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Photos of the day

The Guardian’s picture editors select some of the most powerful photos from around the world

  • prince and princess of wales and family watch a fly-past at buckingham palace

    VE Day celebrations and a duck in St Peter’s Square: photos of the day – Monday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Pilgrims dressed in Knights Templar attire parade in St Peter’s Square

    Kim Jong-un’s tank and Knights Templar: photos of the weekend

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A smiling man balances his smiling female partner across his knee as they both point their fingers upward

    Dancing, prayers and protests: Friday’s photos of the day

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Silhouettes of people dancing and waving fabric

    Workers, dancers and pagans: Thursday’s photos of the day

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world including International Workers’ Day protests
  • An astronaut in a flight suit is carried on a stretcher by people in red uniforms

    Spring weather and Trump protests: Wednesday’s photos of the day

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Distressed-looking children with cooking pots

    Hungry children, Carney triumphant and a roofless house: photos of the day – Tuesday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Two flowers tied together and placed against one face in a row of portrait photographs on the ground

    Flowers, floods and wildfires: photos of the day – Monday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A Dalek is parked on South Bay Beach, Scarborough, marking day two of the seaside town’s 11th annual sci-fi weekend

    A sunbathing Dalek and farewells to Pope Francis: photos of the weekend

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Rescuers and civilians work to pull victims from the rubble of a missile strike on a residential building in Kyiv

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • Two black grouse fight in freshly fallen snow

    Black grouse courtship and first pick of the NFL draft: photos of the day – Friday

  • Tulip farm

    Holocaust Remembrance Day and Wicked tulips: photos of the day – Thursday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Brazil's indigenous chief Ninawa Huni Kui participating in the ChangeNOW 2025 Summit in Paris, France.

    Prayers, Jane Fonda and a volcanic eruption: photos of the day – Wednesday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Overhead view of people gathered in an area between a doorway and a statue, and hemmed in by steps on each side

    Pope Francis mourners and a boy’s pigeon: photos of the day – Tuesday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A student in hazmat suit moves around a taxidermied giraffe at a ‘crime scene’ set up in the warehouse of the Wildlife Forensic Academy in a game and nature reserve near Cape Town

    Emperor penguins and a fake crime scene: photos of the day – Monday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Two dogs in race jackets run beside each other across a grassy field

    A unicorn, a robot runner and Easter celebrations: photos of the weekend

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A woman cries as she visits a makeshift memorial of flowers at the site of a missile attack in Sumy

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • A man holds on to a railing as he faces waves breaking in a rough sea

    Breaking waves and holy processions: photos of the day – Friday

  • Council workers clear snow from a road in Canton Valais.

    Laughing royals, penitents and snowstorms: photos of the day – Thursday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Penitents line a street carrying candles and crucifixes

    A sultan’s banquet, Holy Week and Welsh gold: photos of the day – Wednesday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Federal agents tackling a man to the ground, as a fallen bystander lies in pain

    Taxi drivers, a tackle and a cowboy: photos of the day – Tuesday

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