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Highlights of the day

  • A long flow of lava leading to flames in the distance

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • Aerial shot of molten lava flowing across the landscape with a road running through the middle

    Molten lava and piles of cuddly toys: photos of the day – Friday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A snowy scene featuring a viaduct and mountains

    Christmas elves and Highland snow: photos of the day – Thursday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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  • Kōtuitui Terraces, Stage 2 by Crosson Architects

    Elegant, quirky and unique: New Zealand architecture awards 2024 – in pictures

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    Sparkle season: what to wear for a winter light trail

  • A herd of red deer look out from the bracken on an autumn morning in Richmond Park, London, UK.

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a naughty weasel, guard bees and a Sopranos bear

  • FHH e charger Leatherhead

    Homes for sale with electric car chargers in England and Scotland – in pictures

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The picture essay

  • An upland farmer

    A life of hard work on the hills of a Welsh valley – photo essay

  • A torn poster shows the heads of two veiled women and Arabic script

    How the Taliban are erasing Afghanistan’s women – photo essay

    The journalist Mélissa Cornet and the photographer Kiana Hayeri met more than 100 Afghan girls and women in seven provinces, and found resistance and defiance but also despair
  • David Logan seen through a protective screen preparing to weld the internal working into a still.

    ‘Every hammer blow makes a difference’: handcrafting whisky stills in Scotland – photo essay

    A visit to McMillan Coppersmiths in East Lothian, which makes copper pot stills and columns for the distilled spirits industry
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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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