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Powerful aurora lights up sky above Scotland
The Northern Lights display comes as the chances of seeing the space weather are increased.
Exhibition to showcase scientific garden's beauty
Cambridge's Botanic Garden combines with an international competition for a photography exhibition.
War, suffering and defiance in Ukraine
Images from Russia's invasion of Ukraine show a conflict turning deadlier nearly three weeks on.
Girl boxers and whistling women
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Photos of 1970s street life go on show
Photographer Heidi Alexander says she was "charmed" by Stockport Market when she took the 1970s snaps.
Photographer who captured town's history honoured
A blue plaque is to be unveiled at the former home of Amy Flagg on International Women's Day.
Street preachers and their loud speakers
Some want evangelists to make less noise when trying to convert people in Uganda's capital, Kampala.
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Powerful aurora lights up sky above Scotland
The Northern Lights display comes as the chances of seeing the space weather are increased.
Exhibition to showcase scientific garden's beauty
Cambridge's Botanic Garden combines with an international competition for a photography exhibition.
War, suffering and defiance in Ukraine
Images from Russia's invasion of Ukraine show a conflict turning deadlier nearly three weeks on.
Girl boxers and whistling women
A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week.
Photos of 1970s street life go on show
Photographer Heidi Alexander says she was "charmed" by Stockport Market when she took the 1970s snaps.
Photographer who captured town's history honoured
A blue plaque is to be unveiled at the former home of Amy Flagg on International Women's Day.
Street preachers and their loud speakers
Some want evangelists to make less noise when trying to convert people in Uganda's capital, Kampala.
Exhibition to showcase scientific garden's beauty
Cambridge's Botanic Garden combines with an international competition for a photography exhibition.
War, suffering and defiance in Ukraine
Images from Russia's invasion of Ukraine show a conflict turning deadlier nearly three weeks on.
Girl boxers and whistling women
A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week.
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Video caption: The friends who explore abandoned buildings Alex, Alistair and Theo are among a community of ‘urban explorers’ who document the history of decaying structures.
The female focus: Besties, henna and women at work
Exhibition launched in Somalia
Copyright: SafAn exhibition has opened in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, showcasing eight female photographers who work in the city.
The Through My Lens show was launched by the Somali Arts Foundation (Saf).
Here is a selection of the works being exhibited.
Deka Ali Hashi focuses on education, photographing girls at a secondary school in Mogadishu’s Hodan district.
This image, taken last year, is titled Besties.
Copyright: SafNuura Mohamoud Abdirahman also features friendship in her collection. She says women are generally not encouraged to be friends.
This work - Held by the hands of the community - is, according to Saf, about a girl “happy in the knowledge that all these hands are here to hold her in sisterhood”.
Copyright: SafNegad Mohamoud Abdirahman explores the issue of beauty and the perils of skin whitening in the Instagram era.
This image has the title: A Somali woman applies a whitening cream that can cause cancer
Copyright: SafFalastin Khalif Yuusuf shifts the view to female creativity and entrepreneurship, taking photos last year at a beauty salon that also trains women in the art of applying henna.
Copyright: SafHenna is often applied to a bride’s hands in Somalia before her wedding, but Safio Mohamed Warsame looks at the darker side of child marriage.
Here she imagines the emotional turmoil of a girl who has been told she is to be married.
Copyright: SafSagal Ali Ibrahim looks at women in “survival mode” - working at market stalls.
This image, titled A lady with a tomato stall at Suuqa Beerta Market, was taken last year.
Copyright: SafHafsa Jaamac Shire is inspired by Somali women who venture into the male-dominated world of politics.
This photo is of a relative of hers who is an MP - seen out and about, rather than in a formal work setting.
Copyright: SafIn contrast, Maryam Ahmed Warsame prefers a vintage style to show women at work in places considered by Somalia's patriarchal society to be male domains.
Here she pictures female journalists in a studio last year.
Copyright: SafYou may also be interested in:
- IN PICTURES: Changing Somalia's focus
- WATCH: Somalia, sexism and me: Being a camerawoman in Mogadishu
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Video caption: Ukraine conflict: Drone shows extent of damage in Borodyanka Drone footage shows the extent of destruction to flats as well as Russian military vehicles in Borodyanka.
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