A proud pumpkin and keeping cool in the heat: photos of the day – Tuesday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

Main image: London, England

Pumpkin (2024), a new large-scale sculpture by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, is installed by the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens as part of the Serpentine gallery’s public art presentations. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

  • Columbus, US

    The US first lady, Jill Biden, campaigns on behalf of her husband, Joe Biden, in Georgia. He continues to face calls to drop out of the election race
    Jill Biden speaking at a podium reading: 'Veterans and military families for Biden and Harris', with a US flag backdrop and several people holding 'Biden Harris' posters

  • Paris, France

    A member of parliament for the leftwing party La France Insoumise (LFI), Mathilde Panot, talks to the media outside the National Assembly
    Mathilde Panot talks to a huge crowd of journalists carrying cameras and microphones

  • London, England

    The new prime minister, Keir Starmer, meets Scottish Labour MPs outside 10 Downing Street
    Keir Starmer walks out of No 10 through a crowd of Scottish Labour MPs holding English flags and applauding

  • London, England

    The health secretary, Wes Streeting, and culture, media and sport secretary, Lisa Nandy, arrive at a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street
    Wes Streeting and Lisa Nandy walking side-by-side and smiling, carrying folders under their arms

  • London, England

    (Left to right) Lee Anderson, a Reform UK MP; Nigel Farage, the party’s leader; Richard Tice, party chair, and Rupert Lowe, another MP, arrive at the House of Commons in Westminster
    Lee Anderson, Nigel Farage, Richard Tice and Rupert Lowe walk in front of the House of Commons. Farage is smiling at the camera

  • Surfside Beach, US

    A drone view shows a destroyed house in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl in Texas
    A drone view shows a destroyed pink house with grey corrugated roof on a flooded beach surrounded by other properties in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl in Texas

  • Colombo, Sri Lanka

    Estate workers gather to protest outside the office of Kelani Valley Plantations to assert their demands for fair wages
    Women in saris gathered round a photo on the ground of CEO Anura Weerakoon with a red cross on it, one woman with her foot on the picture of his face

  • Tokyo, Japan

    A pedestrian holds a parasol against the sun as the Japanese government issued a heatstroke alert in Tokyo and other prefectures
    A woman holds a hanky to her mouth and a white parasol against the sun as she walks along a Tokyo street, her image duplicated in a mirrored building

  • Trujillo, Peru

    A drone image shows archaeologists working on a site where they have discovered the remains of what are believed to be wealthy members of the Chimu civilisation, a pre-Inca society from the arid plains nestled between the Pacific ocean and Andes mountains
    A drone image from directly above shows archaeologists working on a desert site

  • Montreux, Switzerland

    Smoke rises towards the stage on Lake Geneva as part of a show by British rock band Deep Purple as they perform their iconic Smoke on the Water gig during the 58th Montreux Jazz Festival
    With a small motorboat in the foreground, and other boats further back, smoke rises towards the stage on Lake Geneva at night, with the city lit up behind

  • Calgary, Canada

    A woman reacts to cold water at a cooling station during a period of hot weather on the midway of the Calgary Stampede in Alberta
    A woman holding a frozen drink gasps with open mouth and scrunched eyes to cold water at a cooling station, with the background obscured by mist. A man stands behind her in the queue and in the background is a Now Mini Donut stand with people in Stetsons mingling in front of it

  • Los Angeles, US

    Nicolas Cage attends the premiere of the horror film Longlegs at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood
    Nicolas Cage stands before a red background, holding up a red card in front of his eyes with two wide-spaced evil-looking kohled eyes on it, as he attends the premiere of horror film Longlegs at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood

  • London, England

    Pumpkin (2024), a new large-scale sculpture by the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, is installed by the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens as part of the Serpentine gallery’s public art presentations.
    A large sculpture of a bronze yellow pumpkin with black spots dominates a green field with spectators and geese looking tiny beside it, by the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens

  • Wimbledon, England

    A fake owl is positioned to keep pigeons away from the grounds on day nine of the Wimbledon championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.
    A fake owl peeks above greenery
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