From Houbara bustard courtship in UAE to a 52-metre high minaret in Iraq - today's best pictures

Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

A skier follows a track towards Chimmispitz mountain, in St Margrethenberg, Switzerland. EPA

A female houbara bustard looks on while a male performs a courtship dance, in the Al Dhafra desert, in western UAE. AFP

A man stands on the spiral ramp of the 52-metre high Al Malwiya minaret – known as the Snail Shell minaret – at the Al Mutawakkil Mosque, Samarra, Iraq. AP Photo

An Orthodox Christian Tigrayan refugee, who fled the conflict in the Ethiopia's Tigray region, reads prayers with his son in front of a church at the Hamdeyat Transition Center, near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, eastern Sudan. AP Photo

Camels race near the Sudanese village of Al Ikhlas, west of the city of Omdurman. The event is organised by camel-rearing tribal families to celebrate their heritage. AFP

A prisoner receives the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine, during a campaign to inoculate inmates at the Santiago Vazquez prison in Montevideo, Uruguay. Reuters

Dustin, an asylum-seeking migrant from Honduras, holds his son Jerrardo, 6, as they wake at sunrise next to other migrants, in La Joya, Texas, US, after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico on rafts. Reuters

Helen Park Truong, 34, and Sarah Tang, 31, embrace after laying flowers at a makeshift memorial outside the Gold Spa, following the deadly shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, US. Reuters

A worker in a hazmat suit disinfects a street as a preventive measure against the spread of Covid-19, at a village in the Manila metropolitan area, Philippines. Reuters

Crew member Paul Laity poses with a lobster on the 'Harvester II' trawler, off coast of Falmouth, Cornwall, England. Due to export issues since the UK left the EU, the trawler's owners now sell their catch to local markets. Getty Images

A boy peers out of a shattered window in the aftermath of an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan. At least four people were killed and 11 injured in a bomb attack targeting a minibus carrying government employees. EPA

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