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  1. A man lies in a hospital bed, covered with a white blanket. His face is very bruised and there are a number of drips and monitors visible in the background. A man holds a compress to his head. A woman is bending down to look at him, holding one of his hands.

  2. A Chinese flag on a pole, fluttering against a grey building

  3. Two men wearing white scarfs and traditional Indian outfits walking with policemen who are wearing uniform

  4. Blue signage of Voice of America seen outside its headquarters in Washington, DC

  5. Shilpa, a woman care worker, told the BBC she had taken out a bank loan at a 13% interest rate to pay the agent for her visa

  6. Helen Glover holding up her OBE medal and smiling. She is wearing a cream dress.

  7. A street on fire, seen with people, including police, overlooking the blaze.

  8. A small boat with a large fire seen on board

  9. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seen wearing a grey suit, with US President Donald Trump in a blue suit and a checked red tie, meeting at the White House in Washington DC on 13 February 2025.

  10. Toyah Cordingley holding a box and standing in front of a colourful wall

  11. A customer wearing a mask and winter jacket browses through products at a supermarket in Lianyungang, in eastern China's Jiangsu province on January 9, 2025. She is standing in an aisle with a trolley in front of her, flanbked by shelves with yellow-colour discount promos on them.

  12. Indian woman voter

  13. Tall orange flames rise into the sky on a small red, white and blue boat in the water off Koh Tao

  14. Lee Shau-kee seen at a press conference addressing his retirement in 2019

  15. Prime Minister of New Zealand Christopher Luxon (in black and white suit) with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi (in blue and white Indian attire), seen with multi-coloured flowers in the background.

  16. A woman carrying an umbrella walking past a giant Taiwan flag

  17. A Pakistani labourer carries a sack of rice at a warehouse in Karachi on April 18, 2008. Pakistan may export 15 percent less rice this year after an ongoing power crisis affected milling, a senior official in the world's fifth biggest rice exporting nation.

  18. Three sisters dressed in Saris with colour on their face

  19. Girl dressed in orange with coloured powder on her hands and face

  20. A woman is standing in the middle of the image, and has blue and green powder on her hair, face and white top. She is laughing at the camera. There are other people standing around her who are also covered in multiple coloured powders.

  21. A model at Shivan and Narresh show in Kashmir

  22. A man and a woman covered in colourful powder smile and pose while holding a sign that says Happy Holi.

  23. A woman wearing a royal blue saree with green prints stands in front of heaps of raw yellow turmeric with a pastel orange bandana on her head.

  24. A crowd of people, some with their hands in the air, covered in colour for Holi festival