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Volunteers and students prepare safer, cleaner classrooms in advance of the academic year in Senegal’s capital.
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Rescue workers put out a fire at the National Academy of Sciences building after a Russian drone strike in the centre of Kyiv, Ukraine. [Dan Bashakov/AP Photo]
Rescue workers evacuate an injured woman from a hospital damaged by a Russian drone strike in central Kyiv. [Dan Bashakov/AP Photo]
Firefighters work at a private medical centre hit by a Russian drone strike in Kyiv. [Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters]
Smoke rises from Kyiv's Dobrobut Hospital and a residential building damaged in a Russian drone strike. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]
A man runs in front of the hospital. [Dan Bashakov/AP Photo]
Rescue workers prepare to put out a fire at the hospital. [Dan Bashakov/AP Photo]
Rescue workers put out a fire at the Ukraine National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]
Rescue workers extinguish a fire at Dobrobut Hospital. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]
Ukrainian experts carry a drone engine from the scene of a strike on a coffee shop in a residential area of Kyiv. [Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA]
A destroyed car at the site of the coffee shop. [Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA]
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Pope Leo XIV, flanked by Italian Archbishop and Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations Diego Ravelli (R), celebrates a solemn outdoor mass at Place de la Concorde, central Paris, France [Julien De Rosa/AFP]
Worshippers gathered along the Champs-Elysees Avenue and the Place de l'Etoile to attend the mass in Paris, France. [Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP]
Worshippers watch giant screens displayed along the Champs-Elysees Avenue. [Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP]
Pope Leo XIV waves to the crowd as he rides down the Champs-Elysees Avenue on his way to the Place de la Concorde. [Kiran Ridley/AFP]
A member of the clergy distributes blessed hosts to worshippers for communion during the mass. [Kiran Ridley/AFP]
The Vatican estimated that 800,000 people attended the mass on Saturday. [Kiran Ridley/AFP]
Worshippers pray during the mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV at Place de la Concorde, central Paris. [Kiran Ridley/AFP]
Pope Leo XIV waves as he arrives on the stage set up at Place de la Concorde. [Julien De Rosa/AFP]
Pope Leo XIV asked the crowds not to keep their faith to themselves, but to instead “let it overflow, so that those you meet may be refreshed and their thirst satisfied”. [Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP]
A photograph taken from the roof of the Arc de Triomphe shows worshippers gathered for the mass. [Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP]
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Pedestrians wade through floodwaters in the Bang Bua district of Bangkok, Thailand. [Wikus De Wet/AFP]
People walk past abandoned vehicles on the flooded Phetchaburi Road in Bangkok, Thailand. [Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP]
Floodwaters submerge cars next to residential buildings in the Thai capital. [Sarot Meksophawannakul/Thai News Pix via AFP]
Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said several roads were still flooded and warned residents to avoid unnecessary travel. [Wikus De Wet/AFP]
Chadchart said despite the heavy rain, flooding should recede once the rain subsides, as city officials work to drain floodwaters as quickly as possible. [Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP]
Bangkok authorities declared a flood disaster across the city on Saturday after almost 48 hours of heavy rain. [Wikus De Wet/AFP]
People try to remove water from their flooded home. [Arnun Chonmahatrakool/Thai News Pix via AFP]
A woman walks through floodwaters in Bangkok. [Sarot Meksophawannakul/Thai News Pix via AFP]
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Palestinian students attend their first day of the new school year inside a tent classroom at a school in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]
Displaced Palestinian student Samar Abu Salmi, 15, reads a list of names displayed in a school in Khan Younis. [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]
Tents for displaced Palestinians cover the yard of a school-turned-shelter in Khan Younis. [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]
Palestinian children sit in their classroom on the first day of the new academic year at a United Nations-run school in Nuseirat, the central Gaza Strip. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
A destroyed UN-run school in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, on the first day of the new academic year. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
Palestinian students attend their first day of the new school year at a school run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip. [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
The return to face-to-face education comes after nearly three years of disruption due to Israel's genocidal war, which has seen almost all of Gaza's population displaced and most buildings in the enclave destroyed. [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]
Clothes hang out to dry as displaced Palestinians live in a school-turned-shelter in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]
About 541,000 students returned to education in Gaza when the new school year began on September 19, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education. This comes after a decrease in - but not an end to - violence following an October 2025 "ceasefire". [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
In January, the ministry said 317,332 students were attending face-to-face educational spaces, schools and initiatives in Gaza. Another 120,000 were enrolled in virtual schools taught by teachers from the West Bank. [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]
