A turtle rescue, mud wrestlers and a Syrian rose garden: photos of the day – Friday

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  • Idlib, Syria

    People at work in a rose garden. Growing roses provides financial opportunities for farmers and displaced people in the rural outskirts of Idlib, Damascus and other cities

    Farmers at work in rose gardens
  • British Columbia, Canada

    Smoke rises from the Kiskatinaw River wildfire, which has prompted evacuation orders

    Smoke rises from the Kiskatinaw River wildfire
  • Los Angeles, US

    Violet Chachki performs at the Betsey Johnson and the Elton John Aids Foundation Pride party at the Hole Gallery

    Violet Chachki performs
  • London, UK

    Swans and their cygnets in Hyde Park in central London

    Swans and their cygnets in Hyde Park
  • London, UK

    Manet’s painting At the Cafe (1878, left) on display with Corner of a Cafe-Concert (1878-80) at the National Gallery. They originally formed part of a larger composition known as Reichshoffen, the name of a Parisian brasserie and cafe-concert

    Manet’s painting At the Cafe on display with Corner of a Cafe-Concert
  • Dallas, US

    Edmonton Oilers superfan Dale Steil wears face paint and lights before game five of the Western Conference finals in the NHL Stanley Cup ice hockey playoffs

    Dale Steil wears face paint and lights
  • Kolhapur, India

    Young mud wrestlers rest as they watch others train at the Shree Shahu Vijayi Gangavesh Talim, a residential gymnasium

    Muddy young mud wrestlers rest
  • Zeebrugge, Belgium

    Four tugs and a pusher boat transport the first of eight tunnel sections for the Scheldt tunnel from the construction dock in Zeebrugge to Antwerp. Each section is 160 metres long and weights 60,000 tonnes

    Four tugs and a pusher boat transport a tunnel section
  • Seoul, South Korea

    People vote at a polling station during the second day of early voting in the presidential election

    People vote at a polling station
  • California, US

    Tourists visit Badwater Basin as an extreme heat warning is issued in Death Valley national park

    Tourists visit Badwater Basin in Death Valley
  • Mexico City, Mexico

    A moth emerges from a cocoon hanging from a clothesline in the gardens of the Natural History Museum

    A moth emerges from a cocoon
  • Giza, Egypt

    A child stands next to sacrificial camels at the camel market ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha

    A child stands next to camels
  • Van, Turkey

    Seagulls hunt pearl mullet during their annual migration from Lake Van

    Seagulls hunt pearl mullet
  • Java, Indonesia

    Rescuers search for victims after the collapse of a natural stone quarry in the Cirebon district

    Rescuers search for victims in a quarry
  • Watamu, Kenya

    A mature loggerhead sea turtle is hoisted into truck for observation after being caught in fishing gear. Since 1998, a rescue centre in Watamu on the Indian Ocean has assessed, tagged and released more than 24,000 turtles

    A mature loggerhead sea turtle is hoisted into truck
  • Multan, Pakistan

    Allah Bakhsh, a 55-year-old farmer living by the Chenab River, tends to his early morning chores at his home

    A farmer with cattle
  • Masada, Israel

    Newly recruited soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces in a 10-hour 40km hike near the Dead Sea

    Soldiers walking in a line up a hill
  • Jabaliya, Gaza

    Palestinians at the site of an overnight Israeli strike on Jabaliya, north of Gaza City

    Palestinians at the site of an Israeli strike
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