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  1. Five men wearing thermal trousers and colourful coats, standing on the rocky peak of a mountain with their arms in the air. The sky is a bright blue with fluffy clouds, and the backdrop is a mountain range covered in snow.

  2. Presenter Rachel Naylor is superimposed on top of an artist's impression of Homo floresiensis or 'Hobbit'

  3. Head and shoulder shot of Paetongtarn Shinawatra, standing in front of a microphone

  4. Buildings submerged in flood water

  5. Thailand's suspended prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra arrives for a press conference in Bangkok on July 1, 2025. She can be seen smiling as she walks through a doorway in a dark green blazer which she is wearing over a white shirt and white and blue floral skirt.

  6. Ousted Thai prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra (C) attends a press conference to address her removal from office

  7. Winner of the International Booker Prize 2025 author Banu Mushtaq poses with the trophy during the award ceremony at Tate Modern in London, United Kingdom on May 20, 2025. The International Booker Prize is awarded annually for the finest single work of fiction from around the world which has been translated into English and published in the UK and Ireland.

  8. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (left), wearing a suit and tie, greets Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right), wearing a sleeveless jacket and a kurta, before a group photo during the Group of Seven (G7) Summit at the Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada on 17 June 2025

  9. An Indonesian protester wearing a red jacket, black trousers, a face mask and clear goggles hurls a rock as a tear gas canister explodes in a cloud of white smoke behind me

  10. The photo is black and white. A young girl in striped pyjamas plays the violin looking down.

  11. A scene from the animation Kpop Demon Hunters, where three young women - K-pop idols - are dressed in shiny costumes and performing on a stage. They are posing with their arms outstretched.

  12. A group of protesters hold up placards during a rally. One of them reads: "Stop discriminate Asian Americans, no Asian hate"

  13. Soyed Noor (centre) and some of the other refugees speak to the BBC via a video call from Myanmar

  14. A close-up of the lower half of a man's face as he exhales a white cloud of vape smoke, while he clutches a black coloured vape close to his face

  15. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives at the G20 leaders summit on June 28, 2019 in Osaka, Japan.

  16. White House senior counselor for trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro, who is wearing a black blazer, white shirt and red tie, speaks to the press in Washington DC on 6 August

  17. Jay Singh is sat in his grandma's kitchen, head height with the kitchen counter. He is wearing a black cap and a black turtleneck jumper. He is looking up at his grandma as she cooks on the hob while wearing green and pink traditional south Asian clothing. In the kitchen are various common kitchen item such as a kettle, toaster, oven and kitchen knives.

  18. Kim Jong un and Xi Jinping

  19. Split screen of BBC reporter Tessa Wong wearing red on the left and AI-generated eruption of Mount Fuji erupting

  20. Group of Japanese women holding up their phones up to record and take photos of a scene in front of them

  21. In this photo illustration, a user (not in picture) checks the Dream11 application of the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament, on his mobile phone in New Delhi.

  22. Treated image of Zhenhao Zou featuring his police mugshot. He is looking straight at the camera with a serious expression. He has straight dark hair with a long fringe and is wearing a white t-shirt and black shirt.

  23. A car, motorbike and people walking - all partially submerged by flood waters on a street.

  24. US President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC on 23 April 2025. A red baseball hat embroidered with "Make America Great Again" in white thread sits to the left of the document, which shows Trump's distinctive signature