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  1. Two men in orange hi-vis jackets and safety helmets stand behind a wire fence. To their left is a blue and white Thames Water logo.

  2. A British Steel plant, with steam billowing out of it, behind a row of terrace houses

  3. Brown roofs and leafy green trees sit in front of the squat brown blast furnace smokestacks and industrial pipes and silos of the British Steel plant in Scunthorpe.

  4. People move through the queue for the Entry Exit System process at Fuimicino Airport in Rome, Italy.

  5. A woman wearing a leopard-print dress bends at a table where a man and woman sit. The man is filling out a form. There are mugs on the table with bottles of water. In the background more people sit around tables.

  6. A woman with her head in her hands surrounded by boxes

  7. People visit the Moonshot AI stand, featuring Kimi K3, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 17, 2026.

  8. An aerial view of British Steel's Scunthorpe works

  9. James Watt has a bald head and a beard. He is wearing a blue shirt over a white T-shirt and is sitting in front of a window

  10. Martin Lewis is wearing dark green T-shirt and black-framed glasses. He is wearing headphones and sitting behind a green mic.

  11. Stock photo shows a woman filling up her car with petrol at a station with yellow pumps

  12. Two workers wearing blue hard hats and grey overalls operate computers at a metal workstation on a factory floor. One worker points at a monitor while the other uses a keyboard and mouse. Industrial machinery, a yellow safety railing, and production equipment are visible in the background.

  13. A composite image of Sir David Beckham, a Scotland fan, and Fifa President Gianni Infantino

  14. A composite image of four of the Labour MPs in the running to be the next UK chancellor. From left to right: Yvette Cooper wearing a blue jacket and blue blouse stood in front of green foliage; Wes Streeting wearing a navy blue suit, light blue shirt, and dark red tie; Shabana Mahmood smiling and wearing glasses, a pink jacket, black blouse, and holding a red folder; and Ed Miliband wearing a blue suit and blue tie with a white shirt.

  15. Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, from left, US President Donald Trump, Howard Lutnick, US commerce secretary, and Chris Wright, US energy secretary, during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, June 22, 2026.

  16. A woman speaking into a mic. She has blonde hair, sunglasses, a black strappy dress and tattoos.

  17. Man and woman wearing sunglasses smiling in front of a waterfall

  18. White House teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez sets up a teleprompter before US President Donald Trump speaks at the Faith & Freedom Coalition's 2026 Policy Conference at the Washington Hilton in June.

  19. A bright yellow ticket under a car windscreen wiper reads "penalty charge notice do not ignore: it is an offence for an unauthorised person to remove or interfere with this notice".

  20. A silhouette of a steel worker

  21. Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia (right), poses for photographs with TSMC boss CC Wei smiling with their thumbs up. Both men are dressed in red polo t-shirts

  22. A woman wearing a white and blue striped top taps her bank card on a card reader to pay for food and drinks in a cafe.

  23. Next store signage.

  24. Two women standing in the street talking. One is wearing a blue t shirt and the other is wearing a red coat