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The cheetah photo is a Wildlife Photographer of the Year entry. A stunning photo captures a group of cheetahs, the world's fastest land sprinters, struggling to swim through a raging river in Kenya. The group of male cheetahs was fording the Talek River in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in an effort to access better hunting grounds. The striking photo is one of the highly commended entries in the 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Buddhilini de Soyza, an investment banker and amateur photographer, took the photo on a trip to Kenya in January 2020 while with her husband and a Maasai guide, after spending several hours watching the cheetahs pace up and down the river bank. Suddenly, the lead cheetah jumped into the water, and the rest followed. "I just couldn't believe my eyes," de Soyza told Live Science. "I don't actually remember clicking [the photo]. I obviously did because I've got a good 50, 60 shots of them crossing. All I do remember shouting is, 'Oh my god what are they going to do? They're going to die!'" Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are strong swimmers, but like many cats can be hesitant around water. The river in the photo was rough following heavy rain and flooding, but the cheetahs needed to cross it to reach the larger side of their territory, which had more prey, according to de Soyza. She took the photo as the cheetahs hit the most turbulent part of the river. "I feel like the lead cheetah is talking to me," de Soyza said of the photo. "He's looking straight at me, so it almost feels like he's just saying, 'Put down that camera and help me.'" The river’s current dragged the cheetahs about 330 feet (100 meters) downstream, but they successfully made it across. The four cheetahs in the photo are part of a group of five males called the "Tano Bora," which means "magnificent five" in Maasai or Maa, the native language of the Maasai people. The fifth cheetah was the most reluctant to enter the water and attempted the swim slightly behind the others. He disappeared underwater for 15 to 20 seconds, according to de Soyza, who feared the cheetah was done for until he reemerged and swam to safety. "When all five of them made it across we were just celebrating," de Soyza said. "We were hugging each other, we had tears of joy in our eyes and then, it almost seemed like the cheetahs were high on adrenaline as well, as they just ran straight onto the savannah and tried to hunt." Female cheetahs are usually solitary unless they are raising cubs, but males may live in small groups of two to three brothers or unrelated males, called "coalitions," according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This makes the Tano Bora coalition of five an unusually large group. Since the photo was taken, one of the cheetahs has left the coalition, according to de Soyza. In the weeks leading up to de Soyza's Kenya trip, relentless, unseasonable rainfall potentially tied to climate change triggered the worst flooding local elders remembered, according to the Natural History Museum, London. The cheetahs didn't attempt to swim back across the river in the days following their epic plunge, and de Soyza saw them successfully hunt a wildebeest two days later on the same side. Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London. The museum's exhibition showcasing the image of the cheetahs and other entries opens in London on Oct. 15

https://www.bbc.com/news Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has apologised to the people of Afghanistan after fleeing to take refuge in the United Arab Emirates. "Leaving Kabul was the most difficult decision of my life," he said, adding that he was sorry he "could not make it end differently". Mr Ghani abruptly left Afghanistan as Taliban militants advanced on the capital on 15 August. He said he had not intended to abandon his people but "it was the only way". He also again denied the "baseless" allegations that he had travelled to the UAE with about $169m (£123m). In a statement shared on Twitter on Wednesday, Mr Ghani said he had no choice but to leave the country in order to avoid widespread violence. "I left at the urging of the palace security, who advised me that to stay risked setting off the same street-to-street fighting the city had suffered during the civil war of the 1990s," he wrote, adding that he did so to "save Kabul and her six million citizens". He said he had devoted 20 years to helping Afghanistan become a "democratic, prosperous and sovereign state". Mr Ghani added that he had "deep and profound regret that my own chapter ended in similar tragedy to my predecessors". Who is Ashraf Ghani? The frenzied final hours of the Afghan government The 72-year-old former president, who has faced intense criticism from other Afghan politicians for leaving the country, said he would address the "events leading up to my departure" in the near future. In a live Facebook address on 18 August, Mr Ghani said he was "forced" to leave Afghanistan by his security team because "there was a real chance that I would be captured and killed". He said that when the Taliban entered the presidential palace in Kabul, "they started looking for me from room to room". Denying claims that he had taken a large amount of money with him when he left the country, Mr Ghani said he was "not even allowed to take my sandals off and put my shoes on". Earlier this week the Taliban, which seized control of Afghanistan in a sweeping offensive more than three weeks ago, announced the formation of an all-male interim government to rule the country. Who's who in the Taliban leadership On Wednesday, dozens of women in Kabul and the north-eastern Afghan province of Badakhshan protested against the new cabinet, saying they would not accept a government with no women ministers.

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