World News in Pictures

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Japans Shinmoedake volcano erupts

Amazing pics

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Japan disaster: Natori, one month on



11 April: Monks and rescue workers observe a minute of silence on top of Hiroyi Yama, or "weather hill", one month on from the disaster which struck Natori, Miyagi prefecture



11 March : The 10-metre tsunami strikes the coast of Natori City following the magnitude 9 earthquake









The grandmother of deceased brothers 16-year-old Itaru and 19-year-old Ren Kashiwagi, killed by the tsunami, touches a portrait of one of them as their father Yoshinori carries the boys' remains away from the crematorium



Locals look out over their destroyed neighbourhood from Hiyori Yama in Natori



Trucks help to remove the debris left over from the disaster





10 April: Photo albums and other items found in the rubble are laid out in a school gymnasium in Natori



11 April: A man and his grandson offer a prayer at the ruins of a house of their relatives at Natori



11 April: Rescue workers observe a minute's silence in Natori



11 April: Buddhist monks pray in an area destroyed by the disaster

Pretty shocking what happen there

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Whatever happened to Mr lick? The OP.

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A poodle with orange and blue dyed hair poses for the camera at A.B. Grooming & Pet Spa in Childersburg, Alabama



A young man has been mauled to death by a white tiger in an enclosure at a New Delhi zoo as staff and visitors watched on in horror.According to eye witnesses, the man, believed to be 20 years old and named Maqsood, jumped a low barrier before scaling the enclosure’s safety wall to take photographs on his phone or throw stones at the endangered cat.He then fell 18 feet, landed in a dry moat and within a few minutes was cowering on his haunches as the large white tiger stood over him

Daft coont

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Its a lot of work innit BLD.

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It sure is

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A northern rockhopper penguin stands in its enclosure at Munich's Hellabrunn Zoo, Germany.

That's a strange looking penguin

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Just wanted to extend congrats to this thread for reaching the 2 million view plateau - first in TD history, as it was to reach the 1 million mark.

In remembrance of Mr. Lick.

Oh. Did he pass away? I was wondering about that

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Oh. Did he pass away? I was wondering about that

A few years ago, actually.
And was noted dutifully/respectively here at TD.
His diligence to this outstanding thread was quite the testament.

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‘This is Josh Mulcoy, the godfather of cold-water surfing, catching a wave in Alaska. The place is so windy and wild, it’s known as The Cradle of Storms’Photograph: Chris Burkard

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That's a strange looking penguin

In a strange sounding location.

Munich's Hellabrunn Zoo

Did they swap the r and the u in 1945 and move animals into the empty sleeping quarters.

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N Lights seen in Scotland

The Northern Lights dazzled stargazers in Scotland at the weekend following a huge solar flare – and the natural display may be visible again this evening.
New photos from Kinross to the Outer Hebrides show flashes of brilliant fluorescent green and pink lighting up the night's skies on Sunday. According to theMet Office, a coronal mass ejection (CME) – a massive expulsion of plasma from the Sun's outermost layer – was responsible for the evening's display.
The Met Office says the aurora is expected to be 'slightly enhanced' today (March 14) as a result of the CME arriving at Earth yesterday.
The Northern Lights – or the aurora borealis – is mostly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic), so a glimpse in the UK is a treat for stargazers.
As well as views from Scotland, new photos also show the view from Vaasa in western Finland last night.
Scroll down for video


The aurora taken from Ardoil on the Isle of Lewis looking northwards across the beach of Traigh Uige, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, March 13, 2022



An amazing aurora taken from Ardoil on the Isle of Lewis looking northwards across the beach of Traigh Uige, Outer Hebrides



The incredible pictures taken on Sunday (March 13) show bands of breathtaking coloured lights slicing across the night sky in Kinross, northwest of Edinburgh

AURORA: A STUNNING NATURAL DISPLAY

The Northern and Southern Lights are natural light spectacles triggered in our atmosphere that are also known as the 'auroras'.
There are two types of aurora: aurora Borealis, which means 'dawn of the north', and aurora australis, 'dawn of the south.'
The displays light up when electrically charged particles from the sun enter the Earth's atmosphere.
Usually the particles, sometimes referred to as a solar storm, are deflected by Earth's magnetic field.
But during stronger storms they enter the atmosphere and collide with gas particles, including hydrogen and helium.
These collisions emit light. Auroral displays appear in many colours although pale green and pink are common.

