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Highlights of the day

  • Caroline Marks's hand passes through a blue wave as it breaks over her

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • A colossal painted head of a woman partially submerged in the water by the bank

    Artworks in the Seine and a Swedish shipwreck: photos of the day – Friday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A prosthetic eye

    Cards from Princess Diana and a prosthetic eye: photos of the day – Thursday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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Latest

  • Asha Puthli, singer, songwriter.

    Original Observer Photography

  • ‘Under the sea' by Ella Lee Fowler age 6, winner 5–8 years ”I painted my best friend Avelyn because she is so nice. I think Avelyn would like to go under the water in the Kuromi helmet, to swim with the piranha and the queenfish.”

    Young Archibald prize 2024: Australia’s award for child artists – in pictures

  • Count Clary delivers the opening speech at the Paris Games in 1924

    Memories of the 1924 Paris Olympics opening ceremony – in pictures

  • A pair of harvest mice greet each other on wheat stems in Dorset, UK

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: an escaped tortoise, friendly harvest mice and a giraffe on the move

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The picture essay

  • A hand holds a photograph up to the camera of a severely emaciated man sitting with his back to the camera on a bed

    ‘One goal is to destroy Ukrainian identity’: the haunting images of Russia’s prisoners of war

  • Kim Duckworth with Fletcher who has global development delay which affects all areas of his life.

    ‘There’s something special about making a difference’: community nurses step up – a photo essay

    Photographer Anna Gordon spent time with four Queen’s Nurses across the UK and documented the life-changing role they play in society
  • A man wearing a baseball cap stoops down and reaches into a plastic bag to collect cans and bottles.

    He ‘redeems’ the trash New Yorkers throw away, finding value – and opportunity – in waste

    Pedro Romero is one of hundreds of thousands of informal waste workers the world over, from Paris to Bangalore
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From the agencies

  • A boy touches a baby giraffe in western Kenya

    Giraffe relocation in Kenya – in pictures

  • A person examines a green emerald

    From trash to treasure: emerald hunters in Colombia – in pictures

    Every year, hundreds of emerald hunters dig through mining debris in Las Animas River, in the foothills of the eastern Andes mountain range. Colombia is by far the world’s largest producer of the precious stones, and the mining municipality of Muzo is known as the emerald capital of the world
  • Triptych of Donald Trump supporters

    ‘He’s gonna save America’: Trump supporters at the RNC – in pictures

    Supporters of the presidential nominee dressed up for the final day of the Republican national convention in Milwaukee
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