{"id":307733,"date":"2025-11-25T12:58:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/307733\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:58:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:58:27","slug":"a-panda-bears-picnic-and-other-news-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/307733\/","title":{"rendered":"A panda bears\u2019 picnic \u2014 and other news in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A panda bears\u2019 picnic \u2014 and other news in pictures    <\/p>\n<p>, The Times<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"APTOPIX Greece Olympics Milan Cortina Flame Lighting\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/14c3156e-c923-4078-a290-26d4b9bfe600.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dancers portraying priestesses rehearse in Athens, Greece, for a performance to open the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics<\/p>\n<p>THANASSIS STAVRAKIS\/AP<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Views in Odesa, Ukraine. The funeral of soldier Oleksandr Zotinnwho was buried in Odesa today. He was killed near Bakhmut on 12 June 2024.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/c5c3aa35-cfe0-4139-9045-14af3e221c98.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mourners say goodbye to Oleksandr Zotinn, 24, a Ukrainian soldier who was killed near Bakhmut on June 12 last year. He was laid to rest in Odesa on Monday<\/p>\n<p>TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JACK HILL<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Acapulco AirShow 2025 returns in Mexico\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/70441cd5-788c-49c7-a840-ea2d9e068791.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>An aerobatic plane swoops past people on waterjets during the Acapulco Air Show. The event was last held in 2018 \u2014 its 2023 edition was suspended after Hurricane Otis struck the southern Mexican region<\/p>\n<p>DAVID GUZMAN\/EPA<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Turner\/Constable exhibition\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/b7d8cf5f-2507-4382-bf87-1bc6de1c65c9.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Scout sketches Caligula\u2019s Palace and Bridge by JMW Turner during a preview of the Turner\/Constable exhibition at Tate Britain, London. Featuring more than 170 works, it marks 250 years since the artists\u2019 births and explores their intertwined lives and legacies<\/p>\n<p>JORDAN PETTITT\/PA<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Woman who can't manage to look after a garden gets one painted on her house\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/5e7f862d-2ce0-4ee9-8455-4acb93c899f1.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Muriel Baker longed for a garden but, at the age of 94, said she couldn\u2019t manage to look after one, so had one painted on to her house in Meare, near Glastonbury, Somerset. The mural was painted by Jon Minshull<\/p>\n<p>TOM WREN\/SWNS<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dome Christmas Tree which requires over half a million lights to shine\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/519e2da6-9320-42a5-b207-46126c0dda12.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Dome bar and restaurant in Edinburgh unveils its festive display, featuring more than half a million lights. The building, on George Street in the city centre, is entered via a twinkling tunnel and contains one of the biggest Christmas trees in Scotland<\/p>\n<p>SWNS<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"This leaf has legs\u0085 and it knows how to use them\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/d49f7264-12b5-4e2e-bee0-4df95240445e.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalking leaves\u201d such as this specimen are camouflaged so effectively as dead foliage that they are rarely captured on camera. The insect was spotted in a garden in West Java, Indonesia<\/p>\n<p>DZULFIKRI\/TWO POINT O MEDIA<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Commissioning ceremony of the INS Mahe in Mumbai\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/87960c2d-9724-4fb6-ac66-6589cc90c81d.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A member of the Indian navy takes a breather during the commissioning ceremony of the INS Mahe anti-submarine craft at the naval dockyard in Mumbai<\/p>\n<p>DIVYAKANT SOLANKI\/EPA<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NINTCHDBPICT001040757667\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/067623f3-56e6-4cb1-acf3-ef0be9b4fd53.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A kestrel and a short-eared owl fight over hunting ground in Ribe, Denmark. The owl had just made a hunt when a kestrel tried to steal the catch, so it flipped upside-down in mid-air with its talons raised<\/p>\n<p>TORBEN ANDERSEN\/ANIMAL NEWS AGENCY<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Australian far-right senator wears burqa to parliament, sparking outrage\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/be1a2b5f-980e-4da9-a4ab-1fd4e50b6218.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pauline Hanson, the leader of Australia\u2019s hard-right One Nation party, wears a burqa at Parliament House, Canberra, after being denied permission to table a bill to have full-face coverings banned. She was later thrown out for the stunt<\/p>\n<p>MICK TSIKAS\/AAP\/REUTERS<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TOPSHOT-CHINA-LIFESTYLE\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/17aa67f7-494a-4cdc-9ecf-bdbd69e071e4.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A woman wears a traditional Chinese costume as she cycles in Beijing<\/p>\n<p>PEDRO PARDO\/AFP\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"APTOPIX India Daily Life\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/2e786d78-63db-4b07-b807-efcab8a14bf6.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>An Indian villager walks with fodder on a cold, foggy morning in Ranbir Singh Pura, near the border with Pakistan<\/p>\n<p>CHANNI ANAND\/AP<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MEXICO-US-NAVY-SHIP\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/cd37145d-176f-418b-b79c-551049af4326.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Cuauht\u00e9moc training ship, also known as the \u201cGentleman of the Seas\u201d, attracts onlookers at the Mexican port of Veracruz. The vessel crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge earlier this year, resulting in the deaths of two sailors<\/p>\n<p>MARCO ANTONIO MARTINEZ\/AFP\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Little Egret catching a small Perch,Surrey\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/3180b91a-7f49-443d-bcf7-a9bd0fb74eca.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A little egret catches a perch for breakfast at Tices Meadow in Farnham, Surrey. The heron first appeared in Britain in large numbers in 1989 and bred in Dorset in 1996. It is now widely found on the south coast<\/p>\n<p>SURREY HILLS PHOTOGRAPHY\/BAV MEDIA<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">For more pictures from The Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thetimes\/\" class=\"link__RespLink-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">follow us on Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A panda bears\u2019 picnic \u2014 and other news in pictures , The Times Dancers portraying priestesses rehearse in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-307733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}