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24 August 2018

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News imageAmbulance

Ambulance staff sickness reaches peak

A union says paramedics are fatigued due to increasing workload, a lack of breaks and working over their hours.

News imageYoung Rohingya refugees enjoy ride in a carousel during Eid Al-Adha festival celebrations at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia district near Cox"s Bazar on August 23, 2018. - Nearly one million Rohingya Muslims marked Eid al-Adha on Wednesday in the world"s largest refugee camp, almost a year to the day since a brutal military crackdown drove the persecuted minority from Myanmar in huge numbers

The best news photos from the past week

A selection of the best news photographs from around the world, taken over the past week.

News imageBrooks Koepka

Koepka into Northern Trust joint lead

Three-time major winner Brooks Koepka moves into a share of the lead with fellow American Jamie Lovemark after the second round of the Northern Trust.

News imageClara Anahi

The 42-year search for a missing grandchild

Chicha Mariani, who died this week, had still hoped to find the granddaughter seized in 1976.

News imageGuillermo Olmo pictured reporting from a bank in Caracas

Week 1: Life as a Venezuela correspondent

Between a new currency and an earthquake, it's been a busy week for BBC Mundo's Guillermo Olmo.

News imageL: Yoweri Museveni R: Bobi Wine

The president and the pop star

Afrobeats MP Bobi Wine is shaking the political establishment in Uganda, where Yoweri Museveni has been leader for decades.

News imageA teenage bride

Rohingya girls in danger

The stories of three young women from a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

News imagePope prayer

Pope meets clerical sex-abuse survivors

On a historic visit to Ireland, Pope Francis reportedly condemns abuse in the Church as "filth".

News imagePlastic bags

Salmond 'fights back' and 'suspicious' Egypt deaths

Saturday's papers feature a British couple who died in Egypt and the former SNP leader Alex Salmond.

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