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  1. A military helicopter painted in beige camouflage with white patches flies above an Algerian flag, which has green and white halves and a red crescent and star in the centre.

  2. Women wearing colourful traditional Ethiopian dresses in green, red and gold, with long headscarves, pray outside a church. Some stand while others kneel.

  3. A health worker in a white lab coat holds a syringe as she prepares to administer a dose on a man's shoulder,

  4. A friendly-looking lion mascot holding up a large national flag of Senegal on a pole. The mascot, called Ayo, wears a colourful red-and-yellow traditional-style hat and a white T-shirt featuring the logo for the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games. The green, yellow, and red Senegalese flag with a green central star prominently fills the right side of the frame against an outdoor street backdrop with blurred crowd members and a metal crowd barrier

  5. Nigeria Police officers (file image)

  6. Icons of social media apps, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and WhatsApp, is displayed on a mobile phone screen. File photo

  7. A young woman in braces and a burgundy wig, wearing a green vest, smiling away from the camera with her head tilted to the left behind a red background

  8. An emergency worker saws through metal and concrete as others watch on at the site of a building collapse in Nairobi.

  9. Gerhard Erasmus

  10. A crowd of young black people singing and dancing at a music event in Bristol.

  11. A female medical worker checks the temperature of a male traveller with a scanner at the Malaba crossing-point between Kenya and Uganda on 8 October

  12. A room with a massive hole in the ceiling and debris all over the floor.

  13. Peres Jepchirchir in a pink top with arms outstretched, breaking a ribbon as she crosses the finish line at the Sydney marathon

  14. Splti-screen showing a destroyed room on the left, and correspondent Barbara Plett Usher on the right

  15. Peter Mutharika wearing a black suit and dotted tie speaks during an interview in Lilongwe, Malawi

  16. Three patients in a hospital. Two have bandaged heads, while a child sitting on a chair has a dressing on his head.

  17. A laboratory technologist wearing protective equipment as she prepares to enter the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Laboratory at Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda

  18. Lewis Hamilton sits in the news conference in Austin

  19. A mugshot of Abu Agila Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi. He has a white beard and is staring straight ahead. He is wearing a prison overall of some form.

  20. A masked man draped in a South African flag stands in the street as onlookers gather behind him, holding a slingshot in one hand and a stick in the other.r

  21. Paul Stirling

  22. Eva Greztmacher looks up in sunglasses. A blue sky and desert scrubland can be seen behind her. She is wearing a necklace with a ring as a pendant.

  23. A display at Kendal Museum which features heads of animals such as zebras and antelopes, affixed to the wall. Items are also displayed inside glass cabinets and include other stuffed animals and skeletons.

  24. An official takes a temperature as part of Ebola preventative measures in East Africa.