Fifty international locations voted in elections in 2024 – a 12 months that additionally introduced excessive world climate occasions, continued combating in Ukraine and the Center East, and rioting throughout the UK.
All year long, photographers have managed to seize gorgeous and surprising photos – from extraordinary political moments to pure wonders.
Right here we have a look again at this 12 months in photos.
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3 January: Luke Littler, 16, loses to Luke Humphries within the remaining of the Paddy Energy World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace in London. Pic: PA
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8 January: Floodwater from the rivers Avon and Severn surrounds Tewkesbury Abbey amid Storm Henk. Pic: Reuters/Phil Noble
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26 March: Dali cargo ship after hitting the Francis Scott bridge in Maryland and inflicting it to break down. Pic: AP/Maryland Nationwide Guard
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24 April: Family Cavalry horses Vida (gray) and Trojan (black) bolt free in London’s Aldwych. Pic: PA
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24 April: Palestinians on the seashore in Rafah amid the struggle in Gaza. Pic: Reuters/Mohammed Salem
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17 Might: A airplane sits on a flooded runway at Porto Alegre airport in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Pic: Reuters/Adriano Machado
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4 June: Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, throws a milkshake over Nigel Farage throughout election campaigning in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. Pic: TOLGA AKMEN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
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19 June. Simply Cease Oil protesters deface Stonehenge. Pic: Simply Cease Oil/PA
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26 June: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange kisses his spouse Stella Assange in Canberra after being free of jail. Reuters/Edgar Su
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2 July: Firefighters battle wildfires in Oroville, California. Reuters/Carlos Barria
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5 July: Sir Keir Starmer and his spouse Victoria Starmer stroll into Downing Avenue after he was elected prime minister. Pic: PA
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5 July: Former prime minister Liz Truss loses her seat as an MP at an election depend in King’s Lynn. Pic: PA
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7 July: Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton celebrates after successful the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Pic: PA
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19 July: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the UK cupboard at 10 Downing Avenue. Pic: PA
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29 July: A small boat carrying migrants close to a seashore in Gravelines, France. Pic: PA
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4 August: A chair is thrown at cops outdoors a Vacation Inn in Rotherham amid UK rioting sparked by the Southport stabbings. Pic: PA
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9 August: The Eiffel Tower with the Olympic Cauldron in the course of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games. Pic: Reuters/Christian Hartmann
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23 August: Lightning strikes above the Kremlin of Suzdal church in Russia. Pic: Reuters/Maxim Shemetov
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10 September: Drought of the Rio Negro in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Pic: Suamy Beydoun/AGIF (through AP)
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12 September: Billionaire Jared Isaacman completes the Polarian civilian area stroll. Pic: SpaceX
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18 September: Wildfires in Povoa de Montemuro, Portugal. Pic: Reuters/Susana Vera
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27 September: Devastation in Boone, North Carolina, from tropical Storm Helene. Pic: Reuters/Jonathan Drake
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27 September: Individuals collect across the stump of the Sycamore Hole tree in Northumberland Nationwide Park a 12 months after it was felled. Pic: PA
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2 October: A person jumps off the stays of a ballistic missile following an Iranian assault on Arad, Israel. Pic: Reuters/Amir Cohen
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2 October: A photo voltaic eclipse in Las Horquetas, Santa Cruz, Argentina. Pic: Reuters/Agustin Marcarian
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9 October: A satellite tv for pc picture reveals Hurricane Milton earlier than it makes landfall in Florida. Pic: Reuters/CIRA/NOAA
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11 October: The Northern Lights above the Kissing Timber close to Kinghorn in Fife. Pic: PA
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12 October: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS C/2023 with an 80,000-year orbit, passes in Trona Pinnacles, California. Pic: Reuters/David Swanson
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19 October: Mourners pay tribute to former One Route singer Liam Payne at a memorial in Hyde Park, London. Pic: PA
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30 October: Automobiles piled up after being swept away by floods in Valencia, Spain. Pic: AP Picture/Alberto Saiz
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6 November: Donald Trump celebrates after being re-elected president on the Palm Seashore County Conference Centre in Florida. Pic: Reuters/Brian Snyder
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20 November: A volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. Pic: AP Picture/Marco di Marco
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30 November: A Ukrainian serviceman bids farewell to his comrade Pavlo Vedybida on the Obolon Stadium in Kyiv. Pic: AP/Evgeniy Maloletka
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8 December: Syrian opposition fighters have a good time after the ousting of Bashar al Assad’s authorities. Pic: AP/Omar Sanadiki)
Image analysis: Daniel Daukes, image editor
