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Highlights of the day

  • Huge flames and smoke with palm trees silhouetted against them

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • An ice climber ascends Kinder Downfall, a frozen waterfall in the Peak District National Park

    Solar sculpture and winter landscapes: photos of the day – Friday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • People wearing insulated clothing carry boxes into an ice cave

    Antarctic cave and a red squirrel: photos of the day – Thursday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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  • Alfred Vaz poses ahead of a parade at the Parkes Elvis Festival, in central west NSW.

    Easy Come, Easy Go: Parkes Elvis Festival 2025 – in pictures

  • firefighters walk near a destroyed church

    California wildfire victims pick up pieces as blazes rage on – in photos

  • A dalmatian pelican

    Week in wildlife in pictures: an entangled elk, a grieving whale and a tortoise on the run

  • A country home in Tillingham, Essex with its own tennis court.

    Homes for sale for fitness fanatics – in pictures

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The picture essay

  • Artem, 22 from in Luhansk, in eastern Ukraine

    On asphalt we grow: the skateboarders of Ukraine

  • Forensic anthropologists in Iraq’s health ministry in Baghdad analyse and document skeletons found in mass graves

    Uncovering Iraq’s mass graves: the painstaking search for missing loved ones – photo essay

    The country has as many as one million missing people after decades of conflict. Forensic teams face huge challenges to document human remains as families wait in hope of closure
  • Chibs Ekeiwu at HMP Maidstone

    A day in the life of a prison officer at HMP Maidstone

    Chibuike Ekeiwu has worked at the Kent prison since 2022. The photographer Tom Pilston recounts a day spent with him keeping order in a tough environment
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From the agencies

  • Overhead view of ballet dancers in a line during a performance

    The Nutcracker ballet in Nairobi – in pictures

  • A herd of elephants consisting mainly of females and their young arrive at a watering pond for a drink at the Ngutuni wildlif conservancy on the outskirts of Voi in Kenya

    The bee project helping to tackle elephant-human conflict in Kenya – in pictures

    Loved by tourists, elephants are, however, often loathed by farmers. A long-running project is using African honeybees to deter elephants, reducing clashes with humans
  • Prisoners talk to other prisoners through the gaps of a cell

    Life inside Paraguay’s overcrowded prisons – in pictures

    Paraguay has launched an operation to address the problems plaguing its prison system, including internal gang control, but one problem in particular has proven difficult to deal with: overcrowding. Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd gained access to five different prisons to see how their inmates live
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