Niamey, Niger
Niger’s president, Mohamed Bazoum (right), photographed for the first time since the coup in his country, with Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno (left), the president of Chad
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Mies, Switzerland
Mayeul van den Broek pilots the SP80 sailboat during a traction test on Lake Geneva, ahead of an attempt to break the world sailing speed record next year in the south of France. Developed with the support of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), the sleek vessel aims to reach 80 knots (148 km/h) using only wind power. Started by three sailing enthusiasts, the project team now has about 50 members including students and recent EPFL graduates, with an average age of only 23
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Dorset, UK
Protesters against the Bibby Stockholm immigration barge are seen outside Portland port
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Westerhausen, Germany
A sunflower labyrinth takes the shape of a horse’s head and flowing mane
Photograph: Matthias Schräder/AP
Aberdeenshire, UK
Rishi Sunak visiting the Shell St Fergus gas plant in Peterhead. The prime minister said approving new licences for drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea was ‘entirely consistent with our plan to get to net zero’
Photograph: Euan Duff/PA
Edinburgh, UK
The cast from Dark Noon rehearse part of their show. A theatrical experience performed by seven South African actors which questions Hollywood’s glorification of the wild west, Dark Noon begins on a film set for a spaghetti western, a pastiche of Sergio Leone’s The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
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Merseyside, UK
Louise Brewis cleans the Minton floor at St George’s Hall, Liverpool, before it goes on display to the public. The rarely seen handcrafted Victorian mosaic of over 30,000 Minton tiles was laid in 1852, but was covered by a wooden floor in the 1860s to preserve it against damage from dancing and events. The wooden floor takes three days to lift by traditional flooring specialists and the tiles will take a further two days to clean. It has been four years since the tiles were last revealed and it is only the 10th time they have been put on display since the hall reopened in 2007
Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA
Bursa, Turkey
Storks perch on branches of a tree near the Hamzabey dam, which hosts hundreds of storks every year, in Inegöl district. Storks that live in and around the dam and have not reached reproductive maturity feed on the agricultural lands and watersides
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Nevada, US
Members of the Crane Valley Hotshots fire crew set a back fire as the York fire burns in the Mojave national preserve. The York Fire has burned over 70,000 acres (28,300 hectares) of land, Joshua trees and yucca in the preserve, and has crossed the state line from California into Nevada
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Veszprém, Hungary
American singer and songwriter Iggy Pop performs during the VEB 2023 European capital of culture programme
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Melbourne, Australia
Australia fans celebrate the team’s fourth goal during the Fifa Women’s World Cup 2023 Group B match between Canada and Australia at the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
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British Columbia, Canada
Local people gather to watch firefighting efforts amid heavy smoke from the Eagle Bluff wildfire after it crossed the Canada-US border from the state of Washington and prompted evacuation orders in Osoyoos
Photograph: Jesse Winter/Reuters
Mentougou, China
People look at a riverbank and road damaged by floodwaters in the Mentougou district of western Bejing as continuous rainfall triggers alerts in the city
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Fuzhou, Fujian province, China
Paramilitary police officers evacuate residents stranded by floodwaters in Fuqing city after Typhoon Doksuri made landfall and brought heavy rainfall
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