Today's best photos: from 'Floating Earth' in Liverpool to Gathering of Nations

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

The artwork Floating Earth by Luke Jerram, on display at the Royal Albert Dock, in Liverpool. The 10-metre installation, created using Nasa imagery and featuring a soundtrack by composer Dan Jones, has been installed to coincide with the arrival of the Eurovision Song Contest in the city. EPA

A firefighter aims a water cannon at a blazing heap of used car tyres and other parts at a scrapyard in Budapest, Hungary. EPA

Flames rise from a burning fuel tank at a depot in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol. AP

A woman walks past damaged buildings as she carries a child in Uman, about 215km south of Kyiv, after Russian missile strikes targeted several Ukrainian cities overnight. AFP

People look on from a building on the day of a free concert by Spanish singer Rosalia at the Zocalo square in downtown Mexico City, Mexico. Reuters

A helicopter takes off during the Aurora 23 joint military exercise between Swedish troops and US Marines in Skovde, Sweden. EPA

A swan roosts in the reeds, on an islet of Lake Velence, in western Hungary. EPA

Wakinyan Snow of Alberta, Canada, prepares to dance in the junior boys' traditional competition at the 40th anniversary of the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow in Albuquerque. Tens of thousands of people gathered in New Mexico, US, on Friday for what organisers bill as the largest powwow in North America. AP

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