Best photographs of the day

A Beatle mural and a triceratops: Monday’s best photos

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

by · the Guardian

Irpin, Ukraine

A member of the Ukrainian armed forces helps to evacuate a child from the town via the only escape route used by locals after days of heavy shelling

Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters

Irpin, Ukraine

Civilians flee from the town as Russian attacks continue

Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Washington DC, US

Joe Biden and the first lady, Dr Jill Biden, look out from Marine One as it lands on the south lawn of the White House. The first family spent the weekend in Delaware

Photograph: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

Selma, US

The vice-president, Kamala Harris (centre), marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 57th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Alabama

Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/AFP/Getty Images

Coraki, Australia

A tractor is parked on a small paddock surrounded by floodwater in New South Wales following unprecedented storms and the worst flooding in a decade

Photograph: Dan Peled/Getty Images

Uljin, South Korea

A wildfire rages in North Gyeongsang province where firefighters are trying to prevent it reaching the nearby Geumgang pine tree trail, which includes a colony of pine trees more than 200 years old

Photograph: Korea Forest Service/EPA

Weliweriya, Sri Lanka

A man places a sheet on the body of the elephant Nadugamuwa Raja, who carried a golden casket of relics at an annual Buddhist pageant. The death has initiated calls for a state funeral

Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

People take part in the first post-pandemic national parade of the Dominican carnival

Photograph: Orlando Barría/EPA

Melbourne, Australia

Horridus, the world’s most complete triceratops fossil, is displayed at Melbourne Museum for the exhibition Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs

Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Basel, Switzerland

Members of carnival marching bands take part in the Morgestraich parade

Photograph: Georgios Kefalas/EPA

Liverpool, England

A mural of Ringo Starr by Liverpool artist John Culshaw is unveiled on the gable end of the Empress Pub on Admiral Street in Toxteth, near the childhood home of the former Beatle

Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Zhangjiakou, China

The US’s Mike Schultz (blue), China’s Wu Zhongwei (green), and the Netherlands’ Chris Vos (yellow) jump in the final of the men’s snowboard cross SB-LL1 at the Genting Snow Park during the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games

Photograph: Thomas Lovelock/OIS/IOC/AFP/Getty Images

Jokulsarlon, Iceland

The northern lights and the Milky Way appear over the glacial lagoon on the border of Vatnajökull national park in south-east Iceland

Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

Pomaz, Hungary

Starlings fight to claim territory for mating and raising their brood

Photograph: Attila Kovács/EPA