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Liverpool, UK
Police officers hold back members of the media outside Liverpool crown court before the sentencing of Axel Rudakubana, who pleaded guilty to the murder of three young girls and the attempted murder of eight other children and two adults in Southport
Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA
London, UK
Passengers at Gatwick queue to check in for their flights. The British government is considering airport expansions in the south-east. Plans for a third runway at Heathrow and a second runway at Gatwick are under review by the Treasury in an effort to boost growth. Heidi Alexander, the transport secretary, has a deadline of 27 February to decide whether to permit Gatwick to bring its existing emergency northern runway into routine use
Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA
Rome, Italy
Patrick Lumumba and his lawyer Cinzia Bartolucci outside Italy’s top appeals court on the day it is due to rule on an appeal by Amanda Knox. Knox was found guilty last year of slander after she wrongly accused Congolese bar owner Lumumba of the killing of student Meredith Kercher in Perugia
Photograph: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters
Paris, France
Models on the catwalk wear creations from the men’s Issey Miyake fall/winter 2025-26 collection
Photograph: Michel Euler/AP
Ahmedabad, India
Students hold a protest in response to news reports of a mass culling of stray dogs in Morocco as part of a cleanup of streets in advance of the FIFA World Cup
Photograph: Ajit Solanki/AP
Moscow, Russia
A visitor looks at the newly restored painting Saint Sebastian by the 17th-century Italian painter Luca Giordano at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP
Khan Younis, Gaza
An encampment of tents of displaced Palestinians on the beach as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas continues to hold
Photograph: Haitham Imad/EPA
Jasionka, Poland
Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, the Polish defence minister, and his German counterpart, Boris Pistorius, visit a military base in Jasionka, where Patriot air defence system units are located
Photograph: Patryk Ogorzalek/Agencja Wyborcza.pl/Reuters
Tokyo, Japan
A woman visits a Taiyaki shop on Togoshi Ginza shopping street. Japan is expected to release its year-on-year December inflation data tomorrow
Photograph: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images
Athens, Greece
Taxi drivers take part in a protest to demand the right to drive their cars on bus lanes. The Athens Taxi Drivers’ Union announced a six-hour strike on 23 January to protest against the new road traffic code, which bans taxis from using the bus lanes
Photograph: Yannis Kolesidis/EPA
Bangkok, Thailand
Ruchaya Nillakan and Nuttimon Sanyamast, a same-sex couple, attend their marriage registration event at Paragon shopping mall. A high-profile gay couple married in Thailand on 23 January as the kingdom’s same-sex marriage law came into effect, and were among the first of hundreds expected to do so
Photograph: Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP/Getty Images
Seoul, South Korea
Supporters of impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol attend a rally on a road near the constitutional court, after Yoon arrived at the court for hearings that will decide whether to remove him from office
Photograph: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images
Central Java, Indonesia
Rescuers carry the body of a victim in a landslide-affected area in Pekalongan Regency. The death toll from a landslide, on 20 January, on Indonesia’s main island of Java has risen to 21, with five others reported missing
Photograph: Dausat Mursyid/EPA
