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  1. 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.

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

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

  4. Leon Baptiste

  5. A head and shoulders shot of Patrick Vieira shows him wearing a dark blue hoody over a light blue shirt

  6. Carlos Baleba celebrating for Brighton

  7. Miss Universe Nigeria Chidimma Adetshina is seen at a beauty pageant event

  8. Angélique Kidjo lying down on a red carpet behind her star which is on the ground. She is wearing a red, long-sleeved dress with tasselled sleeves and a royal blue headwrap

  9. A back view of person holding a small Liberian flag on a street in Monrovia

  10. Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema in green half-coat and black trousers lifts his hands to greet United Party for National Development supporters

  11. Afolabi Kazeem Micheal holds up a NDLEA sign with his name and age after his arrest in Lagos

  12. Patrick Vieria, wearing a white shirt and a blue jumper, stands with his hands on his hips

  13. A female survivor uses a tissue to wipe tears from her eyes during a memorial service held for victims of the capsized ferry at Nyamhunga Stadium in Kariba - 13 August 2026

  14. Manchester City's Ayyoub Bouaddi

  15. Promise Okoro poses for a selfie in a car with his goat.

  16. A triptych showing Lina Boussaha, Naomi Eto and Refiloe Jane celebrating goals at the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations. Boussaha wears a white headscarf and Algeria kit with a green number 11 on it, Eto a green Cameroon shirt with a yellow 10 on it, and Jane a yellow South Africa shirt with a green 15 on the chest. Boussaha has a teeth-clenched and right arm raised, Eto smiles widely and Jane has her thumb in her mouth as she looks upwards while hiding a football under her shirt

  17. An election official displays a ballot paper as observers look on during the counting of votes after the polls closed at a polling station in Lusaka, Zambia

  18. WAFCON

  19. Sarah Burrows (left) in conversation with a man in a sports hall. They are both in wheelchairs. Sarah has a round ball in her lap. She has brown hair, tied back, and is wearing a red and green top. The man next to her has short black hair and is wearing a pink top.

  20. Vusimusi "Cat" Matlala, with the collar of a Fendi shirt sticking out above his jumper, gesticulates as he talks into a microphone.

  21. A row of men and women in medical uniforms and white wellington boots at the inauguration of a new Ebola treatment centre in Rwakole, Bunia, DR Congo.

  22. A person in the foreground wears pre- Victorian-era clothing and signs a document with a quil while wearing a hat, as people dressed in scantily clad slave robes walk through the street in chains in the background, during a re-enactment of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the courtyard of Christiansborg Castle in Accra, Ghana on 19 June.

  23. Marie Ngah Manga

  24. Moroccan security forces monitor dozens of migrants who have gathered on the outskirts of the border town of Castillejos, Morocco