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A mother carries her child on her back as she walks past graffiti artworks on the walls in the trendy Maboneng district of Johannesburg, South Africa, 02 October 2020. The area has been revitalized over the past five years as a process of re-development of the once downtrodden downtown district. The effort brought safety, business, more tourists and a lot of color into the area.

Africa's top shots: Robes, reeds and dates

A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.

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A mother carries her child on her back as she walks past graffiti artworks on the walls in the trendy Maboneng district of Johannesburg, South Africa, 02 October 2020. The area has been revitalized over the past five years as a process of re-development of the once downtrodden downtown district. The effort brought safety, business, more tourists and a lot of color into the area.

Africa's top shots: Robes, reeds and dates

A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.

A mother carries her child on her back as she walks past graffiti artworks on the walls in the trendy Maboneng district of Johannesburg, South Africa, 02 October 2020. The area has been revitalized over the past five years as a process of re-development of the once downtrodden downtown district. The effort brought safety, business, more tourists and a lot of color into the area.

Africa's top shots: Robes, reeds and dates

A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.

Mike Pence debates Kamala Harris

Harris v Pence debate

Democrat Kamala Harris debated Republican Vice-President Mike Pence in Salt Lake City, Utah.

A group of elephants search a garbage dump for food

Stark photo of elephants wins competition

The image from Sri Lanka is the winner of the Royal Society of Biology photography competition 2020.

Three Sisters: Actresses Joyce Omotola, Akuc Bol & Bel Adawa

Black History Month: Images of strength and beauty

Black people from all sectors of British life feature in an exhibition for Black History Month.

A lightning jet and pilot silhouetted against a sunset

Royal Navy photographic awards

Winning images capture the lives of Royal Navy sailors and Royal Marines around the globe.

A infant sits in a hospital ward with her mother.

By air, boat and foot to deliver measles vaccines

The health workers going to great lengths to deliver vital supplies in the fight against measles in DR Congo.

Mr Stewart

Pioneer portraits to celebrate Caribbean elders

Photographer Garfield McKenzie created the Pioneers portraits to show "wisdom and life experience".

Mike Pence debates Kamala Harris

Harris v Pence debate

Democrat Kamala Harris debated Republican Vice-President Mike Pence in Salt Lake City, Utah.

A group of elephants search a garbage dump for food

Stark photo of elephants wins competition

The image from Sri Lanka is the winner of the Royal Society of Biology photography competition 2020.

Three Sisters: Actresses Joyce Omotola, Akuc Bol & Bel Adawa

Black History Month: Images of strength and beauty

Black people from all sectors of British life feature in an exhibition for Black History Month.

A lightning jet and pilot silhouetted against a sunset
A infant sits in a hospital ward with her mother.
Mr Stewart

Features

Angela kissing her baby's foot

Being a mother in prison

G-A-Y Soho, London

Friends embrace Super Saturday as pubs and bars reopen

Woman holding cloth

Wax print: Africa's pride or colonial legacy?

Shoppers in MMIlton Keynes

The first thing I bought when the shops reopened

Captain Iltasayon Neepe

On patrol with the locust hunters

Week in pictures

A student poses on 29 tonnes of carrots
Several pairs of hands press down on a gold plaque that has been lain in the ground
A dog puts its nose into a metal funnel
Newly born Barbary lion cubs playing
Models stand and wait as they have full face make up applied by a makeup artist
Looking at the open road
Photographer

We set the theme, you take the pictures

Mountains in Arizona
Couple's hiking boots and view of Lake Windermere
Robin

Your pictures on the theme of 'garden creatures'

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    Hedgehog numbers are declining so people are being encouraged to make their gardens more wildlife friendly.

  17. Maritime life around the coast of Britain

    The Shipwrecked Mariners' Society charity has announced the winners of its annual photography competition.

    The competition received more than 2,000 entries this year from both amateur and professional photographers, who set out to capture the essence of Britain's long maritime heritage, with its merchant ships, fishermen, coasts, ports and harbours.

    Caroline Walker's picture, Heugh Breakwater, was taken in Hartlepool and won the Coastal Views category.

    Heugh Breakwater, Hartlepool
    Copyright: CAROLINE WALKER
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