Today's best photos: From beetle counting to an ex-Wren in a Spitfire

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

Adrain Hirschmueller of the environment organization Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union, or NABU, shows the counting of beetles on a flower through a magnifying glass during a meeting with The Associated Press ahead of the start of the Citizen-Science-Projekts " insect summer" in central Berlin, Germany, Thursday, May 23, 2024. Set from May 31 to June 9 and Aug. 2 to Aug. 11, the environmental group has invited people to spend an hour counting the insects they see in a 10-meter radius (33-foot) radius and report what they see to NABU. (AP Photo / Markus Schreiber)

Palestinians flee areas of Rafah amid renewed Israeli strikes. EPA

French police at the doorway of the Ministry of Agriculture after an activist of the environmental group 'Riposte Alimentaire' (Food Retaliation) threw a bucket of orange paint to protest for food sustainability in Paris. AFP

Policemen carry away a woman from a protest encampment for Palestine, set up by students protesting the war in Gaza on the campus of the Vienna Univesity of Technology. AFP

An Iraqi Yazidi man stands in front of a building destroyed during the 2014 attack by ISIS fighters in the village of Solagh in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq. AFP

Fatima Noor performing in a 'Wall of Death' stunt during an annual carnival at a Sufi shrine in Shah Jiwana, in Pakistan's Punjab province. AFP

Employees working at the construction site of a grain storage project in Yancheng, in eastern China's Jiangsu province. AFP

People queue to cast their votes at a polling station during general elections, in Cape Town, South Africa. AP

Children sit on top of a car in Noumea, France's Pacific territory of New Caledonia. Riots sparked by a constitutional reform project broke out this month. France has lifted a state of emergency across the territory after two weeks. AFP

Eunide Majeur Montis, the wife of mission director Judes Montis, cries after attending his funeral service in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. AP

Buildings cover Gardi Sugdub Island, part of the San Blas archipelago off Panama's Caribbean coast. About 300 Guna Indigenous families are set to relocate to new homes, built by the government, on the mainland. AP

Horse riders perform during the 23rd Hassan II Trophy of Traditional Equestrian Arts (Tbourida) in Rabat, Morocco. EPA

Dorothea Barron, 99, who was a serving Wren at the time of D-Day sits in a Spitfire with pilot Jeremy Britcher at Biggin Hill Airport in Kent, England. AP

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