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Highlights of the day

  • A woman wears a face mask while surrounded by orange smoke amid a forest fire in Portugal

    Flood damage and tightrope jumps: photos of the day – Tuesday

  • People watch through a large window as an elephant goes for a swim

    A swimming elephant and a dragon at Stonehenge: photos of the day – Monday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A woman dangles from a rope over buildings and a main road in Tehran

    Recycled frocks and the world’s highest bungee platform: photos of the day – Friday

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

  • Rescue workers evacuate people across a flooded street in Jesenik, Czech Republic.

    Storm Boris batters central Europe – in pictures

    Storm Boris has caused several deaths, and thousands have been evacuated from their homes across Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia
  • Female models wearing khaki outfits against a green backdrop.

    Editors’ picks: Can-do khaki – in pictures

    Ease into autumn with the season’s most versatile colour. Here are five ways to make the most of the shade

The picture essay

  • Guo Jincheng of China dives in

    The best Paralympic images by Tom Jenkins – a photo essay

  • Arjola Dedaj of Italy competes in the women's long jump T11 class while wearing a butterfly blindfold

    ‘Defying expectations’: amazing Paralympic photographers with disabilities

    Whether legally blind or using a wheelchair, four photographers say there’s no impediment to creativity at the Games
  • Alexander McQueen presentation for Spring Summer 1998

    Catwalking: 40 years of London fashion week – in pictures

    We take a look back at London fashion week though the lens of legendary photographer Chris Moore
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From the agencies

  • A competitors takes part in the UK Hobby Horse championship

    UK Hobby Horse Championships – in pictures

  • Two men capture a pink dolphin in a net

    The race to find out what killed hundreds of pink dolphins in the Amazon – in pictures

    Scientists are trying to establish whether global heating caused the deaths of the rare river dolphins last year, before temperatures start to rise again
  • A skier smiles while holding her ski helmet strap amid shelves of boots

    Afriski, Lesotho’s ski resort – in pictures

    Lesotho’s Afriski ski resort, with its three small artificial-snow slopes surrounded by the remote brown mountains of a country in drought, draws visitors from the continent and beyond
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