The Indiana Pacemates perform during an NBA game between the Indiana Pacers and the Cleveland Cavaliers at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on January 14, 2025. (Photo by USA Today)

This stirring collection of photos which offer a glimpse behind the scenes of army life have all been selected as winners in an annual competition. The remarkable pictures in the Army Photographic Competition show Britain's soldiers at work and play. They have been taken by amateur and professional soldier cameramen and include images from operations in Afghanistan, air shows and sporting events. The winners were announced at a ceremony held at the Army Headquarters in Andover in Hampshire. (Photo by Jamie Peters/MoD/Geoff Robinson Photography/REX Features)

Colorful hot air balloons glide across the Qicai Danxia scenic area in Zhangye City, northwest China's Gansu Province on August 17, 2023. (Photo by Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Sunset on Monday evening, June 17, 2024 at Mudeford in Dorset, UK with a swan stretching it's wings. (Photo by Cenk Albayrak-Touye/Picture Exclusive)

A woman looks at artwork called “Alphabetti Spaghetti” by British sculptor Alex Chinneck, one of a series of “knotted” postboxes, installed as part of a public art trail for Kensington & Chelsea Art Week on October 3, 2020. (Photo by Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images)

Sunrise over St Mary's lighthouse north of Whitley Bay on the coast of north east England on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)

A man falls from a horse at a rodeo exhibition during Tradition Day, aimed to preserve gaucho traditions, in San Antonio de Areco, Argentina, Sunday, November 13, 2022. Tradition Day is celebrated to honor the birth of Argentine writer Jose Hernandez, author of the country's national poem “The Gaucho Martin Fierro”. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo)

A purple haze of heather as the sun rises over the New Forest near Lyndhurst, Hampshire in UK on July 28, 2025. (Photo by Steve Hogan/Bournemouth News)