Taylor Swift and a bathing bear: the weekend’s best photos

The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world

Main image: A bear sits in a whirlpool bath in Burbank, California. Photograph: AP

Sun 30 Jul 2023 08.42 EDT Last modified on Tue 10 Oct 2023 08.54 EDT

  • London, UK

    Fans at a Wizkid concert at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

  • Baltimore, US

    Young fans scramble for an autograph from the Baltimore Orioles shortstop Gunnar Henderson before a match against the New York Yankees

  • Ikizkoy, Turkey

    Protesters resist Turkish police during demonstrations in the Milas district of Muğla province over deforestation in the Akbelen area

  • Folkestone, UK

    People dressed in red take part in a mass dance event to Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights as part of the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever

  • Herat, Afghanistan

    Members of the Taliban look on after setting fire to a pile of musical instruments and equipment

  • Erie, US

    The Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania

  • Fuqing, China

    Paramilitary police officers evacuate residents stranded by flood waters after Typhoon Doksuri made landfall in Fujian province

  • Hexham, UK

    A salmon leaps at a weir on the River Tyne in Northumberland

  • Santa Clara, US

    Taylor Swift performs during her Eras Tour at the Levi’s Stadium in California

  • Moscow, Russia

    Members of the emergency services gather outside a damaged office building after a drone attack that Russian officials blamed on Ukraine

  • Albi, France

    Athletes compete in the men’s 3,000-metre steeplechase final at the 2023 French athletics championships

  • Burbank, US

    A bear sits in a whirlpool bath in the Californian city. Burbank police said officers responded to a sighting of a bear in the area and found it enjoying a short dip. The bear later climbed over a wall and headed to a tree behind the property, police said in a statement

  • Balagtas, Philippines

    People in Bulacan province wade through flood waters caused by monsoon rains and Typhoon Doksuri in Balagtas, Philippines

  • South-west England, UK

    Ukrainian artillery recruits take part in a live-fire training exercise with AS90 155mm self-propelled howitzers

  • Sydney, Australia

    A Colombia supporter before the Women’s World Cup Group H football match between Germany and Colombia at Sydney Football Stadium

  • Dhaka, Bangladesh

    A man tries to extinguish the flames on a bus blocking a highway during protests calling for the resignation of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina

  • Kyiv, Ukraine

    Ukrainians hold a vigil in front of the closed Russian embassy. The memorial on Saturday marked one year since the Russian attack on the Olenivka prison in which dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed

  • Chennai, India

    A devotee pierces his body with metal skewers during a religious procession to celebrate the Aadi festival

  • Sorowako, Indonesia

    Hot slag flows from container trucks at a nickel processing compound in South Sulawesi province
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