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  1. A Malagasy official holds a box covered in a red cloth during a ceremony at the French culture ministry to return the skull of King Toera. Behind him are two other officials holding boxes - one is covered in a red, yellow and black stripped material. Out of focus to the right France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati looks on - Tuesday 26 August 2025.

  2. Habab Mohd sitting on a park bench

  3. Botswana's President Duma Boko looks serious - looking to the right of the camera. He's wearing a grey suit and a blue patterned tie.

  4. Cyan Boujee wearing jeans and a fur-lined jean jacket stands in front of two cedar trees and an office building. She is holding her arms out as she addresses the camera.

  5. Dane van Niekerk

  6. From left to right sitting in a row: Love Island USA contestants Olandria Carthen in a strappy red top, Huda Mustafa in a red strapless top with white ribbing, Michelle "Chelley" Bissainthe in a blue strappy top and Iris Kendall in a dusky pink strapless top.

  7. RT television broadcast van is seen parked in front of St. Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin

  8. Pope Leo XIV stands with members of the 'Chagos Refugees Group' of Port Louis on Mauritius in Vatican City

  9. Nigerian soldiers shoot into the air in Maiduguri in Borno State (archive photo)

  10. The raised wooden coffin of one of the dead girls is seen in Lampedusa. Emergency vehicles and responders are in the background, with boats in the harbour, in the night time scene.

  11. A photo of a number of soldiers looking at a fire in front of them

  12. US teenager Trinity Foster wearing a low-cut sequined green dress with a green necklace. She is sitting on the edge of a low wall and behind her is a lake.

  13. A close-up of a model's black heeled boots as she parades in a boxing ring watched by crowds of people in Nairobi, Kenya.

  14. Achi, a chocolate Labrador, is seen with a grey collar and red disk around his neck

  15. Two detectives in mainly white protective clothing (one is wearing a black T-shirt) and facemasks carry a white body bag through bushes with the exhumed remains of one of the suspected victims of a religious cult buried in a shallow grave in Kwa Binzaro village - 21 August 2025

  16. Foreigners wearing facemasks line up at airport check-in counters in Nigeria - some with luggage. The back of an EFCC official wearing a red vest is seen as he looks on at them.

  17. Shatta Wale performing on stage while shirtless and wearing white glasses

  18. Cheta Emba wears a white USA women's rugby jersey and black stretchy hairband during a match. She is holding a rugby ball with brightly-coloured logos on it in her right hand while trying to fend off the tackle of an opponent in green with her other arm. Emba has a look of intense concentration on her face as she braces for the impact

  19. Jersey celebrate a wicket during their 50-over match against Kenya

  20. An aid lorry with a blue tarpaulin that says World Food Programme is travelling on a red dusty road - two other vehicles can be seen behind it on the same road.

  21. Young gorilla held by its keeper in a zoo.

  22. M23 rebel soldiers, men wearing camouflage military uniforms and holding rifles, sit on the back of a pickup truck.

  23. Joe Aribo stands with a football tucked under his left arm and looks directly into the camera while wearing a fuzzy fawn-coloured cardigan and white t-shirt with a black cartoon face on it. Aribo is standing on an astro turf pitch surrounded by a high green chain-link fence. Beyond the fence a park can be seen with blocks of flats beyond that

  24. A head and shoulders shot of Godwin Asediba, who has short hair and a beard. He is smiling and looking straight at the camera.