An Andean adventurer and banana art: photos of the day – Friday

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  • Hawkshead, Cumbria, UK

    A dollhouse that inspired the stories of Beatrix Potter is going back on display after 300 hours of conservation work. Seventy-three miniature items – including furniture, plates of food and a tiny chandelier – were repaired and cleaned by National Trust conservators before the house becomes the centrepiece of a new exhibition

    Interior of Beatrix Potter’s dollhouse
  • Bengaluru, India

    Commuters wait in a traffic jam along a road leading to Yelahanka railway station

    A congested road
  • Quezon City, the Philippines

    Naked student fraternity members present themselves to a crowd during the Oblation Run at the University of the Philippines. The event attempts to bring attention to important societal issues

    Naked people link arms as they stand before a crowd
  • Nikkō, Japan

    Tourists visiting the Tōshogū shrine, the final resting place of Ieyasu, the first Tokugawa shōgun, a famous tourism spot and Unesco World Heritage site

    Tourists gather at a shrine in snow
  • London, UK

    A scene from Vollmond by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and Terrain Boris Charmatz at Sadler’s Wells

    Performers hurl buckets of water
  • Sonning, UK

    An artist named Impro has taped bananas around the Berkshire village, mimicking Maurizio Cattelan’s artwork Comedian, which sold for £4.9m. Impro jokingly claims his banana masterpieces are worth £24.8m and could fund the new church roof for local churchgoers

    A banana taped to the exterior of a building
  • Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria

    Italy’s Federica Brignone finishes her second run of the women’s giant slalom event of the Saalbach 2025 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships

    professional skier with a tiger helmet
  • Mount Etna, Italy

    A lava flow that emerged from a fissure at about 3,000 metres on the southern rim of the Bocca Nuova crater

    Lava flows down a volcano
  • Truckee, California, US

    A person pushes a shopping trolley during a snowstorm

    A person pushes a shopping cart through a snow-covered car park during a storm
  • Concordia, Argentina

    Capybaras in emerald-green slime caused by cyanobacteria in the Salto Grande, an artificial body of water made by the hydroelectric dam on the Uruguay River

    Capybaras wade in green slimy water
  • Chornobyl, Ukraine

    The damaged roof of the new safe confinement, which protects the remains of reactor 4 of the city’s former nuclear power plant, after a Russian drone strike

    A glowing ball on the roof of a building
  • Caracas, Venezuela

    Argentina’s Julio Soler grabs the jersey of Colombia’s Andy Batioja as he falls on the pitch during a South American U-20 Championship final round

    Footballers tussle for the ball
  • Pacific Palisades, California, US

    A partly submerged vehicle that was swept away by a mudslide after heavy rain

    A partly submerged vehicle in deep water
  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    The Colombian singer Shakira performs during her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Women No Longer Cry) world tour

    Shakira swings her hair on stage
  • Goma, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    A child displaced by the fighting between M23 rebels and government soldiers holds a damaged helmet at a refugee camp

    A child tries on a helmet
  • Jabaliya, Gaza

    A returning Palestinian uses a ladder to descend from a window of her home in a devastated refugee camp

    A woman climbs down a ladder amid ruins
  • Aconcagua, Argentina

    The British adventurer Oli France in Aconcagua, Argentina, after completing his challenge of cycling and climbing the lowest geographical point to the highest in South America

    Man climbing the Andes
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