King Charles’s birthday and the world’s largest coral: photos of the day – Thursday

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  • Blackpool, UK

    Blackpool Tower surrounded by fog

    An aerial view of Blackpool Tower surrounded by fog
  • Phnom Penh, Cambodia

    Dragon boat crews prepare to race during the Cambodian water festival on the Tonlé Sap lake

    Several boats, each containing approximately 50 people, with each crew wearing matching coloured shirts, wait on the water
  • Lisbon, Portugal

    Digit – the first humancentric, multipurpose robot made for logistics work – at a web summit in Parque das Nações. Leading lights of the tech industry met at the talks, the sector’s first big event since the US election, with Donald Trump’s victory expected to be a key theme of their discussions

    A robot stands and lifts its arm on a stage before a crowd of people
  • Guédiawaye, Senegal

    A drone view shows supporters of Senegal’s prime minister and the head of the ruling Pastef party, Ousmane Sonko, attending a campaign rally for the early legislative election on the outskirts of Dakar

    A drone view showing hundreds of people around a stage
  • London, UK

    A man reads a ‘dying wish’ that has been tied to a tree near the Houses of Parliament by a group of terminally ill people and bereaved relatives in Parliament Square in support of the terminally ill adults (end of life) bill. The vote on the bill is likely to take place on 29 November, the first Commons vote on assisted dying since 2015

    A young man in coat and woolly hat holds and reads a card hanging from a tree while people behind him look at other trees and cards
  • New York, US

    Emmy Wildermuth performs Clair de Lune, choreographed by Jody Sperling, during Paul Taylor Dance Company rehearsals at the David H Koch Theater at Lincoln Center

    A young female dancer smiles as she swirls what looks like a huge cape around her
  • London, UK

    Singers from the Military Wives Choirs mark the 76th birthday of King Charles III with a special performance in the Guards’ chapel at Wellington Barracks in central London

    Eighteen women dressed in black sing in a chapel
  • London, UK

    King Charles III departs the Coronation Food Hub at Deptford Trading Estate. In celebration of His Majesty’s 76th birthday and the first anniversary of the Coronation Food Project, the monarch will open the initiative’s first two Coronation Food Hubs – one in person and one virtually

    King Charles III smiles and waves to photographers
  • Solomon Islands

    A diver swimming over the world’s largest coral, located near the Pacific archipelago

    A diver swims beside a huge coral
  • Jammu, India

    A boy walks through a garbage dump on the outskirts of the city

    A boy carrying a bottle of a drinking water looks over his shoulder as he walks through a garbage dump
  • Beirut, Lebanon

    Smoke rises between buildings hit in an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburb of Dahiyeh

    A huge plume of smoke rises and masonry flies into the air as a building is hit by a bomb
  • Beirut, Lebanon

    Firefighters douse the flames at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern neighbourhood of Haret Hreik

    Two firefighters direct water from a hose into a wreckage
  • Chasiv Yar, Ukraine

    A serviceman of the artillery unit of the 24th Mechanised Brigade at his position in the Donetsk region amid the Russian invasion

    A serviceman climbs down a bank next to a piece of artillery
  • Konga, Indonesia

    Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki spews volcanic material during an eruption, as seen from East Flores, East Nusa Tenggara province

    A volcano erupts at night
  • Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Actor and singer Jennifer Lopez performs during The 1001 Season of Elie Saab. The fashion show celebrated Saab’s 45-year career as a fashion designer, as part of Riyadh Season

    Eight male dancers in top hats and dinner suits dance around Jennifer Lopez, who sings as some of the dancers lift her off the ground
  • Greenwood Lake, US

    Smoke drifts from the Jennings Creek wildfire as the moon rises in New York state. An extended drought has helped fuel the fire on the New York/New Jersey border, which has spread to 2,023 hectares across both states

    Smoke rises from a hill across the water as the moon creates a flare effect on the camera
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