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• Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest

  01-10-2026 01:10 via BBC News
  
  Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest.
  
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• Nebula image wins Royal Observatory competition

  18-09-2026 07:12 via BBC News
  
  Ali Alobaidly is named Astronomy Photographer of the Year for his image of the Shark Nebula.
  
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• From Marilyn Monroe to Sabrina Carpenter - Bob Mackie's designs in pictures

  15-09-2026 04:53 via BBC News
  
  Beyoncé, Cher, Elton John and Miley Cyrus have all worn Mackie's glittery ensembles.
  
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• In pictures: The dotty world of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama

  27-08-2026 11:23 via BBC News
  
  Kusama was known for creating extraordinary immersive worlds that delighted millions of visitors.
  
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• Dolly Parton: A life in pictures

  25-08-2026 20:34 via BBC News
  
  The singer rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most beloved entertainers in the world.
  
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• Once-in-a-generation solar eclipse wows millions in UK and Europe

  12-08-2026 23:53 via BBC News
  
  More than 95% of the Sun was covered by the Moon in Cornwall, while parts of Spain experienced the magic of a total eclipse.
  
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• Stunning photos capture July's Buck Moon over the UK

  30-07-2026 10:31 via BBC News
  
  Skygazers captured brilliant photos of July's full Moon as it rose over the UK on Wednesday.
  
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• Pictures show scale of drought across England as rivers dry up

  29-07-2026 18:56 via BBC News
  
  Parks are parched and reservoirs diminished as drought is declared in more than half of England.
  
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• Buildings damaged after powerful earthquake hits south-west Japan

  29-07-2026 06:41 via BBC News
  
  A popular shopping mall in Kashima has partly collapsed, while businesses and homes across Kumamoto prefecture are damaged.
  
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• All the best looks from Paris Haute Couture Week 2026

  10-07-2026 01:07 via BBC News
  
  Scorching temperatures in the French capital accompanied the hottest week in haute couture.
  
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• Stunning Strawberry Moon lights up the sky

  30-06-2026 09:31 via BBC News
  
  Clear night skies over Hampshire and Dorset give stunning shots of the Strawberry Moon.
  
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• David Hockney's life in pictures: From swimming pools to celebrity portraits

  12-06-2026 17:15 via BBC News
  
  The Bradford-born artist, who has died at 88, was one of the most influential artists of the modern era.
  
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• Pompoms to Alexander McQueen: 10 years of Valley girls in fashion spotlight

  23-05-2026 16:46 via BBC News
  
  A short fashion project with working-class children becomes a 10-year odyssey and a new art show.
  
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• Celebrity style meets garden design at Chelsea 2026

  18-05-2026 14:35 via BBC News
  Designers from around the world showcase their gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
  
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• Trump hosted by Xi Jinping in Beijing on two-day summit

  14-05-2026 16:55 via BBC News
  President Trump was welcomed by President Xi Jinping in Beijing for what will be a whirlwind tour.
  
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• Spring wildlife in Cardiff and the Vale

  11-05-2026 11:22 via BBC News
  Photographer Gildas Griffiths from Barry has captured wildlife around Cardiff and the Vale in Spring 2026.
  
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• Curious canines and patient pups - it's dogs at polling stations

  07-05-2026 12:56 via BBC News
  Pictures of dogs at polling stations are now a part of election day - here are some of the best we have seen.
  
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• The most talked-about looks at this year's Met Gala

  05-05-2026 06:05 via BBC News
  The theme for 2026 Met Gala fundraiser is "Costume Art", exploring fashion as an embodied art form.
  
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• One shot, no frills and coat still on - famous faces and their passport pics

  03-05-2026 09:07 via BBC News
  A record of when fame intersected with bureaucracy - official passport photos of stars available for public viewing.
  
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• King and Queen end their US state visit

  01-05-2026 02:46 via BBC News
  King Charles III and Queen Camilla are concluding their four-day state visit to the US, bidding farewell to President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump.
  
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• In pictures: King and Queen end their US state visit

  01-05-2026 02:46 via BBC News
  King Charles III and Queen Camilla are concluding their four-day state visit to the US, bidding farewell to President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump.
  
