{"id":665882,"date":"2026-05-12T11:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665882\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:24:23","slug":"chip-the-penguin-chicks-cuddly-pal-and-other-news-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665882\/","title":{"rendered":"Chip the penguin chick\u2019s cuddly pal \u2014 and other news in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"5464\"   width=\"8192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6933366d-f8a9-4627-9c25-79a8e1369ce4.jpg\" alt=\"Whittaker\u0092s Gin Distillery. JG May 2026\" class=\"wp-image-22170832\"\/>Derek Dowler barrels along at the Whittaker\u2019s distillery in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, where London Dry gin is madetimes photographer james glossop<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"5822\"   width=\"3881\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6b20c04d-111d-4773-bd7c-836e9f9b08d4.jpg\" alt=\"NINTCHDBPICT001079836495\" class=\"wp-image-22170763\"\/>An outfit from Ciara Burns inspired by Pepita in Coco, the Pixar film about the Land of the Dead, will be among dozens of designs from students at the Edinburgh College of Art on show at the Queen\u2019s Hall in the city on FridaySally Jubb<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1890\"   width=\"2834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e0666ac2-8404-4908-b49a-6350cdc6b217.jpg\" alt=\"Arctic air is set to sweep across the UK this week\" class=\"wp-image-22170760\"\/>Karen Walsh walks across the rope bridge through the jungle section of the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall\tWilliam Dax\/SWNS<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"2133\"   width=\"3200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bda2caa2-f9de-4814-a7bf-1dfb243493a1.jpg\" alt=\"Crafted At Sothebys London For London Craft Week \u0096 Official Launch Of London Craft Week\" class=\"wp-image-22170767\"\/>Clifton Wright is among eight artists whose work features in an exhibition at Sotheby\u2019s to mark London Craft Week Tristan Fewings\/Getty Images for sotherby\u2019s<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"3627\"   width=\"5175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f8570af0-353e-4d67-850a-709b2d2052dc.jpg\" alt=\"NINTCHDBPICT001079555616\" class=\"wp-image-22170773\"\/>Workmen called to deal with subsidence on a country road near Walton, Somerset, were met with an uneven surface that sent their lorry rolling into a ditch Jason Bryant\/BNPS<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"3700\"   width=\"5550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9e0844f8-4bed-4bc0-a73d-8d58c78a930a.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers from the Farm, Chelsea Flower Show, London, 11th May 2026\" class=\"wp-image-22170777\"\/>Caroline Bolton, Aizel Finch and Sarah Bedford of Flowers from the Farm, the UK trade association for cut flowers, prepare blooms for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, which begins next weekStephen Chung\/PinPep<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"3543\"   width=\"7988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8cf84aa6-404c-4121-bad8-9e4906988635.jpg\" alt=\"Bougies Spring Forst - Hampshire Vinyard\" class=\"wp-image-22170857\"\/>Candles burn in the early hours at Burges Field, a vineyard in Itchen Stoke, Hampshire, to protect leaves from the late spring frostMick Rock\/LNP<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"2048\"   width=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/307d7618-566d-46fe-b10b-c7be7ce464fc.jpg\" alt=\"NINTCHDBPICT001079810428\" class=\"wp-image-22170852\"\/>Damselflies met a wildlife photographer head-on in Reggio Emilia, northern Italy. Alberto Ghizzi Panizza, 51, said the curled leaf and eye contact made for a \u201csurreal portrait\u201dAlberto Ghizzi Panizza\/Animal News Agency<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"4667\"   width=\"7000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2e06f675-60ed-4ae4-af5b-91ff717c8d47.jpg\" alt=\"Romania World Hat Walk\" class=\"wp-image-22170865\"\/>A colourful group gathered in Bucharest on Sunday for the World Hat Walk. Participants in cities around the world were encouraged to celebrate \u201chat culture, style and self-expression\u201dVadim Ghirda\/AP<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"2668\"   width=\"4000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/651b38ec-5bb0-4ed5-8480-e6a8dc98cc87.jpg\" alt=\"World's oldest sweet shop has same best sellers after 199 years\" class=\"wp-image-22170866\"\/>James Hatfield helps run The Oldest Sweet Shop in Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, which