The Queen’s Gurkha Signals unit prepare for their Fit For Role inspection on the Wellington Barracks parade ground. On passing it, they take up the ceremonial duty of guarding the royal palaces
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE
Preservation work is under way at Christ the Consoler church in the grounds of Newby Hall, North Yorkshire, before a renovation project that will reinstate its broken boiler and heating system. The church was built by the Victorian architect William Burges as a memorial to Frederick Vyner, who was murdered by Greek brigands in 1870
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP
A giraffe seems oblivious to the stunning view at Zimanga Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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The Mount Ruang volcano on Tagulandang Island, Indonesia, erupted at least five times on Wednesday. The next day smoke from its crater reached more than 500m above the peak
RONNY ADOLOF BUOL/AFP
The artist Hilary Jack works on Seaview, which uses a precariously perched house as a commentary on how coastal erosion and adverse weather affect our homes. It will be displayed outside Salisbury Cathedral as part of the exhibition Our Earth from tomorrow
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Denis Yefremov, a space technology engineer, performs a parachute jump from the Earth’s stratosphere to the area near the Russian polar station Barneo
DENIS EFREMOV/REUTERS
Albanian police flinch as protesters’ petrol bombs hit the office of Erion Veliaj, the mayor of Tirana, who they accuse of corruption
FLORION GOGA/REUTERS
The American rock band Phish open their four-night run at Sphere on Thursday in Las Vegas, Nevada
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A model showcases the Italian designer Giambattista Valli’s collection at Barcelona Bridal Fashion Week
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The University of Oklahoma gymnast Ragan Smith performs during the 2024 NCAA gymnastics semifinals at Dickies Arena, Texas
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The Affinity Foundation brings therapy dogs to comfort intensive care unit patients at Hospital del Mar in Barcelona, Spain. Joel Bueno, 34, who had been admitted with a blood clot, cried when the guests arrived — saying that they reminded him of his own dog back home
ALBERT GEA/REUTERS
Queues build at a polling station in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh state during the first phase of voting for India’s general election. Up to 969 million Indians will go to the polls in the world’s biggest election
IDREES MOHAMMED/AFP
Count Binface takes his campaign to be the capital’s mayor to a rooftop near London Bridge. His manifesto includes a motion for the bridge to be renamed after the Fleabag actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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An endangered red squirrel leaps into action in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, in northern England
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Japan’s Mount Fuji looms over Lake Kawaguchiko, one of the Fuji Five Lakes formed by previous eruptions of the volcano
CARLOS PEREZ GALLARDO/REUTERS
Yanming, who left the Ivory Coast to learn kung fu, at the Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng, eastern China
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Frippy Jameson, winner of The Society of Portrait Sculptors’ Lockbund Award with her work Flora, Northumberland, which is currently on display at Garrison Chapel, London, until April 28. Her equine sculpture will be exhibited at Dalkeith Palace, near Edinburgh, throughout May
PHIL WILKINSON
A dog finds some relief from the heatwave in Mexico City on the esplanade of the Revolution Monument
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Botafogo’s goalkeeper Gatito Fernández pauses during their match against Atlético Goianiense at the Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Two rival konik stallions battle for dominance on the wetlands of Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire, where they have been introduced to encourage biodiversity
BAV MEDIA
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