'Effects are expected to start waning through today, with aurora sightings still likely at high latitudes,' Met Office says.


'Chances of aurora in the UK tonight are declining, and expected to be confined to mostly northern parts of Scotland under clear skies.'
Just like last night, cloud cover is expected to be relatively minimal this evening, meaning skywatcher's have every chance of a sighting.
In the Earth's north, the Northern Lights are officially known as the Aurora Aorealis and in the south it is called the Aurora Australis.
In the Southern Hemisphere, the auroral oval is also expected to be slightly enhanced on Monday as a result of the CME.
'Chances of aurora south of 60 degrees South tonight are declining,' the Met Office says.
The light display is created by disturbances in Earth's magnetosphere caused by solar events, usually concentrated around the Earth's magnetic poles.
As well as CMEs, such solar events include solar flares – explosions on the Sun that happens when energy stored in 'twisted' magnetic fields is released.
NASA explains: 'There are many kinds of eruptions on the sun. Solar flares and coronal mass ejections both involve gigantic explosions of energy, but are otherwise quite different.
'The two phenomena do sometimes occur at the same time – indeed the strongest flares are almost always correlated with coronal mass ejections – but they emit different things, they look and travel differently, and they have different effects near planets.'


A photo shows northern lights in Vaasa, western Finland, on March 13, 2022. The polar aurora (aurora polaris, Northern Lights) is a natural phenomenon found in both the northern and southern hemispheres



Met Office graphic depicts the auroral activity over the poles. Met Office says: 'The auroral oval is expected to be slightly enhanced at times during 14th March as a result of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) arriving at Earth yesterday'



Stunning colours from the Northern Lights - or the aurora borealis - were seen last night (March 13) from Kinross, Scotland



The incredible light show is caused by collisions between electrically charged particles released from the sun that enter the earth's atmosphere and collide with gases such as oxygen and nitrogen, Pictured, the view from from Kinross, Scotland on March 13Particles from the solar events can travel millions of miles, and some may eventually collide with the Earth.
According to Royal Museums Greenwich, most of the particles are deflected, but some become captured in the Earth's magnetic field.
They're accelerated down towards the north and south poles into the atmosphere – which is why an aurora best seen when nearer the magnetic poles.
'These particles then slam into atoms and molecules in the Earth's atmosphere and essentially heat them up,' said Royal Observatory astronomer Tom Kerss.
'We call this physical process "excitation", but it's very much like heating a gas and making it glow.'
The aurora has fascinated Earthlings for centuries, but the science behind it has not always been understood.
Earth has an invisible forcefield, the magnetosphere, that protects us from dangerous charged particles from the Sun.
The magnetosphere is the area around Earth controlled by the planet's magnetic field.
Science expert Marty Jopson explains: 'Whilst it shelters us, it also creates one of the most impressive phenomena on Earth – the Northern Lights.'
'When the deadly solar winds meet Earth's magnetosphere, some of the charged particles get trapped, and are propelled down the Earth's magnetic field lines straight towards the poles.


An aurora appears when atoms in Earth's high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles from the sun, creating breathtaking colours. Pictured, the view from Vaasa, Finland



Its effects will likely continue into Monday night, making the aurora visible along the northern horizon if skies are clear, experts said. Pictured, view from Vaasa, Finland

'And when they reach Earth, they strike atoms and molecules in our atmosphere, releasing energy in the form of light.'
The problem is disruption to our magnetic field creates solar storms that can affect satellites in orbit, navigation systems, terrestrial power grids and data and communication networks.
'Harmful space weather has affected Earth before, but as we become increasingly reliant on systems and technologies vulnerable to the Sun's outbursts, future solar impacts could be even more disruptive,' says the European Space Agency (ESA).
SOLAR STORMS PRESENT A CLEAR DANGER TO ASTRONAUTS AND CAN DAMAGE SATELLITES

Solar storms, or solar activity, can be divided into four main components that can have impacts on Earth:

• Solar flares: A large explosion in the sun's atmosphere. These flares are made of photons that travel out directly from the flare site. Solar flares impact Earth only when they occur on the side of the sun facing Earth.
• Coronal Mass Ejections (CME's): Large clouds of plasma and magnetic field that erupt from the sun. These clouds can erupt in any direction, and then continue on in that direction, plowing through solar wind. These clouds only cause impacts to Earth when they're aimed at Earth.
• High-speed solar wind streams: These come from coronal holes on the sun, which form anywhere on the sun and usually only when they are closer to the solar equator do the winds impact Earth.
• Solar energetic particles: High-energy charged particles thought to be released primarily by shocks formed at the front of coronal mass ejections and solar flares. When a CME cloud plows through solar wind, solar energetic particles can be produced and because they are charged, they follow the magnetic field lines between the Sun and Earth. Only charged particles that follow magnetic field lines that intersect Earth will have an impact.

