The autumnal golds and greens of the Old Melrose Estate in the Scottish Borders are wreathed in mist
PHIL WILKINSON
Fergus Bisset, five, from the Little Seedlings children’s gardening club at Dobbies Garden Centres, is very pleased with this year’s Christmas poinsettias which are due to arrive in the shops soon
GREG MACVEAN
Members of the Maori community join in a hikoi, a protest march, across the Auckland Harbour Bridge on day three of a nine-day journey across New Zealand to Wellington
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Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut, Lebanon
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A fallow deer fawn appeared a little cheekier than its companions when it was spotted in Ripon, North Yorkshire
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The last glimpse of the sun at day’s end highlights the Statue of Liberty overlooking the harbour in New York
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Visitors pose with the Alice in Wonderland-inspired Christmas tree at Castle Howard. The stately home in North Yorkshire has been transformed into the Lewis Carroll fantasy land which is open to explore from Friday
CHARLOTTE GRAHAM
Catch me if you can: the photographer Dafna Ben Nun finally triumphs with this shot of a Tibetan fox in its natural habitat after a four-week stint trying to take the picture
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Missing the Paris Olympics? No problem. Brad Walls has created a 16-image series of the professional synchronised swimming team, Aqualillies, shot at the Pelican Hill Resort, Newport Beach, California
BRAD WALLS
Russian forces continue to advance in eastern Ukraine. This is the stark aftermath of bombing in Toretsk
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Carpenters at work on traditional basket boats in Phu Yen, Vietnam. The bamboo design emerged for fishermen unable to afford the taxes for conventional boats. Each is coated in a protective resin and can last for decades
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Golfers at Thorpe Wood golf course are giants of the game as they take a close shot in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
PAUL MARRIOTT
The skies are splashed in red as hundreds of scarlet ibises flock to mangroves to roost for the night near Lencois Maranhenses National Park in Brazil
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Venezuela’s Sakra Guerrero competes in the costume category for the 62nd Miss International Pageant at the Tokyo Dome City Hall inJapan
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This zebra left safari-goers tongue-tied when it trotted up to greet them in the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya
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Frescoes discovered last year by an electrician during works at the Villa Farnesina in Rome, Italy. They include the coat of arms of the noble family of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese who bought the villa in 1579
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The Red Shoes, Hans Christian Andersen’s dark fairy tale, is being performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon until January 19
MANUEL HARLAN
Students pay tribute to the first ruler of the Sikh empire, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, on the anniversary of his birth in Amritsar, India
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Pope Francis leaves in style after his weekly general audience at the Vatican
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Digit the robot shows what a help it could be around the house at the annual Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, attended by leaders of the technological industry
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