{"id":131510,"date":"2025-09-12T05:17:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/131510\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T05:17:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:17:39","slug":"a-baby-anteater-rides-on-its-mothers-back-and-other-news-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/131510\/","title":{"rendered":"A baby anteater rides on its mother\u2019s back \u2014 and other news in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A baby anteater rides on its mother\u2019s back \u2014 and other news in pictures    <\/p>\n<p>, The Times<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Material World at Kew Gardens in London\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/7e54878e-a515-49f0-9296-e03964252604.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Performers wearing costumes made from kelp, rubber and second-hand textiles took part in rehearsals for the Material World design festival at Kew Gardens in southwest London. The event, which begins on September 20, will demonstrate how plants and fungi can tackle fast fashion<\/p>\n<p>OLIVER DIXON<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ETHIOPIA-CULTURE-TRADITION-RELIGION-ENKUTATASH\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/2342600e-145c-432f-8b31-8eec2c4a065a.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Ethiopian Orthodox New Year was celebrated on Thursday with songs and prayers in Addis Ababa. Known as Enkutatash in Amharic, the day marked the end of the rainy season and the start of 2018 in the Ethiopian calendar, which runs a few years behind its Georgian counterpart<\/p>\n<p>LUIS TATO\/AFP\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bramble Bank cricket match\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/57f8779e-7e0c-4368-8498-9a24457e71f7.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ebony Rainford-Brent lost her bat while taking part in the annual Brambles cricket match, which is contested by the Royal Southern Yacht Club and the Island Sailing Club on the Bramble Bank sandbank in the middle of the Solent at low tide<\/p>\n<p>ANDREW MATTHEWS\/PA<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fischer Chameleon catches a meal by Dzul Dzulfikri\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/59e111da-3c30-4ca4-be8a-de4bdaa8a476.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Fischer\u2019s chameleon catches a grasshopper in West Java, Indonesia<\/p>\n<p>DZUL DZULFIKRI\/SOLENT NEWS<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tosca by Giacomo Puccini - The Royal Opera at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Great Britain General dress rehearsal 9th September 2025 Runs to 7th October 2025\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/6f49399b-c2ea-45ab-a8b1-2a01381fedd1.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Royal Opera\u2019s production of Tosca by Puccini began at the Royal Opera House in central London on Thursday evening. The performances run until October 7<\/p>\n<p>ELLIOTT FRANKS<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Traditional Alpine festival of 'Viehscheid' in Bad Hindelang\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/c1121388-852a-493d-b05a-9d0dac0e35c0.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The cows came home from their summer pastures in the Bavarian mountains on Thursday to the village green at Bad Hinelang, southern Germany. After the traditional Almabtrieb procession, the cows were separated from each other at the Viehscheid festival, where they were returned to their owners<\/p>\n<p>ANNA SZILAGYI\/EPA<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"World Rescue Challenge in Karlovac\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/b754eef0-cfb8-42e4-b899-a3be26485277.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Spanish firefighters took part in an extraction competition at the World Rescue Challenge in Karlovac, Croatia<\/p>\n<p>ANTONIO BRONIC\/REUTERS<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BGC Charity Day 2025\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/106e1a39-9742-4ed5-bc54-44b899b7c869.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The TV presenter Davina McCall took part in a charity day for the financial services company BGC Group, which raised money for Action Medical Research in memory of the employees who died in the 9\/11 terrorist attacks<\/p>\n<p>DAVE BENETT\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TOPSHOT-PAKISTAN-WEATHER-FLOOD\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/56751c33-3253-4e88-aa41-9fc0597a22ea.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain caused flooding in Karachi<\/p>\n<p>ASIF HASSAN\/AFP\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SNWasps\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/5fb28a3a-67e4-477e-afce-eef082057a1d.