Speed skaters and protesters dressed as monkeys: photos of the day – Thursday

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  • Touba, Senegal

    People gather to perform prayers and pay their respects to Sheikh Amadou Bamba, the founder of the Sufist Mouride order

    People pray next to the Great Mosque in Touba
  • North Sea, UK

    Butchered, a new work by the artist Anish Kapoor, is installed on a Shell platform to protest against the company’s planet-warming gas emissions

    A large piece of fabric with what looks like blood on it is unfurled from a tall oil rig in the middle of the sea
  • Bangkok, Thailand

    People interact with an animatronic brachiosaurus at an immersive experience inspired by the film Jurassic World

    A woman and small child stand next to the giant neck and head of an animatronic Brachiosaurus
  • Wirral, UK

    Students at Birkenhead sixth-form college celebrate their A-level results as a record proportion of students in England gained top grades

    A teenage girl holds up flowers and looks delighted while stood next to two friends outside their college
  • Panama City, Panama

    A white-faced capuchin rescued from animal traffickers is kept at a wildlife veterinary hospital in preparation for his release back into the wild

    A white-faced capuchin monkey in a cage
  • Bogotá, Colombia

    The family of the presidential candidate Miguel Uribe, who was fatally shot while campaigning, attend his funeral

    Devastated family stood next to a coffin in a cemetery
  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    A visitor tries on a virtual-reality headset during Rio Innovation Week

    A man stands with what looks like an old-fashioned deep sea diving helmet on his head
  • Tokyo, Japan

    Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) protest against the alleged use of monkeys in the Thai coconut industry, outside Thailand’s embassy

    People dressed in stripy black and white pajamas and fake monkey ears hold up signs shaped like coconuts
  • Edinburgh, Scotland

    The singer, actor and cabaret act Miss Frisky explores the Camera Obscura and World of Illusions tourist attraction

    Person with orange curls has their image replicated 12 times inside a kaleidoscopic funhouse mirror
  • Gaza Strip

    A girl runs toward a water distribution centre as temperatures reach 36C (97F) in Deir al-Balah

    A Palestinian girl carries an empty basin as she runs
  • London, UK

    Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, drinks tea in the garden of 10 Downing Street

    Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, drinks tea from a mug with an image of 10 Downing Street’s front door on it
  • Delvinë, Albania

    A horse suffering from severe burns, caused by wildfires that have raged across the Balkans

    A brown horse in the middle of a road with raw burns on its body
  • Amritsar, India

    A child dressed as the Hindu deity Krishna celebrates the Janmashtami festival

    A wearing a red, yellow and white hat and colourful face paints, including the Indian flag colours painted on their cheeks
  • Patras, Greece

    Firefighters battle a wildfire as villages near the western Greek city are ordered to evacuate

    Bright flames emanating from a bush turn the air orange as firefighters try to extinguish the fire
  • Gaza City

    The music instructor Mohammed Abu Mahadi of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music conducts a lesson for his student Youssef Jibril

    A man with a classical guitar teaches a teenager how to play
  • Srinagar, India

    People fish in a polluted canal in Kashmir valley

    People fish in a polluted water canal
  • Chengdu, China

    Fran Vanhoutte crosses the finish line of the women’s 500m +D speed skating finals at the World Games 2025

    Two skaters stretch out their legs to try to cross the finish line first, with Fran Vanhoutte just beating her rival
  • Khar, Pakistan

    Internally displaced people, who fled their homes after security forces launched a targeted operation, take refuge at a camp in the Bajaur district

    A family of adults and young children in bright clothes stand next to two large white canvass tents
  • Khan Younis, Gaza

    People queue for water as aid organisations work to help people amid a worsening sanitation crisis in the territory

    People queue up with jerry cans next to large black plastic  water tanks
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