A Palestinian student looks into his classroom while he attends the first day of the new academic year at a UN-run school in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
Nearly 98 percent of school buildings in Gaza have been damaged since October 2023, with more than 93 percent requiring major rehabilitation or full reconstruction, according to UNICEF. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
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Anusa Thapa Magar, 23, displaced by recent flash floods and mudslides, cries while standing next to the sludge that buried her home in Betrawati, Nuwakot district, Nepal. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
A local day labourer rests outside a flood-damaged house after hanging laundry for an employer in the aftermath of flash floods and mudslides in Devighat, Nuwakot district, Nepal. [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]
Chari Thapa Magar, 54, and Sita Thapa Magar, 45, who were displaced by recent flash floods and mudslides, weep on the sludge that buried their home in Betrawati, Nuwakot district. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
Nani Kanchi Khatri, 60, stands inside her home where walls were destroyed by floodwaters in Galchhi, Dhading district. Khatri, who lives alone and suffers from asthma, said the flood damaged her only property and swept away medicines she had recently purchased. [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]
An aerial view shows tents at a temporary shelter for people displaced by flash floods and mudslides on a hill in Betrawati, Nuwakot district. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
Kalpana Thapa Magar, 43, who was displaced by flash floods and mudslides, looks at a part of her damaged house that was swept away by the flood in Betrawati, Nuwakot district. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
Arjun Prasad Gajurel, 50, and Radhika Gajurel, 50, stand outside their home, where their ground-floor grocery store was buried in mud and a foul odor now fills the air, in Devighat, Nuwakot district. [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]
Corn sprouts from mud-covered storage inside the home of Chiranjivi Pudasaini, 54, alongside a toy doll belonging to his granddaughter, a week after flash floods and mudslides struck Devighat. [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]
Sachita Rai, 19, and her grandfather Man Bahadur Rai, 80, pose outside their home after thick mud flooded the interior of the structure in Ratmate, Nuwakot district. Sachita Rai said she was helping her grandfather on a vegetable farm when floodwaters arrived, and rushed to bring him to safety. [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]
Sita Subedi, 65, sits at the site where her home was completely destroyed following flash floods and a mudslide in Devighat. Subedi, who lived alone after her daughter moved to Japan, said the disaster reduced her house to a few remaining pillars and left her uncertain about where to go next. [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]
Chary Thapa Magar, displaced by flash floods and mudslides, carries a sack of aid supplies at a temporary shelter on a hill in Betrawati. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
Shanti Dangol, 61, displaced by recent flash floods and mudslides, stands on the sludge that buried her home in Betrawati, Nuwakot district. Shanti described Betrawati as a once-thriving town that catered to pilgrims and trekkers and had grown more prosperous in recent years as families built larger homes, rented rooms and invested in their children's education. [Adnan Abidi /Reuters]
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People search through the rubble of a residential building that collapsed in Gaza City. [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
Volunteers and rescuers carry a body recovered from the rubble of the collapsed building in Gaza City. [Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP]
At least 20 people, including women and children, have been killed. [Saeed MMT Jaras/Anadolu]
Dozens of Palestinians are feared trapped under the rubble of the collapsed building. [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
Gaza Civil Defence said its teams are still working to recover bodies. [Saeed MMT Jaras/Anadolu]
Nearly 100 Palestinians are still under the rubble, according to Gaza Civil Defence. [Saeed MMT Jaras/Anadolu]
Rescuers search through the rubble to retrieve bodies from the collapsed building. [Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP]
Volunteers and rescuers carry a body recovered from the rubble. [AFP]
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One World Trade Center is seen in the background behind flowers for the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. [Angela Weiss/AFP]
Visitors to the September 11 memorial in New York, built on the World Trade Center site, make an etching of a name during the 25th anniversary on Friday. [Dave Sanders/AFP]
Bagpipers play during the 25th anniversary commemoration at the National September 11 Memorial in New York. [Angela Weiss/AFP]
The Pentagon logo is displayed on a screen at a 25th anniversary commemoration event just outside Washington, DC. [Jim Watson/AFP]
Mark Heiderich places flowers at the Wall of Names in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to honour his friend, Flight 93 Captain Jason M Dahl. [Gene J Puskar/AP Photo]
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump listen to the national anthem during the 25th anniversary commemoration at the Pentagon outside Washington, DC. [Saul Loeb/AFP]
Bells are rung as part of a remembrance at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania [Gene J Puskar/AP Photo]
A New York Police Department officer pays his respects during the 25th anniversary ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial. [David Dee Delgado/AFP]
A mourner holds a photograph at the National September 11 Memorial in New York on Friday. [David Dee Delgado/AFP]
