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  1. Nigerian soldier in military uniform sits in the back of a military escort vehicle along the Maiduguri-Damaturu highway on July 31, 2026

  2. Zolani Tete with his world titles wraped around his waist and on his arms

  3. Yusuif poses with his GCSE results alongside the school's principal Claire Stoneman, wearing a blue dress and lanyard, in the library from the previous picture.

  4. Mohamed Salah, visible from stomach up wearing a white baseball cap and Trabzonspor home shirt featuring wide vertical sky blue and claret stripes, smiles as he raises both arms up in the air as a greeting to watching fans who are not in shot but have gathered at Istanbul Airport. Salah is surrounded by several large male bouncers in black suits and dark glasses while members of the media also jostle, waving phones, microphones and cameras

  5. A head and shoulders image of Emery Makumeno

  6. Orthodox Christian women clap as they walk down in traditional white outfits with silver cross necklaces in Mekelle in Ethiopia - archive shot

  7. Thomas Partey playing for Ghana at the World Cup

  8. Lt-Gen Dumisani Khumalo is seen testifying at a public inquiry into police corruption

  9. A nurse injecting the arm of a health worker in West Africa with Ervebo - archive shot

  10. Three officers in face masks and uniform in discussion during a raid on a meth lab found at a farm in Limpopo province

  11. A young man wearing a cream hooded top while holding up a piece of paper. He is standing in front of a pale blue wall with the words Suffolk New College written on it. He is smiling and looking into the camera.

  12. A crowd, including children, look on at a man in pink involved in the rescue mission after a boat capsized in north-western Nigeria - Thursday 20 August 2026

  13. Mohamed Salah, visible from chest up wearing a claret Trabzonspor polo shirt with white and sky blue trim and a circular Turkish flag in the upper centre of the chest, raises his left hand to wave while showing a closed-mouth smile on his face

  14. An archive picture of Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999. He is wearing a large white hat and addressing a crowd of people through a red microphone that he is holding.

  15. A couple of huts nestled by trees in the distance. behind it is a mountain.

  16. Angélique Kidjo smiles and lifts one arm in a long-sleeved dress with tasselled sleeves and a royal blue headwrap

  17. Jewel Howard-Taylor wears a blue lanyard and grey jacket, gold earring at an economic forum in Poland, 2021. She has shiny black hair.

  18. A colourful composite design features a smiling Mohamed Salah in the middle, holding the Premier League trophy across his torso, Antoine Semenyo to Salah's left and Ismaila Sarr on his right. Semenyo is shouting and gesticulating with his fists while wearing Manchester City home colours, with a light blue shirt with a white sash running across the front and white shorts. Salah is visible from waist up in a red Liverpool shirt which he is wearing back to front and which has the word 'champions' written in gold lettering across its top. Sarr is holding up his right hand and extending his index finger to point while wearing Crystal Palace home colours, with a shirt featuring wide red and blue vertical stripes and blue shorts. The design palette features an orange background, green central section around Salah in the shape of a three-pointed crown and untidy yellow lines sketched across it to create divides around Semenyo and Sarr, as well as another doodle of a three-pointed crown near Salah's head

  19. A rescue official works at the site of a tourist helicopter crash on a wooded hillside. The air is thick with smoke and there is wreckage on the ground.

  20. Mutotwe Kafwaya in black-rimmed glasses and a blue shirt

  21. Temwa Chawinga playing for San Diego Wave in July

  22. New Scotland Yard sign outside Met Police HQ in London

  23. The backs of three men as they look down into a pit at a mining site in the Central African Republic after a landslide

  24. Leon Baptiste