A baby orangutan plays to the crowd — and other news in pictures
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Indian dancers rehearse for the Bwisagu festival, marking the Bodo people’s new year, at a stadium in Guwahati in the northeastern state of Assam
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The Princess of Wales, patron of the Rugby Football Union, hosted a reception at Windsor Castle for the England Women’s Rugby team following their September World Cup win. Kate, who has championed the right of girls to play sports traditionally reserved for boys, said it was a “great game” that all her children, including Princess Charlotte, enjoyed playing
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The Patrouille Suisse, the aerobatics team of the Swiss air force, streak past the Eiger before practice begins in Wengen for the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup men’s downhill race
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Fallow deer at sunrise in Phoenix Park, Dublin. Many of these animals, members of a 600-strong wild herd, are descendants of those imported from Britain when the park was established in 1662 by the Duke of Ormond
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A swimmer knocks out laps at the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center in Pasadena, California
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A Ukrainian boy shares a frozen lake with the gulls on a frosty winter’s day in Kyiv
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This aardvark calf was the first to be born at Nashville Zoo in Tenessee, arriving on New Year’s Day to mother Karanga and father Winsol, weighing less than 2kg
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Luminiscence, an immersive video projection concert, came to Manchester Cathedral and featured the Collectives Gospel Choir singing songs associated with the city, including the Verve’s Bitter Sweet Symphony and Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division
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Fishing boats are picked out by light from a flare at Cardon refinery, the first to begin operations on Venezuela’s Paraguana peninsula in 1949. Oil and gas spillages are a frequent problem for the fishing industry, which is the main source of food and work for people on the coast of Falcón state
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Takayasu Akira, left, who has the elite rank of sekiwake, defeats Hakunofuji Tetsuya of maegashira No 3, a division of top rank and file wrestlers, during the 15-day New Year Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo
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This Amur leopard cub was born two months ago in Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna. The species is critically endangered in the wild, where fewer than 100 remain in Russia and northeastern China
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This shot of Israel’s Meital Maayan Sumkin competing in last year’s Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Rio de Janeiro won a gold medal for photographer Buda Mendes in this year’s World Sports Photography Awards
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Bella Hadid, one of the stars of The Beauty, a new sci-fi horror TV series about a drug that makes users sexually attractive but has terrible side-effects, attended the premiere after-party at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
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A protester in Berlin smokes a cigarette lit from a burning poster of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a demonstration in support of the Iranian uprising against the country’s regime
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A weaver ant foraging in a Vietnam forest finds a dangling water droplet. The ants live in trees, use larval silk to weave together leaves to make nests, and defend their territories so aggressively that indigenous farmers use them as a natural form of pest control
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Skaters at Sydney Town Hall perform Mama Does Derby, a play about a single mother who rebels by joining a roller derby team while trying to maintain her relationship with her sensible 16-year-old daughter
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Taylah Preston of Australia defeated top-seeded Emma Raducanu of Great Britain in straight sets in the quarter-final of the 2026 Hobart International tournament
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A grey whale and her calf were filmed by a drone near Newport Beach, California, during their annual migration from feeding grounds in Alaska to the warmer calving lagoons of Baja Mexico. Many females give birth while still on the journey south
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Untitled (L. p. 50) by Keith Haring passes in front of Horizon Shadow by Anish Kapoor. The works will be auctioned at Phillips in London this month
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A white-tailed eagle glides in to scare away a crow tucking into a carcass in Gostynin Landscape Park, Poland
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