Afghanistan, September 2012 Gulbadeen was injured by a landmine when his truck tried to cross into Pakistan. He waits for a bus to Herat province near his home

A truck rumbles down the ‘rollercoaster’, a section of road with a series of steep hills near Yukon River Camp.

Wanderer "Sandstorm on the singing sand dune in Altyn-Emel National Park, Kazakhstan." Photograph: Alesya Osadchaya / 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year

Face-painted revellers parade through the streets of Lewes in East Sussex Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images

Moscow, Russia Russian soldiers rehearse for a parade in Red Square. The event will take place on 7 November to mark the 76th anniversary of a 1941 parade, when Red Army soldiers marched towards the frontline to fight Nazi troops during…

The Terror Of War, Nick Ut, 1972 This photo is taken by Nick Ut, on June 8, 1972. A 9-year-old girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc running alongwith a group of children and soldiers. She had been hit by napalm that South Vietnamese air force…

The Bath Priory, Bath This late-Georgian, honey-hued Bath stone manor is a small but perfectly formed country house hotel, surrounded by lofty cedar trees and set in four acres of beautifully landscaped gardens. Rooms are sumptuous and…

A falling leaf on New York State’s Route 91. Photograph: Julio Cortez/AP

Algeria Images like this were often found on postcards.

Madrid, Spain A van carrying members of the dismissed Catalan cabinet leaves a garage of the High Court after a judge ordered the former Catalan leaders to be remanded in custody Photograph: Rafael Marchante/Reuters