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Light illuminates the fells around Brothers Water, on the Kirkstone Pass in the Lake District
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People wait to catch about two tonnes of fish released free of charge during Memed Ikan, an annual fish-catching festival held to give thanks to God for the abundance of fish harvests, at the Gemblegan Reservoir in Klaten, Java, Indonesia
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Cammie walks with a prosthetic leg for the first time at the Comprehensive Disaster Response Services centre in Karachi, Pakistan. The young camel's limb was chopped off by a landlord in Sindh, in the country's south
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Hundreds of people attend the Lock & Paddle 2025 event at Peterborough Lift Lock, a heritage site in Ontario, Canada
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Workshop engineer Mitch Caws services a Sunbeam 350bhp, known as Bluebird, the car in which Sir Malcolm Campbell set a British land speed record on 21 July, 1925. The vehicle reached 150.76mph on the sands of Pendine beach in Wales. A century on, the car, designed by Louis Coatalean and built in Sunbeam's Wolverhampton works, will make the journey from the Baulieu Motor Museum back to the shoreline
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Residents and holidaymakers celebrate the Torch Festival at Yunnan Nationalities Village in Kunming, southern China. The tourist attraction highlights the folklore, culture and architecture of 26 ethnic groups in Yunnan province
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Enrica Piccoli of Italy competes in the preliminary round of the women's solo free artistic swimming event during the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore
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A youth performs a stunt on his BMX bike during a hot day at Kavouri beach, south of Athens, Greece
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Goliath, a liger cub — a rare hybrid between a lion and a tiger — plays at a private zoo in Suceava, eastern Romania
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A dress rehearsal for Gravity, which opens at Sadler's Wells East on Friday as part of a nationwide tour. The show is a co-production between Boy Blue and the National Youth Dance Company, which has 33 performers aged 16 to 24 drawn from all over England
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A convenience store slides into floodwater after heavy rain caused treacherous conditions in Gapyeong, South Korea
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A tourist takes a photo in an open-air studio with a view of the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey
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The Falcon 9 rocket travels southwest from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Van Nuys, California, carrying a set of Starlink satellites
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The Belles of London City Morris Dancers perform in the grounds of St Anne's Church, west London, during the Soho Village Fete. The 50-year-old festival features music, contests and more
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Golden retrievers Winnie and Kiera promote Pupsicle, a dog-friendly ice cream, in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, as part of National Ice Cream Day. The makers, Beechdean, pledged to donate its dog-friendly ice cream to All Dogs Matter, a charity in London
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