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  1. Two monkeys sit on a tree branch looking directly towards the camera. There is a blurred tree trunk in the front of the shot that the camera is sitting behind. The sky is white and there is green foliage in the background.

  2. Policemen in black anti-riot vests walk with anti-migrant protesters demanding better business opportunities for South Africans in Bellville - July 2026

  3. A close-up shot of Ernest Bai Koroma's face. He wears glasses and a suit.

  4. Vusimusi "Cat" Matlala, with the collar of a Fendi shirt sticking out above his jumper, gesticulates as he talks into a microphone.

  5. A Rastafarian men holde a cigarette from which smoke is rising.

  6. Nigerian man Adenigi Adeyemi Matthew dressed in traditional ‘Babar Riga’ gown, wearing glasses and a hat, sitting in an office

  7. An orange sign at the UK border that says "welcome to the UK" and advises people of passport checks.

  8. Maha is wearing a red life jacket over dark watersports clothing stands on a sandy beach facing the camera. Footprints trail across the sand toward the shoreline, with calm blue water, a surfboard in the distance, and a small offshore structure visible on the horizon beneath a clear sky.

  9. Aston Villa president of business Francesco Calvo and Janet Karemera, CEO of the Rwanda Convention Bureau, hold up an Aston Villa shirt with Visit Rwanda as sponsor

  10. A close up of a man holding a woman's hand with a diamond engagement ring

  11. A close-up of a mud-stained hand holding a roughly circular gold nugget

  12. A man is standing in a court dock. He is wearing a dark green top; his eyes appear bloodshot.

  13. A side view of Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma as he stands in court. He is wearing a black puffer jacket and looks straight ahead of him.

  14. A composite triptych image made up of three vertical columns which show, from left to right: Cristiano Ronaldo in action for Portugal in a red shirt with white number seven on the chest; Cameroon's Roger Milla, with his face turned away from the camera, in green shirt and red shorts dancing next to a yellow corner flag at Italia 90; Lionel Messi in action for Argentina in a classic home kit with blue and white vertical stripes. Both Ronaldo and Messi appear to be looking in towards Milla in the middle of the image

  15. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo wearing a beige military cap with a round red logo.

  16. Gianni Infantino

  17. A head and shoulders picture of Cat Matlala in court - he is wearing a blue jumper, the neckline of which can just be seen at the bottom of the picture.

  18. A person in PPE and full head covering is having their goggles adjusted by someone, with blue protective gloves, out-of-focus in the foreground. The green scrubs and hair covering of that person can be seen on the right of the picture.

  19. Protesters marching, a man at the front is pointing a stick at the camera.

  20. Pape Thiaw sat in the dugout at Senegal's match against Belgium at the 2026 World Cup

  21. There is a girl in a light blue t-shirt and black hair. Her hair is braided and goes over her left shoulder. She is stood infront of some trees, a grey path to the left of the picture and a roundabout.

  22. Simon Macharia Wangui in a black hoodie

  23. Zimbabwe's RIchard Ngarava hits out against Bangladesh at the 2022 T20 World Cup

  24. A dried-out corn husk in a maize field.