Rocket festival and a beach protest: the weekend’s best photos

The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world

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Main image: A Surfers Against Sewage protest at West Pier in Brighton, East Sussex. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

  • Perth, Australia

    A pitch invader is tackled to the ground after a demand to end industry on the Burrup peninsula. Toxic emissions from Woodside’s Burrup Hub are destroying climate and culture
    Perth, Australia: a pitch invader is tackled to the ground after a demand to end industry on the Burrup

  • Emilia-Romagna, Italy

    A woman and her dog are rescued in a dinghy after heavy rains caused flooding across Italy’s northern region
    Emilia-Romagna, Italy: A woman and her dog are rescued in a dinghy after heavy rains caused flooding across Italy’s northern region

  • Brussels, Belgium

    More than 150,000 people celebrated the annual Pride parade in the city centre
    More than 150,000 people celebrated the annual Pride parade in Brussels

  • Cannes, France

    Leonardo DiCaprio poses for selfies as he arrives for the screening of the film Killers of the Flower Moon during the Cannes film festival
    Cannes, France: Leonardo DiCaprio poses for selfies as he arrives for the screening of the film Killers of the Flower Moon during the Cannes film festival

  • Seoul, South Korea

    Buddhists carry lanterns at a parade during the Lotus Lantern festival to celebrate the upcoming birthday of Buddha
    Seoul, South Korea: Buddhists carry lanterns in a parade during the Lotus Lantern festival to celebrate the upcoming birthday of Buddha

  • Istanbul, Turkey

    A dolphin swims alongside ships and fishing boats in the Bosphorus
    Istanbul, Turkey: a dolphin swims alongside ships and fishing boats in the Bosphorus

  • Puebla state, Mexico

    Ash and smoke are spewed from the Popocatépetl volcano in San Nicolas de los Ranchos
    Puebla state, Mexico: Ash and smoke are spewed from the Popocatépetl volcano in San Nicolas de los Ranchos

  • Probolinggo , Indonesia

    A man rides two bulls at a traditional bull racing event
    Probolinggo , Indonesia: a man rides two bulls at a traditional bull racing event

  • Yasothon, Thailand

    Spectators watch as a homemade rocket flies into the air in a field during the annual Issan rocket festival
    Yasothon, Thailand: Spectators watch as a homemade rocket flies into the air in a field during the annual Issan rocket festival

  • Barcelona, Spain

    Players throw Barcelona’s coach, Xavi, in the air as the team celebrates winning La Liga
    Barcelona, Spain: Players throw Barcelona’s coach, Xavi, in the air as they celebrate winning La Liga

  • Prayagraj, India

    A monkey tries to quenche its thirst from a water tap on a hot summer day
    Prayagraj, India: a monkey tries to quenche its thirst from a water tap on a hot summer day

  • Tando Allahyar, Pakistan

    Champa Chanbeli, who trains others to make earthen stoves lifted off the floor, comes out from her flood-resistant hut at Sanjar Chang village. Architect Yasmeen Lari is helping to fortify Pakistan’s rural communities, who are living on the frontline of climate change. The few pilot settlements already constructed are credited with saving families from the worst of the catastrophic monsoon flooding that put a third of the country underwater last year
    Tando Allahyar, Pakistan: Champa Chanbeli outside her flood-resistant hut at Sanjar Chang village

  • Rome, Italy

    Spectators sit underneath umbrellas as a rain delay is announced in the men’s tennis singles semi-final match between Stefanos Tsitsipas and Daniil Medvedev during the Italian Open
    Rome, Italy: Spectators sit underneath umbrellas as a rain delay is announced in the men’s singles semi-final match between Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece and Daniil Medvedev during the Italian Open

  • Aranda de Duero, Spain

    The peloton passes through flowery landscape during the Vuelta a Burgos Feminas stage 3
    Aranda de Duero, Spain: the peloton passes through flowery landscape during the Vuelta a Burgos Feminas Stage 3

  • Taipei, Taiwan

    People look at The Sapling a sculpture by Patricia Piccinini during the Supernatural: Sculptural Visions of the Body exhibition, which explores the future of the human body in the Anthropocene era
    Taipei, Taiwan: People look at The Sapling a sculpture by Patricia Piccinini during the Supernatural: Sculptural Visions of the Body exhibition

  • Brighton, UK

    A protester emerges from the sea as Surfers Against Sewage hold a UK-wide paddle-out protest at West Pier
    A protester emerges from the sea as Surfers Against Sewage hold a UK-wide paddle-out protest at Brighton West Pier.

  • Montevideo, Uruguay

    Relatives carry photos with images of disappeared people in the last military dictatorship at the March of Silence
    Montevideo, Uruguay: Relatives carry photos with images of disappeared people in the last military dictatorship at the March of Silence
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