph: Nidal Solh/AFP/Getty Images
![A queue of cars leaving the city](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5a859c6bde3e79f547cad12a1451498a6d60bdbe/0_0_6000_4000/master/6000.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4be95d0a12fee57931ffd54a2a65bec9)
Hanoi, Vietnam
Customers enjoy drinks at a cafe terrace set up on a pavement
Photograph: Nhac Nguyen/AFP/Getty Images
![Two people sitting on the pavement amid a cluster of small red and blue stools](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9e407b65a79378a550bfb7bfb8574f5373b3776f/0_0_5075_3388/master/5075.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=05d8deda42811a45b94815a56c078bf8)
Kyiv, Ukraine
Emergency service workers in a multistorey building damaged by a Russian drone strike on Tuesday. Nine people, including an 11-year-old girl, were injured in the attack, Ukrainian authorities said
Photograph: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images
![Emergency service workers in a burnt room with charred, black wallpaper and a fold-out sofa bed](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0930660ffb76af92261824b1239c35c5b1cfebc5/0_0_4326_3036/master/4326.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9c8e6a1f7a8f7c4c2eb309702897b05b)
Gaborone, Botswana
A voter casts her ballot in the general election as an electoral official and a police officer look on
Photograph: Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP/Getty Images
![A woman in a hat and pink dress places her ballot paper in a box](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fad8fa50b76523fe8f818dc4b1a864669fc3372b/0_0_4980_3320/master/4980.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2480e4854b48ee64a349efcdb430c887)
Valenzuela, Philippines
Uncertified cooking appliances, collected for destruction, at a warehouse in the Manila region city. A batch of 9,874 household appliances worth almost 7.8m pesos (£103,000) were seized by the government because of quality control violations
Photograph: Rolex dela Peña/EPA
![A huge pile of rice cookers and other devices, some in boxes](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d544a99597082778d503de3c77d8eb2047847252/0_0_2000_1333/master/2000.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d792fdab656ee16b20a80a16b9ee75f1)
Cairo, Egypt
A camel driver takes tourists for a ride at the Pyramids plateau in Giza
Photograph: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
![A camel driver with three people riding on camels in the background](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/39f52b3644e5e100ef217a96b0a8e52bae95ade4/0_0_5500_3823/master/5500.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=585bc7a0c807a28c512a730438efab38)
Sydney, Australia
Paul Mescal poses with fans at the Australian premiere of Gladiator II at Darling Harbour theatre
Photograph: James Gourley/Getty Images
![Paul Mescal taking a selfie with fans crowded behind a barrier](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/88e635b159dcc4ef42459714ee71b0c63fed2db9/0_0_7997_5331/master/7997.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4eee81b439ce4c61e1f3f96011364361)
Hainan, China
The overflowing Wanquan River in Qionghai. Most areas of Hainan province experienced heavy rainfall because of Tropical Storm Trami
Photograph: Meng Zhongde/VCG/Getty Images
![Brown river water extending among city buildings](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a1735c307774a6091d5eac3cf09f9b01c9c5d774/0_0_8064_4536/master/8064.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=936709475dc090aea4d39a8dc7208aa6)
Wolfsburg, Germany
The Volkswagen factory, which employs about 62,000 people in the city. Profits have been hit at the German carmaker as sales in China slump
Photograph: Axel Schmidt/Reuters
![A person wheels a suitcase out of a car park entrance. A factory with the Volkswagen logo on it is visible in the background](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/adaf8c3909a411844ce6b610a362224a10c054fb/0_0_5500_3668/master/5500.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=65aad8cb9d150ae50caf3a1a9f6db77d)
Pont-de-Claix, France
Striking employees of the Vencorex chemicals factory, owned by a subsidiary of the Thai company PTT Global Chemical, stage a protest outside the plant. The company went into court-supervised restructuring in September
Photograph: Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP/Getty Images
![Employees striking with protest banners amid chemical containers](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0646e16b274cedb2559d0fbee829fa0b7dc6a81a/0_0_5500_3667/master/5500.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7f20d8d5caccdf5619832b456161c70d)
Kandahar, Afghanistan
Women and children ride in a taxi
Photograph: Sanaullah Seiam/AFP/Getty Images
![Women and children crowded into the back of a car, visible through the open boot](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8a5f4cc18d36e363f62d5d421841d58a9b790336/0_0_8256_5504/master/8256.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4c3d6ef64db36670612c6281d7224aad)
Pennsylvania, US
Donald Trump supporters arrive for a campaign rally at the PPL Center in Allentown
Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images
![Two women in sequin bomber jackets stand with their backs to the camera. One jacket reads ‘Bullet Proof 45’, the other ‘Trump Vance’](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6e056446f4692c103cf7730f289faf9533b4bc93/0_0_8256_5504/master/8256.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7c0178e89cac556ffb542e49af544552)
Washington DC, US
Kamala Harris hugs her husband, Doug Emhoff, after making her a speech billed as her ‘closing argument’ of the presidential election campaign
Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
![Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff hug on stage](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4436be8cabbc3074f661fc637d9685b7bf9ddff0/0_0_5543_3625/master/5543.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=14785ff3b330551aede52c1442a020cb)