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• Remembering Raghu Rai: The photographer who showed India to itself

  27-04-2026 10:30 via BBC News
  With Rai's passing, India has lost a visual historian who was a chronicler of its most defining and often painful moments.
  
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• New year celebrations in parts of Asia and a baby elephant: photos of the day – Wednesday

  15-04-2026 14:12
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Hunger, bribery and ruin: Darfur after three years of Sudan’s civil war – in pictures

  15-04-2026 11:30
  As the civil war enters its fourth year, photojournalist Jérome Tubiana captured images of daily life for approximately 600,000 people displaced by the fighting who have gathered at the town of Tawila Continue reading...
  
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• ‘One simple gesture says it all’: the world in black and white – in pictures

  15-04-2026 08:00
  From sunbathers holding hands to rain-soaked metro stations, Marina Sersale’s magical monochrome images take us across Italy, Japan and beyond Continue reading...
  
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• Magazine covers and a Dignity Day march in Caracas: photos of the day – Tuesday

  14-04-2026 15:16
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• ‘These flowers have witnessed horrific things’: Steve McQueen’s bountiful Grenada – in pictures

  14-04-2026 08:01
  The artist and film-maker spent a summer on the island making poetic images of the local flora – and exploring their connections to Grenada’s historical trauma Continue reading...
  
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• Eyes on the prize! Backstage at the Olivier awards 2026 – in pictures

  13-04-2026 16:55
  Guardian photographer David Levene was at the Royal Albert Hall to photograph the stars and the special performances at London’s biggest night of theatreNo need for hard stares as Paddington: The Musical triumphs at Olivier awardsOlivier awards 2026: full list of winners‘I want to thank my amazing husband, who doesn’t exist!’ – Olivier awards’ best quotes Continue reading...
  
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• Gusheshe against the grain: South Africa’s car spinning culture – in pictures

  13-04-2026 08:00
  In post-apartheid Johannesburg, car spinning, known locally as gusheshe, has grown from a township pastime into one of South Africa’s most striking homegrown sports. The practice began in the 1980s, with Soweto’s gangster scene, where stolen cars were spun at funerals as acts of tribute. By the early 1990s, as the country teetered on the brink of racial conflict, young Sowetans began experimenting with spinning outside criminal circles. Their focus was the BMW 325i. A drive to excel
  
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• Coachella 2026: Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, Sombr – in pictures

  13-04-2026 07:00
  Carpenter is fired out of a car on water jets, David Byrne wears head to toe orange, and the reclusive Bieber steps into the limelight Continue reading...
  
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• Enter stage right: the Olivier awards 2026 arrivals – in pictures

  12-04-2026 18:01
  Cate Blanchett, Rachel Zegler, Bryan Cranston and a host of stars arrive for the Olivier awards, marking their 50th anniversary, at the Royal Albert Hall in London Continue reading...
  
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• Handmade rockets and a golden frog: photos of the weekend

  12-04-2026 16:10
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Wandering Star – a photo essay

  12-04-2026 08:00
  Photographer Vanessa Vettorello’s project Wandering Star investigates double vision, an often misunderstood and complex condition that is rarely discussed openlyImagine a world where judging distance is a daily struggle and the simple act of pouring water into a glass requires intense concentration. At a school volleyball game, you see the ball and run for it, but you are always a moment too late.Diplopia means double vision. It’s a medical term and it’s defined as seeing two i
  
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• Orthodox Easter and Ladies Day at Aintree: photos of the day – Friday

  10-04-2026 14:36
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• ‘A story that needs to be told’: the Manacillos festival of Colombia – photo essay

  10-04-2026 13:00
  Ever Andrés Mercado won a World Press Photo award for his work on the Manacillos festival, which takes place among the Afro-descendant community of Yurumanguí. Here he talks about the ancestral ritual and why it’s so importantEvery year, hundreds of Afro-Colombians climb into wooden boats and set sail down the Yurumanguí River. They navigate dense rainforest, scramble through mangroves, and battle charging river currents, to disembark about 12 hours later in the remote
  
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• A missing wolf and a Sydney sunset: photos of the day – Thursday

  09-04-2026 15:24
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• World Press Photo 2026 winners – in pictures

  09-04-2026 11:00
  Striking stories of the human impact from global events including the climate crisis, US aid cuts and drone wars. The World Press photo of the year and two finalists will be announced on 23 April Continue reading...
  
