Today's best photos: From a star nursery to ex-chancellors in Berlin

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

Space telescope Euclid's new image of star-forming region Messier 78, the central and brightest region, a nursery of star formation enveloped in a shroud of interstellar dust. AFP

A Buddhist monk receives alms from devotees during the Buddhist Visak Bochea festival at Praseth Leu pagoda, north-west of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. AP

A displaced Palestinian woman washes clothes at a tent camp in Rafah, southern Gaza. Reuters

People gather ahead of the inauguration of Chad's President-elect, Gen Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, at the Palace of Arts and Culture in N'Djamena. AFP

Vanessa Low of Australia competes in the Women's Long Jump T63 final, on day seven of the World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe, Japan. Getty images

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te, centre, watches a demonstration of the US-made Stinger air defence system during a visit to inspect troops in Taoyuan. AFP

Mourners pay their respects at the funeral procession of late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, in the eastern city of Birjand. AFP

Former German chancellors Angela Merkel and Gerhard Schroder take part in a ceremony to mark 75 Years of the Basic Law, at a Bundestag and Federal Chancellery forum in Berlin. AP

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