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The Guardian
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
A sunbathing Dalek and farewells to Pope Francis: photos of the weekend
A Dalek is parked on South Bay Beach, Scarborough, marking day two of the seaside town's eleventh annual sci-fi weekend Photograph:A visitor stands on Tower Bridge's high glass walkway as TCS London Marathon runners cross the River Thames on the road bridge below Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA Smoke continues to billow the day after a massive explosion took place near the southern city of Bandar Abbas, which killed at least 28 people and left more than 1,000 others injured Photograph: Meysam Mirsadeh/TASNIM NEWS/AFP/Getty Images The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, leads a mass in St Peter's Square, marking the second of nine days' official mourning for the late Pope Francis Photograph: Andreea Alexandru/AP Lee Jae-myung celebrates after being named presidential candidate for the opposition Democratic party ahead of elections on 3 June Photograph: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images The Herds project – a 20,000km (12,400-mile) trek to raise awareness about migration due to climate change – passes through Ouakam district on its journey from Kinshasa to the Arctic Photograph: Nicolas Remene/AFP/Getty Images People enjoy the blooms at Ashikaga flower park, to the north of Tokyo Photograph: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images A woman poses for a photo with a classic car at the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend on Saturday Photograph: Ronda Churchill/AFP/Getty Images Men believed to be undocumented Bangladeshi nationals are guarded by police after being discovered during raids Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters A family home lies reduced to rubble by Indian authorities after rising tensions in the region Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and the US president, Donald Trump, take a moment away from Pope Francis's funeral to talk Photograph: Ukrainian Presidential Press Office/AP Hindu devotees attend evening prayers on the banks of the River Ganges on Saturday Photograph: Shammi Mehra/AFP/Getty Images Revellers – many dressed in orange to recognise the reigning House of Orange – celebrate King's Day along the canal Photograph: Iris van den Broek/ANP/AFP/Getty Images Nuns prepare for a requiem mass for Pope Francis at the Esplanade of Tasitolu, where the late pontiff held a mass in September last year Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images Morris dancers with the Milltown Cloggies attend the Joint Morris Organisations' annual National Day of Dance on Saturday in Stockport Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talk in the garden of Villa Wolkonsky in Rome, Italy, after the Pope's funeral on Saturday Photograph: Marco M Mantovani/PA Attendees cheer during a sperm racing competition in Los Angeles on Friday night. The unusual sport was invented, magnified, filmed and broadcast by Eric Zhu, 17, who wants to raise awareness of male infertility Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images
BBC News
09-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Herefordshire museums get cash for climate change activities
Funding for activities designed to provoke discussions about climate change and the planet has been awarded to museums in awards of £3,000 and £2,000 will be spent on activities that engage people and encourage them to join in the conversation about the "huge effects" of climate change and people's "impact on our natural world", Damian Etheraads museum and art gallery lead at Herefordshire Council said competition for the grants was extremely tough and staff were "thrilled".He said the funding would allow them to connect with people in new ways around the subject. The £3,000 award from the Natural History Museum's Fixing our Broken Planet programme will be used to work with young people and create an exhibition looking at the impact of climate change locally that will run from this August to March next the £2,000 award is being spent on activities in Malvern in June to raise awareness about an event taking place this year, which is planned to inspire wonder for the natural world and spark a climate change Herds is a worldwide project that will see more than 100 life-sized animal puppets being taken on a journey of 20,000km across Africa and Europe between April and are two UK destinations for the procession, in London and Manchester. The actual procession will not visit Herefordshire. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
