Nick Uhlig and Philipp Oettel race alongside Lukas Erlecke and Leon Freygang during the opening round of the German sidecar championship at the 58th ADAC Motocross in Schopfheim, Deutschland on June 1, 2025. (Photo by Grant Hubbs/IMAGO via Avalon)

One of the largest paddle steamers afloat in Britain is the H.M.S. Royal Eagle, former peacetime excursion boat which carried passengers on pleasure jaunts from Tower Bridge to Southend, Ramscate and Margate. Commissioned two years ago as a warship of the Royal Navy, the craft has been in action 52 times against enemy aircraft. The Eagle took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk where she was dive-bombed 48 times and brought home nearly 3,000 British troops. Members of the crew cleaning the paddle boxes of H.M.S. Royal Eagle in London on January 18, 1943. (Photo by AP Photo)

France's Romane Miradoli competes during the Women's Downhill event of the FIS Alpine Ski World Championship 2023 in Meribel, French Alps, on February 11, 2023. (Photo by Lionel Bonaventure/AFP Photo)

Indian Air Force soldiers toss their rifles as they perform during the full-dress rehearsal for Indian Air Force Day at the Hindon air force station on the outskirts of New Delhi October 6, 2015. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)

A Just Stop Oil demonstrator throws orange confetti on court 18 as he disrupts the women's singles tennis match between Australia's Daria Saville and Britain's Katie Boulter on the third day of the 2023 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 5, 2023. (Photo by Glyn Kirk/AFP Photo)

Well-wisher Nadine, holding her dog Connor wearing a knitted crown, waits for the arrival of Britain's Queen Camilla and King Charles III ahead of their visit of the Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre, in Limavady, Northern Ireland on March 20, 2025. (Photo by Henry Nicholls/Reuters)

Tony the ten-year-old tawny owl tucks himself on December 8, 2025 into a Christmas tree at the Scottish Owl Centre, West Lothian, where he was hatched and raised. (Photo by Katielee Arrowsmith/South West News Service)

“Camille Lepage, a 26-year-old French photojournalist who had spent months documenting deadly conflict in Central African Republic has been killed, the French presidency said Tuesday, May 13. Lepage, a freelance photographer whose work was published in major French and American newspapers, died in western Central African Republic not far from the border with Cameroon, authorities said”. – Associated Press. Photo: Anti-balaka fighters from the town of Bossembele patrol in the Boeing district of Bangui, Central African Republic, February 24, 2014. (Photo by Camille Lepage/Reuters)