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  1. A woman holds a baby wrapped in colourful fabric as he receives a vaccine.

  2. Medics walk into a tent in DR Congo

  3. Mugabe wearing a black leather jacket

  4. Melat Kiros, wearing a white shirt, speaks on a stage on Colorado election night, with two US flags behind her.

  5. Javits Frimpong wearing his white high school uniform as he raises three fingers up for a photo

  6. A view of the front entrance to Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital. Cars are parked directly in front of the front automatic doors, and the building is a faded cream colour.

  7. A close-up photo of five women. Two are wearing yellow ANC headscarves and white ANC T-shirts while looking at the camera. Another is wearing a yellow ANC T-shirt and turquoise headscarf while looking across the frame.

  8. A basketball player in green jersey holding a ball

  9. Armed members of Afar militia stand at a checkpoint in Ethiopia

  10. Jarma Mohamed

  11. A boy (right) wearing a red shirt featuring a Nike logo. Next to him another boy wearing a black shirt and making victory sign. Both kids standing in front of a white wall with Arabic writing reading 'viva Libya'

  12. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in black suit gesturing with a lifted finger at US President Donald Trump dressed in a blue suit.

  13. Two suspects lie on the ground after their arrest over a brutal farm attack last week

  14. Peter Elwelu in military uniform

  15. Two Moroccan men, dressed in traditional blue Sahrawi region attire, hold national flags as they stand in front of a fresco featuring scenes from the Green March.

  16. Cyril Ramphosa, South Africa's president, at a ceremony to bestow National Orders on deserving recipients at the Sefako M. Makgatho Presidential Guest House in Pretoria, South Africa, on Tuesday, May 19, 2026.

  17. Two side-by-side images of Jos Leijdekkers. In one he is looking straight ahead at the camera. The other shows his side profile.

  18. A group of soldiers in military uniform stand in front of a military truck on a bushy field with sandy patches

  19. Bangladesh's Litton Das and Afghanistan's Hashmatullah Shahidi after a Test match in 2023

  20. JJ Smit

  21. A man getting checked by a health professional who holds an implement up to him

  22. A photo of Abiy Ahmed seated on the ground, while wearing brown military attire. He is speaking to a group of people wearing same brown attire, who are also seated on the ground.

  23. A large trapdoor spider sits on a rock. It is mostly brown in colour and has two black mandibles and black eyes.

  24. A middle aged man with a greying moustache smiles into the camera wearing a blue coat and a blue and red striped shirt sitting in front of a blurry nature background