Budget revelations and Spain floods destruction: photos of the day – Wednesday

Picanya, Spain

Damaged vehicles on a flood-hit street. Intense rainfall and flooding in the eastern and southern part of the country resulted in at least 62 lives being lost in the province of Valencia. The State Meteorological Agency has issued red alerts for rainfall in several regions of the province

Photograph: Biel Aliño/EPA

Bali, Indonesia

Young people taking part in the Ngerebeg ritual at the village of Tegallalang in Gianyar. The sacred tradition takes place every six months, and aims to pacify spirits in order to protect the village. During the ritual, the participants paint their bodies in various colors and patterns and join a procession across the village

Photograph: Made Nagi/EPA

London, UK

The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, the Treasury chief secretary, Darren Jones, and the Treasury team prepare to leave 11 Downing Street before delivering the budget in parliament

Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Photograph: Alberto Saiz/AP

Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip

People search the rubble for missing people at the site of an Israeli strike that hit the al-Loh family home the day before

Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Baalbek, Lebanon

People evacuate from the eastern city in the Bekaa valley, after an Israeli army spokesperson warning residents of incoming strikes

Photograph: Nidal Solh/AFP/Getty Images

Hanoi, Vietnam

Customers enjoy drinks at a cafe terrace set up on a sidewalk

Photograph: Nhac Nguyen/AFP/Getty Images

Kyiv, Ukraine

Emergency service workers in a multistorey building damaged by a Russian drone strike on Tuesday. Nine people, including an 11-year-old girl, were injured in the attack, Ukrainian authorities announced

Photograph: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images

Gaborone, Botswana

A voter casts her ballot in the general election as an electoral official and a police officer look on

Photograph: Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP/Getty Images

Valenzuela, Philippines

Uncertified cooking appliances, collected for destruction, at a warehouse in the Manila region city. A batch of 9,874 household appliances worth almost 7.8 million pesos (£103,000) were seized by the government because of quality control violations

Photograph: Rolex dela Peña/EPA

Cairo, Egypt

A camel driver takes tourists for a ride at the Pyramids plateau in Giza

Photograph: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters

Sydney, Australia

Paul Mescal poses with fans at the Australian premiere of Gladiator II at Darling Harbour theatre

Photograph: James Gourley/Getty Images

Hainan, China

The overflowing Wanquan River rises in Qionghai. Most areas of Hainan province experienced heavy rainfall because of Tropical Storm Trami

Photograph: Meng Zhongde/VCG/Getty Images

Wolfsburg, Germany

The Volkswagen factory, which employs about 62,000 people in the city. Profits have been hit at the German carmaker as sales in China slump

Photograph: Axel Schmidt/Reuters

Pont-de-Claix, France

Striking employees of the Vencorex chemicals factory, owned by a subsidiary of Thai company PTT Global Chemical, stage a protest outside the plant. The company went into court-supervised restructuring in September

Photograph: Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP/Getty Images

Kandahar, Afghanistan

Women and children ride in a taxi

Photograph: Sanaullah Seiam/AFP/Getty Images

Pennsylvania, US

Supporters of former the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrive for a campaign rally at the PPL Center in Allentown

Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images

Washington DC, US

The Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris hugs her husband, Doug Emhoff, after making her a speech billed as her ‘closing argument’ of the presidential election campaign

Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images