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Highlights of the day

  • A snowy scene featuring a viaduct and mountains

    Christmas elves and Highland snow: photos of the day – Thursday

  • A firefighter carrying a young infant at a demonstration, with other protesters in the background

    Pink flamingos and a firefighters’ protest: photos of the day – Wednesday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Four police officers restrain a protester

    Protests, floods and a happy hula-hooper: photos of the day – Tuesday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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  • Rafael Nadal prepares to serve

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  • Troye Sivan on the 2024 Arias red carpet.

    2024 Arias red carpet: from Troye Sivan to Ava Max – in pictures

The picture essay

  • A torn poster shows the heads of two veiled women and Arabic script

    How the Taliban are erasing Afghanistan’s women – photo essay

  • David Logan seen through a protective screen preparing to weld the internal working into a still.

    ‘Every hammer blow makes a difference’: handcrafting whisky stills in Scotland – photo essay

    A visit to McMillan Coppersmiths in East Lothian, which makes copper pot stills and columns for the distilled spirits industry
  • A driver waits for tractor man Eddy during the Pallamallawa mud trials

    Mud in their blood: the wild world of mud bombing

    Mud trials showcase heavily modified two-wheel drive cars built to withstand violent impacts as drivers navigate a series of muddy obstacles
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From the agencies

  • 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

  • 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
  • A woman poses with her twins

    The world twins festival in Nigeria – in pictures

    Nigeria’s ‘twins capital of the world’ Igbo-Ora holds its annual festival to celebrate the town’s unusually high incidence of multiple births
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