Best British Pie Contest

 

Melton Mowbray, UK

James Fryer checks over a cold meat filled pie at the British Pie Awards held at St. Mary’s Church

Photograph: Fabio De Paola/The Guardian

Kabul, Afghanistan

 

Schoolgirls peer from behind a wall after arriving at a gender-segregated school

Photograph: Bülent Kılıç/AFP/Getty Images

Dublin, Ireland

 

A young boy attends a protest against the rising cost of housing at a rally called ‘Winter of Housing Discontent’ in front of government buildings in the Irish capital.  Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters

 

First Lady Jill Biden

 

First Lady Jill Biden walks past a local motorcycle police escort before boarding a plane in Milwaukee. She attended a listening session with teachers and parents to discuss the return of in-person learning.

Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/AFP/Getty Images

 

Russians visit Tretyakov Art Gallery

 

Visitors at The Tretyakov Gallery view an exhibition titled ‘Rejected Masterpieces: Pavel Tretyakov’s Challenge’ which features a selection of artworks of the second half of the nineteenth century that stimulated debate and controversy.

Photograph: Gavriil Grigorov/TASS

Australia’s new defence pact with UK and US

 

 

Australia has scrapped its strife-torn $90bn submarine deal with France and entered a new pact with the United States and the United Kingdom to acquire nuclear-powered submarines.  PM Scott Morrison announced a new defence pact that has been described as "China's worst nightmare." 

The new grouping to be known as AUUKUS will advise Australia on how to identify the best way to acquire nuclear-powered submarine capability and share advanced technologies involving artificial intelligence.

I wish New Zealand was with us, we are related by blood lost in both world wars.

When did NZ leave the ANZUS Treaty?  1986

In response, the United States formally suspended its treaty obligations to New Zealand in 1986 and reduced the two countries' military ties.

Death Blowing Bubbles

 

“Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. Credit: Johann Georg Leinberger, 18th Century