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  1. Peres Jepchirchir in a pink top with arms outstretched, breaking a ribbon as she crosses the finish line at the Sydney marathon

  2. Splti-screen showing a destroyed room on the left, and correspondent Barbara Plett Usher on the right

  3. Peter Mutharika wearing a black suit and dotted tie speaks during an interview in Lilongwe, Malawi

  4. Three patients in a hospital. Two have bandaged heads, while a child sitting on a chair has a dressing on his head.

  5. A laboratory technologist wearing protective equipment as she prepares to enter the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Laboratory at Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda

  6. Lewis Hamilton sits in the news conference in Austin

  7. A mugshot of Abu Agila Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi. He has a white beard and is staring straight ahead. He is wearing a prison overall of some form.

  8. A masked man draped in a South African flag stands in the street as onlookers gather behind him, holding a slingshot in one hand and a stick in the other.r

  9. Paul Stirling

  10. Eva Greztmacher looks up in sunglasses. A blue sky and desert scrubland can be seen behind her. She is wearing a necklace with a ring as a pendant.

  11. A display at Kendal Museum which features heads of animals such as zebras and antelopes, affixed to the wall. Items are also displayed inside glass cabinets and include other stuffed animals and skeletons.

  12. An official takes a temperature as part of Ebola preventative measures in East Africa.

  13. Two nurses in white and green PPE prepare to receive an Ebola patient during a simulation exercise at the special isolation ward the the Kenyatta National hospital in Nairobi on 12 June 2026.

  14. A health worker, wearing full protective clothing and gloves, puts on a face mask

  15. Former President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia seated in a white robe seated at a table.

  16. Medical workers - two men in white coats and a nurse in a pink uniform - treat injured people at Ameth Bek Hospital on the floor after a drone strike on a market in the disputed Abyei region along the border between South Sudan and Sudan, 19 October 2026.

  17. Janine Lochrenberg, 65, is seen smiling as she poses in front of some trees

  18. Paul Mackenzie, wearing a red, black and white striped shirt, sits in court and looks at the camera.

  19. Residents wait to get clean drinking water from tankers in Tshwane

  20. Paul Mackenzie wears a red, black and white striped shirt stood up infront of a number of seated people.

  21. Racing Bulls drivers Arvid Lindblad and Liam Lawson while walking through the paddock at the 2026 Belgian Grand Prix

  22. El Mansouri, wearing a black blazer over a white shirt, stands in front of her party's slogan, written in Arabic in white lettering against a blue background.

  23. Seb Fisher

  24. A close shot of a bald man staring at the camera. Two other men can be seen behind him