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- A flock of geese foraging in a field
- Fishermen tend to their boats on the shores of the castle
- Hindu children dressed as Lord Krishna attend Janmashtami festival celebrations at a school
- A boy walks through debris after fire razed the Mirpur slum
- GCSE results: girls fare better than boys under more rigorous courses
- A dog looks at a beached five meter long sperm whale at San Bartolo beach. Police and surfers saved the injured cetacean which had remained stranded for some hours.
- A worker shows an axolotl in a hatchery to preserve the species. The Mexican axolotl is a species of caudate amphibian of the Ambystomatidae family
- The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, gives a speech at Pen Green children’s centre
- Flamingo chicks in the Lagoon in Fuente de Piedra, Malaga, Spain. Scientists and nature lovers of the region are part of the 500 volunteers taking part in this year’s ringing campaign
- People enjoying the beach at the resort town Oludeniz which is on the mediterranean coast in the south west of the country.
- Children play on an iceberg on a beach
- Auctioneer Arlene Blankers sells a specially created Ed Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup, Tattoo Edition bottle for £1500, in a charity auction at Christie’s Auction House.
- French tightrope walker Tatiana-Mosio Bongonga crosses the Vltava River. The precarious journey took about 40 minutes
- Beachgoers swim at Dilek Peninsula-Buyuk Menderes Delta National Park
- The author Arundhati Roy (centre) eats with Kashmiri youth during Eid al-Adha celebrations.
- Vehicles damaged after typhoon Lekima made landfall in Zhejiang province on China’s east coast
- An aerial view of a mosque among residential housing
- Mohammed, a 13-year-old football fan, lost his right leg in a bomb blast while he was shining shoes for a living. He now lives in a camp for internally displaced people at which he has been since fleeing the conflict in his community.
- Villagers air red chillies, corn, pumpkins and other crops on wooden shelves for just one day to mark Liqiu, the 13th solar term of the Chinese lunar calendar
- A resort built on an artificial island made with around 700,000 plastic waste items collected from the surrounding area
- Climate crisis reducing land’s ability to sustain humanity, says IPCC
- People pay their respects at a makeshift memorial for victims of the mass shooting in the city
- Schoolchildren wade through a flooded street after heavy rain
- A labourer carries bundles of jute at a wholesale market
- Hot air balloons during a morning flight as part of the 7th Belogorye Sky international hot air balloon festival
- A patient with dengue fever under a mosquito net at Sir Salimullah Medical College hospital
- Muslims pray around the Ka’bah at the Masjid al-Haram during the Hajj pilgrimage
- A man trips in rushing flood waters as he tries to hold on to a rope to help people cross the street following heavy monsoon rains outside the Moinuddin Chishti sufi shrine in Ajmer, Rajasthan
- Sheep are released from an ibarrondua kayolar (shepherd house). At the foot of Pic d’Orhy mountain in the Pyrenees, eight herdsmen take turns from June to September to watch 1,500 sheep and prevent bear attacks
- An aerial shot of bridges and sandbanks during a summer drought
- Motorbike passengers keep dry during a monsoon
- President Vladimir Putin takes part in the Navy Day parade
- A rocket carrying two satellites lifts off from Jiuquan launch centre. The Hyperbola-1 is the country’s first commercial rocket capable of carrying satellites into orbit
- Tibetans perform at the opening ceremony of the annual Qinghai Yushu horse racing festival
- A three-metre-tall painted bronze sculpture, Seated Man 2016, by the artist Sean Henry, is lifted into its new home at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
- PRI boss for continued global pressure on Myanmar
- A Palestinian building in the village of Sur Baher is demolished by Israelis. Israel destroyed a number of homes it considers illegally constructed near its separation barrier
- Stranded whales on Longufjorur beach in the Snaefellsnes peninsula area, north-western Iceland. About 50 pilot whales were stranded last week, a frequent but rarely fatal unexplained phenomenon
- An orange tree after a forest fire near the village of Roda
- ‘Meet the new dude at No 10’: papers greet Boris Johnson’s victory
- A woman wearing a niqab (full face veil) walks carrying an infant at a camp for displaced people in al-Hasakeh governorate as people collect UN aid packages
- Workers sort through used plastic at a recycling unit
- Flood-affected people gather to receive relief supplies distributed by volunteers in B’desh
- Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for her annual press conference in Berlin. Merkel will not seek another term after her current one ends in 2021
- Juan Cerdas feeds a large crocodile by the Tárcoles. The river has one of the largest crocodile populations in the world
- Northern sea bear calves dry off after a swim in their enclosure
- Royal Collection employees recreate a Victorian dinner in the state dining room featuring the Alhambra fountain at the centre of the table for an exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria, for the summer opening of Buckingham Palace
- Children jump into the water despite strong waves after a downpour. Schools in the area have been suspended as tropical storm Danas continues to bring heavy rain
- A bust of the former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin decorated with red balloons and a gallows is placed outside the constitutional court, which is set to hear the law ‘On the Condemnation of the Communist and National Socialist (Nazi) Regimes and the Prohibition of Propaganda of Their Symbols’
- The Austrian Green MP and TV chef Sarah Wiener (left) with the German defence minister and nominated president of the European commission, Ursula von der Leyen, before her statement at the European parliament
- A pelican is fed at St James’s Park. Three pelicans – named Sun, Moon and Star – have been given to the park as a gift from Prague zoo
- England win maiden World Cup after Super Over drama
- Photographers lie down by the side of the track to shoot the cars passing by during the first free practice at the Silverstone racetrack
- A white stork brings branches to its nest on a chimney in the town of Cvikov.
