A kite festival and horses bolt in London: photos of the day – Wednesday

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

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Main image: The 37th international kite festival in Berck-sur-Mer, France.

  • London, UK

    Military horses bolt along in the city centre after breaking loose during a morning exercise. An army spokesperson said: ‘A number of personnel and horses have been injured and are receiving the appropriate medical attention’
    Riderless horses gallop past traffic lights near Aldwych in central London without riders

  • Athens, Greece

    Saharan dust turns the air orange
    A young person sits against a bike as a man takes a photograph from Tourkovounia hill. Saharan dust has turned the sky and earth orange

  • Yerevan, Armenia

    People take part in a parade on the eve of 109th anniversary of Armenian genocide
    Hundreds of people take part in an annual torch parade in Yerevan, Armenia, on the eve of Genocide Remembrance Day

  • Nairobi, Kenya

    Isaac Mburu Wanyoike, left, a gang member turned pro-fencer, trains teenagers in the sport as part of an effort to keep them away from crime and drug use
    Professional fencer Isaac Mburu Wanyoike, left, jumps backwards while training teenage members of the Tsavora fencing club on a rooftop in Mathare, Nairobi

  • Texas, US

    A young man holds his one-year-old son as they sit along the bank of the Rio Grande while searching for an entry point into El Paso
    A man back-hugs his young son under a pink moon in Texas

  • Bengaluru, India

    An artist takes part in an election event for the Bharatiya Janata party
    A Bharatiya Janata party supporter is wearing a pointy green hat with white flowers while holding a flag bearing an image of the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, in Bengaluru

  • Berck-sur-Mer, France

    A woman watches people flying kites at the beach, during the 37th international kite festival
    Large inflatable superheroes depicting Spider-Man and Captain America line the back of a beach while people watch kite-flying in Berck-sur-Mer, France A woman watches people flying kites at the beach, during the 37th International Kite Festival

  • Ankara, Turkey

    The sun sets over Tuz Lake, a Unesco-protected area known for its water naturally turning pink because of algae in the summer and for its massive flamingo colony
    Silhouette of a man standing in Tuz Lake as the sun sets in Ankara, Turkey

  • Edinburgh, UK

    A display of Alison Harm’s work at the Vengefully Changed Allegiance exhibition at the Scottish Storytelling Centre
    A model poses in one of the artist's designs, others of which appear in five photographs and on four mannequins at exhibition in Edinburgh that explores the role of tartan in Scottish traditional dance

  • Hanover, Germany

    A visitor plays paper, scissors, stone with an SVH servo-electric 5 finger gripping hand at a technology fair
    A visitor plays paper, scissors, stone with a robot – with both making scissor signs – at a tech fair in Hanover, Germany

  • Beverly Hills, US

    Travis Scott performs at the launch of an electric Mercedes-Benz at Franklin Canyon Park in California
    Red strobe lights and dry ice surround the rapper Travis Scott as he performs on top of an electric G-Class Mercedes in Los Angeles at the vehicle's launch

  • Buenos Aires, Argentina

    People take part in a demonstration against budget cuts to public universities. Hundreds of thousands marched through the capital in the biggest protest yet against President Javier Milei’s austerity measures
    A man wears an open book on top of his head as he joins anti-government protests in Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • Qingyuan, China

    People retrieve items from flood waters. More than 100,000 people have been evacuated because of torrential rainfall and floods in southern China
    Chairs are submerged as workers collect items after torrential rains flooded the area in Shatang village in Qingyuan, China

  • Berlin, Germany

    The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is joined by the British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, at the Chancellery
    A red carpet bisects an area outside the the Chancellery in Berlin while Rishi Sunak and Olaf Scholz listen to their respective national anthems being played as part of a guard of honour in Berlin, Germany

  • Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Plastic pollution in the city is so severe that it is sinking into the riverbed and can be found more than two metres (7ft) underground
    A man holds a red parasol as he inspects a huge pile of waste including plastic covering the banks of the River Buriganga in Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • New York, US

    Police arrest hundreds of Jewish antiwar demonstrators during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and urging the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel
    Police officers arrest protestors near the home of Schumer in the Brooklyn, New York, during a demonstration by pro-Palestinian Jewish groups

  • Rafah, Gaza Strip

    A doctor tends to a newborn baby whose mother was gravely wounded in the head and abdomen in an Israeli airstrike
    A newborn baby lies on piece of cloth as medics at the emergency unit of the Kuwait hospital in Rafah, Gaza, try to treat the child
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