Desert floods and northern lights: photos of the day – Wednesday

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London, UK

Former colleagues of PC Yvonne Fletcher gather in St James’s Square for a memorial service marking the 40th anniversary of her murder. On 17 April 1984, a shot was fired from the Libyan embassy, fatally wounding Fletcher, who had been deployed to monitor a protest against Muammar Gaddafi

People holding pictures of PC Yvonne Fletcher stand in a line

Chennai, India

Police officers check the suitcase of a woman as they search vehicles for any prohibited items before the country’s general elections

Police officers check the suitcase of a woman in a vehicle

Athens, Greece

Protesters hold flares in front of the parliament building during a demonstration organised by the trade union Pame during a 24-hour nationwide strike

Smoke rises into the sky as people hold up flares

Washington DC, US

Marine One takes off from the South Lawn of the White House for Pennsylvania, where Joe Biden was making a campaign stop

Women react as their hair is blown in the draft from a helicopter above them

Fez, Morocco

Workers add colour to leather at the Chouara tannery, which has been operating since the 11th century

People with bundles of leather between circular pools

Dohuk, Iraq

Iraqi Yazidis light candles outside the Temple of Lalish in a valley near the Kurdish city during a ceremony marking the Yazidi new year

People in costumes with a burning candle in the foreground

Congjiang, China

A bolt of lightning crosses the sky over the terraced fields in south-western Guizhou province

Lightning crosses a purple sky above terraced fields

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Motorists drive along a flooded street after the Gulf state’s heaviest rainfall in 75 years. More than 142mm of rain fell in a day, about as much as the city usually experiences in a year and a half

Cars on a flooded street at night

London, UK

The former British Olympic artistic swimmers Asha Randall and Katie Clark perform with Sisy Wang and Emily Kuhl in a large water tank to mark 100 days before the start of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris

Four swimmers upside down in a glass-fronted water tank

New York, US

Donald Trump visits a bodega in Harlem after spending a second day in court

Trump points towards the camera

Scranton, US

Joe Biden speaks on the US tax code during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania

Joe Biden gestures in front of flags

Harar, Ethiopia

Women sing and dance during the Shuwalid festival, which is celebrated by the Harari people and marks the end of six days of fasting to compensate omissions during Ramadan

Women wearing colourful costumes smile

Thockrington, UK

The northern lights (aurora borealis) illuminate the sky just before midnight in Northumberland

A bright purple sky above a church

Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip

Displaced Palestinians receive food rations at a donation point two weeks after an Israeli strike killed seven aid workers

A child looks on as food is served from a large pan

Rafah, Gaza Strip

A woman is comforted at al-Najjar hospital after the death of her relatives during an Israeli bombardment

A crying woman is comforted
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