Day in Photos: Swift Wildfire, Legislators’ Attack, and a Respectful 2-Minute Silence
Inmate firefighters battle the Mountain Fire at Swanhill Farms in Moorpark, Calif., on Nov. 7, 2024. Noah Berger/AP Photo

Day in Photos: Swift Wildfire, Legislators’ Attack, and a Respectful 2-Minute Silence

A look into the world through the lens of photography.
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Dutch mobile police officers stand guard after several scuffles broke out in the city center following the UEFA Europa League, League phase Matchday 4, football match between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel Aviv, in Amsterdam on Nov. 8, 2024. VLN Niews/ANP/AFP via Getty Images
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Greece's Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis (R) shakes hands with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan during a press conference after their meeting in Athens on Nov. 8, 2024. Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images
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Teachers picket outside Beverly High School in Beverly, Mass., on Nov. 8, 2024. David L Ryan/The Boston Globe via AP
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Raleigh police officers, some in tactical gear, work the scene where two people were detained after someone repeatedly fired at cars on a busy highway near North Carolina’s capital this week, injuring one person, on Kentford Court in Raleigh, on Nov. 7, 2024. Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP
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A truck sprays water where a grass fire occurred near a runway at Sydney International Airport on Nov. 8, 2024. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images
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Bolivia's Vice President David Choquehuanca (C) is covered with a black cloth as legislators like-minded to the former Bolivian president Evo Morales throw flowers and water at him during the opening of the first ordinary session of the 2024-2025 legislature in La Paz on Nov. 8, 2024. Jorge Bernal/AFP via Getty Images
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Gurkha soldiers in the 2024 recruit intake check their attire before their Pass Out Parade at the end of their infantry training at Helles Barracks in Catterick, northern England, on Nov. 8, 2024. Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images
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The dried Yovkovtsi dam, near the town of Elena, Central Bulgaria, on Nov. 8, 2024. Nikolay Doychinov/AFP via Getty Images
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Visitors look at cars at the Historical, Vintage, and Classic Cars Exhibition at Marina Crescent in Kuwait City, on Nov. 8, 2024. Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images
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A worker adjusts his glove before removing road signs left by French farmers overnight on the gate of the Deux Sevres' prefecture in Niort, southwestern France, after an action of the representatives JA (Jeunes Agriculteurs) and FDSEA 79 (Federation Departementale des Syndicats d'Exploitants Agricoles) farmers unions to return road signs to the Prefect of Deux Sevres that they previously took down in the department, on Nov. 8, 2024. Philippe Lopez/AFP via Getty Images
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Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activists participate in a rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Nov. 8, 2024. Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo
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A section of the northern tailings dam wall, which collapsed in 2018, of the Cadia Goldmine in Orange, Australia, on Nov. 8, 2024. Brook Mitchell/Getty Images
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A North Korean person (C) walking amongst houses in the countryside outside Kaesong, seen across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) from the Ganghwa Peace Observatory, on the South Korean island of Ganghwa on Nov. 8, 2024. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images
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Migrants walk at the port of Shengjin, next to security forces after they disembark from an Italian Navy ship northwestern Albania, while a second group of eight migrants intercepted in international waters is processed in a reception facility despite the failure with the first group in October, on Nov. 8, 2024. Vlasov Sulaj/AP Photo
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Burning wooden pallets during an indefinite strike called at the request of some employees to protest against the closure of the Vannes (Morbihan) and Cholet (Maine-et-Loire) plants at the French tire giant Michelin plant in Vannes, western France, on Nov. 8, 2024. Jean Francois Monier/AFP via Getty Images
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France's Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau (L) and France's Minister of Justice Didier Migaud hold a joint press conference at the prefecture during a visit to announce measures to step up the fight against drug trafficking, a growing scourge against which the French government is calling for “general mobilization,” in Marseille on Nov. 8, 2024. Clement Mahoudeau/AFP via Getty Images
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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. holds a document beside Senate President Francis Escudero and House Speaker Martin Romualdez during the ceremonial signing of the Philippine Maritime Zones and Philippine Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act, at the Malacanang presidential palace, in Manila, Philippines, on Nov. 8, 2024. Malacanang Presidential Communications Office via AP
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An aerial photo shows flooded houses and rice fields in Buguey town, Cagayan province, after Typhoon Yinxing hit the province, on Nov. 8, 2024. Photo by John Dimain/AFP via Getty Images
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Rescued crew members of a fishing boat wait for transfer to a hospital at a port on Jeju Island, South Korea, Nov. 8, 2024. Park Ji-ho/Yonhap via AP
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A technician from the cultural patrimony department examines damaged negatives at the Natural History Museum of Valencia in Valencia, Spain, on Nov. 8, 2024. David Ramos/Getty Images
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A two-minute silence is observed on Remembrance Day at the Lloyd's of London building in London on Nov. 8, 2024. Carl Court/Getty Images
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A man uses a wheelbarrow to pour muddy water in the aftermath of deadly floods in Catarroja region of Valencia, eastern Spain, on Nov. 8, 2024. Cesar Manso/AFP via Getty Images
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Somaliland police officers comfort a woman who was hurt during an stampede as supporters of the main opposition party Waddani attend a final campaign rally, ahead of the 2024 Somaliland presidential election, in Hargeisa on Nov. 8, 2024. Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images
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A vendor carries a bucket of radish across a railway track engulfed in smog in Lahore, Pakistan, on Nov. 8, 2024. Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images
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People gather outside a school damaged as a result of a Russian strike in Odesa on Nov. 8, 2024. Oleksandr Gimanov/AFP via Getty Images
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Turkish-flagged Moliva container ship, carrying hundreds of tonnes of possibly toxic industrial waste, enters the port of Durres, on Nov. 8, 2024. Adnan Beci/AFP via Getty Images
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A visitor looks at a display at a new exhibition showcasing knitting creations made by retired British Olympic diving champion Tom Daley since taking up the craft in 2020, in the Shibuya district of central Tokyo on Nov. 8, 2024. Richard A. Brooks/AFP via Getty Images
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A visitor checks an airsoft gun at the Military, Outdoor and Airsoft exhibition in Taipei on Nov. 8, 2024. Photo by I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images