Gilbert & George, water lilies and a Ferrari circuit: photos of the day – Monday

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:24:23 GMT

People ride motorbikes past shops selling decorations for the mid-autumn festival in a street in Hanoi, Vietnam. The festival, known as in Vietnam, is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Photograph: Luong Thai Linh/EPA

Portland, US. A protester yells at police and federal officers during a protest near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility, amid threats by Donald Trump to send national guards to the city

Nir Oz kibbutz, Israel. Adel Rubin (left), whose parents were killed during the 7 October 2023 massacre, cries as she visits a house that was left heavily damaged, a day before the second anniversary of the attack

Haikou, China. A rainbow arcs over buildings after Typhoon Matmo in Hainan province

Bureij, Gaza. Displaced Palestinian children search through piles of rubbish for items that could be used as fuel for cooking, next to destroyed buildings at the Bureij camp for refugees in central Gaza Strip

Yangon, Myanmar. Buddhist nuns visit the Shwedagon pagoda to mark the full moon day of the Thadingyut festival

Abu Falah, Gaza. An Israeli settler outpost, north-east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank

Cairo, Egypt. One of the four bronze lion statues at the end of the landmark Qasr El Nil Bridge connecting central Tahrir Square to the island of Zamalek (background). Delegations from Hamas, Israel and the US are due to convene in Egypt for talks

Khan Younis, Gaza. A girl sits outside one of the tents sheltering people displaced by war at the Qatari-built and now-damaged Hamad City residential complex in the southern Gaza Strip

Maranello, Italy. A drone view shows the Ferrari e-Vortex test circuit, a 1.9km track covering 37,000 sq metres, built in less than four months to enhance functional testing of new sports cars. It features banked curves, a 600-metre straight section and specialised surfaces for performance analysis

Srinagar, India. A woman carries a child amid heavy rain in Jammu and Kashmir

Colombo, Sri Lanka. A man collects pink water lilies to sell for religious offerings

London, UK. A photocall for Gilbert & George: 21st Century Pictures exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in the Southbank Centre. The show highlights the artists’ evolution over the past 25 years, exploring how technology has made their reflections of today’s society bigger and bolder

Hanoi, Vietnam. People ride motorbikes past shops selling decorations for the mid-autumn festival. The festival, known as , is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month and falls on 6 October this year

Paris, France. Marion Maréchal-Le Pen answers journalists after the resignation of the French prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu

Nîmes, France. Gisèle Pelicot arrives at a courthouse for the appeal trial of one of the men convicted of raping her. Only one of the 51 men convicted in Avignon during the first trial will ultimately be tried on appeal. The 16 others who had appealed withdrew their appeals

Barcelona, Spain. The former Barcelona mayor Ada Colau is embraced by a friend as she arrives at the airport, after being arrested on the Global Sumud Flotilla and subsequently released by the Israeli authorities