Wildlife Photographer of the Year

 

A rack of coats made from the skins of snow leopards, jaguars and ocelots.

Photograph:  Britta Jaschinski, Wildlife Photographer of The Year.

Robot helps man into wheelchair

 

A robot helps move a man into a wheelchair during a demonstration at the Kawasaki booth on the first day of the 2023 International Robot Exhibition at the Tokyo International Exhibition Centre in Japan.  AFP

 

Former US first ladies at Rosalynn Carter's tribute

 

Former US first ladies Michelle Obama, Melania Trump, Laura Bush and Hilary Clinton attend a tribute service for former first lady Rosalynn Carter at Glenn Memorial Church in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Photograph:  Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

Reims, France

 

Workers throw items made of ivory into an excavator bucket to be destroyed.  Some pieces were handed in from private collections after a campaign by the animal charity IFAW.

Photograph:  Francois Nascimbeni/AFP/Getty

41 workers freed from collapsed tunnel in India

 

41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in northern India for more than two weeks were pulled free yesterday.  A crowd of local residents gathered around the tunnel erupted in joy and set off firecrackers in celebration.

Pneumonia outbreak in China

 

China is seeing a large increase in pneumonia cases, especially among children.

Last week, some Chinese hospitals were "overwhelmed with sick children." This outbreak was said to be mainly in the capital, Beijing, but also in the northeastern Liaoning province and other areas in China.

Newcastle, Australia

 

Rev Alan Stuart 97, walks out of the port authority of NSW after being arrested by police as climate protesters continued to blockade the Newcastle port coal channel after their 4pm permit to legally protest expired.

 Photograph: Roni Bintang/Getty

Kharkiv, Ukraine

 

Maria Chupinina (centre) who fosters seven children and is also a mother to 10 seen here with friends and volunteers who help children with serious health problems such as hydrocephalus, Down’s Syndrome, HIV and heart and kidney failure. 

Photograph: Anadolu/Getty

 

Palestinian prisoners released

 

Released Palestinian prisoners react after leaving the Israeli military prison, Ofer, amid a hostage-prisoner swap between Hamas and Israel near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.  Reuters

 

Anti-Semitism march in London

 

Thousands of demonstrators, some waving Israeli and British flags, marched against anti-Semitism through central London yesterday. 

Finally, London shows its true colours.

Jordan is home to 90% Palestinians

 

Most Palestinian ancestors came to Jordan as Palestinian refugees between 1947 and 1967. Today, most Palestinians and their descendants in Joran are fully naturalized, making Jordan the only Arab country to fully integrate the Palestinian refuges of 1948.

Why would they want to go back?

Helicopter carrying Israeli hostages

 

People wave Israeli flags as helicopter carrying hostages released by Hamas arrives at Schneider Children's Medical Centre in Petah Tikva, Israel, on Friday. 

Photograph:  Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

 

 

Macy's, New York

 

People wait in line outside Macy’s department store before opening on “Black Friday” in New York City.  AFP

Israeli hostages released

 

People react as they hear the news of the release of 13 Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip in Tel Aviv, Israel.  AP

 

Palestinians return home

 

Displaced Palestinians return to their homes as they pass by a house destroyed in an Israeli strike amid the temporary truce between Hamas and Israel in Khan Younis.  Reuters.

 

The Hague, Netherlands

 

Dilan Yesilgoz-Zegerius, leader of the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy greets the PVV party leader Geert Wilders before a meeting with the speaker of the House two days after Wilders won the most votes in the general election.  

Photograph:  Robin Utrecht/Shutterstock

 

 

 

Pyongyang, North Korea

 

Kim Jong-un and his daughter pose with scientists who contributed to the launch of a reconnaissance satellite at the National Aerospace Technology Directorate.  Photograph:  KCNA via KNS/AFP/Getty

North Korea said it would deploy new weapons and stronger armed forces to the border with the South as Seoul’s spy agency said Pyongyang had received Russian help to successfully put a military spy satellite into orbit.

Israel

 

Soldiers celebrate crossing the border after leaving Gaza during the temporary truce between Hamas and Israel. 

Photograph:  Amir Cohen/Reuters

 

Bruce Lehrmann caught in a lie

 

Bruce Lehrmann has apologised for telling the federal court he did not buy Brittany Higgins any drinks after CCTV footage was played showing him handing over a card to buy her two drinks.

Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

Palestinians flee Rafah in Southern Gaza Strip

 

A girl carries a bird cage as people flee following an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, on 23 November, 2023.

Photograph:  Mohammed Abed, AFP/Getty

More migrants arriving in Finland

 

Finnish Border Guards escort migrants at the international border crossing at Salla, northern Finland.  Reuters

Gurkha passing out ceremony, UK

 

Soldiers from the Brigade of Gurkhas check each other’s uniforms ahead of a passing out ceremony at Catterick Garrison near Richmond, UK.

More migrants cross the channel to UK

 

Dungeness, UK

A group of people are brought ashore in Kent onboard a RNLI lifeboat following a small boat incident in the channel. 

Photograph:  Gareth Fuller/PA

Kyiv, Ukraine

 

A chef serves turkey to railway workers to celebrate Thanksgiving Day from a train-kitchen designed to make and distribute up to 70,000 meals a week, as it prepares to set off on its maiden journey to frontline areas in the eastern region.  

Photograph:  Gleb Garanich/Reuters

India's exciting T20 win

 

India's Rinku Singh, left, and Mukesh Kumar celebrate after winning the first T20 cricket match against Australia in Visakhapatnam.

Photograph: Mahesh Kumar A/AP

Gert Wilders to form coalition

 

Geert Wilders’s far-right, anti-Islam Party for Freedom (PVV) has won most seats in the Dutch parliamentary elections, with 98 percent of votes counted. 

