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  1. President Donald Trump meets his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin on the tarmac.

  2. Robert F Kennedy Jr in blue striped jacket with light blue shirt and dark blue printed tie looks up from a table where he sits behind a microphone and coffee cup

  3. In Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 15, 2025, families of Ukrainian prisoners of war and activists hold a rally outside the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv under the slogan ''Prisoner exchange, not territories'' ahead of the Trump-Putin talks.

  4. Anthony Zurcher on the left and Steve Rosenberg on the right.

  5. California Governor Gavin Newsom shouts behind a podium that bears a sign that says Election Rigging Response Act. A crowd of supporters holds signs behind him.

  6. Smoke rises from burnt-out cars which are scattered across a road in Druzhkivka, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine

  7. Vladimir Putin hands a football to Donald Trump during a meeting in Helsinki, Finland, in July 2018

  8. A close-up black and white photo of a woman with curly hair wearing a naval cap. She has a cigarette between her fingers and is holding a uniformed sailor below her, kissing him passionately on the lips during the VJ Day celebrations in the middle of a crowded New York City.

  9. A screengrab of a video shows a man holding a wrapped sandwich over his head while standing in front of law enforcement agents

  10. President Trump looking out of the window of his limousine as he takes a call, driver with sun glasses on it the front seat, surround by a blue border and a BBC Verify logo in the top right corner.

  11. First Lady Melania Trump

  12. A man is seen in a swollen river about to be sucked under a bridge

  13. A still from a video showing the arrest of William McNeil Jr in Jacksonville on 19 February

  14. Woman feeds baby with USAID sign in background

  15. FBI agents are followed by protesters in the U-street neighbourhood on August 13, 2025 in Washington, DC

  16. A map showing Alaska circled in red

  17. A handwritten page signed by Hernan Cortes

  18. Travis Kelce holds the new Taylor Swift vinyl LP, with the top half of the cover art visible (it shows a picture of Taylor Swift looking at the camera with the words 'the life of' visible), and looks at Taylor Swift who sits next to him talking and looking at him while they appear behind microphones and with headphones on during the recording of the New Heights podcast.

  19. A soldier erecting a barricade outside a government building

  20. First responders use a raft to try to rescue people in floodwaters

  21. Sylvester Stallone, wearing a black tuxedo, looks into the camera unsmiling

  22. JD Vance stands waving at a lectern in front of a black US military plane in a hangar at RAF Fairford - he wears a blue suit jacket and white shire. The lectern has two microphones and the emblem of the US Vice President's Office

  23. Venus Williams reacts during the 2025 Washington Open

  24. Alaska glacier is pictured.