Taylor Swift, Kim Jong-un and a spiderweb: photos of the day – Tuesday

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

Main image: Kim Jong-un visits Kim Jong-un University of National Defence for its 60th founding anniversary in Pyongyang, North Korea. Photograph: KCNA via KNS/AFP/Getty Images

  • Qingdao, China

    Cargo ships load and unload containers in Pilot Free Trade Zone in Shandong
    Cargo ships load and unload containers in Pilot Free Trade Zone in Shandong

  • London, UK

    People gather outside an Allianz building that has been covered in red paint. Pro-Palestinian activists targeted the financial services company’s offices in protest over its links to the Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems
    People gather outside an Allianz building that has been covered in red paint

  • Merzouga, Morocco

    A view of lakes caused by heavy rainfall between sand dunes in the desert near Rachidia
    An aerial image of lakes and sand dunes

  • London, UK

    A visitor takes pictures at a preview of Hyundai Commission: Mire Lee, on display in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. The exhibition will be open to the public from 9 October until 16 March
    A visitor takes pictures of an exhibit

  • Beirut, Lebanon

    A wounded displaced man sits with his child inside their tent in Ain al-Mreisseh seaside promenade. Intense Israeli attacks may have forced up to a million people to flee parts of Lebanon in possibly the worst displacement crisis in the country’s history
    A wounded displaced man sits with his child inside their tent

  • Kadima-Zoran, Israel

    Israeli soldiers mourn at the funeral of 1st Sgt Noam Israel Abdu, who was killed in the conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas
    Israeli soldiers mourn at a funeral

  • Isle of Palms, US

    A silhouetted couple watch the sunrise over Wild Dunes resort in South Carolina
    A silhouetted couple watch a sunrise

  • Pyongyang, North Korea

    The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, centre, visiting Kim Jong-Un University of National Defence for its 60th founding anniversary
    North Korean leader, Kim Jong-Un, in a crowd of uniformed people

  • Kansas City, US

    Taylor Swift cheers from a suite as the Kansas City Chiefs play the New Orleans Saints during the first half of an NFL football game at GEHA Field at Arrowhead stadium in Missouri
    Taylor Swift cheers from a suite as the Kansas City Chiefs play the New Orleans Saints

  • Kathmandu, Nepal

    A spider spins a web early in the morning in a rice field
    A spider in a web

  • Seoul, South Korea

    Members of the Korean Association of Edible Dogs get their heads shaved during a rally in front of the Presidential Office to protest against the country’s ban on dog meat consumption and to demand better compensation for abandoning their businesses
    Men getting their heads shaved

  • Vadodara, India

    An aerial view shows attenders at United Way of Baroda’s Garba Mahotsav event in Gujarat. The garba dance is part of Gujarat’s cultural heritage, and this event attracts more 100,000 people each year, making it the largest garba ground in the world according to the Limca Book of Records
    An aerial image shows attenders at a garba event in Gujarat

  • Joint Base Andrews, US

    Kamala Harris walks to board Air Force Two as she departs for New York in Maryland
    Kamala Harris in an airfield with helicopter in the background

  • Deir al-Balah, Gaza

    Relatives of people killed in an Israeli attack on a house at Bureij refugee camp mourn during the funeral ceremony
    Relatives of people killed in an Israeli attack mourn

  • Panama Canal, Panama

    The cruise ship Brilliance of the Seas enters the Miraflores Locks
    The cruise ship Brilliance of the Seas enters the Miraflores Locks at the Panama Canal

  • Herronton, Canada

    The aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, light up the sky over an old elevator in Alberta
    The aurora borealis light up the sky over an old elevator in Alberta

  • Donetsk, Ukraine

    A medical team evacuates a severely wounded soldier who stepped on a mine while on the frontline
    A medical team evacuates a severely wounded Ukrainian soldier

  • Doral, US

    The Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump attends a remembrance event at the Trump National Doral Golf Club in Florida
    Donald Trump smiling and pointing
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