While these may seem dangerous, astronauts are not in immediate danger of these phenomena because of the relatively low orbit of manned missions.
However, they do have to be concerned about cumulative exposure during space walks.


This photo shows the sun's coronal holes in an x-ray image. The outer solar atmosphere, the corona, is structured by strong magnetic fields, which when closed can cause the atmosphere to suddenly and violently release bubbles or tongues of gas and magnetic fields called coronal mass ejections

The damage caused by solar storms
Solar flares can damage satellites and have an enormous financial cost.
The charged particles can also threaten airlines by disturbing Earth's magnetic field.
Very large flares can even create currents within electricity grids and knock out energy supplies.
When Coronal Mass Ejections strike Earth they cause geomagnetic storms and enhanced aurora.
They can disrupt radio waves, GPS coordinates and overload electrical systems.
A large influx of energy could flow into high voltage power grids and permanently damage transformers.
This could shut off businesses and homes around the world.
Source: NASA - Solar Storm and Space Weather

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I actually drove up to the top of the Peak District looking for them last night, sadly too much cloud.
Would have loved to witnessed the sight.

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A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.


IMAGE SOURCE,ARIS MESSINIS / AFP
Image caption,A Ukrainian army chaplain walks through debris outside Kyiv's Retroville shopping complex, destroyed in a Russian attack. As the war enters its second month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked people around the world to take to the streets in a show of support for Ukraine.



IMAGE SOURCE,ARMEND NIMANI / AFP
Image caption,Ukrainian refugees wait on a bus after crossing the border in Siret, northern Romania. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 10 million Ukrainians have now fled their homes because of the Russian invasion, more than half a million of them to Romania.



IMAGE SOURCE,MARTIN DIVISEK / SHUTTERSTOCK
Image caption,A woman works on a pillow case with a print depicting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in Ceska Skalice, Czech Republic. Designer Tomas Brinek is producing the pillow cases to raise money for people suffering as a result of the war.



IMAGE SOURCE,BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP
Image caption,US President Joe Biden (front row, third from right) and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson (front row, second from right) pose for a photograph with Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (front row, centre) and other leaders ahead of a summit at Nato headquarters in Brussels. The EU and the G7 group also held unprecedented emergency summits in Brussels, showing unity and support for Ukraine, with leaders pledging military and humanitarian assistance.



IMAGE SOURCE,DANNY LAWSON / PA MEDIA
Image caption,The Dean of Ripon, the Very Rev John Dobson, lights a candle at Ripon Cathedral, North Yorkshire, to mark the second anniversary of the first national coronavirus lockdown in the UK. On Wednesday, a minute's silence was held at midday, as part of a series of events organised by charity Marie Curie to mark a National Day of Reflection. According to government figures that day, the number of deaths in the UK within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test had reached 164,123.



IMAGE SOURCE,CHRIS JACKSON / REUTERS
Image caption,The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge meet the Jamaica national bobsleigh team during a visit to Trench Town, in the country's capital, Kingston, on day four of the Platinum Jubilee royal tour of the Caribbean.



IMAGE SOURCE,KARIM SAHIB / AFP
Image caption,A member of staff at Christie's auction house displays a giant diamond, nicknamed The Rock, in Dubai, ahead of an auction where it is expected to fetch up to £22m. The 228.31-carat pear-shaped diamond was mined and polished in South Africa more than two decades ago and is the largest white diamond ever to go on sale at auction.



IMAGE SOURCE,VICTORIA JONES / AFP
Image caption,Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe takes centre stage alongside her husband, Richard, at a press conference hosted by Labour MP Tulip Siddiq in London. Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe spent six years in detention in Iran on spying charges. At the press conference, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe took issue with the credit her husband gave ministers for her release, saying: "I have seen five foreign secretaries change over the course of six years. How many foreign secretaries does it take for someone to come home?"



