Best photographs of the day

Monks, models and a McDonald's party: Friday's best photos

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

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Moscow, Russia

Customers in Pushkin Square gather outside the first McDonald’s restaurant to have opened in the Soviet Union, in celebration of its 30th birthday

Photograph: Sergei Bobylev/Tass

Florida Keys, US

Visiting Tibetan monks from the Drepung Gomang monastery in southern India watch a loggerhead sea turtle named Drifter crawl to the Atlantic Ocean in Islamorada. The 77kg female was rescued in November 2019 and rehabilitated at the Turtle hospital in the Keys. The release followed a ceremony performed by the monks, who are ordained students of the Dalai Lama

Photograph: Bob Care/Florida Keys News Bureau/AFP via Getty Images

Jammu, India

A bullet hole on the windscreen of a truck used by suspected militants at the site of a gunfight in Nagrota

Photograph: Mukesh Gupta/Reuters

New South Wales, Australia

Ross Coveney with his son Noah, 5, at Mahon pool in Maroubra. Temperatures will continue to climb on Friday and Saturday due to a low-intensity heatwave transforming into an extreme one, as temperatures reach above 40C (104F) in the south-east and western parts of the state

Photograph: Peter Rae/AAP

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Commuters walk through a street adorned with plastic-laminated election posters. The capital is awash with an estimated 304m posters, which has angered environmentalists

Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty Images

Milan, Italy

A woman views an installation advertising the Netflix series Black Moon

Photograph: Carlo Cozzoli/Rex/Shutterstock

Melbourne, Australia

Great Britain’s Jordanne Whiley and Japan’s Yui Kamiji pose for photographs after winning their wheelchair doubles final against the Netherlands’ Diede de Groot and Anieke van Koot during day 12 of the Australian Open

Photograph: Rob Prezioso/AAP

Atacama, Chile

People remove mud outside their house after heavy rains in the village of El Tránsito

Photograph: Reuters

California, US

Classmates and friends of Alyssa Altobelli launch a lantern in her memory during a vigil at Newport Beach. Alyssa and her parents, John and Keri Altobelli, were among the nine people killed in the helicopter crash that also killed Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, 13

Photograph: Leonard Ortiz/AP

Sakhalin Island, Russia

A woman waits at a bus stop during a snowstorm

Photograph: Sergei Krasnoukhov/Tass

Madrid, Spain

A model presents a creation from Dominnico’s autumn/winter 2020-2021 collection during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Images

Wales, UK

A new dawn breaks over the village of Mumbles near Swansea

Photograph: Phil Rees/Rex/Shutterstock

Beijing, China

A clerk wears a face mask as he waits for customers. The US advised against all travel to China on Friday after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global emergency

Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP