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  1. A wreckage of a bus from an accident

  2. A woman in a green tabard uses a thermometer gun to check the temperature of a school pupil who has their back to the camera.

  3. A person in PPE and full head covering is having their goggles adjusted by someone, with blue protective gloves, out-of-focus in the foreground. The green scrubs and hair covering of that person can be seen on the right of the picture.

  4. Lake Malawi and fishing boats

  5. A fireman up a ladder removing a grill from a window from which black smoke is billowing. He is gesturing to other fire officials below who are pointing - some wearing red hard hats.

  6. A monkey on the branch of a tree, monkey has black fur and a black face with particularly striking pinkish-orange lips.

  7. Left, a woman with shoulder length black hair smiles. Right, a monkey.

  8. Youri Tielemans celebrates

  9. A hand fans out several Ghana Cards, showing the front and back of the national identity card

  10. Team Nigeria athletes

  11. Policemen in black anti-riot vests walk with anti-migrant protesters demanding better business opportunities for South Africans in Bellville - July 2026

  12. A close-up shot of Ernest Bai Koroma's face. He wears glasses and a suit.

  13. Vusimusi "Cat" Matlala, with the collar of a Fendi shirt sticking out above his jumper, gesticulates as he talks into a microphone.

  14. A Rastafarian men holde a cigarette from which smoke is rising.

  15. Nigerian man Adenigi Adeyemi Matthew dressed in traditional ‘Babar Riga’ gown, wearing glasses and a hat, sitting in an office

  16. An orange sign at the UK border that says "welcome to the UK" and advises people of passport checks.

  17. Maha is wearing a red life jacket over dark watersports clothing stands on a sandy beach facing the camera. Footprints trail across the sand toward the shoreline, with calm blue water, a surfboard in the distance, and a small offshore structure visible on the horizon beneath a clear sky.

  18. Aston Villa president of business Francesco Calvo and Janet Karemera, CEO of the Rwanda Convention Bureau, hold up an Aston Villa shirt with Visit Rwanda as sponsor

  19. A close up of a man holding a woman's hand with a diamond engagement ring

  20. A close-up of a mud-stained hand holding a roughly circular gold nugget

  21. A man is standing in a court dock. He is wearing a dark green top; his eyes appear bloodshot.

  22. A side view of Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma as he stands in court. He is wearing a black puffer jacket and looks straight ahead of him.

  23. A composite triptych image made up of three vertical columns which show, from left to right: Cristiano Ronaldo in action for Portugal in a red shirt with white number seven on the chest; Cameroon's Roger Milla, with his face turned away from the camera, in green shirt and red shorts dancing next to a yellow corner flag at Italia 90; Lionel Messi in action for Argentina in a classic home kit with blue and white vertical stripes. Both Ronaldo and Messi appear to be looking in towards Milla in the middle of the image

  24. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo wearing a beige military cap with a round red logo.