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  1. A close-up headshot of Rigobert Song looking sternly into the camera while wearing a black jacket, white shirt and with green lanyard around his neck

  2. The severed head of from the statue of Nana Akufo-Addo, bronze in colour, lying on the ground. There are fragments of other parts of the statue on the dirt ground

  3. A composite image shows the Sea Story, a luxury white dive boat, at sea in the background, with three of the survivors who spoke to the BBC: Hissora Gonzalez, Lucianna Galetta and Sarah Martin.

  4. This aerial view shows an open mine shaft in Stilfontein.

  5. Alice Nkom wearing a yellow headscarf and shirt raises a hand as she speaks to an unseen interviewer.

  6. Artist's impression of what the cathedral will look like

  7. A close-up photo Maria Sarungi Tsehai during the press briefing in Kenya's capital Nairobi

  8. A military aircraft at an airport

  9. The Sahara desert is seen in a sweeping landscape photograph

  10. A man wearing a green shirt celebrates on the shoulders of another man

  11. A crowd, including police officers behind yellow tape looking on at a giant metal ring which fell from space on to farmland in Mukuku, Kenya

  12. An African girl holds her stomach, symbolising pain or hunger

  13. Angela Tabiri pointing at a blackboard with chalk calculations behind her

  14. A woman dressed in a purple outfit with a matching gele (headdress) sits on a chair and speaks.

  15. Eric Chelle, wearing a black T-shirt and with his back half turned to camera, points his left arm out in front of him as he gestures during a football match

  16. A generic crime scene - no entry sign is seen in front of a blurred background. The yellow and blue tape is restricting entry to an active scene being investigated by police.

  17. Peter Odemwingie wears a blue jacket and white cap as he stands side on and looks into the camera while standing on a golf green with a yellow and blag flag in the background to the right

  18. The son of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, Major General Muhoozi Kainerugaba attends a ceremony in which he was promoted from Brigadier to Major General at the country's military headquarters in Kampala on May 25, 2016.

  19. A stylised composite image on a blue background with white golf balls on it, the image contains two small pictures in celluloid film style boxes of Peter Odemwingie in cap playing golf, while there is also a small image of a shirtless Odemwingie with Lionel Messi post-match, and a main central image of Odemwingie in West Brom kit smiling into the camera and holding up three fingers

  20. A man with blue, red and white face paint smiles broadly at Cape Town's Tweede Nuwe Jaar festival - Saturday 4 January 2025

  21. Emergency workers survey some of the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103. There are several people standing around some of the wreckage of the plane.

  22. Benin's soldiers leave the Ouidah Military Camp to participate in the joint military exercise 05 December 2004 in Ouidah during a joint military exercise tagged 'RECAMP IV'.

  23. Venancio Mondlane (centre) wearing a black suit and a flower necklace walks with people upon his arrival at the Maputo International Airport in Maputo

  24. Capt Ibrahim Traore wearing military fatigues and with a holstered pistol, greets President John Mahama.