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 The baby girl died when her life-support treatment was withdrawn after her parents, Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth, lost legal bids for specialists to keep treating her.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