Take care of your selfie,or you’ll go in Seine
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Take care of your selfie,or you’ll go in Seine

Athletes shouldn’t splash on ceremony.

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World of photos,December 23,2023
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World of photos,December 23,2023

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

Oh Lord:I visited a bizarre,fake Hobbit-theme park in a cloud forest

Oh Lord:I visited a bizarre,fake Hobbit-theme park in a cloud forest

Who wouldn’t,given the chance,travel to a kooky cloud-forest amusement park trying its heart out to authentically rip off a movie-set-cum-theme park thousands of kilometres away?

  • bySteve Madgwick
Migrants start fire at Mexico detention centre,killing 40

Migrants start fire at Mexico detention centre,killing 40

Fearing deportation,migrants started a fire that killed at least 40 people,in one of the deadliest events ever at a Mexican immigration lockup.

  • byMaria Verza
Kamala Harris flags bid to keep Central American migrants at home

Kamala Harris flags bid to keep Central American migrants at home

The US vice president is working with companies like Nestle and Target to create jobs and a more attractive life in crisis-hit countries.

  • byMichael D. Shear
‘It will not be easy’:Biden hands Kamala Harris problem he couldn’t fix

‘It will not be easy’:Biden hands Kamala Harris problem he couldn’t fix

Biden’s decision gives a high-profile assignment to his Vice-President,a daughter of immigrants who has forged a reputation as an ally of immigration advocates.

  • byAndrea Shalal,Steve Holland andNandita Bose
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Guatemala cracks down on migrant caravan bound for United States

Guatemala cracks down on migrant caravan bound for United States

Thousands of Hondurans,many of them families with children,are travelling in a migrant caravan headed for the United States as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take power.

  • bySofia Menchu andGustavo Palencia
Washington'war on drugs'in Latin America needs overhaul:report

Washington'war on drugs'in Latin America needs overhaul:report

It is the result of 18 months of research into the"war on drugs"that has cost billions of American taxpayers'dollars without ending violence and corruption.

  • byPatricia Zengerle
Protesters in Guatemala set fire to Congress building

Protesters in Guatemala set fire to Congress building

The demonstrations in Guatemala City rocked a nation still recovering from back-to-back hurricanes that displaced thousands of people,destroyed homes and obliterated infrastructure.

  • byNic Wirtz andNatalie Kitroeff
Powerful earthquake shakes Mexico

Powerful earthquake shakes Mexico

The 7.4 magnitude earthquake killed at least six people and shook buildings in the centre of Mexico City,hundreds of kilometres away from the epicentre.

The nine things you must do in Antigua,Guatemala

The nine things you must do in Antigua,Guatemala

Soaring volcanoes,colourful buildings,a flourishing food scene and a multitude of new boutique hotels ... this is a very tempting city.

  • byNina Karnikowski