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People struggle to push motorbikes and rickshaws through flooded streets in Pakistan's second-largest city of Lahore after the metropolis, home to 13 million, was deluged with record-breaking rainfall. IMAGES
Firefighters from Mato Grosso do Sul work to combat fires as Brazil's Pantanal, one of the world's largest tropical wetlands, experiences record fires in June, ahead of the dry season. IMAGES
Firefighters from the ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation), Brazil's federal protected areas agency, use helicopters and make firebreaks to combat a blaze in the Amazon rainforest. Nearly 3,000 forest fires were registered in the Brazilian Amazon in February 2024, the highest for any February since records began in 1999, and made more likely by climate change, according to experts. IMAGES
A defendant's lawyer arrives at the criminal court in Lyon, as the verdict is awaited in the trial of six men on trial for the robbery of a cash convoy with a record haul of more than €40 million, committed in Switzerland in 2017. IMAGES
A fire burns at night atop the Cerro El Cable mountain in Colombia's capital, as the country endures record temperatures. IMAGES
South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa meets the Springboks in Pretoria after their record fourth Rugby World Cup win. IMAGES