IMAGE SOURCE,ADREES LATIF / REUTERS
Image caption,People search through the remains of destroyed homes following a tornado in the Arabi neighbourhood of St Bernard, on the outskirts of New Orleans, in the southern United States. At least one person died after the large tornado tore through the city, hitting suburbs that were devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.



IMAGE SOURCE,ANDREW MATTHEWS / PA MEDIA
Image caption,Clock curator Su Fullwood adjusts the hands on a French mantel clock, dating from about 1750, in the ballroom at Goodwood House in Chichester, West Sussex, in preparation for the clocks changing to British Summer Time on Sunday, 27 March.

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A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.


IMAGE SOURCE,ANGELOS TZORTZINIS / AFP
Image caption,Ukrainian refugees enter Poland by bus at the Medyka border crossing. Four million people have fled Ukraine following the Russian invasion, while another estimated 6.5 million people are thought to be displaced inside the war-torn country itself.



IMAGE SOURCE,ANDRES GUTIERREZ / ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,A woman lights a candle in a church after parts of Kyiv were shelled. Ukrainian counter-attacks reportedly pushed Russian artillery out of range of the city centre, while shelling of the suburbs continues.



IMAGE SOURCE,LEON NEAL / GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,A woman leaves a message below photos of some of those who have died during the coronavirus pandemic, on the first anniversary of the creation of the Covid memorial wall in London. Bereaved family members and teams of volunteers have painted thousands of hearts along a stretch of the wall opposite the Houses of Parliament, in memory of their relatives.



IMAGE SOURCE,TOM NICHOLSON / PA MEDIA
Image caption,The Queen arrives for a memorial service at Westminster Abbey to celebrate the life of the Duke of Edinburgh, who died a year ago, aged 99. It was the first major event attended this year by the 95-year-old monarch, who has had problems with her mobility, and also tested positive for Covid in February.



IMAGE SOURCE,HE PENGLEI / CHINA NEWS SERVICE VIA GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,Tourists enjoy the blossoming azaleas at Fangniu village, in Chongqing, China.



IMAGE SOURCE,ROBYN BECK / AFP
Image caption,Will Smith slaps Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars after the comedian made a joke about the Hollywood star's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. The actor, who won the first Oscar of his career at the ceremony, has since apologised.



IMAGE SOURCE,HASNOOR HUSSAIN / REUTERS
Image caption,Visitors to the Kuala Lumpur Tower, in Malaysia, look out at the skyline after its lights were turned off to mark Earth Hour. The annual event encourages people around the world to switch off their lights to call attention to climate change.



IMAGE SOURCE,VALERIE BAERISWYL / AFP
Image caption,Haitians protest in the streets over growing concerns about security in the capital Port-au-Prince, amid a sharp rise in gang-related kidnappings.



IMAGE SOURCE,OWEN HUMPHREYS / PA MEDIA
Image caption,A cyclist wades through snow in the Northumberland village of Allenheads, in the English Pennines, as a cold snap gripped the UK. The cold weather was in sharp contrast to the previous week, which featured sunshine and highs of 20C (68F) in some parts of the country.



IMAGE SOURCE,ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,Traditional Ramadan lanterns are hung out for sale at a market stall in Cairo, ahead of the start of the Islamic holy month

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A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.


IMAGE SOURCE,ZOHRA BENSEMRA / REUTERS
Image caption,Serhii Lahovskyi, 26, mourns by the body of his friend Ihor Lytvynenko, who according to residents was killed by Russian soldiers in Bucha, Ukraine. Recent images of Bucha streets strewn with bodies have shocked the international community.



IMAGE SOURCE,ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO / AFP
Image caption,Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a press conference following talks with Bahrain's Foreign Minister in Moscow. Mr Lavrov's daughter and Russian president Vladimir Putin's two daughters have been sanctioned by the UK and US governments. The women are subject to a travel ban and asset freezes. "Our unprecedented package of sanctions is hitting the elite and their families," said UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.



IMAGE SOURCE,ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP
Image caption,During his weekly general audience, Pope Francis speaks while holding a Ukrainian flag that comes from the city of Bucha.



IMAGE SOURCE,JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP
Image caption,Pro-Ukrainian activists stage a "die-in" during a protest under the slogan "Stop promising, start acting!" to call for an immediate embargo on oil, gas and coal imports from Russia, in front of the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) in Berlin, Germany.