- A worker walks past Post-it notes scribbled with messages, left behind by protesters on ‘Lennon Walls’ outside the Legislative Council, a day after protesters broke into the building, in Hong Kong
- Visitors take pictures of the Crawley Edge Boatshed on the Swan River, which has been covered in red to celebrate the arrival of Manchester United football club in Australia as part of a pre-season tour
- A volunteer feeds young birds with tweezers at a wildlife hospital that has been inundated with animals affected by the unprecedented heat
- Pedestrians cross a broken bailey bridge. While heavy vehicle movements have usually been restricted on this bridge, it collapsed when a truck loaded with cement bags tried to cross it
- People watch a free outdoor movie at the Champs Elysees
- 350 families evacuated from Ctg hills
- Anti-extradition bill protesters take part in a march to West Kowloon railway station. According to the organisers, the march aims to spread the spirit of resistance to Kowloon and mainland China
- A Destroyed house in the flood-affected town of Tulun
- Taking advantage of the hot weather at Coney Island beach
- Servicemen attend a memorial service at Kronstadt naval cathedral for the 14 Russian sailors who died onboard a top-secret navy submersible following a fire on 1 July.
- A crowd gathers in Zócalo Square, where the country’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is due to present his government report
- A Loon internet balloon, carrying solar-powered mobile networking equipment, flies over rugged terrain
- People take photographs in a lavender field
- One of the most technically accomplished watches of all time, the George Daniels Space Traveller, goes on sale at Sotheby’s.
- Takeaway food containers block drainage points after heavy storms
- Visitors shelter from the heat under the Umbrella Sky Project installation by Portuguese artist Patricia Cunha
- A man sleeps under mesh at midnight on a building site as his colleagues work through the night
- Teepees at the campsite on the second day of the Glastonbury festival at Worthy Farm, Somerset
- The Raikoke volcano erupts in the Kuril Islands near the Kamchatka peninsula. The small, oval-shaped island most recently erupted in 1924 and in 1778
- Shocking photo of drowned father and daughter highlights migrants’ border peril
- A woman plays with water as she cool herself down in the fountain of the Trocadero esplanade
- The aerialist Lijana Wallenda walks the highwire with her brother Nic over Times Square
- Russia’s Dina Averina competes in the rhythmic gymnastics event at the European Games
- Igor Pshenichny walks a tightrope over the Black Sea
- The Foreign Office minister Mark Field pushes a Greenpeace activist against a pillar and grabs her neck at a Mansion House event
- ASEAN leaders call for restraint amid sea row, US-China rift
- A crowd enjoys the first day of La Patum festival. La Patum’s roots are found in the theatrical performances of the Middle Ages and it is held in the town of Berga each year during the week of Corpus Christi.
- A cuckoo feeds its newly hatched chicks in Namyangju
- Actors-dancers perform on stage the play ‘Camino a Broadway’ (Way to Broadway) during the gala held at the Cervantes theatre
- Prime minister Narendra Modi’s hair catches the wind as he speaks to the media on the opening day of parliament
- Hundreds of yogis take part in a mass practice to mark the International Day of Yoga, which is celebrated on 21 June
- A child cools off cattle in the Diyala waterway
- Seals relax on the beach
- ‘Fighting for our freedom’: protesters flood on to Hong Kong’s streets
- A guest in suitable headgear at the High Line hat party in New York, an event inspired by the clubs and parties of Chelsea and the Meatpacking District
- Fishing boats stay moored in a harbour after a cyclone warning
- Fans watch game five of the NBA finals between the Toronto Raptors and the Golden State Warriors at a viewing party
- Indian villages lie empty as drought forces thousands to flee
- Mount Sinabung spews smoke near Tiga Pancur Village, Karo, blowing volcanic ash more than 7,000 meters into the air.
