From Biden in Miami to a hot day in Amritsar - today's best photos

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

US President Joe Biden (R) and US First Lady Jill Biden (2R) meet Miami Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava (2L) as he visit a photo wall, the 'Surfside Wall of Hope & Memorial', near the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Florida, July 1, 2021. - President Joe Biden flew to Florida on July 1 to "comfort" families of people killed or still missing in the rubble of a beachfront apartment building, where hopes of finding survivors had all but evaporated. Biden and First Lady Jill Biden left the White House early for the flight to Miami, and then traveled by motorcade to nearby Surfside, where the death toll in the tragedy now stands at 18, and more than 140 still unaccounted for. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)

Madelyn Severight, 4, places a flower before a candlelight vigil at the provincial legislature in Regina, Saskatchewan, after the discovery of the remains of hundreds of children at former indigenous residential schools in Canada.

A ferry passes the Sydney Opera House as heavy fog blankets the city.

A smoke trail from the Soyuz-2. 1b rocket with 36 UK OneWeb satellites after lift-off from the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Uglegorsk, in the far eastern Russian region of Amur.

Firefighters monitor the scene as the Lava fire continues to burn in Weed, California.

A lotus flower in a lake in Ninh Binh, Vietnam.

People on a bus greet soldiers from the Tigray Defence Force as they arrive in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia.

A Palestinian boy sleeps in the ruins of his family house in Gaza City that was destroyed in Israeli air strikes during the most recent Israeli-Palestinian fighting.

Achilles the cat, who lives in St Petersburg's Hermitage Museum, chooses Spain while attempting to predict the result of the Uefa Euro 2020 quarter-final match between Switzerland and Spain at an event in St Petersburg, Russia.

Demonstrators scuffle with police during a protest against Turkey's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, an international accord designed to protect women, in Istanbul, Turkey.

A man takes a photograph of the statue of Diana, Princess of Wales, a day after the artwork was unveiled in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace, London.

A gas cylinder delivery man quenches his thirst during his shift on a hot summer afternoon in Amritsar, India.

Flooded streets along the swollen Rongjiang river after heavy rains in Rongan, in China's southern Guangxi region.

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