Workers, dancers and pagans: Thursday's photos of the day
Members of the May 1st Collective march against a meeting of the far-right National Rally party on International Workers' Day Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images
Tourists dressed in Hanfu visit the Summer Palace Photograph: Jessica Lee/EPA
A burned-out garden centre in a village among hills west of Jerusalem, where emergency services have been battling wildfires for a second day. Police have reported the reopening of several major roads that had been closed Photograph: John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images
A cat is spared the loud noises at Pet Expo Thailand with specially designed ear defenders Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA
Visitors take in the view at Tsim Sha Tsui during the May Day holiday Photograph: Bertha Wang/AP
Members and supporters of Russian Communist party carry a portrait of Joseph Stalin as they take part in May Day celebrations near the Karl Marx monument. International Workers' Day is an annual holiday that celebrates workers, their rights, achievements and contributions to society Photograph: Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA
Union members rallying on May Day Photograph: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
A woman working at a brick kiln Photograph: Pervez Masih/AP
A man rides his motorbike through the shadows Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images
Protesters raise their fists during a May Day rally Photograph: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty Images
Protesters shout slogans from a bus after being detained by Turkish police. Officers detained dozens of people who were trying to tear down barricades to reach Taksim Square, where authorities had forbidden 1 May rallies Photograph: Kemal Aslan/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinians search the rubble of a house targeted by an Israeli strike that killed at least five members of the Abu Sahloul family Photograph: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP
An environmental protester is carried out of a building hosting the Drax annual general meeting in the City of London Photograph: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock
Swimmers using the suspended Sky Pool in Nine Elms on a sunny day Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP
Beltane celebrations, marking the beginning of summer, at Glastonbury Chalice Well Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
Store manager Matt Gould celebrates a customer arriving at the opening of the new Ikea store by Oxford Circus Photograph: Andy Hall/The Observer
The Wessex Morris Men greet sunrise at the Trendle, an ancient earth-banked enclosure on the hill above the Cerne Abbas Giant hill figure
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