Images of the Day, selected by Picture Editor Brenda Fitzsimons
DOE EYES: English Setter pups, aged five weeks, owned by the Ryan family, of Cork. Just beginning their training, English Setters are still used as hunting dogs. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision
IN BLACK AND WHITE: Starlings make their way amid strong wind among sand dunes at Dollymount Strand, Dublin. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
TAKING A HAMMERING: Large waves crash over the harbour wall in Newhaven, East Sussex, amid strong winds, as the remnants of ex-tropical Storm Zeta pass over England. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
SOCIAL DISTANCING... JUST NOT FOR GULLS: Walking the dogs and feeding the birds, mainly gulls, at Balbriggan beach, Balbriggan, Co Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
STRETCH THE LEGS: Women walk through a passageway towards the beach at Balbriggan, Co Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
HAPPY OUT: Chatting from a (social) distance above the beach at Balbriggan, Co Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
THAI HILL TRIBES: A Karen woman carries a baby in the Baan Tong Luang hill-tribe village, some 30km west of Chiang Mai, Thailand. Created as a tourist attraction showcasing the lives and crafts of hill tribe peoples, including the Lahu, Padong, Palong, Yao, Akha, Kayaw, Mhong and White Karen, the village, which used to be full of visitors, is now almost empty due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Photograph: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty
MONK SURRENDERS: Buddhist monk U Wirathu, a nationalist, arrives outside the Yangon western district police station, in Yangon, Myanmar. Wirathu, who had been on the run since May 2019, surrendered himself to police on Monday. An arrest warrant had been issued for his attempts to excite disaffection with the government, a crime carrying a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Photograph: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
DOWN TO THE WIRE: US president Donald Trump makes a mock reaction to the cold during a re-election rally at Total Sports Park in Washington, Michigan, US. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty
SERENDIPITY: A derailed Dutch metro train sits atop a whale sculpture, entitled Saved by the Whale's Tail, after smashing through a safety barrier at Spijkenisse, near Rotterdam, Netherlands. The driver, who was the only person on board, was unharmed in the incident, in which the train was prevented from plummeting into water 30ft below. Photograph: Robin Utrecht/ANP/AFP/Getty
HOLDING ON: Rescue workers carry Elif Perincek (3) after she was rescued from the rubble of a building some 65 hours after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake, in Izmir, Turkey. Photograph: Istanbul Fire Authority/AP
AFGHAN VIOLENCE: An Afghan soldier on patrol in Arghandab and Maiwind districts, on a road strewn with shell casings, after Taliban fighters intensified attacks in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Violence has been on the rise despite the beginning of fresh peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban in Qatar. Photograph: Muhamman Sadiq/EPA
