Photos of the Day: The Arabian Sea and Kim Jong-un

Hong Kong, China

A lifeguard tower left tilted by Typhoon Mangkhut sits on the beach in Shek O. According to the Hong Kong Observatory, the super typhoon is officially Hong Kong’s most intense storm since records began

Photograph: Jerome Favre/EPA

Kronberg, Germany

Moonlight over the plain of the river Main, seen from the 798-meter Altkönig mountain in the Taunus region

Photograph: Frank Rumpenhorst/AFP/Getty Images

Jüchen, Germany

Bucket wheel excavators dig into the earth at the Tagebau Garzweiler open mine. A government commission is due to meet to work out a strategy to phase out coal fired energy production

Photograph: Federico Gambarini/AFP/Getty Images