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>An orangutan shields itself after disturbing a wasps\u2019 next while searching for forest fruits in the Danum Valley, Borneo<\/p>\n<p>DALE MORRIS\/SOLENT NEWS<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NINTCHDBPICT001022307817\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/6f417225-b266-4fd6-a239-cc79c647e25c.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Geraldine James stars with Charles Dance in Howard Brenton\u2019s sold-out adaptation of the August Strindberg play Creditors at the Orange Tree Theatre, in Richmond, southwest London<\/p>\n<p>ELLIE KURTTZ<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;Jaws&quot; The Exhibition Press Preview\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/74b2a7f0-5e69-49d1-bd39-eb11b802b60f.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A visitor tries her hand at controlling an interactive replica of the shark from the 1975 film Jaws. An exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of the film opens at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on Sunday<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS PIZZELLO\/AP<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;A Big Bold Beautiful Journey&quot; \u0096 Photocall\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/60892829-5d28-48e2-a824-c82635f45425.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The actress Margot Robbie promoting the film A Big Bold Beautiful Journey in central London. Robbie stars alongside Colin Farrell, Kevin Kline and Phoebe Waller-Bridge in the romantic fantasy<\/p>\n<p>KATE GREEN\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NINTCHDBPICT001022477052\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/a33045eb-0d96-4cec-a078-f8f2771d34e3.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A baby coatimundi was one of a group of mothers and their children migrating through the Tonto Natural Bridge State Park in Arizona. \u201cIt was cuteness overload,\u201d said the photographer Mark Koster<\/p>\n<p>MARK KOSTER\/ANIMAL NEWS AGENCY<\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/photography-uk\/article\/detailed-photographs-iris-galerie-other-news-pictures-xfgshd0zj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/d363dfc5-3916-4bc6-815a-5382e5bb2190.jpg\" alt=\"Detailed photographs from Iris Galerie \u2014 and other news in pictures\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"styles__DateTime-sc-1p1alcs-0 hyeEhI\">September 10 2025, 12.00am<\/p>\n<p class=\"styles__Byline-sc-1p1alcs-1 dgenH\">The Times<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/photography-uk\/article\/cockapoo-cools-weather-news-pictures-chrph3rpz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/4d9fd8b7-253f-4c02-bc8f-1fc628731f4b.jpg\" alt=\"Cookie the cockapoo cools off \u2014 and other news in pictures\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"styles__DateTime-sc-1p1alcs-0 hyeEhI\">August 26 2025, 12.00am<\/p>\n<p class=\"styles__Byline-sc-1p1alcs-1 dgenH\">The Times<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/photography-uk\/article\/roses-premiere-benedict-cumberbatch-olivia-colman-h99dr0ljr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757654256_830_\/a99ffa40-c401-4c5f-827f-192971661af2.jpg\" alt=\"The Roses premiere in New York \u2014 and other news in pictures\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"styles__DateTime-sc-1p1alcs-0 hyeEhI\">August 27 2025, 12.00am<\/p>\n<p class=\"styles__Byline-sc-1p1alcs-1 dgenH\">The Times<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/scotland\/article\/a-foodies-guide-to-national-trust-for-scotland-properties-dcmg589b0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/ba747021-a4a1-429c-ac14-b07608474965.jpg\" alt=\"A foodie\u2019s guide to National Trust for Scotland properties\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"styles__DateTime-sc-1p1alcs-0 hyeEhI\">September 11 2025, 11.00pm<\/p>\n<p class=\"styles__Byline-sc-1p1alcs-1 dgenH\">Jamie Calder<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/politics\/article\/scandal-time-again-who-else-doghouse-nbd2mdchc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/a46b44f8-cc89-4e4f-814d-e90e1791c2af.jpg\" alt=\"Scandal time again, but who else is in the doghouse?\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"shared-styles__Label-sc-1kek94e-2 jGUcDq\">The Times Diary<\/p>\n<p class=\"styles__DateTime-sc-1p1alcs-0 hyeEhI\">September 12 2025, 12.00am<\/p>\n<p class=\"styles__Byline-sc-1p1alcs-1 dgenH\">Charlotte Alt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/healthcare\/article\/live-longer-keep-working-into-your-eighties-7ntmd5fm6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/8d6aeea8-3a90-469a-a3fa-b030bb2c885d.jpg\" alt=\"Want to live longer? 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