IMAGE SOURCE,KEVIN LAMARQUE / REUTERS
Image caption,US President Joe Biden and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson watch as the Senate votes to confirm her to the US Supreme Court, from the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington. The historic vote made her the first black female justice to serve in the nation's highest court.



IMAGE SOURCE,JEFFREY GROENEWEG / AFP
Image caption,An aerial view of fields of tulips and hyacinths in Lisse, the Netherlands.



IMAGE SOURCE,DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP
Image caption,A woman reads the Koran at the Kabsh camp for displaced people in the countryside near Syria's northern city of Raqqa during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.



IMAGE SOURCE,DAMIEN MEYER / AFP
Image caption,French swimmer Mewen Tomac competes in the men's 200m backstroke heats during the French swimming championships in Limoges.



IMAGE SOURCE,SIMON WOHLFAHRT / AFP
Image caption,Attendees take part in a ceremony at Kigali Genocide Memorial at Gisozi, Rwanda, commemorating the 1994 genocide. In just 100 days, about 800,000 people were slaughtered by ethnic Hutu extremists. They were targeting members of the minority Tutsi community, as well as their political opponents, irrespective of their ethnic origin.



IMAGE SOURCE,XU JUN / GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,Giant panda cubs rest in a tree at the Shenshuping Base of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, in China's Sichuan Province.

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A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week.


IMAGE SOURCE,ED JONES / AFP
Image caption,Tanya Los and her husband, Valery, survey the damage to their house caused by a rocket in the village of Mala Tomachka, in south-eastern Ukraine. Russian Maj Gen Rustam Minnekayev said Russia intended to seize southern Ukraine and to open a route to the separatist region of Transnistria in Moldova.



IMAGE SOURCE,OLGA MALTSEVA / AFP
Image caption,A worker cleans a statue of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, in front of the House of Soviets in Moscow Square, St Petersburg, Russia.



IMAGE SOURCE,GONZALO FUENTES / REUTERS
Image caption,A woman walks past official campaign posters in Paris, showing French presidential election candidates President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, leader of the French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National) party. Voters will decide on Sunday which will lead their country.



IMAGE SOURCE,ERIK PENDZICH / SHUTTERSTOCK
Image caption,A day before Earth Day, demonstrators protest in front of the New York Times building in the US, against the use of fossil-fuel adverts in the media.



IMAGE SOURCE,ORLANDO SIERRA / AFP
Image caption,A butterfly rests on dry earth at the drought-affected Los Laureles reservoir in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Earth Day 2022.



IMAGE SOURCE,DREW ANGERER / GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,An Easter Bunny stands next to White House press secretary Jen Psaki as she delivers the daily briefing in Washington.



IMAGE SOURCE,YVES HERMAN / REUTERS
Image caption,Wild bluebells carpet the ground in the Hallerbos, also known as the Blue Forest, in Halle, near Brussels, in Belgium.



IMAGE SOURCE,DOMINIC LIPINSKI / PA MEDIA
Image caption,Westminster Abbey marshal Leticia Edwards looks out from the main nave roof of the abbey, in central London. The roof is to be opened to the public for the first time, for tours, as part of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee celebrations.



IMAGE SOURCE,HUSSEIN FALEH / AFP
Image caption,An aircraft flies above Iraq's southern city of Basra, silhouetted against the waning gibbous moon.



IMAGE SOURCE,OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP
Image caption,Volunteers from the Violet Org charity hand out food packages for the Suhur meal, to be consumed before the next day's fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in the rebel-held city of Idlib in north-west Syria.

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A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.


IMAGE SOURCE,ALEXEY FURMAN / GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,A Soviet-era statue that once represented friendship between Ukraine and Russia is dismantled in Kyiv. The 8m (26ft) bronze monument was removed on the orders of the city's mayor, Vitali Klitschko. He said: "Russia destroyed the normal life of millions of Ukrainians and destroyed the peace in Europe."



IMAGE SOURCE,MICHEL STOUPAK / GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,Supporters of French President Emmanuel Macron celebrate in Paris following his victory in France's presidential election. The centrist leader is the first sitting president in 20 years to be re-elected.



IMAGE SOURCE,AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP
Image caption,Orthodox Christians gather with lighted candles around the edicule - a shrine that is said to have been the burial chamber of Christ - during the Holy Fire ceremony at Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre church.



