Photos of the Day: Thousands of Dead Fish and Painted Stairs

Los Angeles, California, US

People attend a water lantern festival

Photograph: Xinhua/Barcroft Images

Mexico City, Mexico

Stylist Xochilt de la Paz works on a customer’s stubble on a pavement in the Niños Héroes neighborhood. Her mother died in an earthquake in central Mexico last year that also claimed her business

Photograph: Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images

Leland, North Carolina, US

One-year-old Oliver Kelly cries as he is carried off the sheriff’s airboat during his rescue from rising flood waters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence

Photograph: Jonathan Drake/Reuters