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    1. Starship 40 and Booster 20 launch from SpaceX's facility in Cameron County, Texas, on 24 July, 2026, for what the company called ''Flight 13.''

      • A polar bear peers down through a roughly circular opening in the white ice, its entire face visible through the hole. Its dark nose and eyes stand out against its pale fur, while the vivid blue sky beyond the opening contrasts with the darker edge of the ice.

        • Trams in Lisbon

        • Three people in breathing apparatus are surrounded by smoke while trying to put out a wildfire.

        • Michael Sheen looks at the camera. He is wearing a green scarf and a plaid red shirt and a coat over the top. Behind him is a waste site which is fenced off.

        • Image of a tornado with a car in the foreground.

        • Weathered grey sign saying Wilton Court, along with a sign saying Kelvinside Gds Lane. There are trees behind it.

        • A person stands on a roof inspecting a power cable.

        • Women looking at items food in a garden

        • Around 40 large solar panels spanning out across a large green field.

        • Jack Cripps is wearing glasses and a black zip-up fleece with the Suffolk Wildlife Trust logo. He is standing in a woodland and looking into the camera.

        • Wamphray Church is sitting on a hill in a countryside setting with headstones around it. There are gloomy skies above and some trees, without leaves, beside it.

        • A view from above of a crocodile on a sandy or muddy ground, sitting next to brown-coloured water in an enclosure. There is green foliage to the left.

        • A police officer walking on a raised footpath alongside a shallow, clear river. On the opposite side is a white rendered cottage with a chimney and red tiled roof.

        • Pedestrians walk past a toppled tree after a tornado struck Pomas, southwestern France on August 24, 2026.

        • A black crow sits on top of a hutch with an insect in its beak. A brown and white bull terrier dog stands below looking at the crow.

        • Crow sits on the head of a woman. The woman is smiling.

        • Four ducks sat on a blue coloured carpet - the front centre duck is looking directly at the camera, and the other three are sat behind him looking to the right and are slightly blurred. The ducks are brown and yellow, with dark grey beaks, and have beady brown and black eyes.

        • A man, Tom Carter, wearing a police uniform stood in a layby. He is standingin front of a van with hi-vis markings on it. He is smiling.

        • Jamie Parsons poses for the camera with a glum expression. A wetlands with a very low water level is visible behind him.

        • A young woman wearing a black T-shirt stands next to a line of trees in an apple orchard on a sunny day. The grass is dry and yellow and she has her right arm raised with her hand holding a branch which has small green apples on the end

        • A white woman, with fair shoulder-length hair looks into a microscope in a laboratory. She is wearing a white lab coat and blue latex gloves. Her colleague observes in the background.

        • A barn owl is perched on a fencepost against a backdrop of a blurred, golden-orange field. The bird has bright, feathered wings in hues of bronze and gold, with a clean, white front. From its circular face, two deep-black eyes stare towards us, its head turned 90 degrees to its side-on body.

        • Two young goats, one white the other mottled in colour, wearing insulated jackets.