Flowers, fires and a facekini: photos of the day – Tuesday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

Main image: Roswell, US Smoke plumes from the South Fork fire. Photograph: Kaylee Greenlee Beal/Reuters

  • Bureij, Gaza

    Palestinians search the rubble of the Harb family home which was destroyed during overnight Israeli strikes that hit the Bureij refugee camp
    People stand amid rubble between mostly destroyed buildings

  • Deir al-Balah, Gaza

    Women mourn next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, at al-Aqsa hospital in the central Gaza Strip
    Woman kneels crying around bodies wrapped in white while two others try to comfort her

  • Tel Aviv, Israel

    A man and a child look at pictures of hostages kidnapped during the 7 October attack on Israel by Hamas
    Man holding toddler stands in front of a long table covered in photos of people. Soft toys are propped up along the bottom of the table

  • Suresnes, France

    President Macron reviews troops during a ceremony marking the 84th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle’s 1940 resistance call, at the Mont-Valérien memorial, outside Paris
    Stern face of Macron partially obscured by service person saluting in foreground

  • Porto Alegre, Brazil

    A car is left buried after flooding in the city
    Car half buried in silt

  • North Korea

    A photo provided by the South Korean defence ministry shows North Korean soldiers working at an undisclosed location near the heavily fortified border, as seen from a South Korean guard area
    Column of hundreds of people wearing dark uniforms walking along a track apparently carrying shovels

  • Bangkok, Thailand

    A demonstrator holds a rainbow flag outside government house as the country’s senate voted overwhelmingly to approve a marriage equality bill
    Person holding up a rainbow flag

  • Seoul, South Korea

    Doctors take part in a rally to protest against an increase in medical student enrolment
    Wide-angle shot from above of thousands of people dressed in white marching in columns through street on a sunny day

  • Roswell, US

    Smoke plumes from the South Fork fire, which caused mandatory evacuations in Ruidoso, New Mexico, are visible from the evacuation route
    Sun barely visible at sunset under sky of dark smoke

  • Ruidoso, US

    Smoke rises from a wildfire in New Mexico
    Huge cloud of smoke over forest with flames burning very high into the sky

  • Copperopolis, US

    Fire retardant dropped from a plane drifts over the Aero Fire burning in Calaveras County, California
    Pink mist over treetops, with a fire burning amid the trees

  • Dongping, China

    A drone photo shows a flooded area in Fujian province, south-east China. Southern China was reeling from heavy rains that triggered landslides killing at least nine people, knocking out power for entire villages and burying crops
    Cars stopped on road that disappears into water near a flooded river

  • Perth, Australia

    Police await the arrival of Chinese premier, Li Qiang, and the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, in Kings Park
    Police officers lean against a fence at a lookout point, with tall buildings of the city centre in the background

  • Tokyo, Japan

    A woman shelters from the rain in Shinjuku
    Woman wearing face mask holding umbrella in colour matching her outfit, with blur of another person walking past her

  • Qingdao, China

    A woman wearing a facekini cools off in eastern China’s Shandong province
    Figure wearing what looks like a balaclava over the top of a pair of sunglasses that she is adjusting

  • Los Angeles, US

    Motorcyclists cruise down Hollywood Boulevard during the premiere of the film The Bikeriders at the TCL Chinese Theatre
    Two men riding big motorbikes past a crowd of people. One has his arm raised to make a bull's horn gesture

  • Kew, England

    The Titan arum plant, which only blooms once every two years. Endemic to the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, the ‘corpse flower’ stinks of rotting flesh when in bloom
    Huge flower consisting of a wide-lipped vase the the bottom, with a tall tower structure emerging from the middle

  • Cambridge, England

    A firework display over the River Cam during the May ball at Cambridge University’s Trinity College
    Fireworks exploding at night over the river

  • Shawnee, US

    A man and a boy fish on Shawnee Mission lake in Kansas
    Silhouette of man and child against background of shimmering water
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