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Highlights of the day

  • Waves crash against Folkestone harbour wall

    New year swimmers and a scenic sunrise: photos of the day – Wednesday

  • Auld Lang Syne Fell Race

    A sound and light show and a new year race: photos of the day – Tuesday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Fishermen work at a kelp farming area of Ailun Bay Marine Ranch at sunrise in Rongcheng, China.

    A painted bride and blooming daffodils: photos of the day – Monday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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Latest

  • Gorilla in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.

    A gentle giant and a fried egg jellyfish – readers’ best photos

  • A band and a man stripped to the waist

    The Republic – photos of Ireland: in pictures

  • A group of smiling female graduates in Juba, South Sudan

    Women behind the lens: six of the most striking images from 2024

  • Fireworks light up the sky over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House during New Year's Eve celebrations on 1 January 2025.

    Australians ring in the New Year - in pictures

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The picture essay

  • Monica (red t-shirt) and Larisa (green jumper) bathe Elias while Larisa's boyfriend (left) holds a phone with a flashlight and a phone to video call Monica and Larisa's parents; Monica's boyfriend claps to distract the baby's attention at their home in Vătava, Mureș on October 18, 2023. Most of her life updates are shared with her parents via video calls after they finish work in Spain.

    Warmth amid absence: life of Romanian children whose parents work abroad – photo essay

  • Supporters of former Ghana President and presidential candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama

    From Gaza to Ghana: celebrating the agency photographers of 2024

    The Guardian and Observer team of picture editors highlight the work of a number of photojournalists working for news agencies worldwide whose images have made an impact and contributed to our journalism during 2024
  • Baba William on Courtown beach.

    ‘People are very welcoming’: asylum seekers find support in Irish town – photo essay

    Courtown has shown how accommodating asylum seekers can be a success by engaging and involving them in the community
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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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