Today's best photos: from a relaxing frog to Brazilian football fans

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

People take photographs of an illuminated lantern at the Lightopia Christmas festival in Heaton Park in Manchester, Britain, 24 November 2022. The display is open to the public from 24 November 2022 to 02 January 2023. EPA / ADAM VAUGHAN

Hundreds of tyres are piled on the side of a highway, about 1,380 km from Santiago, Chile. Mountains of used clothes from the US, Asia and Europe, old cars from Japan or Korea and thousands of tyres contaminate vast areas of the immense but vulnerable Atacama desert in northern Chile, which has become the planet's "backyard". AFP

A fishing boat casts its nets in the Marmara sea off the cost of Istanbul, Turkey. It is high season for the popular variety of tuna, with shoals teeming through the Bosphorus on their way from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. AFP

Opik Goparudin, 67, carries a duct near destroyed houses after Monday's earthquake hit Cianjur, West Java province, Indonesia. Reuters

People of the Dong ethnic minority celebrating the Dongnian festival in Rongjiang county, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, in China's southwestern Guizhou province. AFP

Fans watch Brazil's World Cup match against Serbia on a television fixed to a light pole, in the Brazilian city of Manaus. The South Americans won the match 2-0. EPA

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