Freezing temperatures and a lemon festival: photos of the day – Wednesday

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  • Menton, France

    Visitors look at a sculpture made with oranges and lemons, at the 91st lemon festival. This year’s theme is journey to the stars

    Visitors walk around a huge sculpture of a person made with oranges and lemons
  • Edmonton, Canada

    Icicles form over a car as extreme cold grips the region, with temperatures dropping to -29C

    Icicles form over a car that is covered in thick snow
  • Banjul, Gambia

    Zimba performers dance during the celebrations of Gambia’s 60th independence day

    A small crowd of dancers wear vibrant, fluffy outfits and face paints
  • Nevsehir, Turkey

    Tourists take part in a jeep safari after weather conditions prevented their hot air balloon flights from taking off

    Different coloured jeeps line up on the sand
  • Damascus, Syria

    A man sits in a locomotive at Kadem station, an important stop on the historic Hejaz railway that was previously vandalised by forces from the ousted Ba’ath regime

    A man sits on disused train carriage
  • Malibu, US

    Environmental contractors remove hazardous waste from beachfront properties destroyed in the Palisades fire in Los Angeles

    Workers in protective clothing bag up hazardous waste among the rubble of burned out houses
  • Mandaluyong, Philippines

    An emergency response worker conducts fogging in community alleyways that are potential mosquito breeding areas

    The worker wears goggles and a mask as they walk down an alleyway
  • Jerusalem

    Pictures of the Bibas family are displayed at a protest camp of hostages’ families near Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence

    Three posters are taped to chairs. Two show young children and one shows a mother holding a child. The posters have the words 'bring her home now' and 'bring him home now' at the bottom
  • Jabaliya, Gaza Strip

    A family hangs laundry on the ruins of their house, destroyed by the Israeli military’s offensive

    Laundry is strung up on lines between parts of a destroyed house. A woman is holding a washing basket full of washing and children are climbing on the rubble behind her
  • Bangkok, Thailand

    A worker walks across scaffolding on a building construction site

    A man walks through construction poles shaped into a grid high off the ground
  • Wehrheim, Germany

    A pair of storks watch the sun rise after braving a cold night in a field near Frankfurt

    Storks sit together on a pile of sticks
  • Beijing, China

    Women in Qing dynasty costumes ride in an electric tricycle outside the Forbidden City

    Three women wearing ornate clothes sit in the back of an electric tricycle
  • Taipei, Taiwan

    Visitors take pictures among the flowers at the 2025 Shilin residence tulip festival

    Visitors take photos on their phones of yellow, red and pink tulips
  • Adelaide Island, Antarctica

    The 9th national Antarctic science expedition team on their voyage from King George Island through Le Maire Channel, Penola Strait and Grandidier Channel to Dismal Island

    Eight people wearing orange vests stand behind one person wearing a yellow uniform as they look over the bow of a boat
  • Los Angeles, US

    Rihanna and the rapper A$AP Rocky outside the Clara Shortridge Foltz criminal justice centre, after A$AP Rocky was found not guilty in a gun assault trial

    A crowd of people surround the smiling pair and take photos of them
  • Chester, England

    Poppy Fields by Luxmuralis is projected on to the walls inside Chester Cathedral. The artwork, by Peter Walker, reflects on the end of the first and second world wars

    The red artwork adorns the walls inside the cathedral
  • Tokyo, Japan

    Elderly residents try on makeup at a special class in their housing complex that teaches people to stay healthy and beautiful

    A group of elderly people sit together around a table. There are small mirrors on the table in front of them and they are comparing lipsticks
  • Berlin, Germany

    Vapour rises from chimneys on the Berlin skyline at sunrise

    Vapour rises from chimneys into a orange-hued sky
  • Darlington, England

    Allan Taylor, technical director of The Viking Boat Co, puts the finishing touches to a replica 30ft Viking longboat at a workshop in north-east England

    Allan Taylor works on the wooden boat in a workshop
  • Barranquilla, Colombia

    Employees of the mayor’s office put a skirt on the statue of Shakira that stands as a tribute to the singer in her hometown

    A crowd watches workers add the colourful skirt to the tall golden statue
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