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  • Kite surfers at South Beach take advantage of the weather in Troon, Scotland

    A surfing Santa and kite surfers in Scotland: photos of the day – Monday

  • Dachshunds at the annual Hyde Park Sausage Walk in London,

    A sausage dog walk and a Maasai high jump: photos of the weekend

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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    Bionic arms and a lizard-baiting parakeet: photos of the day – Friday

    The Guardian’s staff select photographs from around the world
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Latest

  • A boy sits near the ruins of homes, in the aftermath of Cyclone Chido, within Labattoir, in Mayotte, France

    Cyclone Chido devastates French territory of Mayotte – in pictures

  • photo, Half The Moon at half phase. On the daylit side we see titanium- rich (purple) and iron-rich (red) material, prominent crater Copernicus and the smooth lunar maria (solid lava seas).

    Galaxies, auroras and a cosmic bat: Southern Sky astrophotography exhibition 2024

  • A modern home in Clapham, London built alongside traditional period townhouses.

    Homes for sale with an air source heat pump – in pictures

  • A composite of fashion-focused gift ideas for the festive period

    Don’t leave it too late: 35 last-minute gifts – in pictures

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The picture essay

  • Baba William on Courtown beach.

    ‘People are very welcoming’: asylum seekers find support in Irish town – photo essay

  • A fisher throws fish into the Irish sea from the back of a trawler

    ‘We’ve heard these promises before’: is this the end of the line for Irish fishing?

    Devastated by quota changes post-Brexit, fishers are pinning all their hopes on Ireland’s politicians as they head into a general election
  • Two young men in front of a block of flats present their forearms to the camera

    Hungary’s most deprived people donate blood plasma to survive – photo essay

    The documentary photographer Béla Váradi spent months photographing the lives of people who see plasma donation as a way to get by
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From the agencies

  • A herd of elephants consisting mainly of females and their young arrive at a watering pond for a drink at the Ngutuni wildlif conservancy on the outskirts of Voi in Kenya

    The bee project helping to tackle elephant-human conflict in Kenya – in pictures

  • Prisoners talk to other prisoners through the gaps of a cell

    Life inside Paraguay’s overcrowded prisons – in pictures

    Paraguay has launched an operation to address the problems plaguing its prison system, including internal gang control, but one problem in particular has proven difficult to deal with: overcrowding. Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd gained access to five different prisons to see how their inmates live
  • A woman poses with her twins

    The world twins festival in Nigeria – in pictures

    Nigeria’s ‘twins capital of the world’ Igbo-Ora holds its annual festival to celebrate the town’s unusually high incidence of multiple births
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