He now moves to form a coalition with at least two other parties to take the majority and appoint a Prime Minister.  

US-Canada checkpoint

 

Vehicles block the Rainbow Bridge border crossing into the US in Niagara Falls, Ontario, after a car exploded at a US-Canada checkpoint on November 22, 2023. 

US terrorism investigators deployed Wednesday after a car erupted into a fireball at a US-Canada checkpoint, triggering border closures on one of the busiest travel days in the American holiday calendar.

Two people were killed in the blast, according to US media citing authorities, although their identities were not yet public.

Photograph:  Usman Khan/AFP/Getty Images 

 

 

Karachi, Pakistan

 

A police officer checks the registration card of Edema Bibi 66, an Afghan citizen, outside her house in an Afghan Camp on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan, during a door-to-door search and verification drive for undocumented Afghan nationals. 21 November 2023

 

Living rooms found under Al Shifa Hospital

 

An Israeli soldiers in a room inside a tunnel underneath Al Shifa Hospital, 22 November 2023. Reuters

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket

 

Cocoa Beach, US

The launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral. 

Photograph:  Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today/AP

Enschede, Netherlands

 

A voter examines her ballot paper at a polling station at the Rijksmuseum Twenthe during the country’s general election. 

Photograph:  Peter Dejong/AP

Israeli soldiers take Hamas prisoners

 

Israel soldiers transfer detained Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip on November 21, 2023, amid ongoing battles.

Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images

Taylor Swift in Rio

 

Fans wait outside Nilton Santos stadium for the Taylor Swift concert following the death of a fan due to the heat during the first day concert in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

Photograph:  Ricardo Moraes/Reuters.

Nature Photographer of the Year 2023

 

Jacquie Matechuk’s wins the overall Nature Photographer of the Year 2023.  A spectacled bear in an ancient tree amid a curtain of Spanish moss, in the Andean mountains of Ecuador.  

The species has distinctive beige or ginger-coloured marking across its face and upper chest.

Rafah, Gaza Strip

 

A Palestinian medic cares for premature babies evacuated from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, before they are transferred from south Gaza to Egypt.  29 premature babies arrived in Egypt on Monday after their evacuation from Gaza’s largest hospital.

Photograph:  Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images

Tirana, Albania

 

An MP from the Democratic party, the country’s biggest opposition party. Iights a flare during a protest in Parliament.  

Photograph:  Florion Goga/Reuters

World Day of the Poor

 

Vatican City

St Peter’s Basilica during a mass on World Day of the Poor. 

Photograph:  Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images

March for the Hostages

 

Thousands of people led by the families of Hamas’ hostages walk along Route 1 to enter Jerusalem on the fifth and final day of the March for the Hostages on 18 November 2023.

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

Georgia State Sen. Jimmy Carter hugs his wife, Rosalynn, at his Atlanta campaign headquarters on Sept. 15, 1966.

Photograph: Horace Cort, AP 

SpaceX Starship

 

Brownsville, Texas

People watch as SpaceX’s next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket lifts off from the company’s Boca Chica launchpad on an uncrewed test flight, as seen from South Padre Island near Brownsville.

Photograph:  Go Nakamura/Reuters

Ras al-Amud

 

November 17, 2023: Palestinians take part in Friday Noon prayers in East Jerusalem's neighbourhood of Ras al-Amud, following age restriction by Israeli security to above 50 years wanting to access the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and Hamas.

AHMAD GHARABLI, AFP Via Getty Images

 

Ramallah, West Bank

 

A Palestinian man lights a fire to cook for his family during the olive harvest at a grove outside Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.  Photograph:  Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty

The West Bank is governed by the Palestinian Authority (PA), which is recognized by the international community and has established institutions of government. 

In contrast, Gaza is governed by Hamas, an organization that has been designated as a terrorist group by some countries, which has led to political divisions and conflicts.

Lyman, Ukraine

 

12 year old Evelin in a shelter after the Ukrainian army liberated Lyman from Russian control about a year ago.  Evelin, her mother and grandmother have been living under difficult conditions in this shelter since the beginning of the war.  Photograph:  Ozge Elif Kizil/Anadolu/Getty

 

Jerusalem

 

Jewish men, some carrying weapons, pray at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Photograph:  Christopher Furlong/Getty

Homeless awareness in New York

 

People prepare to sleep in Times Square to highlight homelessness.  Reuters.

Starvation fears in Gaza

 

 

Palestinians wait to buy bread from a bakery, amid shortages of food supplies and fuel. 

Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

Wayne Irving dies in ambulance at Ipswich hospital

 

Wayne Irving died in the back of an ambulance last night at Ipswich hospital.  He arrived at 9.15pm and wasn’t admitted until 12.15am. 

As he was being transported down the ramp he went into cardiac arrest and died shortly after.

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Woman dies in ambulance waiting outside Tasmanian hospital

 

Anne Pedler with her husband and grandchildren. She died from a cardiopulmonary arrest while waiting in an ambulance outside Launceston general hospital.

 Photograph: Stella Jennings

 

President Xi Jinping meets President Biden

 

President Biden shakes hands with President Xi Jinping at Filoli estate in Woodside, California, 16 November, 2023. 

Photograph:  Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

China is ready to be a partner and friend of the United States, and there is plenty of room for bilateral co-operation, President Xi Jinping told American executives in San Francisco on Wednesday

 

Met Police Commissioner under fire

 

London, UK

Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, has been told to “please explain” as the former Home Secretary Suella Braverman accused the Met of bias for letting pro-Palestinian marches go ahead in the capital. 

Photograph:  Leon Neal/Getty Images