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  1. Local residents inspect an area hit by deadly flash floods following heavy rains in Palembayan, Agam regency, West Sumatra province, Indonesia, December 1, 2025

  2. Three people walking past broken trees and blown down houses left by the passage of hurricane Melissa.

    • UK
    Coop store in Guernsey. Brown roof with trolley and blue Coop sign and white and black face of store

  4. Large lit up library on a street at night time. Library has a dome style light blue roof and the library itself is a sandstone yellow lit up by lights

  5. A group of council officials and councillors, and coastal management experts sit in a row before a stage at a meeting in Hemsby Village Hall. Carl Smith, the council leader is standing at a table, holding a microphone. A screen has a projected image on it, mounted on a backdrop of a burgundy coloured curtain.

  7. A row of several dozen protesters all wearing orange high visibility vests on a London street with London busses and police officers in the background

  8. A bearded man, COP president Andre Correa do Lago lies back as several others surround him, looking worried, during a critical moment in the COP30 talks

  9. Indigenous people at a protest. Man in centre wears a headpiece made of features and red dye or ink on fingers

  10. Justin Rowlatt reports from COP30 in Brazil

  11. A woman walks past an infrastructure project under way for COP30 in Belem. She has her hair up and is wearing a grey dress and carrying a black bag. Misaligned posters in white, blue and orange read "Belem Capital Da COP30".

  12. Indigenous people demonstrate. They are dressed in traditional clothing and are visibly angry.

  13. A European otter is captured in the water with a fish in its mouth. The sunlight on the water creates dazzling bursts of light.

    • BBC World Service

  15. An indigenous woman protests in front of a line of soldiers.

  16. workers in orange overalls operate heavy machinery

  17. White 'snow fairy bird' hangs from a branch

  18. A man in a raincoat wades through the floodwaters in Hoi An, carrying two large packs of items wrapped in black trash bags

  19. PhD student Mohammed Siddiqui

  20. A worker stands in front of a chemical factory as it discharges exhaust into the air of Mumbai, India, on Monday, Sept. 13, 2010.

  21. fire in convention centre with security guards dressed in blue running around

  22. A colour photograph showing a large oak tree, taken from the ground and looking up the trunk

  23. People walk on a near empty Konyaalti beach during a weekend lockdown on 06 June, 2021 in Antalya, Turkey.