The Guardian's picture editors have selected photographs from around the world, capturing moments from Brazil's presidential election to a duckweed-covered river in Belgium.
Election reactions and political events
Supporters of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil reacted after the first results of the presidential election were announced. The election is a tight race between Lula – the current president – and Flavio Bolsonaro.
In Madrid, Spain, a woman watched a television screen showing the prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, calling an early election for 29 November.
Environmental and daily life scenes
A sightseeing boat travelled along a duckweed-covered section of the River Lys in front of the Gravensteen castle in Ghent, Belgium. Prolonged hot weather during one of Europe’s driest summers on record has caused greater duckweed growth on the river.
In Bangkok, Thailand, rubbish piled up on the side of the road at Bangkapi market after floodwater receded. Heavy flooding across the city was triggered by persistent heavy rain, affecting about 329,000 households and 700,000 people and leaving four people dead, according to the department of disaster prevention and mitigation.
Cultural and social moments
Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring was hung in the Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands, after spending five weeks in Osaka, Japan, where it was part of an exhibition of works from the Mauritshuis.
In Paris, France, high school students staged a protest against education conditions. Up to 500 schools were partially or completely closed on Monday after recent clashes between riot police and protesters. Students from the Regina Margherita and Giulio high schools in Turin, Italy, occupied their school buildings, inspired by the protests in France.
Other notable images
In Seoul, South Korea, foreign residents in traditional robes took an examination during a re-enactment of Gwageo, the traditional state examination, at the Confucian culture festival.
A farmer harvested cockscomb flowers in a field in Srinagar, Kashmir. The vibrant flower is an ornamental garden plant as well as a prized culinary ingredient in Kashmiri kitchens.
New officers celebrated after being presented at a ceremony marking the 166th anniversary of the founding of the Milan Local Police Force in Milan, Italy.
The shadow environment secretary, Victoria Atkins, spoke in the fanzone on day two of the Conservative party conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, UK.
Models walked the runway at the Sacai fashion show at Le Collège des Bernardins in Paris, France.
People picked up by a UK Border Force vessel in the Channel disembarked at Dover Port in Kent, UK. Calm and favourable weather conditions in the Channel are prompting an uptick in small boat crossings.
People fished off the harbour wall at sunrise in Hastings, UK.
The peloton climbed up a hill during the 107th Coppa Bernocchi, a 178.1km one-day race in Legnano, Italy.
People took cooking gas cylinders to be refilled amid supply shortages in Taiz, Yemen.
Benjamin Netanyahu spoke during the state memorial ceremony for the third anniversary of the October 7 attack at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Israel.
An Iraqi police patrol transported detainees to the Karkh court during the trial of six French citizens accused of terrorism, as the country assumes responsibility for prosecuting thousands of suspected Islamic State group members. Their identities are unclear, but they are part of a group of 47 French citizens transferred from Syria last year.
A member of the Israeli forces stood guard during the demolition of a Palestinian building in Hebron, West Bank, in the Israel-occupied territory.
A monument of the Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin stood in front of a damaged business centre hit by what authorities in the Russia-controlled city described as a Ukrainian overnight drone strike in Donetsk, Ukraine.
