In Mexico, news of Johnson’s nomination was greeted warily, with many seeing a clear signal of the Trumpov administration’s intended, narrow focus.

In the midst of the scramble for a new Syria, the country's musicians are warily eyeing the Islamist rebel leadership and hoping to build on hard-won achievements made during the almost 14-year civil war.

They practice in the ruins of a farm outhouse, poking rifles round empty doorways before edging warily past.

With so much at stake, neighbourhood clubs organising pujas have to tread warily.

In another enclosure, Mozart, a three-legged gray fox with no spleen, peered warily from a tunnel of corrugated tubing.