Young pygmy hippo takes a first dive — and other news in pictures
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The Queen talks to veterans at the opening of the 97th Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey, London
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE
The Ottery St Mary tar barrels carnival in Devon. In a tradition that goes back at least 400 years, people run with barrels of burning tar until the heat becomes unbearable or the barrel breaks
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Santa and his elf abandon the sleigh for a bus as they prepare for Winter Funland London, an indoor funfair at The Grand Hall, Olympia, from December 12 to January 4
JEFF MOORE
Red squirrels gnaw on pine cones and collect pine seeds as they prepare for hibernation in the Sarikamis district of Kars, Turkey
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The freestyle show at the Milan Motorcycle Show, Italy
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Barbara Hume helps Andrew Heard, the visitor programmes manager at Ushaw House near Durham, move Pohutukawa, a 2018 work by her late husband, Tom Hume, before a retrospective of the artist’s work from Saturday
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP
A diver is suspended under a shimmering cloud of sardines off Panglao Island in the Philippines
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Mo, a seven-day-old female white rhino, was born to Ruby at the Cotswold Wildlife Park near Burford, Oxfordshire. She is the 13th calf to be born at the park in 12 years
PAUL NICHOLLS
The leader of the Tuxa people, Dinam Tuxa, at a press conference aboard the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Pará, Brazil. Indigenous communities in Brazil, speaking for the world’s native peoples, demanded respect, territorial recognition and genuine participation in decisions at the Cop30 climate conference
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Autumnal colours at Jesmond Dene in Newcastle
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Sammy Cormie-Smith and Hamish Smith attend Fashions on the Field during the 2025 Oaks Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia
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Keepers hold a pelican during the annual avian influenza vaccination campaign at the Parc Zoologique et Botanique de Mulhouse, eastern France
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Donald Trump at the Miami Business Forum at the White House, Washington DC
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Terry Gilliam, left, with John Cleese, centre, and Michael Palin at the film premiere of The Running Man in London
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Paul Taylor Dance Company’s dress rehearsal of Diggity, at the Lincoln Center in New York City until November 23
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Voters queue to cast their ballots during the first phase of voting for assembly elections at the Raghopur constituency in the Vaishali district of the Indian state of Bihar
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The debris after a flash flood at the height of Typhoon Kalmaegi in La Carlota city, Negros Oriental province, central Philippines. The typhoon has killed at least 140 people and left another 127 missing
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Clouds turn shades of red and orange as the sun sets behind One World Trade Center and the Manhattan skyline
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An Iranian athlete warms up before the start of the women’s karate competition in Tehran, made up of clubs and teams from around Tehran province. About 230 participants, including five-year-old girls, took part
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Clandestine art criticising climate policy by the French artist James Colomina on display in Amsterdam canals in the Netherlands
HILDE VERWEIJ/REUTERS
An actress performs in a Chinese opera during the eighth International Import Expo in Shanghai
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Jannie Boge Steinmeier Larsen, a project radiographer, with a miniature model MRI Lego set that is used to reduce children’s anxiety before scans at the university hospital in Aarhus, Denmark
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