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• Space: the ultimate wardrobe challenge – in pictures

  09-04-2026 08:00
  As the Artemis II astronauts return from the moon, we celebrate the science, suits and spirit of endeavour that took them there, all brought together in a colourful new book called Space Journal Continue reading...
  
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• Tehran rallies and a Dutch digital detox: photos of the day – Wednesday

  08-04-2026 13:40
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• ‘The water is no longer our friend’: how dredging is pushing Lagos Lagoon towards ecosystem collapse – photo essay

  08-04-2026 12:00
  Taking sand from the Nigerian city’s lagoon to supply a building boom harms more than fish – it affects the entire food chain, erodes coastlines and is depriving fishing communities of their livelihoodsBefore dawn, when the noise of Lagos’s danfo buses fills the air and generators rumble to life, the city’s lagoon is already stirring. Not from fish splashing or canoes gliding, but from the long suction pipes of the dredging machines, pulling up the lagoon bed and spitting
  
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• Segregation stories: Gordon Parks in the US south – in pictures

  08-04-2026 08:00
  The great photographer documented black family life in postwar Alabama – and the dignity and resilience people showed under discriminatory Jim Crow laws Continue reading...
  
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• Artemis II makes lunar flyby during Nasa mission – in pictures

  07-04-2026 18:53
  Astronauts onboard the Orion spacecraft break the record for the farthest distance humans have travelled from Earth – 5,000 miles (8,000km) beyond the moon – exceeding the distance achieved by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970. The astronauts wrapped up their lunar flyby as they continued their journey back to Earth on TuesdayArtemis II swings back around after completing record-setting moon flyby Continue reading...
  
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• Aftermath of a rescue: wreckage of aircraft at site of US mission in Iran

  07-04-2026 17:36
  In a patch of desert in Isfahan province, personnel clear the site where just hours earlier two C-130 planes and two helicopters were destroyedMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe small farming community of Parzan near the city of Shahreza in Iran’s Isfahan province had been largely spared from the US-Israeli war now in its second month – until several US aircraft landed on a dirt airstrip near their village.The site of the destroyed aircraft in Isfahan province Continue readin
  
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• A perched parakeet and a posing squirrel – readers’ best photographs

  07-04-2026 17:00
  Click here to submit a picture for publication in these online galleries and/or on the Guardian letters page Continue reading...
  
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• An anti-ICE protest and a thumbs up from space: photos of the day – Tuesday

  07-04-2026 14:49
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Artemis II makes lunar flyby: day five of Nasa mission – in pictures

  07-04-2026 13:16
  Astronauts onboard the Orion spacecraft break the record for the farthest distance humans have travelled from Earth – 5,000 miles (8,000km) beyond the moon – exceeding the distance achieved by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970Artemis II swings back around after completing record-setting moon flyby Continue reading...
  
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• Gangnam styles: South Korea’s brutalist gems – in pictures

  07-04-2026 08:00
  It’s all about the austere beauty of concrete in photographer Paul Tulett’s starkly stunning shots of the country’s jaw-dropping, rapidly evolving architectural highlights Continue reading...
  
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• Racing pigeons, Tokyo go-karts and Gouda for breakfast: Monday’s photos of the day

  06-04-2026 15:39
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Hockey fans pack Madison Square Garden as PWHL breaks US women’s attendance record – in pictures

  06-04-2026 10:00
  A sold-out crowd of 18,006 electrified Madison Square Garden on Saturday night when the New York Sirens hosted the Seattle Torrent, setting a new US attendance record for women’s hockey Continue reading...
  
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• Where are the region's 'best' photography spots?

  06-04-2026 08:11 via BBC News
  Award-winning North East and Cumbria photographer Owen Humphreys shares his favourite spots.
  
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