Photos of the Day: Young Cadets and Buffaloes

Mbabane, Swaziland

Young women participate in the annual ‘Umhlanga’, or reed dance ceremony. On the main day of the eight-day event, the reeds are presented to the Queen Mother and King Mswati III as a rite of passage

Photograph: Yeshiel Panchia/EPA

Al-Walaja, West Bank

Palestinians scuffle with Israeli border police as bulldozers move in to demolish a house in the village near Bethlehem

Photograph: Abed Al Hashlamoun/EPA

Shantou, China

A digger helps people trapped by rising water after heavy storms hit Guangdong province

Photograph: VCG/Getty Images