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  1. Smoke from massive wildfires in Canada engulfed the New York City skyline, reducing visibility and casting an orange haze over the New York City, United States on July 16, 2026.

  2. A US Park Police officer sits on a motorbike in front of the Washington Monument, with American flags in the background

  3. A fox cub with a large white dressing covering most of its body and around its neck. It is looking directly ahead with pricked ears and standing on a white sheet.

  4. Cars and trucks of various colours queuing in a narrow street on an industrial estate. The queue stretches back as far as we can see. In the foreground is a patch of green grass. In the background are green trees.

  5. A man in a green jumper and wellies is walking on Exmoor away from the camera.

  6. A person wearing a dark diving suit and gloves is standing on a boat and holding up a long, corroded green metal sword-like object, possibly recovered from the seabed. The boat's wooden deck is wet, with a mesh bag and diving equipment nearby, while blue sea water and the boat's railing can be seen in the background.

  7. Indian space startup Skyroot Aerospace launches its Vikram-1 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, 18 July 2026

  8. This image has two halves. The top half has a girl on the left and a boy on the right. They are standing in the doorway of a shop. The girl is holding a poster which has a blue water drop symbol with a blue smiley face on it and some words. The words read: 'free water refill here'. The girl has brown hair and is wearing a black t-shirt and earrings. They boy has shoulder length light brown hair. He is wearing a black short sleeved shirt, a black scarf with white stars on, a black hat and glasses. He is holding a multi-coloured metal water bottle. The bottom half of the image shows a large plastic water container with a tap on a wooden bench in the porch of a church. The same poster the girl is holding in the top half of the image is lying flat on the bench alongside the container.

  9. On the right is turquoise water and on the left is a bright yellow/orange bloom of water

  10. A Bittern stalking for prey in shallow water during the late evening sun

  11. A close-up of an emu looking at the camera, with a bright blue sky behind him. His face and neck are visible in the picture.

  12. Man walks through road and looks up at sign that says 118 degrees and 05:15 pm

  13. Split screen. Left, Magnolia. Right, Magnolia getting stolen.

  14. Cooling towers release water vapor at the Jaenschwalde lignite-fired power station in Jaenschwalde, Germany

  15. People pictured in a street in San Salvador, El Salvador's capital, following an evacuation

  16. A young woman in red overalls and a crash helmet sits behind the steering wheel of a soapbox.

  17. A woman cools herself with a handheld electric fan

  18. A grey squirrel in a tree

  19. A group of people observe a flooded road

  20. A red panda walks along a fence at Jersey Zoo

  21. An artist's impression of exoplanet LHS 1140b, a large reddish-brown rocky planet filling the foreground, edged with a faint blue-white atmospheric glow. In the dark background, a small red star glows brightly, with a second, closer planet shown as a tiny black silhouette crossing in front of it

  22. A dolphin fin poking out of the water surface as it swims.

  23. Crocodile.

  24. A woman with a suitcase walks towards a passenger aeroplane