- People line the streets in protest against proposed amendments to extradition law, which would make it easier to send criminal suspects to mainland China
- Guests await the start of the Saint Laurent men’s spring/summer 2020 runway show
- People walk past a huge rubbish dump
- People enjoy a fun fair during the Eid al-Fitr festival in Istanbul
- People hold candles as they take part in a candlelight vigil at Victoria Park. As many as 180,000 people are expected to attend a candlelight vigil marking the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre when Chinese troops opened fire and killed protesters in Beijing after hundreds of thousands of students and workers gathered in Tiananmen Square for weeks to call for greater political freedom.
- A projection of the Trump baby blimp lights up the white cliffs of Dover ahead of the US president’s state visit this week
- People queue for charitable donations before Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan
- A photograph released by the Tiananmen Mothers shows portraits of people who were killed during the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing in 1989
- A prehistoric forest buried for more than 4,500 years has been uncovered by recent storms and spring tides
- Jack Field performs the highest recorded backflip on a motorcycle on top of the 297-metre (974ft) Eureka Tower
- Demonstrators hold a Czech and an EU flag during a protest against the government led by Andrej Babis in Wenceslas Square
- After more than an hours work, the 2022 plebe class from the U.S. Naval Academy celebrates after successfully placing an upperclassmans hat atop the Herndon Monument in the annual tradition
- Workers at the Maras salt-evaporation ponds, which have been in use since pre-Inca times
- Chen San-yuan, a 70-year-old Feng Shui master, uses 29 cellphones mounted on his bike and two handheld cellphones to catch Pokemon
- Students and teachers compete in a Baduanjin qigong contest, one of the most common forms of qigong used as exercise, at a primary school
- Piles of imported iron ore at a port
- The Immortal Regiment march on Victory Day.Participants carry portraits of their relatives that fought in World War II
- A herd passing through the historical Palu Bridge which is announced as one of Turkey’s 13 ‘grandest bridges’ by The Culture and Tourism Ministry of Turkey
- Women perform inside a running metro train to celebrate the 158th birthday of the Nobel prize-winning poet Rabindranath Tagore
- Servicewomen march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade, which marks the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in the second world war in Red Square
- One of 13 enormous animatronic predators which have been created for Chester zoo’s exhibition about lost species
- Muslim women pray on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan at Istiqlal mosque
- On This Day: Gandhi arrested, put in British jail in India
- A four-week old southern three-banded armadillo roll into a ball next to its mother in the tropical house of Budapest Zoo
- Passengers escape after plane skids off runway into river in Jacksonville, Florida
- Students stand for a vigil at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte after a student with a pistol killed two people and wounded four others on Tuesday
- Historic May Day observed
- Turtles warm themselves by sitting on a tree branch in a park
- Sri Lankans pray in the street near St Anthony’s Shrine one week on from the attacks that killed over 250 people on Easter Sunday
- Plastic waste floats in a sewage canal
- Sri Lanka told of extremist network months before blasts – sources
- Smoke rises from the debris of the Bingxiong refrigeration company building, which was demolished on Thursday
- A worker tends to fermentation barrels, part of the traditional manufacture of soy sauce
- The scene after a domestic Summit Air aircraft and a helicopter crashed at Lukla airport
- A girl walks an Akita dog dressed in a military uniform
- A giant Buddha reopens to the public after renovation in Leshan, Sichuan province. Standing 71 metres, it is believed to be the world’s tallest stone Buddha statue
- Fog smothers skyscrapers over the city in the eastern province of Zhejiang
- Kumbh Mela: cleaning up after the world’s largest human gathering
- High-rise fire in Dhaka prompts people to jump from building
- An aerial view of flooding in northern Iran. State TV said villages near rivers and dams in several provinces had been evacuated for fear of rising water after days of torrential rain
- Cars piled up after a flash flood in the southern city. The provinces of Fars, Kurdistan, Qom and Isfahan are also on alert for imminent flooding
- Enia Joaquin Luis, 11, wakes up beside her sister Luisa, six, under plastic sheets at a shelter, after Cyclone Idai smashed into the coast of central Mozambique
- Artists Lukas Janusauskos (left) and Patrick McCrossen with their cardboard sculpture of Atlas
- A crab stuck in a plastic bag floats in Verde Island Passage near Batangas Bay
- A journalist livestreams using multiple devices outside the Great Hall of the People
- Bihar schools have worst student-teacher ratio, followed by Delhi, says HRD Ministry
- 43 murders in camps, 32 killed in gunfights
- Disney unveils new roster with ‘Star Wars’, ‘Frozen 2’
- Glamping in the wilds of North America
- Google Photos can now search for texts in pictures
