Officer cadets of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst march to the parade ground to take part in the passing-out ceremony
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE
Bea Hamblin, 14, and Moochie enjoy the fine weather and flowers in the Japanese garden at Compton Acres, Poole, on Friday
ZACHARY CULPIN/BNPS
Icelandic horses let their hair down at a stud farm in the Wehrheim municipality near Frankfurt in Germany
MICHAEL PROBST/AP
Hot-air balloons about to take off during a festival to celebrate the end of Ramadan in Wonosobo, Java, Indonesia
ALGI FEBRI SUGITA/ZUMA PRESS/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK
Corfe Castle in Dorset stands guard over a sea of golden rapeseed
STEVE HOGAN/PICTUREEXCLUSIVE.COM
Children make a seesaw in the ruins at Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza
MAHMOUD SSA/ANADOLU/GETTY IMAGES
Fatou, believed to be the world’s oldest female gorilla, gets a special delivery of fruit at the Berlin Zoological Garden before her 67th birthday on Saturday
JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Hikers are in the pink surrounded by azalea blossoms on Mount Cheonju, southeast of Seoul in South Korea
YONHAP/EPA
Astra, a 600lb female polar bear and one of twins, is sedated for her annual check-up at Point Defiance zoo and aquarium in Tacoma, Washington. Her sister, Laerke, also got her vaccine boosters, a mani-pedi and her teeth cleaned
POINT DEFIANCE ZOO AND AQUARIUM/CMA
Revellers in Bangkok celebrate the new year in Thailand with a traditional water-pouring ceremony
LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Humpback whales swim near Banco de la Plata in the Dominican Republic, which has expanded the marine conservation area off its beaches
MAXIMILIANO BELLO/MISSION BLUE NGO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Muslims in Sholakia, Bangladesh, congregate on Thursday for Eid prayers
BADAL CHANDRA SARKER/SOLENT NEWS
Nick Loftin of the Kansas City Royals leaps over his team-mate, Bobby Witt Jr, in a baseball game against the Houston Astros at the Kauffman stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals won 13-3
ED ZURGA/GETTY IMAGES
An akhal-teke horse, a Turkmen breed, gets a flurry of attention at the International Grand Bazaar in China’s Xinjiang province
SPLASHNEWS.COM
The French sailor Yannick Bestaven sails off Cascais, Portugal. From November 10, he will take part in the Vendée Globe around-the-world solo race, which will start start and finish in Les Sables-d’Olonne, France
LOIC VENANCE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Jo-Jo the baby Bennett’s wallaby pops out from her albino mother’s pouch at Auchingarrich wildlife park in Perthshire, after seven months “indoors”
KATIELEE ARROWSMITH/SWNS
The endurance athlete Samantha Lissauer runs through Borrowdale during the Silva Lakes Traverse, a 100km race from St Bees to Shap across the Lake District. The first woman, she completed the race in 13 hours and 27 minutes
NO LIMITS PHOTOGRAPHY
Malcolm Lambert takes aim with a Browning B25 shotgun, worth £28,000, at his shop in Ringwood, Hampshire. The historic shop, which Lambert has run since the Nineties, has traded in the town for 100 years, but will close when the gunsmith, 78, retires this month because, he says, “it’s a dying trade” as country shoots decline
MAX WILLCOCK/BNPS
For more pictures from The Times, follow us on Instagram
