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A great white pelican grabs a bite to eat in Sandy Wood Lake, northern California
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A blue tit and a great tit squabble over a perch in Shropshire
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Cars make their way along the flooded A1101 in Welney, Norfolk, where the River Delph and New Bedford River have flooded the surrounding area
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The Glenshee resort in Scotland is busy with skiers and snowboarders
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A 15-second exposure captures a “painting” created using a light stick on Frinton beach, Essex
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![Ice skaters make the most of unusually cold weather in the Netherlands at the Kinderdijk windmill park near Rotterdam](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fa6a7512c-8cf9-11ed-b24e-c1aaebfbdb8d.jpg?crop=5000%2C3333%2C0%2C0)
Ice skaters make the most of unusually cold weather in the Netherlands at the Kinderdijk windmill park near Rotterdam
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Competitors in the Dakar 2023 rally test their off-road skills around Hail, Saudi Arabia
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Patrick Cikuru Cirimwami, an artist in Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, applies finishing touches to portraits of political figures created from plastic waste that he collects near a hydroelectric power station
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![About 1,800 people of all ages take part in a calligraphy contest in Tokyo](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fdcf0580a-8cf9-11ed-b24e-c1aaebfbdb8d.jpg?crop=6928%2C4619%2C0%2C0)
About 1,800 people of all ages take part in a calligraphy contest in Tokyo
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![Children attend a skiing class on an artificial ski slope in the Netherlands, in the absence of snow in many of Europe's popular ski resorts](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F3c64faca-8cfa-11ed-b24e-c1aaebfbdb8d.jpg?crop=5500%2C3667%2C0%2C0)
Children attend a skiing class on an artificial ski slope in the Netherlands, in the absence of snow in many of Europe's popular ski resorts
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A baby orangutan at Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta, Indonesia
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![A tractor powered by cow dung spreading the love for carbon neutrality earlier this year in Newquay, Cornwall. The vehicle, created by Bennamann, runs on liquified fuel made from methane](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F14122070-8cfa-11ed-b24e-c1aaebfbdb8d.jpg?crop=8256%2C5504%2C0%2C0)
A tractor powered by cow dung spreading the love for carbon neutrality earlier this year in Newquay, Cornwall. The vehicle, created by Bennamann, runs on liquified fuel made from methane
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The sun rises over the Great Ouse in Ely, Cambridgeshire
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