A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.
England created history by winning their first major women’s football tournament in a dramatic Euro 2022 final against eight-time champions Germany at Wembley. Substitute Chloe Kelly made the final score 2-1 in front of a record crowd of 87,192, with ten minutes of extra time remaining.Protesters clashed with police in La Paz, Bolivia, over a controversial new coca market that coca leaf producers want closed down.The Egyptian Air Force’s Silver Stars and South Korea’s Black Eagles aerial demonstration team perform during the launch of the Pyramids Air Show 2022 at the Pyramids plateau in Giza, Egypt.Chilean authorities are investigating a mysterious sinkhole which appeared in a mining area in the north of the country. Drone images show a huge hole on land operated on by Canada’s Lundin Mining.Chioma Onyekwere of Team Nigeria competes during the Women’s Discus Throw Final on day five of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. The 28-year-old African champion won the event with a season’s-best throw of 61.70m.A baby sea turtle is released into the sea at Ketawai Beach on Bangka Belitung island, Indonesia, as part of a conservation programme. 2,287 sea turtle eggs were saved from the illegal trade before being hatched and released by the Alobi Foundation Wildlife Rescue.Highland dancers perform on the Esplanade of Edinburgh Castle at this year’s Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Scotland.Migrants wait to board a coastguard ship in Lampedusa before being transferred to Porto Empedocle in Sicily, Italy. The island of Lampedusa is one of the main arrival points for migrants trying to reach EuropeAndrea Garcia Lopez, 71, nicknamed Granny Jordan by TikTok users, plays basketball during an exhibition game in San Esteban Atatlahuca, Oaxaca, Mexico.People gather in Paris to watch the sun set just behind the Arc de Triomphe in an event known as Paris Henge. Twice a year – in May and August – the sun aligns down the axis of the arch.
Dripping Dolls Heads in a Factory, Photographed by Merlyn Severn, 1947
Taking Tea with Mummy: the Mummies of Venzone, Italy, Photographed in 1950
Alice and the Dormouse, Photographed by Ernest Barraud, 1887
Halloween Masks, New York, 1960s, Photographed by Arthur Tress
Just creepy
In 1970, a teenage stowaway named Keith Sapsford fell to his death from an airplane.
On February 22, 1970, an Australian teen named Keith Sapsford snuck onto the tarmac at Sydney Airport and hid inside a Tokyo-bound plane. It was the last decision he ever made. [disaster]
The Snake Woman Saite Layton, Cole Bros. Circus, 1947
The Kamloops Indian Residential School ran by the Catholic Church (1937)
Three French circus performers from around 1900-1930
The Catholic Church with the Nazi Third Reich
New Year in a psychiatric hospital, Moscow, 1988. Photographer: Pavel Krivtsov
We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme “on the water”. Here is a selection of the photographs we received from around the world.
Prantik Biswas: “A surfer keeps his balance amongst the wild waves.”Alex Ashby: ‘Visiting Sai Kung in Hong Kong, I stopped to watch this man very unsteadily make his way to shore.”Katharine Simkins: “Some over-enthusiastic paddling at Goatee Beach opposite Southampton Docks on a beautiful winter’s morning. Sound carries on the water and I expect the dock workers all heard my daughter’s loud complaints about her squelchy wellies.”Richard Highes: “At this beautiful time of year, you have to love every fluffy duckling, gosling and cygnet exploring the world for the first time.”Niels Andersen: “The harbour in Ilulissat, Greenland, is packed with ice after a stormy night.”Victoria Schaal: “A calm sea in the Caribbean.”Martin Pilkington: “Admiring the skills and patience of a team of fishermen on the serene Inle Lake in Burma” [Myanmar].Nigel Caulkett: “Winnie loves to get out on the water in the summer. She always wears her life jacket, because she is not the best swimmer.”Hayley King: “An elegant swan on Cherry Hinton lake, Cambridge.”Gary Framingham took this during an early Easter Sunday morning walk by the River Chet in Norfolk.Jane Elle: “An unusual encounter on the water.”Sarah Bailey: “This fallen leaf floating on the water at Bedgebury National Pinetum and Forest, Kent, reminds me of a star suspended in an inky night sky.”Adam Berry: “I love the way this image has a wow factor. It was taken free diving without tanks on a single breath. The scuba divers give a feeling of how deep it is, then you look at the bottom and see my friend sitting on the rock, that’s when the wow comes in. To think he can go that deep on one breath gives a real sense of how far he went and what it takes. At that depth, your lungs are squeezed from the pressure and it almost feels like they are empty.”
Image caption,Workers look after trees planted in the “green belt” area around the city of Karbala, Iraq.Image caption,The opening ceremony at the My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi, Vietnam, marked the beginning of the Southeast Asian Games. About 5,000 athletes will be competing in 40 sports.Image caption,Prince Charles stood in for the Queen for the first time to open a new session of Parliament, after she had to pull out because of mobility problems. The Prince of Wales, flanked by the Duke of Cambridge and the Duchess of Cornwall, read the Queen’s Speech during the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords.Image caption,The Azov regiment released this photo of an injured Ukrainian serviceman inside the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, which is besieged by Russian troops. All elderly people, women and children have now been evacuated from the plant.Image caption,Hundreds of people were forced to evacuate their homes due to a swift-moving wildfire in southern California. Meanwhile, the largest wildfire in the US continues to threaten communities and businesses in New Mexico.Image caption,A bee-eater bird catches a bee in the village of Buszkowice in Podkarpacie, Poland.Image caption,Migrants wait to disembark from a Spanish coastguard vessel at the port of Arguineguin, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain.Image caption,British soldiers participate in a Nato “Swift Response 22” exercise in North Macedonia, to test the military alliance’s deployment readiness along its eastern borders.Image caption,Mayor of London Sadiq Khan walks through cannabis plants which are being legally cultivated at a licensed factory in Los Angeles. The mayor was seeing for himself how legalised cannabis production operates in California.Image caption,Sri Lankan security forces were ordered to shoot law-breakers on sight in a bid to quell anti-government protests. Demonstrators are calling for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the island’s worst ever economic