Firewalking, fashion week and a supermoon: photos of the day – Wednesday

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

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Main image: A surfer lit by a super moon as he sits on his board at Manly Beach, Sydney, Australia

  • Mumbai, India

    Commuters watch as an idol of the Hindu deity Ganesha floats in the Arabian sea, after the culmination of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival
    People watch as an idol of Hindu deity Ganesha floats by

  • Tefé, Brazil

    A man is seen on a boat in front of the sandbanks at the Solimões River, one of the largest tributaries of the Amazon, during a Greenpeace flyover to inspect what Brazil’s national centre for monitoring and early warning of natural disasters (Cemaden) says is the most intense and widespread drought Brazil has experienced since records began in 1950
    A man on a boat in front of the sandbanks

  • Hanoi, Vietnam

    Piles of plastic waste at a recycling site next to a residential area on the outskirts of the city
    Piles of plastic waste

  • Bursa, Turkey

    An aerial view of lambs
    An aerial view of lambs

  • Islamabad, Pakistan

    Sunni Muslims in a decorated vehicle as they take part in a rally to celebrate Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of Prophet Muhammad
    A decorated car

  • Milan, Italy

    A model walks the runway during the Antonio Marras collection show at Milan fashion week
    A model wearing an enormous hat that appear to be made of straw

  • Oregon, US

    A North American river otter surfaces while hunting crayfish in the Umpqua River. The otters are considered an indicator species and their presence is a sign of improving watershed conditions
    An otter surfaces

  • Jinhua, China

    A person walking over burning charcoal to perform a traditional firewalking ritual called Lianhuo
    A person walks over charcoal surrounded by flames and sparks

  • Pulwama, India

    Security personnel stand guard as voters queue to cast their ballots at a polling station in the first phase of assembly elections, as Indian-administered Kashmir began voting in the first local elections since the cancellation of its special semi-autonomous status sparked fury in the troubled Himalayan territory, which is also claimed by Pakistan
    Voters queue up to cast their ballots

  • Sződliget, Hungary

    People make a sandbag dam to protect their stables from the flooding Danube River
    People make a sandbag dam

  • Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

    People watch the full moon rise ahead of the lunar eclipse at the Samalayuca Dunes
    People watch the full moon rise above hills

  • Águeda, Portugal

    People leave their houses as a wildfire approaches
    People wearing masks walk along a road with a red sky in the background

  • Verfeil, France

    Opponents of the A69 motorway protest on the roof of a house they have occupied, during a police operation to clear the site
    police officers look on as people sit on the roof of a house that is covered in grafitti

  • Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine

    Emergency services try to extinguish a forest fire after a Russian bomb explosion near one of the city’s settlements
    A firefighter directs water from a hose amid a smokey landscape

  • Naypyidaw, Myanmar

    Boys try to clean up the debris from flooding at their home
    Boys stand in muddy water underneath a home on stilts

  • Sydney, Australia

    A surfer lit by a supermoon as he sits on his board at Manly Beach
    A surfer in moonlight on the water at night
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