IMAGE SOURCE,LUISA GONZALEZ / REUTERS
Image caption,A woman flees from foul-smelling white foam in a street in Mosquera, near Bogotá, in Colombia. It is thought that detergents dumped in a local river are generating the froth, which drifts through the air, clumping and clinging to buildings.



IMAGE SOURCE,MARIANA SUAREZ / AFP
Image caption,A lightning bolt illuminates clouds during a thunderstorm over Montevideo, in Uruguay.



IMAGE SOURCE,MARIA ALEJANDRA CARDONA / REUTERS
Image caption,A reveller at music and arts festival Coachella, in Indio, California. The event, which takes place over two weekends and attracts an audience of thousands, included headline performances from Harry Styles and Billie Eilish.



IMAGE SOURCE,ANUSHREE FADNAVIS / REUTERS
Image caption,A girl selling bottled water uses an umbrella to shade herself from the sun in Delhi, India.



IMAGE SOURCE,DAN PELED / GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,A member of the Australian Defence Forces stands guard during Anzac Day commemorations at the Cenotaph in Brisbane. The annual event marks the anniversary of the ill-fated Gallipoli landings during World War One, in which thousands of Australians and New Zealanders died.



IMAGE SOURCE,HANNAH MCKAY / PA MEDIA
Image caption,The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are given a tour of a TV studio by BBC Afghan presenter Sana Safi, during a visit to the BBC's headquarters in London. The royal couple visited Broadcasting House to mark the 90th anniversary of the BBC World Service.



IMAGE SOURCE,HENRY NICHOLLS / REUTERS
Image caption,The Ewell St Mary's Morris Men dance at the Shepherd Market in London, as part of St George's Day celebrations.

[Joe 90]

A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.


IMAGE SOURCE,MARIO ANZUONI / REUTERS
Image caption,Actor Tom Cruise arrives at the global premiere for his latest film, Top Gun: Maverick, on board the USS Midway, a retired aircraft carrier and museum, in San Diego, California.

IMAGE SOURCE,LEGNAN KOULA / EPA-EFE
Image caption,In Bonoua, south of the city of Abidjan, people take part in the Popo Carnival, seen as the Ivory Coast's answer to Mardi Gras. The carnival, which runs for a week, celebrates the cultural heritage of the Aboure people.

IMAGE SOURCE,OLI SCARFF / REUTERS
Image caption,Ronnie O'Sullivan equalled Stephen Hendry's modern-day record of seven snooker World Championship titles when he beat Judd Trump 18-13 to win the final at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre.

IMAGE SOURCE,JASON CAIRNDUFF / REUTERS
Image caption,A woman stands with her dog outside a polling station at Dromore Central Primary School on the day of the Northern Ireland Assembly elections.

IMAGE SOURCE,THAIER AL-SUDANI / REUTERS
Image caption,A motorcyclist navigates through the streets of Baghdad, capital of Iraq, during a sandstorm.

IMAGE SOURCE,AARON DOSTER-USA TODAY SPORTS / REUTERS
Image caption,Star Wars Day, on 4 May, saw fans dressed up as characters from the famous film franchise - just ahead of a major league soccer game between Toronto FC and FC Cincinnati at TQL Stadium in Ohio.

IMAGE SOURCE,JOHN SIBLEY / REUTERS
Image caption,Violinist Irene Duval rehearses in the Ukrainian Catholic cathedral ahead of a fundraising concert organised by Wigmore Hall on behalf the Ukrainian Welcome Centre in London.

IMAGE SOURCE,ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH / EFE-EPA
Image caption,Iranian women attend Eid-al Fitr prayers at the shrine of Abdol Azim in the city of Shahre-Ray, south of Tehran, Iran. Eid takes place at the end of Ramadan - a month of prayer and fasting.

IMAGE SOURCE,ALEXANDER ERMOCHENKO / REUTERS
Image caption,Smoke rises above the Azovstal steelworks in the devastated Ukrainian city of Mariupol. There are thought to be about 200 civilians - including at least 20 children - still in bunkers under the steel plant, the only remaining part of the city still in the hands of Ukrainian troops following the Russian invasion.

IMAGE SOURCE,KEVIN LAMARQUE / REUTERS
Image caption,New White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre (left) embraces the outgoing press secretary Jennifer Psaki at the White House in Washington. President Biden appointed Jean-Pierre as his top spokesperson - the first time a black, or openly gay, person has held the role.

