Stormy Daniels
at a book signing for her memoir Full Disclosure at the Museum of Sex in New
York. Photograph: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP
Stormy Daniels
at a book signing for her memoir Full Disclosure at the Museum of Sex in New
York. Photograph: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP
Former FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces fraud charges over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, outside the Manhattan Federal Court in New York City. Reuters/David Dee Delgado
The estranged wife of John Setka, former lawyer Emma Walters has been charged with conspiracy to murder the union leader following a police search yesterday.
Setka is the Victorian Secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union.
She has been released on bail.
Hundreds of Ukrainian Orthodox Church members attend a service at the historic Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kiev accused of maintaining links with Moscow as the deadline for the eviction of its monks dawned. Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images
Taliban security personnel use a tractor to destroy a poppy
plantation in the Injil district of Herat Province in Afghanistan. Photograph:
Mohsen Karimi/AFP/Getty Images
The outgoing first
minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, signs her official resignation letter to
King Charles III in the drawing room at Bute House. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA
Vehicles stuck in a
traffic jam as reports show over the last 10 years the average traffic speed
has dropped from 13 mph to 4 mph, onky slightly above average walking speed. Photograph:
Habibur Rahman/ABACA/Rex/Shutterstock
A screen grab shows Kim
Jong Un inspecting nuclear warheads at an undisclosed location. KRT/via Reuters TV
Reuters / Monday, March
27, 2023
Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a meeting at the Knesset, Israel's
parliament, amid demonstrations after he dismissed the Defense Minister as his Nationalist Coalition Government presses on with its judicial overhaul, in
Jerusalem. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
The speaker of the lower chamber of the Czech Parliament,
Marketa Pekarova told Taiwanese lawmakers 28 March 2023 that her country will always
stand with the island's people. Reuters/Ann Wang
Robin Wolfende prays at a makeshift memorial
for victims outside the Covenant School building at the Covenant Presbyterian
Church following a shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, US. Photograph: Brendan
Smialowski / AFP
Scotland's Health Minister and SNP MSP Humza
Yousaf reacts as the SNP voted him as their new party leader, at Murrayfield in
Edinburgh, Scotland. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Orlando Bloom and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky hold a meeting to discuss humanitarian aid projects and issues of reconstruction focused on the interests of children.
In his role as a goodwill ambassador for the UN children's organisation UNICEF, the actor spent three days in the country and visited Kyiv, Irpin and Demydiv.
A protester who is against
former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou’s visit to China, gets pushed out of the
airport by police in Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Reuters/Ann Wang
Afghan children attend a
class at an open air school on the outskirts of Fayzabad district, Badakhshan
province. AFP
People gather on a
platform for the unaffected underground U-Bahn service at Alexanderplatz
station during a nationwide strike.
Photograph: Maja Hitij/Getty Images
The floating restaurant
Silver Whale, which partially sank as a result of ice drift on the Neva River. Rescuers secured it with ropes to prevent it
from being swept away. Photograph: Anatoly Maltsev/EPA
Manisa, Turkey
Miners at a lignite coal production
centre breakfast during Ramadan. About
500 miners returned to the site after participating in search and rescue
operations after the February earthquakes.
Photograph: Mahmut Serdar Alakus/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
The remains of a ruined
house and car in Rolling Fork after a tornado ripped across the southern US
state. Photograph: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images
French monks have decided to limit production
of green Chartreuse to concentrate on “solitude and prayer.”
Chartreuse is an herbal, bitter liqueur made using a secretive blend of 130 plants, herbs and flowers. The original recipe for the so-called elixir of life dates back to 1605 when a manuscript was bestowed upon the Carthusian monks by François Hannibal d’Estrées.
Bukayo Saka
celebrates with Harry Kane after scoring England’s second goal at Wembley. Photograph: Eddie Keogh/The FA/Getty Images
Ukraine supporters hold up flags during the
anthems ahead of the UEFA Euro 2024 group C qualification football match
between England and Ukraine at Wembley Stadium in London. Photograph: Justin
Tallis/AFP
South Korean humanitarian relief caravan of cattle in 50 trucks driving through the Korean Demilitarized Zone to North Korea on 27 October 1988. Millions of citizens died of starvation or hunger-related illnesses from the North Korean Famine.
Roz Purcell leads the Nature Valley Mangerton
hike as part of the Wander Wild Festival in Killarney National Park. The
adventure and wellness festival runs until Sunday. Photograph: Valerie
O'Sullivan
23 March 2023
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew prepares to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
The hearing was a rare opportunity for lawmakers to question the short-form social media video app leader about the company's relationship with its Chinese owner, ByteDance, and how they handle users' sensitive personal data.
Some local, state, and federal
government agencies have been banning the use of TikTok by employees, citing
concerns about national security
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Firefighters check rubbish after extinguishing a fire during a demonstration, a week after the
government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote, using
the article 49.3 of the Constitution.
AFP/Getty Images
Reuters / Thursday, March 23, 2023
A migrant
kisses a photo on his mobile phone on the Geo Barents rescue ship, operated by
Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), after being rescued from a
wooden boat off the coast of Libya in the central Mediterranean Sea.
REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi
At an unassuming industrial estate in northern Ukraine, two former Microsoft executives and a team of engineers are producing military drones that can travel over long distances and carry large payloads.
AeroDrone, which made crop-dusting drones prior to the war and
now supplies Ukraine’s armed forces, makes unmanned aircraft that can carry up
to 300 kilograms or fly up to several thousand kilometres in certain
configurations.
The 10 storey art deco Nell Gwynn House was built in 1937 and named after King Charles II’s mistress with a statue of her and a cavalier King Charles spaniel above the main entrance.
It was described in the 1960s as providing a “pied-a-terre for many Chelsea bachelors who honour the spirit of Charles II”. It sits just off the King’s Road in the heart of Chelsea, home of high-end partying.
A 27.5 sq metre studio on the second floor is on sale for £525,000. Knight Frank
Photograph:
No Limits Photography/Knight Frank
A roadside betel nut vendor waits for customers at a market in Colombo. The International Monetary Fund this week approved Sri Lanka’s request for a $2.9bn bailout, raising hopes for an easing of its eonomic crisis. Photograph: Chamila Karunarathne/EPA
In small doses, betel nut can create a sense of euphoria and alertness. It may also function as an antidepressant. However, prolonged use creates addiction and the World Health Organization classifies the betel nut as a carcinogen.
It is also impossible to hide your addiction as soon as you smile.
A horse drinks among
plastic, glass and other rubbish at the Cerron Grande reservoir in Potonico. World Water Day was held this week on 22
March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of fresh water and
advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. Photograph:
Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images
Ganna Muromtseva, a professional ballerina from Ukraine who fled her country after Russia’s invasion, after a rehearsal of a performance of Swan Lake at the Hungarian State Opera.
She left Ukraine with just
one suitcase when she was at the peak of her career with the National Opera of
Ukraine and after a year of trying to survive and rebuilding herself as a
dancer physically and mentally, she is now back at the top playing the White
and Black Swan. Photograph: Marton Monus/Reuters.
A police officer takes
cover in front of a burning building that was hit by a Russian airstrike in Avdiivka. The Russian former president Dmitryf Medvedev
said this week that Moscow was preparing for a Ukraine counter-offensive as
Kyiv claimed Russian forces were ‘running out of steam’. Photograph:
Evgeniy Maloletka/AP
March 22, 2023: Prince William, Prince of Wales holds hands with Tympthi, aged 4, as he speaks with Ukrainian residents about their experiences of moving to Poland at an accommodation centre during his visit to Warsaw, Poland.
The center, at the frontline of the humanitarian crisis, houses around 300 Ukrainian women and children and provides residents with two meals per day, while also offering a range of other services including Polish language lessons, a children’s play area, and psychological support.
Photograph: Chris Jackson, Getty Images
Migrants
transferred from Plattsburgh, New York, disembark
at the airport in El Paso, Texas 21 March 2023.
Reuters Jose Luis Gonzalez
Spectators
at Jetty Park in Cape Canaveral, Florida watch as Terran I, a 3D-printed rocket
by Relativity Space, lifts off. The
first stage did its job following lift-off and separated as planned. But the upper stage appeared to ignite and
then shut down, sending it crashing into the Atlantic. AP
More than 75 local businesses will descend upon Haldon Street, Lakemba in Sydney from dusk till 3am to celebrate the most sacred month on the Islamic calendar.
Coventry
Street in the West End is decorated with Ramadan illuminations to mark the
start of the Islamic holy month.
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Head verger Alex Carberry moves the coronation
chair, an artefact in the possession of York Minster since circa 1550 and part
of its historic collections, ahead of a new exhibition in celebration of King
Charles III's forthcoming coronation. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA
March 22, 2023: An employee distributes extra editions of the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reporting on Japan's victory at the final match of the World Baseball Classic, in Tokyo. The headline of the newspaper said, "Japan is No. 1 in the World."
EUGENE HOSHIKO, AP
March 22, 2023:
People collect drinking water from a mobile water tanker on World Water Day in
a residential area in New Delhi, India.
ALTAF QADRI, AP
Gwyneth Paltrow looks on
before leaving the courtroom where she is accused in a lawsuit of crashing into
a skier during a 2016 family ski vacation leaving him with brain damage in Park
City, Utah. Photo Rick Bowmer/Pool.
The motorcade of President
Xi Jinping drives past the monument to Prince Vladimir the Great in Moscow. Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina
Supporters of Donald Trump
gather for a loyalty rally at a busy intersection in Laguna Hills, California,
21 March 2023. Reuters
Muslim women attend mass
prayers known as “Tarawih’ during the first eve of the holy fasting month of
Ramadan at the Great Mosque of Istiqlal in Jakarta, Indonesia
Earthquake survivor Fatma
Cantali rescues the Qur’an and frame of verses from her wrecked house’s
debris. Photograph: Mehmet Kaman/Anadolu
Agency/Getty Images
A soldier assists a boy
affected by teargas during a protest over the deteriorating economic
situation. Photograph: Issam Abdallah/Reuters