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Highlights of the day

  • Caroline Marks's hand passes through a blue wave as it breaks over her

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • A colossal painted head of a woman partially submerged in the water by the bank

    Artworks in the Seine and a Swedish shipwreck: photos of the day – Friday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A prosthetic eye

    Cards from Princess Diana and a prosthetic eye: photos of the day – Thursday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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Latest

  • Harrison Ford pulling a monster-like face

    Olympic celebs, midnight dips and Comic-Con: photos of the weekend

  • Mongolia's Yesugen Oyuntsetseg is punched by Colombia's Ingrit Lorena Valencia Victoria in the women's 50kg preliminaries round

    Paris Olympics 2024: day two – in pictures

  • Uppal Bhupa Village, Jalandhar District, Punjab, 2015

    Up on the roof: the homespun art of rural Punjab – in pictures

  • The French players making a splash before their women’s water polo Group bpreliminary match against Spain.

    Paris Olympics 2024: day one – in pictures

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The picture essay

  • A hand holds a photograph up to the camera of a severely emaciated man sitting with his back to the camera on a bed

    ‘One goal is to destroy Ukrainian identity’: the haunting images of Russia’s prisoners of war

  • Kim Duckworth with Fletcher who has global development delay which affects all areas of his life.

    ‘There’s something special about making a difference’: community nurses step up – a photo essay

    Photographer Anna Gordon spent time with four Queen’s Nurses across the UK and documented the life-changing role they play in society
  • A man wearing a baseball cap stoops down and reaches into a plastic bag to collect cans and bottles.

    He ‘redeems’ the trash New Yorkers throw away, finding value – and opportunity – in waste

    Pedro Romero is one of hundreds of thousands of informal waste workers the world over, from Paris to Bangalore
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From the agencies

  • A boy touches a baby giraffe in western Kenya

    Giraffe relocation in Kenya – in pictures

  • A person examines a green emerald

    From trash to treasure: emerald hunters in Colombia – in pictures

    Every year, hundreds of emerald hunters dig through mining debris in Las Animas River, in the foothills of the eastern Andes mountain range. Colombia is by far the world’s largest producer of the precious stones, and the mining municipality of Muzo is known as the emerald capital of the world
  • Triptych of Donald Trump supporters

    ‘He’s gonna save America’: Trump supporters at the RNC – in pictures

    Supporters of the presidential nominee dressed up for the final day of the Republican national convention in Milwaukee
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