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  • Two horses cross a snowy stream amid falling snow and bare, frosted trees

    Strong, silent types? Meet the puesteros of Chile – in pictures

    Pie Aerts’s striking images of horsemen who live an extremely solitary existence reveal hidden stories of loneliness, alcoholism and a fading heritage

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  • Niall Egan and Monique Jonas in Richard Alston's, Voices and Light Footsteps @ Sadler's Wells. Richard Alston Dance Company. (Opening 7&8-03-20) ©Tristram Kenton 03/20 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Poetry in motion: Richard Alston’s spellbinding dances – in pictures

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  • Amsterdam, the Netherlands ‘A view of the Amstel River. A positive thing about the flat Dutch landscape is that we always see a lot of sky and clouds. If the clouds are reflected by water, it becomes magic.’

    Time to reflect and gentle giraffes – readers’ best photographs

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  • Two women with their back to the camera look at a wall covered in photographs of missing people

    Back to school in Haiti and Nepal’s missing people: photos of the day – Tuesday

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  • An image from Souleymane Bachir Diaw's show called Sutura of the artist resting on a pillow

    Scarves, hijabs and a grand boubou: unmasking identity – in pictures

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  • Women view the widened Trishuli River from a rocky bank after flash floods in Nepal

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

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  • A Filipino bride walks the aisle of St John the Baptist Parish in floodwaters at Hagonoy, Bulacan

    A tunnel rescue and a flooded wedding: photos of the day – Friday

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  • Nair Schinca and NicolĂĄs Schell perform

    Tango championships and a downed drone: photos of the day – Thursday

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  • Two men at a window in the foreground watch a thick cloud of ash and smoke rising a distant volcano

    Back to school in Cuba and a volcanic eruption: photos of the day – Wednesday

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  • Beatrice, 28, has been working as a gondolier for one year, pictured during a shift operating the traghetto gondola that crosses the Grand Canal.

    Memory of water: the women reshaping Venice – in pictures

  • Workers load plastic bottles into a truck so that they can be returned to distributors at Sure We Can's recycling redemption center in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. CREDIT: Bryan Anselm for The Guardian and Center for Contemporary Documentation

    The plastic waste overtaking New York – and the people trying to curb it

  • Rio de Janeiro’s Ballroom Scene: Performance, Kinship and BelongingRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL — 9 JULY 2023: Lua Brainer vogues during Ocupação Noite das Estrelas, an artistic project celebrating LGBTQIAPN+ memory and presence in MarĂ©. Brainer, a femme queen, is a co-creator and leader of Ballroom na MarĂ©, an initiative that strengthens ballroom culture within the favela.

    Performance and belonging: Rio de Janeiro’s ballroom scene – photo essay

  • A soldier firing to shoot down a Russian FPV-drone.

    On Donetsk’s ‘life or death’ highway with the Khyzhak brigade – photo essay

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    The Kettlewell scarecrow festival – in pictures

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    International Cowboy Day celebrations in Nairobi – in pictures

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  • A woman inside a green-lit 'pay here' hut

    A Hopping good time: one of Europe’s largest travelling funfairs returns to Newcastle – in pictures

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  • A drone view shows a sports field known as the Field of the Gods, inside the crater of the Teoca volcano

    Fields of the Gods: Mexico’s football pitches from above – photo essay

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