From red-hot lava from Mt Etna to a very woolly Australian sheep - today's best photos

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

Streams of red-hot lava shoot into the night sky as Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, continues to erupt, as seen from the village of Fornazzo, Italy. Reuters

Power-generating windmill turbines are seen at sunset in Bourlon, France. Reuters

A woman reacts outside a prison in which inmates were killed during a riot that the government described as a concerted action by criminal organisations, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Reuters

Sheep Baarack is seen before his thick wool was shorn, enabling him to see, in Lancefield, Victoria, Australia. Reuters

A Kyrgyz man holds a golden eagle during the Salburun hunting festival in Tuura-Suu, a mountain village about 250 kilometres south-east of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. AP

A museum devoted to late Indian politician Jayaram Jayalalithaa was inaugurated in Chennai to mark what would have been her 73rd birthday. Jayalalithaa led the All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party. AFP

A supporter of the Nepal Communist Party poses for a photo prior to a celebratory rally held one day after the country’s supreme court ordered Parliament in Kathmandu to be reinstated. EPA

A Long March-4C rocket carrying the third group of China’s Yaogan-31 remote sensing satellites lifts off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in Gansu province. AFP

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