Photos of the Day: Red Panda Cubs and Firefighters

London, UK

A recently discovered portrait by the artist Thomas Gainsborough, of his daughter Margaret playing a cittern, is to be exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery

Photograph: Benedict Johnson/National Portrait Gallery/PA

Lahore, Pakistan

The anti-narcotics force burns drugs including heroin, cannabis, opium and alcohol

Photograph: Xinhua/Barcroft Images

Yekaterinburg, Russia

A Russian army conscript called up for service in the Kremlin regiment and a woman say farewell at Yekaterinburg-Passazhirsky railway station

Photograph: Donat Sorokin/Tass