14-07-2025
Getting ready for the rodeo — and other news in pictures
PHOTOGRAPHY
Times picture editors select the best images from around the world, including ways to cool off in a heatwave and grabbing a snack. Which is your favourite?
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Tourists and locals dance around a bonfire in Yue Opera Town in Shaoxing City in the Zhejiang province of China
PAN WEIFENG/VCG/GETTY IMAGES
Fred the dachshund showed that short legs are no obstacle by running an agility course at the K9 World Dog Show at Chalkwell Park, Southend
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Meabh, two, and Tadhg, four, get tips on their swashbuckling technique from Bob the pirate at the Golden Age of Piracy weekend held at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich
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Cyclists raced from Chinon to Chateauroux during stage nine of the Tour de France, passing fields of sunflowers
BENOIT TESSIER/REUTERS
A pod of 12 dolphins entertained onlookers enjoying the sunny weather with acrobatics off the coast of Amble, Northumberland
LINDA JOHNSON/SWNS
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ARTUR WIDAK/ANADOLU/GETTY IMAGES
Visitors to the Dapu Tsunami World water park enjoy the waves under the domed roof of the indoor pool in Wuhu, China
XIAO BENXIANG/VCG/GETTY IMAGES
Jovan Filipovski receives a close shave from his best man before his Galicnik wedding ceremony, a tradition that symbolises the transition into married life in North Macedonia
IOANNIS ALEXOPOULOS/LNP
Boxers spar during a morning training session at the Virunga Club in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo
JOSPIN MWISHA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Scorching temperatures failed to deter thousands of bargain hunters from the car boot sale at Lea Marston in Warwickshire
BRITISH NEWS AND MEDIA/ALAMY
Reenactors dressed in Roman Empire era costumes recreated an ancient attack on a fortress in the village of Poiana in northern Romania
VADIM GHIRDA/AP
A pair of swans with their cygnets found themselves the centre of attention from a herd of curious cows in Romney Marsh, Kent
TOM IWASYSZYN/PICTURE EXCLUSIVE
The Red Arrows put on a colourful display on their return to Bournemouth airport, in their last show of a packed weekend schedule
STEVE HOGAN/SOLENT NEWS
The Pope arrived in style in his popemobile to preside over a Sunday mass in the Papal Parish of St Thomas of Villanova in Castel Gandolfo