opened in 1827. It is the oldest continuously trading confectioner in the world as verified by Guinness World RecordsTom Maddick\/SWNS<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1250\"   width=\"1012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69389918-533a-49e4-8fc6-6bcfe3961b8c.jpg\" alt=\"Towering solar flames erupt from surface of the Sun\" class=\"wp-image-22170884\"\/>AJ Smadi, a Washington-based astronomer, has captured plasma eruptions on the sun up to ten times the size of EarthAJ Smadi\/TwoPointO Media<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"2952\"   width=\"4428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/481bdf51-013d-4bd0-a1e0-7592f63d931f.jpg\" alt=\"FIA World Rally Championship Rally De Portugal 2026, Fafe, Braga - 10 May 2026\" class=\"wp-image-22170868\"\/>Sami Pajari and Marko Salminen were on a high in Braga, Portugal, before slumping to seventh during the World Rally Championships eventMiguel Lemos\/ZUMA Press Wire\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"5760\"   width=\"8640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e27b57eb-75e0-4872-8c41-64e71b862bbc.jpg\" alt=\"APTOPIX Spain La Liga Soccer\" class=\"wp-image-22170873\"\/>FC Barcelona fans celebrate on the city\u2019s streets after their team\u2019s victory over Real Madrid, which secured the league title, on SundayJoan Mateu Parra\/AP<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"3500\"   width=\"2333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ca414621-44cd-4622-9949-7ac93d67b61a.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;The Roast of Kevin Hart&quot; Red Carpet at Netflix Is A Joke Fest\" class=\"wp-image-22170892\"\/>Jennifer Lopez, 56, attended The Roast of Kevin Hart in Los Angeles. The affectionate, if unorthodox, tribute to the comic actor involved jokes being made at his expenseChristopher Polk\/Variety\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"3613\"   width=\"5430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ac2407fa-09fc-464a-8751-a426a7ad9104.jpg\" alt=\"NINTCHDBPICT001079842146\" class=\"wp-image-22170897\"\/>Three Canada geese have hatched at Knowle Park in Cranleigh, Surrey, after being incubated in the nest of mute swans named Harry and SallyMARTIN BAMFORD<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"5760\"   width=\"8640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7afbd01c-1c7a-48ca-85f5-8a7517ecd301.jpg\" alt=\"BETSPIX - New York Yankees v Milwaukee Brewers\" class=\"wp-image-22170909\"\/>Brice Turang of the Milwaukee Brewers was offered some help cooling down by his team-mates after a home run against the New York YankeesJohn Fisher\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1922\"   width=\"2880\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d25e3463-f17c-4860-a025-4d56422ecbe9.jpg\" alt=\"Janet the gannet gatecrashes guillemot fish delivery\" class=\"wp-image-22170899\"\/>A gannet known as Janet \u2014 now believed to be a male, but whose name has stuck with locals \u2014 attempts to muscle in on a bazaar of guillemots about to tuck into a sand eel on Inner Farne off NorthumberlandSian Elizabeth\/TwoPointO Media<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"3919\"   width=\"5878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/56972ab8-37c9-469d-a3b4-65b9a629583d.jpg\" alt=\"Freedom of the City of London\" class=\"wp-image-22170920\"\/>Penny Lancaster, 55, the wife of Sir Rod Stewart, 81, has received the freedom of the City of London at Guildhall for her charitable endeavours and her work as a special constableIan West\/PA<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1222\"   width=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c1647e4b-0abd-410b-9c2a-fa79f176029e.jpg\" alt=\"NINTCHDBPICT001079860173\" class=\"wp-image-22170908\"\/>Four Barbary macaques have been born at Trentham Monkey Forest in Staffordshire. Conservationists hailed a \u201csmall but important win for a highly endangered species\u201d whose wild population has halved in 40 yearsJoshua Torlop\/Trentham Monkey Forest<\/p>\n<p id=\"767ee986-1068-4e99-bc6c-68bbef47ad8a\">For more pictures from The Times,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thetimes\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">follow us on Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derek Dowler barrels along at the Whittaker\u2019s distillery in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, where London Dry gin is madetimes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-665882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665882","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=665882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}