{"id":18404,"date":"2024-11-23T00:45:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T00:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18404"},"modified":"2024-11-23T00:45:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T00:45:29","slug":"lava-letters-and-a-loch-photos-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18404","title":{"rendered":"Lava, letters and a loch: Photos of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"ANTONANTON BRINK\/EPA-EFE<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Lava flows across one of the roads near Grindavik on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. The Icelandic Meteorological Office said a new fissure erupted in the area on 21 November, spewing hot lava into the air.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"LiaLia Toby\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Actor Jeff Goldblum surprised London commuters with a piano performance at St Pancras International. Celebrating the upcoming release of the film Wicked, in which he plays the Wizard, Goldblum performed Christmas songs.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"SantiagoSantiago Arcos\/Reuters<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Firefighters extinguish a wildfire at El Cajas National Park in Ecuador.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"UMAUMA SHANKAR MISHRA\/AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A farmer harvests water chestnuts in a pond on the outskirts of Jabalpur in India.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"AlejandroAlejandro Garcia\/EPA-EFE<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

French MotoGP rider Fabio Quartararo is seen at the Official Barcelona Test for the 2025 season.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"JaneJane Barlow\/PA Media<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The manmade fish-shaped Muckle Troot Loch, near Inverurie in Aberdeenshire, is surrounded by snow and ice as parts of the UK experienced sub-zero temperatures.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"SANKASANKA VIDANAGAMA\/AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

More than 40,000 people protested outside New Zealand\u2019s parliament against a controversial bill seeking to reinterpret the country’s founding document between British colonisers and M\u0101ori people. The demonstration marked the end of a nine-day h\u012bkoi, or peaceful protest, that had made its way through the country.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"BENBEN STANSALL\/AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A farmer drives a tractor past Westminster as thousands protested over changes to inheritance tax for farmers announced in the Budget.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"JOSEJOSE JORDAN\/AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Flood-damaged homes line the river in Chiva near Valencia, Spain, where in October one year’s worth of rainfall fell during a period of eight hours. The devastating floods left more than 200 people dead and dozens missing.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"MattMatt Alexander\/PA Media<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Men dressed as Father Christmas took part in the Ministry of Fun’s annual Santa School training, at London’s Postal Museum, famous for its archives of letters to Santa dating back to 1963.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: <\/em> www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week. ANTON BRINK\/EPA-EFE Lava flows across one of the roads near Grindavik on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. The Icelandic Meteorological Office said a new fissure erupted in the area on 21 November, spewing hot lava into the air. Lia Toby\/Getty Images Actor Jeff Goldblum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}