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Dancers portraying priestesses rehearse in Athens, Greece, for a performance to open the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics
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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
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An aerobatic plane swoops past people on waterjets during the Acapulco Air Show. The event was last held in 2018 — its 2023 edition was suspended after Hurricane Otis struck the southern Mexican region
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A Scout sketches Caligula’s 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’ births and explores their intertwined lives and legacies
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Muriel Baker longed for a garden but, at the age of 94, said she couldn’t 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
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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
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“Walking leaves” 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
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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
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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
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Pauline Hanson, the leader of Australia’s 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
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A woman wears a traditional Chinese costume as she cycles in Beijing
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An Indian villager walks with fodder on a cold, foggy morning in Ranbir Singh Pura, near the border with Pakistan
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The Cuauhtémoc training ship, also known as the “Gentleman of the Seas”, 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
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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
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