Beach foam and a frozen waterfall: Wednesday’s best photos
The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world
London, UKA person carries presents into No 10 Downing Street
Photograph: Hannah McKay/ReutersKathmandu, NepalWorkers sweep the steps of the Pashupatinath temple, which has reopened after being shut since March
Photograph: Prabin Ranabhat/SOPA Images/Rex/ShutterstockGold Coast, AustraliaPeople walk through foam on Currumbin Beach left after wild weather lashed parts of New South Wales and Queensland
Photograph: Patrick Hamilton/AFP/Getty Images
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Yangshuo, ChinaBamboo rafting along the Yulong River
Photograph: Sipa Asia/Rex/ShutterstockPrague, Czech RepublicKawi, a newly born baby of critically endangered Sumatran orangutan, holds on to his mother Mawar at their enclosure at the zoo
Photograph: Petr David Josek/APNantes, FranceProtesters attend a torchlit procession to ask for the reopening of the cultural sector
Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images
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Rio de Janeiro, BrazilA worker digs graves at the St Francisco Xavier cemetery
Photograph: Ellan Lustosa/ZUMA Wire/REX/ShutterstockCortés, HondurasA victim of tropical storms carries a mattress along a street covered in mud during a visit of Queen Letizia of Spain (not shown) in the community of Flores de Oriente, La Lima municipality. Queen Letizia is in the country on an official two-day visit to learn about the effects left by tropical storms Eta and Iota and deliver the first part of a 120-tonne donation
Photograph: Wendell Escoto/AFP/Getty Images
Chișinău,
MoldovaRiot police clash with farmers during a protest calling for measures to help tackle the effects of a drought
Photograph: Dumitru Doru/EPA
London, UKAn environmental activist campaigning against a third runway at Heathrow airport is detained by police after throwing paint against the walls of the supreme court
Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty ImagesChertsey, UKMichael Whyman receives the Covid-19 vaccine from a paramedic at one of four vaccination centres opening in Surrey this week
Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty ImagesBrasilia, BrazilA Santa Claus waves to children from inside a bubble, a protective measure against the spread of COVID-19, at a shopping centre
Photograph: Eraldo Peres/AP
Istanbul, TurkeyA child walks barefoot across a wall at Eminonu Square
Photograph: Bülent Kılıç/AFP/Getty ImagesBogotá, ColombiaVenezuelan migrant boys look at a man dressed as Santa Claus
Photograph: Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images
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