From the agencies
Showcasing some of the world's best photojournalists and presenting their work in galleries, rather than the usual, one-off spot news format
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Each 1 May, the village of Cocullo in the Abruzzo region honours Saint Dominic of Sora with a procession of his statue draped with live snakesGallery
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Greece’s fertility rate is one of the lowest in Europe and the government is planning in May to unveil new measures to address the problemGallery
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Turkey’s eighth national Antarctic science expedition is seeking answers to questions about the future of the world with 22 different projects on the continentGallery
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AFP photographer Pedro Pardo gained access to a remote stretch of frontier in China’s north-east Jilin province. Between rusting factories and peeling housing blocks were glimpses of daily life in North KoreaGallery
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Lofoten Seaweed in Norway creates products for everyone from home cooks to professional chefs. These include nori, grass kelp, knotted wrack, truffle seaweed, among many other local speciesGallery
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Greenpeace has called for the creation of a high seas protected zone under a new UN treaty to secure a much wider area around Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago, whose unique fauna and flora inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolutionGallery
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As part of a programme to restore arctic fox populations, Norway has been feeding the animals for nearly 20 years, helping boost numbers from as few as 40 in Norway, Finland, and Sweden, to about 550 across ScandinaviaGallery
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Atomic Pro Wrestling stages fights in venue where viewers can enjoy craft beer and get close to the actionGallery
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A year after Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, declared a humanitarian crisis among the Yanomami and vowed zero tolerance for illegal mining, environmental enforcers have said the progress since the ousting from the reservation of 80% of the wildcat miners is in jeopardy. As the military has rolled back its support for the crackdown, the miners have made fresh incursions into Yanomami land, they sayGallery
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Brass for Africa empowers children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to positively transform their lives by using community brass bands as tools to develop life skillsGallery
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Sisters of the Valley, a non-religious international group founded in 2014, has pledged to spread the gospel of the healing powers of cannabisGallery
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A school near Liverpool has opened its pupils to a wealth of jobs in agriculture and the benefits of nature with its own farm. Woodchurch high school farm opened 13 years ago, and counts dairy farmers and vets among former studentsGallery
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Senegal has launched a pilot scheme to reduce its prison population by releasing hundreds of inmates under electronic supervisionGallery
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The annual Noir Kringle Black Santa grotto experience, in east London, was created by Charlotte Lewis in 2017 after she was unable to find a Christmas grotto that featured a black Santa where she could take her daughterGallery
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Kenya’s pre-eminent and most diverse dance school is committed to teaching talented dancers, irrespective of their ability to pay for training. The photographer Luis Tato watched the company rehearse and perform the Nutcracker, the classical ballet traditionally performed at Christmas, at the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi
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Dakar’s Hann Bay used to be one of West Africa’s most beautiful. But for the last 20 years it has been at the centre of the city’s industrialisation, with canals spilling raw sewage and chemicals on to the beach and into the sea. Today it is one of the city’s most polluted areasGallery
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Dancers from the Northern Ballet perform the final dress rehearsal for The Nutcracker before the production is staged at the Grand Theatre in LeedsGallery
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This 1,300-year-old fishing technique consists of swinging a basket of flames over the river to wake the ayu river fish, who dart away from their resting spots and give the birds a chance to catch them and then release them into a bucket with the help of the cormorant fishing master, or usho. Climate change is bringing heavy rains and a need for anti-flood barriers on a once calm river, with smaller rocks and sand filling the river bottom and obstructing the larger rocks that form ayu river fish habitatsGallery
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