Photos of the day

Hurricane damage and herders return: photos of the day – Wednesday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

Florida, US

Smoky, 79, waits for a truck to help him move his mobile home to a safer place as the city prepares for Hurricane Milton in Bonita Beach

Photograph: Cristóbal Herrera/EPA

Tougoude, Chad

A man navigates a pirogue between houses in the south-east of the capital, N’Djamena, which was flooded by the Logone River

Photograph: Joris Bolomey/AFP/Getty

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

A woman sits in the street after escalating violence by gangs spreads from the city to the towns

Photograph: Guerinault Louis/Anadolu/Getty

Florida, US

Debris from Hurricane Helene lines a street in the Redington Beach neighbourhood of St Petersburg, while the area awaits the next hurricane, Milton, to make landfall

Photograph: Bryan R Smith/AFP/Getty

Berkhamsted, UK

Kirsty Shanks, a film conservation specialist at the British Film Institute, looks for film cans in the storage archives before a screening of a century-old restored silent film series about Sherlock Holmes

Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty

Bangkok, Thailand

Dancers perform a dragon dance during the vegetarian festival celebration at Yaowarat, Bangkok’s Chinatown

Photograph: Peerapon Boonyakiat/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock

London, UK

Three Studies for a Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne during a preview for the National Portrait Gallery’s Francis Bacon: Human Presence exhibition

Photograph: Lucy North/PA

Pietà, Malta

People wait for the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh for their tour of Villa Guardamangia. The royal couple are on the third day of a royal tour of Malta to mark the 60th anniversary of the country’s independence and to celebrate its shared heritage and continuing collaboration with the UK

Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA

Durham, UK

An art installation called Space by Luxmuralis is projected on to the interior of Durham Cathedral. This year projections will include original footage of a rocket launch and an image of Earth under a galaxy of stars

Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty

Castelrotto, Italy

Herders drive their cattle to the final destination of the autumn transhumance, where the grazing animals in South Tyrol return to the towns and villages having spent their summers on the alpine meadows in the mountains

Photograph: Simone Padovani/Getty

Massachusetts, US

Farmworkers harvest cranberries at the Weston Cranberry Corporation farm in Carver

Photograph: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty

North Carolina, US

An aerial view of destroyed and damaged buildings in Bat Cave, in the aftermath of flooding caused by Hurricane Helene

Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty

Beira, Mozambique

A voter marks her ballot paper in a booth at a polling station in Munhava as polls open in the national election

Photograph: Zinyange Auntony/AFP/Getty

Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip

A boy mourns his father who was killed, along with others, in an Israeli strike

Photograph: Ramadan Abed/Reuters

Kiryat Yam, Israel

A man inspects a damaged flat in a block hit by a rocket launched from Lebanon, near the northern city of Haifa

Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty

Beirut, Lebanon

A child looks out from a makeshift camp in Martyrs’ Square, where many displaced families spent the night after fleeing the overnight Israeli strikes

Photograph: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters