{"id":320123,"date":"2025-12-17T02:22:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/320123\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T02:22:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:22:45","slug":"a-reindeer-caught-off-guard-in-norway-and-other-news-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/320123\/","title":{"rendered":"A reindeer caught off guard in Norway \u2014 and other news in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reindeer caught off guard in Norway \u2014 and other news in pictures    <\/p>\n<p>, The Times<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bonhams\u0092 Modern Decorative Art &amp; Design sale preview at Bonhams, Knightsbridge, London, Great Britain 15th December 2025 Press photocall\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/97cd8bcf-3472-4439-8f95-08a335e45150.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Alessandro Pianon\u2019s Pulcino bird sculpture, circa 1963, on display at Bonhams, London<\/p>\n<p>ELLIOTT FRANKS<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Weather, frost, cold, scottish borders\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/2b75c6e8-d892-4a1f-b625-d703b15db05c.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dawn breaks over the Scottish Borders on a cold, frosty morning<\/p>\n<p>PHIL WILKINSON<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cabinet meeting of the UK government at 10 Downing Street in London\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/6e0d708c-cf74-4dad-92ba-a6b1c19094ee.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Larry, the Downing Street cat, outside No 10 before a cabinet meeting<\/p>\n<p>TOLGA AKMEN\/EPA<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kyrgyzstan Christmas Holiday Lights\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/744043e1-0402-41ba-891a-1640df80aae7.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A performer at a light show at Ala-Too Square in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, decorated for new year and Christmas festivities<\/p>\n<p>VLADIMIR VORONIN\/AP<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mute Swan flying at Tices Meadow in Farnham, Surrey.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/a98f1d1e-dc86-44bf-96d8-e32b835167e8.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A mute swan flies over Tices Meadow in Farnham, Surrey, in cold weather, as the UK population of the species rises<\/p>\n<p>SURREY HILLS PHOTOGRAPHY\/BAV MEDIA<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Visitors flock to see giant pandas at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/9b683a81-7453-4267-9fc5-7687099df4e9.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Visitors queue to see giant pandas at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, Japan, after the announcement that two pandas will be returned to China in January next year<\/p>\n<p>KIM KYUNG-HOON\/REUTERS<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Self-Defense Force Members Clean Himeji Castle\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/3ee1b242-e6f4-4efe-895e-c7c9de27039e.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ranger members of the Japan Self-Defence Forces clean the main keep of Himeji Castle in Himeji, Japan<\/p>\n<p>THE ASAHI SHIMBUN\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SNCow saved after getting head stuck in tree\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/c1931b93-2f3d-48f8-9537-11194d7eb06a.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Firefighters rescue a cow after it became trapped between two ash trees in Crux Easton, Hampshire<\/p>\n<p>HAMPSHIRE FIRE\/SOLENT NEWS<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A cosmic elephant\u0092s trunk glowing in technicolour space\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/180b3732-a218-450a-b5bf-69ebe3c3c21a.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Elephant\u2019s Trunk Nebula, a towering column of gas and dust in the constellation Cepheus, glows in colours representing hydrogen, oxygen and sulfur gas<\/p>\n<p>DANIEL BORJA\/TWO POINT O MEDIA<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SEAGAMES-2025-THA-TUG OF WAR\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/427f8f29-fe38-4bcb-833f-3214cea8c800.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Malaysia\u2019s team leans back, digging in their heels to gain ground during the women\u2019s 500kg tug of war semi-final against Thailand at the 33rd Southeast Asian Games in Bangkok<\/p>\n<p>CHANAKARN LAOSARAKHAM\/AFP\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Airmen Train in K-9 TCCC Procedures\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/e4fe43d8-856d-4590-8004-ddda69d15005.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>US army sergeant Samantha Parada, a veterinary service support animal care specialist, demonstrates placing a breathing tube on a K9 training model during combat care instruction<\/p>\n<p>STAFF SGT. ALEXIS OROZCO\/UNITED STATES AIR FORCES CENTRAL<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lionsgate's LA Premiere Of &quot;The Housemaid&quot;\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/77282864-d598-4070-aa98-536b4a8e785f.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sydney Sweeney attends the LA premiere of The Housemaid at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California<\/p>\n<p>JON KOPALOFF\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NBA: Memphis Grizzlies at Los Angeles Clippers\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/e4179e79-0a70-4cb0-8943-4bffa21acfbe.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Clippers Spirit perform during a basketball game between the Los Angeles Clippers and Memphis Grizzlies at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California<\/p>\n<p>KIYOSHI MIO\/REUTERS<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MUD FLIES AT INDIA'S TRADITIONAL KAMBALA BUFFALO RACE\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/86450b41-7b2e-4767-8db6-97806b01c962.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A racer drives his buffaloes through a muddy field during a traditional buffalo race, part of the annual agricultural calendar celebrating farming heritage, in Baradi Beedu, India<\/p>\n<p>ZUMAPRESS\/AVALON<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pole Dancing Polar Bear - Polar bear plays with a yellow pole by Lisa Adler\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/3f90e427-f32f-43d5-94d3-ec2b06b517ba.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A polar bear plays with a yellow plastic cover on an electricity pole wire in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, while waiting for sea ice to form over Hudson Bay<\/p>\n<p>LISA ADLER\/SOLENT NEWS<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heritage Tourist train 'La Sabana' decorated with Christmas lights, in Bogota\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/8d1167b4-0f51-4745-9d7c-d579c58eef20.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>People pose for a photo on the heritage tourist train La Sabana, decorated with Christmas lights, in Bogota, Colombia<\/p>\n<p>LUISA GONZALEZ \/REUTERS<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Animal welfare activists demonstrate to 'Save the Stray Dogs' in Bangalore\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/43a43755-0b7b-4bb0-a1d1-dd646ba97358.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Students and animal welfare activists hold placards and shout slogans during a protest to save the stray dogs in Bangalore, India, criticising authorities for relocating animals to temporary shelters and animal birth control centres<\/p>\n<p>JAGADEESH NV\/EPA<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"INDONESIA-FLOOD\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/5fa65ccf-fc70-4985-a7ed-7e6b9031fd45.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Indonesian army soldiers clear mud at the regional hospital in Aceh Tamiang, North Sumatra, after a flash flood three weeks earlier<\/p>\n<p>YASUYOSHI CHIBA\/AFP\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cheese please: Monkey pulls surprise grin for the camera\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/7150bd6c-33e9-4da4-80c6-07023a019971.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A monkey bares its teeth in a brief, playful grin near Sukhna Lake in Chandigarh, India<\/p>\n<p>ANUJ JAIN\/TWO POINT O 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 reindeer caught off guard in Norway \u2014 and other news in pictures , The Times Alessandro Pianon\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-320123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}