Photos of the day

Bionic arms and a lizard-baiting parakeet: photos of the day – Friday

The Guardian’s staff select photographs from around the world

Melbourne, Australia

Visitors view the Yayoi Kusama exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria on 13 December.

Photograph: Graham Denholm/Getty Images for NGV

Shahid Bagheri, Iran

A satellite image shows the Shahid Bagheri in a dry dock in the Isoico Shipyard, 14 November 2023.

Photograph: Maxar Technologies/Reuters

Hampshire, England

Christmas lights on display on a house on Byron Road in New Milton, Hampshire. Over the years the display has raised over £85k for various charities, with this year’s benefactors being Oakhaven Hospice.

Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

Malelane, South Africa

David Ravetto of France watches the elephants in Crocodile River, Kruger National Park, flanking the 13th green on day two of the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek Country Club.

Photograph: Warren Little/Getty Images

Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India

Hira Punjabi, from Maharashtra, India, took this stunning photo of a parakeet attacking a tree-climbing lizard, which has won the SINWP Bird Photographer of the Year 2024, in aid of RSPB. She had to wait by the same tree for four days to get the perfect action shot.

Photograph: Hira Punjabi/SINWP/SWNS

Damascus, Syria

An aerial view of Mezzeh Military Prison, which is run by the military intelligence unit of the toppled Bashar al-Assad regime, in Damascus, Syria on 12 December 2024.

Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Bristol, England

Three children receive ‘best Christmas present ever’ bionic arms. Colette Baker, Finley Jarvis and Zoey Pidgeon-Hampton with their new Open Bionics arms.

Photograph: Tom Wren/SWNS

Ukraine

View of the turbine hall of a thermal power plant damaged during a missile attack at an undisclosed location, 5 December 2024.

Photograph: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images

Nanjing, China

The 11th national memorial ceremony for the Nanjing massacre victims is held at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing.

Photograph: Ji Chunpeng/Xinhua News Agency/eyevine

Damascus, Syria

A view of handcuffs used for inmates in Mezzeh Military Prison which is run by the military intelligence unit of the toppled Bashar al-Assad regime, in Damascus, Syria on 12 December 2024.

Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Kyiv, Ukraine

The portrait of the fallen Ukrainian soldier sprinkled with snow has been installed at a makeshift memorial for the fallen Ukrainian soldiers at Independence Square in Kyiv.

Photograph: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images

Accra, Ghana

Aerial view shows a boat arriving on the polluted shore of the James Town Fishing Harbour on 12 December 2024.

Photograph: Olympia de Maismont/AFP/Getty Images

Inner Mongolia, China

A herdsman tames horses on snow-covered grassland in East Ujimqin Banner of Xilin Gol League, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock