# Branching out: PhotoVogue festival celebrates nature – in pictures

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### Octopus? Ice cream? Is there anything gulls don’t eat? – in pictures
Gulls are known for being ravenous – check out a selection of things they like


### An elephant buffet, a Lowry and Kenya’s melting glacier: photos of the day – Thursday
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world


### Holi celebrations and a lunar eclipse: photos of the day – Friday
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world


### Magic takes flight: Canberra Balloon Spectacular 2025 – in pictures
From 15-23 March, Lake Burley Griffin and the surrounding natural scenery is filled with colour as hot air balloons of all shapes and sizes take to the sky. Spectators young and old gathered around John Dunmore Lang Place in Parkes at the crack of dawn on Saturday for the magical experience


### The week around the world in 20 pictures
Russian airstrikes in Donetsk, protests in Buenos Aires, floods in Brisbane and International Women’s Day: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists


### Week in wildlife: leapfrogging monkeys, a strolling tortoise and Lincolnshire seals
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world


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