Today's best photos: From Eid in Cape Town to a White House dinner

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

Volunteers from Cape Town's NGO Nakhlistan help to prepare more than 180 pots of food for less fortunate families to celebrate the end of Ramadan. Reuters

Gilbert Prousch, right, and George Passmore, otherwise known as Gilbert & George, at a press preview of their latest exhibition 'London Pictures'. Getty Images

Twenty-eight so-called 'Rosie the Riveters,' women who entered the US defence workforce during the Second World War, pose for a group photo ahead of a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony honouring their service in Washington, DC. EPA

Children play with balloons after Eid Al Fitr prayers outside the Jama Masjid mosque, New Delhi, India. AFP

Election officials sort through ballots at a counting station in Seoul. AFP

Security footage of a rogue racehorse at a train station in outer Sydney. Commuters at a suburban Australian railway station were waiting for a late-night train to take them home. Instead, a horse arrived. AFP

People walking at a wholesale steel market in Shenyang, in northeastern China's Liaoning province. AFP

Muslims offer Eid Al Fitr prayers inside the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. AFP

US President Joe Biden speaks, flanked by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, during a state dinner at the White House in Washington, DC. AFP

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