[Joe 90]

A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.


IMAGE SOURCE,LAA AL-MARJANI/REUTERS
Image caption,Workers look after trees planted in the "green belt" area around the city of Karbala, Iraq.

IMAGE SOURCE,NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS
Image caption,The opening ceremony at the My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi, Vietnam, marked the beginning of the Southeast Asian Games. About 5,000 athletes will be competing in 40 sports.

IMAGE SOURCE,ARTHUR EDWARDS/THE SUN/PA MEDIA
Image caption,Prince Charles stood in for the Queen for the first time to open a new session of Parliament, after she had to pull out because of mobility problems. The Prince of Wales, flanked by the Duke of Cambridge and the Duchess of Cornwall, read the Queen's Speech during the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords.

IMAGE SOURCE,AZOV REGIMENT/AFP
Image caption,The Azov regiment released this photo of an injured Ukrainian serviceman inside the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, which is besieged by Russian troops. All elderly people, women and children have now been evacuated from the plant.

IMAGE SOURCE,MIKE BLAKE/REUTERS
Image caption,Hundreds of people were forced to evacuate their homes due to a swift-moving wildfire in southern California. Meanwhile, the largest wildfire in the US continues to threaten communities and businesses in New Mexico.

IMAGE SOURCE,DAREK DELMANOWICZ/EPA-EFE
Image caption,A bee-eater bird catches a bee in the village of Buszkowice in Podkarpacie, Poland.

IMAGE SOURCE,BORJA SUAREZ/REUTERS
Image caption,Migrants wait to disembark from a Spanish coastguard vessel at the port of Arguineguin, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain.

IMAGE SOURCE,OGNEN TEOFILOVSKI/REUTERS
Image caption,British soldiers participate in a Nato "Swift Response 22" exercise in North Macedonia, to test the military alliance's deployment readiness along its eastern borders.

IMAGE SOURCE,STEFAN ROUSSEAU/PA MEDIA
Image caption,Mayor of London Sadiq Khan walks through cannabis plants which are being legally cultivated at a licensed factory in Los Angeles. The mayor was seeing for himself how legalised cannabis production operates in California.

IMAGE SOURCE,ISHARA S KODIKARA/AFP
Image caption,Sri Lankan security forces were ordered to shoot law-breakers on sight in a bid to quell anti-government protests. Demonstrators are calling for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the island's worst ever economic crisis.

[Joe 90]

A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.


IMAGE SOURCE,CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP
Image caption,People mourn at a makeshift memorial outside the county courthouse in Uvalde, Texas, following a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. An 18-year-old attacker entered the school and shot dead 19 young children and two teachers, and injured at least 17 more people, before he was killed by law enforcement officers.



IMAGE SOURCE,ARIS MESSINIS / AFP
Image caption,A woman stands outside her heavily damaged house in Bakhmut, in the Donbas region of Ukraine, after it was hit by a missile. Russian forces have been bombarding towns and cities in eastern Ukraine with the declared aim of "liberating" the old industrial heartland.



IMAGE SOURCE,YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP
Image caption,Pedestrians cross a road amid a severe dust storm in Kuwait City, as the increasingly frequent weather phenomenon enveloped parts of the Middle East.



IMAGE SOURCE,MICHAEL CIAGLO / GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,Air Force Academy cadets give a cheer during a flypast at their graduation ceremony at Falcon Stadium in Colorado Springs, Colorado.



IMAGE SOURCE,DANIEL LEAL / POOL / GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,Boris Johnson adjusts his tie during a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London. Mr Johnson this week insisted he will remain as prime minister despite the "bitter and painful" judgement of a report into parties held in Downing Street during Covid restrictions.



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Image caption,Police officers block activists during a protest denouncing the new Philippine president, outside the Commission on Human Rights, in Quezon City, Metro Manila. Ferdinand Marcos Jr - who is known by his nickname Bongbong - was elected almost four decades after his father was overthrown in a revolution.



IMAGE SOURCE,GUGLIELMO MANGIAPANE / REUTERS
Image caption,Football fans celebrate outside the Colosseum in Rome, following Roma's triumph in the Europa Conference League. The team won its first major European trophy by beating Feyenoord 1-0 in the final in Tirana, Albania.



