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Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish prime minister, appeared in the Congress of Deputies after a former aide was arrested in a corruption scandal over the weekend. He has been urged to resign
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A rarely captured image of cheetah siblings mounting each other to determine their rank within the group. Cheetahs, unlike other big cats, remain highly social throughout their lives. The photographer Charlotte Keast followed the animals for five hours in Kenya's Amboseli national park
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Rachael Wallwork was one of many Oasis fans to visit the Cathedral of Sound installation, by the artist Lazerian, in Manchester's St Peter's Square before the reunion concert by the band at Heaton Park on Wednesday night
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Jenni Rawes cools off under a fountain at Stanway House, Gloucestershire
Welsh mountain ponies and foals graze on the Mynydd Epynt range of hills in Powys
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Revellers throng the streets of Pamplona in northern Spain during the San Fermin festival, popularly known as the running of the bulls. Six bulls and six steers chase people through the city's narrow streets for eight straight mornings while thousands look on
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A swallow swoops on a fly in Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire. Swallows beat their wings up to nine times a second, and flies make up about 70 per cent of their diet
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Actors rehearse for the first performance of Taj Mahal at Grange Park Opera in Surrey. The piece, focusing on Emperor Shah Jahan's mourning for his wife Mumtaz, is set to music by the sitar player Nishat Khan
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Zeus, the mechanical horse used in the opening ceremony for last year's Paris Olympics, in the early light after it was installed at Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy. The sculpture will be at the island abbey until September
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A rickshaw driver tries to protect himself from heavy rain in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Heavy downpours have raised fears of flooding and landslides
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Two hippos spar at the water's edge in Chobe national park in Botswana. After attempting to grab one another with their teeth, one of the animals retreated into the river
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A woman poses inside a sweet dispenser machine for the opening of House of Candy, a new experience venue in Barcelona
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King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain attend the ABC Journalism awards in Madrid
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Creative mowing by Joe Mecke-Davis, the groundsman of the non-league football team Westfields FC in Hereford, has become popular on social media
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Jockeys pose in their racing silks at the Goodwood Racecourse Markel Magnolia Cup launch event in Chelsea, west London. The tournament, an all-female charity race, will take place during the Qatar Goodwood Festival on July 31
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The moon rises behind the nose of a British Airways A320 jet as it approaches Newcastle airport
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Dick Schoof, the Dutch prime minister, takes part in a boxing session at a children's centre in Hoogezand, near Groningen
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A horse at the Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate. The county show is expecting to attract 140,000 visitors over four days
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