Memorial attendees gather around the reflecting pools at the National September 11 Memorial in New York. [Adam Gray/EPA, pool]
Flowers adorn one of the reflecting pools during a memorial at the National September 11 Memorial. [Adam Gray/Reuters, pool]
A memorial for a victim bears the slogan, 'Never forget', near the National September 11 Memorial in New York. [David Dee Delgado/AFP, pool]
A mourner touches one of the names of the victims enscribed on the National September 11 Memorial in New York. [Angela Weiss/AFP]
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A display showing Norway's late King Harald V prior to his funeral in Oslo. [Markus Schreiber/AP Photo]
King Harald's coffin leaves the palace for Oslo Cathedral. [Ole Berg-Rusten/NTB via Reuters]
The funeral procession in Oslo. [Haakon Mosvold Larsen/NTB via Reuters]
Large crowds gathered in Oslo for the funeral. [Peter Summers/Getty Images]
King Harald V was Europe’s oldest reigning monarch and had been on the throne for 35 years. [Peter Summers/Getty Images]
New King Haakon and members of the Royal Guard stand next to King Harald's coffin during the funeral. [Claudia Greco/Reuters]
Jordan's King Abdullah II and Queen Rania take part in the funeral procession. [Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP]
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store attend the funeral procession. [Gorm Kallestad/NTV via Reuters]
The Norwegian royal house has close ties to other European royal families. Harald and Haakon are related to Britain’s King Charles III and Spain’s King Felipe VI; all are descendants of Queen Victoria. [Dylan Martinez/Reuters]
The United Kingdom's Prince William was also among the attendees. [Peter Summers/Getty Images]
Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, the minister of tolerance and coexistence of the United Arab Emirates, also attended the funeral. [Dylan Martinez/Reuters]
Bishop of Oslo Sunniva Gylver, right, arrives for the funeral service at the Oslo Cathedral. [Odd Andersen/AFP]
Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia take part in the funeral procession. [Leonhard Foeger/Reuters]
Norway’s monarchy traces its origins to King Harald Fairhair in the ninth century. When Norway regained independence from Sweden in 1905, three-quarters of voters in a national plebiscite backed restoring the monarchy. [Cornelius Poppe/NTB via Reuters]
Today, the throne’s role is largely symbolic, with power resting in the elected government and parliament. But the Norwegian royal family continues to play an important part in promoting the wealthy Scandinavian nation abroad. [Lise Aserud/NTB via Reuters]
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Palestinians build a room from mud bricks in Nuseirat in central Gaza, as construction supplies run short [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Palestinians make clay bricks in the Maghazi refugee camp amid severe shortages of construction materials in the Gaza Strip. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Palestinians raise mud-brick walls as an alternative to scarce construction supplies in the Gaza Strip. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Khalil Abu Ramadan, 26, moulds clay bricks in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Palestinians fill plastic containers with water to mix clay for bricks in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Khalil Abu Deeb, 31, makes clay bricks to rebuild a house in Gaza's Maghazi refugee camp. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Palestinian carpenter Alaa Joudah, 39, cuts wood for a new house beside the ruins of his home, destroyed during the war in Gaza City. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Julia Joudeh, 11, climbs to her new wooden house built on the rubble of her family home destroyed during the war in the Gaza Strip. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Palestinians make clay bricks as Gaza faces a shortage of construction materials. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Palestinian workers repair a war-damaged shop, using fabric in place of construction supplies unavailable in Gaza. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Gaza authorities say more than 90 percent of the territory has been destroyed since Israel launched its offensive, leaving much of Gaza without adequate housing or basic infrastructure. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
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Soldiers rescue a worker from a tunnel during an ongoing operation at the Trishuli-3A hydropower project in Nepal's Rasuwa district. [Nepal Army via AP Photo]
The flooding that authorities say was likely caused by a glacial collapse last month has killed at least 1,384 people and left more than 5,500 missing, among them about 800 foreigners. [Pedro Pardo/AFP]
Flash flood survivors rest in a relief shelter at Devighat in Nepal's Nuwakot district. [Pedro Pardo/AFP]
The United Nations has launched an appeal for $50m to help more than 84,000 people, saying the destruction makes delivering aid an immense challenge. [Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo]
Flash flood survivors collect aid from a temporary relief centre at Devighat in Nepal's Nuwakot district. [Pedro Pardo/AFP]
Nepal’s Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal has highlighted how leading greenhouse gas emitters have a 'historical responsibility to compensate vulnerable nations like Nepal'. [Pedro Pardo / AFP]
He added that the government has officially filed a 'formal climate compensation claim letter' to international partners. [Pedro Pardo / AFP]
Salvaged belongings ins a flash flood-damaged house in Devighat in Nepal. [Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo]
While the exact cause of the glacial collapse remains under investigation, experts say that the frequency and scale of glacier floods have increased as global temperatures have risen. [Pedro Pardo/AFP]
A United Nations study found that floods have become nearly five times more frequent since 1950. [Prakash Mathema/AFP]
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