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Scientists have discovered a vast reef of "pristine" rose-shaped corals apparently unharmed by climate change in deep water off the coast of Tahiti, UNESCO announced Thursday. The giant rose-shaped corals are each up to two metres in diameter.
ABUSE REPORT: A board reads: “That's the catholic church: covering up abuse, putting off reparations but stashing away billions”, as a placard features former archbishop of Munich and Freising Josef Ratzinger, current archbishop Reinhard Marx and Cologne's archbishop Rainer Maria Woelki during a demonstration ahead of a press conference on a report on child sex abuse in the archdiocese of Munich-Freising in southern Germany. Photograph: Christof Stache/AFP via Getty
Father Oleg Khiznyakov has been denounced as a “separatist priest”, an accusation he firmly rejects
His enemies are angry. He is accused of giving a blessing to pro-Russian soldiers including the Russian former FSB colonel Igor Girkin, wanted by Dutch prosecutors for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
New York City, US
Workers remove part of a statue of Theodore Roosevelt that has stood outside the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History since 1940. The museum removed the statue of Roosevelt astride a horse towering over an American Indian and African American following objections that it was a symbol of colonialism.
Photograph: Caitlin Ochs/Reuters
Budgam, India
Fozia and Tasleema, Kashmiri healthcare workers, carry vaccines as they walk on a snow-covered road after administering a dose to an elderly woman during a Covid-19 vaccination drive in Budgam in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
Photograph: Dar Yasin/AP
Grammy Award-winning singer Meat Loaf, real name Michael Lee Aday, has died, aged 74.
A statement from his agent described the artist as a "beautiful man" when announcing his death. "Our hearts are broken to announce that the incomparable Meat Loaf passed away tonight with his wife Deborah by his side," he said. "Daughters Pearl and Amanda and close friends have been with him throughout the last 24 hours.
‘TODAY IS A GOOD DAY': Customers in Dublin pub Doheny & Nesbitt as Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces the lifting of almost all Covid-19 restrictions from 6am on Saturday. Photograph: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie
Mariana Zhaglo, a marketing researcher and mother of three, at home in Kiev. Photo: Anthony Loyd for the Times
Mariana Zhaglo bought her own hunting rifle, but it is not deer she is thinking of shooting. “As a mother I do not want my children to inherit Ukraine’s problems, or have these threats passed on to them. It is better that I deal with this now,” the 52-year-old marketing researcher said, picking up the Zbroyar Z-15 carbine in the kitchen of her Kiev apartment.
GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY? Russian ambassador to Ireland Yury Filatov at a press conference at Russia's embassy in Dublin on Monday, at which he said Russian plans to hold naval military exercises some 240km off the coast of Ireland next month are a “non-story”, and not a threat to Ireland. But Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney said the plans are “not welcome”. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Oslo, Norway
Heda Khamoush, a delegate at a meeting of international special representatives and the Taliban, holds up photos of women’s rights activists recently detained in Afghanistan
Photograph: Stian Lysberg Solum/EPA
Fishing boats tied up at Glandore Harbour, Co Cork
Irish Fishermen and the Russian Navy
The CEO of Irish Fish Producers, Patrick Murphy said that live-fire exercises cannot take place if there are vessels engaged in fishing in the area so they are planning a peaceful protest.
Australia Day
It happens every year - the fight between Indigenous and White Australia.
The man who claimed Australia for England, Captain James Cook, is covered in red paint in Melbourne
Koomurri performer Lee Daniels is seen as artwork by Pitjantjatjara man Yadjidta David Miller is projected onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House at dawn during Australia Day 2022 celebrations, in Sydney, Australia on Wednesday. Photograph: Biance De Marchi/EPA/Australia and New Zealand Out
USTINOV: The Russian navy's missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov sails off for an exercise in the Arctic. Russia has launched a series of drills amid the tensions over Ukraine and deployed an estimated 100,000 troops near the Ukrainian territory that fueled Western fears of an invasion. Photograph: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP
The freshly painted Free Derry Corner mural reads There Is No British Justice to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. The Bogside Massacre that came to be known as Bloody Sunday, took place on 30 January 1972. British soldiers shot at 26 unarmed civilians taking part in a protest march, killing 14. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
A son and daughter embrace their father, a Covid patient in the ICU ward at the Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, California. 15 January 2022
A Ukrainian service member points a next generation light anti-tank weapon (NLAW) supplied by Britain amid tensions between Russia and the west over Ukraine during drills in the Lviv region. Photo: Ukraine Defense Ministry. Reuters
