From fashion in an amphitheatre to a surfboarding dog - these are today's best pictures

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

Firefighters pose for a selfie as they rest next to members of the National Guard, during a wildfire at the Sierra de Santiago, on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico. Reuters

A woman dressed in traditional Syrian-Kurdish clothing poses for a picture in the Mazqaft water reservoir on the outskirts of the town of Qahtaniyah in Syria's north-east Hasakah province, during Nowruz, the Persian New Year. AFP

Models participate in the Code 41 Andalusian Fashion Week at the Amphitheatre of Italica in Seville, southern Spain. AFP

Palestinian labourers at a scrap metal yard in Gaza City. AFP

Hikers look at the lava flowing from the erupting Fagradalsfjall volcano, about 40 kilometres west of the Icelandic capital Reykjavik. AFP

People watch cherry blossoms in Nanjing in China's eastern Jiangsu province. AFP

Smoke from burning lorries and freight vehicles billows into the sky in the aftermath of air strikes at a depot near the Bab Al Hawa border crossing between Syria and Turkey in Syria's rebel-held northwest Idlib province. AFP

A man jumps over contaminated water as it flows into the ocean along Hann Bay in the village of Petit Mbao, in Senegal. AFP

A surfer and his dog off San Lorenzo beach in Gijon, northern Spain. EPA

Dave Cooke observes the Milky Way over a frozen fish sanctuary in central Ontario, in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario. AP Photo

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