A helicopter crash and a cat in the wild: photos of the day – Friday

Rafah, Gaza
Smoke rises from buildings after Israeli airstrikes
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Gaza
A picture taken from southern Israel shows a rocket being fired from inside Gaza towards Israel, as battles resumed between Israeli forces and Hamas militants
Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images
Khan Younis, Gaza
Relatives of a Palestinian mourn as his body is brought to the Nassr hospital before his funeral
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Dubai, UAE
India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, with the Cop28 president, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, during the climate summit in Dubai
Photograph: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP/Getty Images
Dubai, UAE
Rishi Sunak with Egypt's President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi during a bilateral meeting at the Cop28 UN climate summit
Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
Washington, US
President Joe Biden and the first lady, Jill Biden, attend the national Christmas tree lighting ceremony on the Ellipse at the White House
Photograph: Yuri Gripas/ABACA PRESS/EPA
North Korea
Kim Jong-un and his daughter inspect an air force demonstration to commemorate what the country calls the Day of Airmen in an unidentified city. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event
Photograph: ?????/AP
Madrid, Spain
Emergency workers stand next to a helicopter that crashed on a motorway ring road, hitting a car and leaving three people injuredTwo people were in the helicopter, one was able to exit on foot, while the other was rescued from the wreckage by firefighters
Photograph: Juan Medina/Reuters
Nottingham, UK
The funeral cortege of Indi Gregory arrives at St Barnabus Cathedral. The baby girl died when her life-support treatment was withdrawn after her parents, Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth, lost legal bids for specialists to keep treating her.
Indi had mitochondrial disease, a genetic condition that saps energy
Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA
Chennai, India
Commuters wade across a flooded street after heavy rains
Photograph: R Satish Babu/AFP/Getty Images
London, UK
Gallery assistants hold a work by the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn, The Adoration of the Kings, painted when the artist was 22 years old. The painting is being auctioned by Sotheby's and expected to fetch GBP15m
Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images
Gernsbach, Germany
A lynx cat runs from a transportation box into a snowy Black Forest. Its release into the wild in Baden-Wuerttemberg marks the start of the establishment of a lynx population
Photograph: Uli Deck/AP
Tokyo, Japan
A visitor photographs an installation with a goldfish in a Christmas-themed tank, at the Art Aquarium Museum in Tokyo.
The exhibition features about 5,000 goldfish
Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
Dorchester, UK
Eve Mordue, collections manager at the Dorset Museum, with a work by Elisabeth Frink.
An exhibition dedicated to the sculptor's time in Dorset is showcasing more than 80 sculptures, drawings and prints, including the working plasters that informed final bronze sculptures that have never been on public display before.
Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images
Gateshead, UK
The Angel of the North statue is covered in snow, as a yellow weather warning for snow and ice remains in place for the eastern coast, stretching from Scotland to East Anglia
Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA
Spey, Scotland
Vehicles travel along the A939 as freezing temperatures continue
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images