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  1. Macklemore, who has short, blond hair and short, dark stubble, raises his hands in the air as he holds a microphone while performing on stage. He wears a green coat with fur-type material around the neck and cuffs.

  2. 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.

  3. A split image showing Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu

  4. Jordanian security personnel carry the coffins of victims of a church shooting in Karak, Jordan (25 October 2026)

  5. A woman with an updo and glasses looks down the camera

  6. A commercial ship arrives to dock near Trincomalee port off Sri Lanka's coast

  7. Netanyahu and Eisenkot billboard.

  8. Composite image of Lucy Williamson wearing a beige top and glasses on left and on right a man with a blue shirt waving an Israeli flag amongst a crowd

  9. Two men wearing suits look ahead. It is Gadi Eisenkot and Benjamin Netanyahu in a composite image.

  10. An Israeli army vehicle passes near the closed entrance of Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

  11. A split image showing an IDF soldier on the left and a Haredi Jewish man on the right

  12. Man sweeps up debris.

  13. Jay Clayton gestures with his right hand

  14. Several security personnel surrounded by cars in a car park in Jordan.

  15. Lady Shep-En-Hor's sarcophagus on display at The Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. The sarcophagus is multicoloured and has a number of Egyptian hieroglyphics on it.

  16. Screengrab from a video shows two men, holding guns, running

  17. Digger destroys house. Rubble, dust and concrete.

  18. BBC Verify graphic combining evidence of an oil spill in the UAE. On the left, a satellite image shows a tanker leaking a dark plume into the sea, highlighted with a green circle. On the right, a photograph shows oil staining the shoreline of a sandy beach in the northern UAE.

  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. Malnourished twin Raad Hassan is held by his mother Lina while his sister Raghad lies beside him on a bed at a hospital in Aden, Yemen

  21. A view of cars and trucks on Dammam-Riyadh Highway, in Dammam, Saudi Arabia (19 October 2026)

  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. Young Israeli Arabs handing out election leaflets

  24. Smoke and flames rise from King Khalid Airport, after Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis said they attacked the airport, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 8, 2026, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video