Flowers, fires and a facekini: photos of the day – Tuesday Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Guy Lane Main image: Roswell, US Smoke plumes from the South Fork fire. Photograph: Kaylee Greenlee Beal/Reuters Tue 18 Jun 2024 08.43 EDT Last modified on Tue 18 Jun 2024 09.00 EDT Bureij, Gaza Palestinians search the rubble of the Harb family home which was destroyed during overnight Israeli strikes that hit the Bureij refugee camp Photograph: Bashar Taleb/AFP/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Deir al-Balah, GazaWomen mourn next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, at al-Aqsa hospital in the central Gaza Strip Photograph: Ramadan Abed/Reuters Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Tel Aviv, Israel A man and a child look at pictures of hostages kidnapped during the 7 October attack on Israel by Hamas Photograph: Eloisa Lopez/Reuters Share on Facebook Share on Twitter 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 Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Porto Alegre, BrazilA car is left buried after flooding in the city Photograph: Sílvio Ávila/AFP/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter 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 Photograph: South Korean Defence Ministry/AFP/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Bangkok, Thailand A demonstrator holds a rainbow flag outside government house as the country’s senate voted overwhelmingly to approve a marriage equality bill Photograph: Sakchai Lalit/AP Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Seoul, South Korea Doctors take part in a rally to protest against an increase in medical student enrolment Photograph: YONHAP/EPA Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Roswell, US Smoke plumes from the South Fork fire, which caused mandatory evacuations in Ruidoso, New Mexico, are visible from the evacuation route Photograph: Kaylee Greenlee Beal/Reuters Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Ruidoso, US Smoke rises from a wildfire in New Mexico Photograph: Pamela L Bonner/Reuters Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Copperopolis, USFire retardant dropped from a plane drifts over the Aero Fire burning in Calaveras County, California Photograph: Noah Berger/AP Share on Facebook Share on Twitter 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 Photograph: Huang Jiemin/AP Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Perth, Australia Police await the arrival of Chinese premier, Li Qiang, and the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, in Kings Park Photograph: Richard Wainwright/Reuters Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Tokyo, Japan A woman shelters from the rain in Shinjuku Photograph: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Qingdao, China A woman wearing a facekini cools off in eastern China’s Shandong province Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Los Angeles, US Motorcyclists cruise down Hollywood Boulevard during the premiere of the film The Bikeriders at the TCL Chinese Theatre Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP Share on Facebook Share on Twitter 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 Photograph: Sebastian Kettley/Kew Gardens Sebastian Kettley/Kew Gardens/PA Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Cambridge, England A firework display over the River Cam during the May ball at Cambridge University’s Trinity College Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Shawnee, US A man and a boy fish on Shawnee Mission lake in Kansas Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Topics UK news Photos of the day