IMAGE SOURCE,STEPHANE MAHE / REUTERS
Image caption,Actress and model Cara Delevingne strikes a pose as she arrives at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in France. The annual event, which hosts some of the world's leading filmmakers and actors, made headlines this week after activists took to the red carpet to highlight violence against women.



IMAGE SOURCE,YUI MOK / PA MEDIA
Image caption,A woman swims in a hot tub during the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London. The annual horticultural show returned to its usual spring season for the first time since 2019, having been cancelled because of the Covid pandemic in 2020 and rescheduled to September in 2021.



IMAGE SOURCE,WENDELL TEODORO / AFP
Image caption,Anthony Albanese arrives at a polling station in Carnegie, Melbourne, ahead of his triumph in Australia's election. Mr Albanese, who led the Labor Party to its first election victory in more than a decade, vowed to bring people together, invest in social services and "end the climate wars".

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A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.


IMAGE SOURCE,CHRIS JACKSON / GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,The Queen smiles on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during Trooping the Colour alongside the Prince of Wales, Prince Louis (front, centre), the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Charlotte in London. The Queen said she was "humbled and deeply touched" by the Platinum Jubilee celebrations marking her 70-year reign.



IMAGE SOURCE,CHRISTOPHER FURLONG / GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,A destroyed Russian tank begins to rust in woodland near Kyiv, Ukraine. On the front line, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says his forces have made some gains in fighting in the south-eastern Zaporizhzhia region.



IMAGE SOURCE,VLADYSLAV MUSIIENKO / REUTERS
Image caption,Deminers demonstrate searching for explosive devices using an Ebinger large loop metal detector, outside the town of Ichnia, Ukraine.



IMAGE SOURCE,CHUNG SUNG-JUN / GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and his wife Kim Keon-hee salute during a ceremony marking Korean Memorial Day at the Seoul National cemetery in Seoul, in tribute to those who died during military service in the 1950-53 Korean War.



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Image caption,Brothers Julian and Lincoln Barnwell measure a cannon that was found in the shipwreck of the 340-year-old Gloucester warship, hailed as the most important maritime find since the Mary Rose. The Gloucester ran aground off the coast of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, in 1682, nearly killing the Duke of York, who went on to become King James II of England.



IMAGE SOURCE,MARIO ANZUONI / REUTERS
Image caption,Cast member Laura Dern attends the premiere for the film Jurassic World: Dominion in Los Angeles, California, US.



IMAGE SOURCE,JORGE SILVA / REUTERS
Image caption,A 19-year-old partially blind tiger named Rambo looks on from inside a cage, after being rescued by a team of veterinarians and Wildlife Friends Foundation staff from a bankrupted Phuket Zoo in Thailand.



IMAGE SOURCE,HUSSEIN FALEH / AFP
Image caption,An aerial picture taken by drone shows young Iraqis swimming in the Shatt al-Arab waterway near a shipwreck in the southern city of Basra.



IMAGE SOURCE,JIM LO SCALZO / EPA
Image caption,Actor Matthew McConaughey holds a picture of Uvalde shooting victim Alithia Ramirez as he calls for gun responsibility in the USA. The Texas primary school shooting claimed the lives of 21 people, including 19 young children, and has renewed the US debate over gun laws.



IMAGE SOURCE,SIKDER AHMED / SHUTTERSTOCK
Image caption,Workers dry out golden rice in Manikganj, Bangladesh.

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IMAGE SOURCE,GIOVANNI ARTAVIA CHARPS
Image caption,This photograph was taken by Giovanni Artavia Charps in Weymouth, Dorset

IMAGE SOURCE,JAMES BADICS
Image caption,James Badics took this photograph of Thurne Windmill in Norfolk

IMAGE SOURCE,GRAHAM TAYLOR
Image caption,This photograph was taken by Graham Taylor in Burnley, Lancashire

IMAGE SOURCE,LYNNE FALCONER
Image caption,Lynne Falconer took this photograph of a pond at Thursley National Nature Reserve in Surrey

IMAGE SOURCE,BEN LACEY
Image caption,This photograph was taken by Ben Lacey at Guisborough Priory in North Yorkshire

IMAGE SOURCE,YASMIN SEAMAN
Image caption,Yasmin Seaman took this photograph in the village of Symondsbury, towards Colmer's Hill in West Dorset