![Remo the police dog gets a cuddle from his handler, PC Paul O’Donnell, at Police Scotland College, where the Belgian Malinois cross retired from active service. Remo, 7, needed a £4,000 titanium tooth implant after being struck with a metal bar and losing part of an ear while restraining an offender in 2020](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Faa199d50-a3ad-11ec-9909-6547dd4945b7.jpg?crop=1493%2C995%2C4%2C2)
Remo the police dog gets a cuddle from his handler, PC Paul O’Donnell, at Police Scotland College, where the Belgian Malinois cross retired from active service. Remo, 7, needed a £4,000 titanium tooth implant after being struck with a metal bar and losing part of an ear while restraining an offender in 2020
ANDREW MILLIGAN/PA
![An artist puts the finishing touches to a falla, one of the giant cardboard depictions of celebrities and current events that will be burnt in the streets of Valencia on March 19 in tribute to Saint Joseph, patron of carpenters](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fc7b21e0a-a3ad-11ec-9909-6547dd4945b7.jpg?crop=5850%2C3900%2C29%2C20)
An artist puts the finishing touches to a falla, one of the giant cardboard depictions of celebrities and current events that will be burnt in the streets of Valencia on March 19 in tribute to Saint Joseph, patron of carpenters
JOSE JORDAN/GETTY IMAGES
![An early dogwalk on the beach at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, is illuminated by the rising sun yesterday](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fd4df31a8-a3ad-11ec-9909-6547dd4945b7.jpg?crop=2970%2C1982%2C15%2C10)
An early dogwalk on the beach at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, is illuminated by the rising sun yesterday
ANDREW MCCAREN/LONDON NEWS PICTURES
![A mother bear and three cubs sniff the air before hunting for salmon and clams on Kodiak Island, Alaska](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fccb750f0-a3ad-11ec-9909-6547dd4945b7.jpg?crop=4124%2C2766%2C326%2C452)
A mother bear and three cubs sniff the air before hunting for salmon and clams on Kodiak Island, Alaska
JENNIFER HADLEY / ANIMAL NEWS AGENCY
![Jacinta Carroll glides to victory in the Moomba Masters water ski jump on the Yarra river in Melbourne](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fb7665a0c-a3ad-11ec-9909-6547dd4945b7.jpg?crop=3725%2C2483%2C24%2C18)
Jacinta Carroll glides to victory in the Moomba Masters water ski jump on the Yarra river in Melbourne
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![Tunisians start the week of independence day on March 20 with a parade through the capital, Tunis, in traditional dress](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fae9dbb18-a3ad-11ec-9909-6547dd4945b7.jpg?crop=4235%2C2823%2C11%2C7)
Tunisians start the week of independence day on March 20 with a parade through the capital, Tunis, in traditional dress
HASAN MRAD/REX FEATURES
![This great crested brute is a male hooded merganser, displaying its plumage in the spring sunshine at Bird Gardens Scotland, in Oxton, the Borders. The birds, diving predators that hunt by sight, pair up and breed from the end of February until early summer](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fd69deca0-a3ad-11ec-9909-6547dd4945b7.jpg?crop=2426%2C1548%2C12%2C8)
This great crested brute is a male hooded merganser, displaying its plumage in the spring sunshine at Bird Gardens Scotland, in Oxton, the Borders. The birds, diving predators that hunt by sight, pair up and breed from the end of February until early summer
PHIL WILKINSON
![The otherworldy autumn-winter designs of Ayano Ichige colour the runway at Tokyo Fashion Week](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fbdf59568-a3ad-11ec-9909-6547dd4945b7.jpg?crop=8554%2C5703%2C43%2C29)
The otherworldy autumn-winter designs of Ayano Ichige colour the runway at Tokyo Fashion Week
FRANCK ROBICHON/EPA
![Horses trained by Gordon Elliott get an early-morning outing on the gallops in Gloucestershire before the Cheltenham Festival, which begins today](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fad632fda-a3ad-11ec-9909-6547dd4945b7.jpg?crop=3465%2C2310%2C17%2C12)
Horses trained by Gordon Elliott get an early-morning outing on the gallops in Gloucestershire before the Cheltenham Festival, which begins today
DAVID DAVIES/PA
![Rosas de Ouro samba school members are getting plenty of practice for Sao Paulo Carnival, although the two-day jamboree through the most populous city in the Americas is still over a month away](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fab9719dc-a3ad-11ec-9909-6547dd4945b7.jpg?crop=3960%2C2640%2C20%2C13)
Rosas de Ouro samba school members are getting plenty of practice for Sao Paulo Carnival, although the two-day jamboree through the most populous city in the Americas is still over a month away
PAULO LOPES/REX FEATURES
![Vermeer’s The Guitar Player is seen as the artist intended — by candlelight — for the first time in more than 100 years at Kenwood House, north London. The painting was removed from its glass-fronted frame as part of an English Heritage project to install LED picture lights in the house which will improve how its collection is viewed. The gentle flicker highlights aspects of the artist’s technique which cannot normally be seen, such as the translucent pearls lining its sitter’s neck and evidence of a fingerprint – possibly Vermeer’s own – in the top-left corner](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fb0c99132-a3ad-11ec-9909-6547dd4945b7.jpg?crop=10333%2C6786%2C52%2C34)
Vermeer’s The Guitar Player is seen as the artist intended — by candlelight — for the first time in more than 100 years at Kenwood House, north London. The painting was removed from its glass-fronted frame as part of an English Heritage project to install LED picture lights in the house which will improve how its collection is viewed. The gentle flicker highlights aspects of the artist’s technique which cannot normally be seen, such as the translucent pearls lining its sitter’s neck and evidence of a fingerprint – possibly Vermeer’s own – in the top-left corner
JIM HOLDEN
![Pineapple harvesters in Tangail, Bangladesh, are noted for their ability to balance and transport more than 100 fruits on bicycles, which they wheel to market in long convoys](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fc9b902b8-a3ad-11ec-9909-6547dd4945b7.jpg?crop=5069%2C3379%2C25%2C17)
Pineapple harvesters in Tangail, Bangladesh, are noted for their ability to balance and transport more than 100 fruits on bicycles, which they wheel to market in long convoys
AZIM KHAN RONNIE /CATERS NEWS AGENCY
![An impala meets its nemisis in the form of a cheetah that pounced at such speed that it appears to be flying across the grassland of the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fb8bd3966-a3ad-11ec-9909-6547dd4945b7.jpg?crop=6043%2C3400%2C30%2C17)
An impala meets its nemisis in the form of a cheetah that pounced at such speed that it appears to be flying across the grassland of the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya
PATRICK KIENTZ/SOLENT NEWS
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