The Pantomime Horse Race — and other news in pictures
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A devotee offers prayers to the Hindu god Shiva in the Bagmati River on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, as part of the sacred month of Shravan
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About 50 trees were toppled by a storm in the city of Zapopan in central Mexico
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Thousands of spectators came to the Kent coast on Sunday to take in the sights of the Margate Carnival, including the Bolivian dance troupe Tinkus Puros
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A hummingbird flutters around a flower in the summer light at sunset in Mexico City
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The rock ballet spectacular Raise the Barre is one of the hundreds of shows at the Edinburgh Fringe. Performances take place at the Assembly Rooms every day except Wednesdays until August 24
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Katie Moon was among the athletes taking part in the women's pole vault final during the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Moon, the reigning world champion, came second to Sandi Morris
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A woman takes in a field of rare blue Chrysanthemum morifolium flowers in the highland area of Lembang in West Java, Indonesia
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Maro Itoje of the British and Irish Lions returned to Heathrow in triumph after the team's 2-1 series win over Australia in Sydney
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Stormy conditions over the Cape Canaveral space station in Florida meant SpaceX had to postpone the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket. Once conditions improved nearly two hours later, it took off with 28 Starlink satellites aboard
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ITV has released the first pictures from its new heist drama Frauds, featuring the Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker and Suranne Jones as the 'complex' duo Sam and Bert. Their intertwined past resurfaces after a decade apart and Bert tries to lure Sam into one final, lucrative robbery. Frauds will be shown on ITV1 and ITVX later this year
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The DIY chain WIckes has installed replica miniature solar panels on houses at the Godshill model village on the Isle of Wight
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Straw bales have been decorated as a bridge and groom to tell the world about a wedding this Friday on the outskirts of Frankfurt
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Families in inflatable panda costumes joined rock and dance acts at Camp Bestival, a family-friendly festival at Lulworth Castle in Dorset
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Farmers sun-dry chilli peppers near the city of Bonzhou, eastern China
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Basement Jaxx were among the acts playing at the Wilderness Festival in Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, at the weekend
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A nine-year-old boy cooled down in a fountain in Tokyo on Monday as the Japanese government issued a heatstroke alert for the capital and other areas
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Cole Hocker took the gold medal for winning the men's 5,000 metres final at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon
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The Pantomime Horse Race — and other news in pictures
Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, got a hug from an attendee at the Vancouver Pride Parade on Sunday CHRIS HELGREN/REUTERS A devotee offers prayers to the Hindu god Shiva in the Bagmati River on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, as part of the sacred month of Shravan PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES About 50 trees were toppled by a storm in the city of Zapopan in central Mexico ULISES RUIZ/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Thousands of spectators came to the Kent coast on Sunday to take in the sights of the Margate Carnival, including the Bolivian dance troupe Tinkus Puros VICKI COUCHMAN FOR THE TIMES A hummingbird flutters around a flower in the summer light at sunset in Mexico City CARLOS PEREZ GALLARDO/REUTERS The rock ballet spectacular Raise the Barre is one of the hundreds of shows at the Edinburgh Fringe. Performances take place at the Assembly Rooms every day except Wednesdays until August 24 IAN GEORGESON Katie Moon was among the athletes taking part in the women's pole vault final during the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Moon, the reigning world champion, came second to Sandi Morris CHRISTIAN PETERSEN/GETTY IMAGES A woman takes in a field of rare blue Chrysanthemum morifolium flowers in the highland area of Lembang in West Java, Indonesia ALGI FEBRI SUGITA/ALAMY Maro Itoje of the British and Irish Lions returned to Heathrow in triumph after the team's 2-1 series win over Australia in Sydney JACK TAYLOR FOR THE TIMES Stormy conditions over the Cape Canaveral space station in Florida meant SpaceX had to postpone the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket. Once conditions improved nearly two hours later, it took off with 28 Starlink satellites aboard JOE MARINO/UPI/ALAMY ITV has released the first pictures from its new heist drama Frauds, featuring the Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker and Suranne Jones as the 'complex' duo Sam and Bert. Their intertwined past resurfaces after a decade apart and Bert tries to lure Sam into one final, lucrative robbery. Frauds will be shown on ITV1 and ITVX later this year MONUMENTAL TELEVISION/ITV PLC The DIY chain WIckes has installed replica miniature solar panels on houses at the Godshill model village on the Isle of Wight WICKES SOLAR Straw bales have been decorated as a bridge and groom to tell the world about a wedding this Friday on the outskirts of Frankfurt MICHAEL PROBST/AP Families in inflatable panda costumes joined rock and dance acts at Camp Bestival, a family-friendly festival at Lulworth Castle in Dorset LEON NEAL/GETTY IMAGES Farmers sun-dry chilli peppers near the city of Bonzhou, eastern China VCG/ GETTY IMAGES Basement Jaxx were among the acts playing at the Wilderness Festival in Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, at the weekend KATJA OGRIN/REDFERNS A nine-year-old boy cooled down in a fountain in Tokyo on Monday as the Japanese government issued a heatstroke alert for the capital and other areas ISSEI KATO/REUTERS Cole Hocker took the gold medal for winning the men's 5,000 metres final at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon
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If the end of the world is a party, I want these two feral slugs to be our hosts. Fever-dreamed by Canadian clowning duo Creepy Boys, this absurd existential rave is brilliantly smart and beautifully stupid. Wriggling on to the stage in sleeping bags with puffy vulval gaps for their faces and arms, Sam Kruger and SE Grummett insist, with increasing desperation, that this is a show about nothing. No serious topic will be tackled here. Not gun violence, not climate change, not gender identity. Creepy Boys want to take those heavy, stressful 'somethings' and stomp on them while we dance to techno and watch a soothing puppet show instead. When the eggshell-ridden world outside is so hard to navigate, don't we deserve some smooth-brained blankness? Like slugs: the ultimate nothing. But sticking to this nothingness proves difficult. Whenever the pair stray into a topic that threatens to be 'a something' they retreat, flailing into a cesspit of panic that they've ruined the show. Stripped down to bright, tight plastic bibs and free-wheeling genitals, they frantically cover their close-calls with sweaty, delirious misdirections of our attention: Joni Mitchell puppetry; live animations; a two-headed horse. As it becomes harder to stay in the safe zone, every word, body part and casually shoved-in-your-face gun becomes riddled with unavoidably political connotations. The pair admit their work is 'a little bit niche and mostly gross' but this howl of a show uses an anarchic, DIY aesthetic to cloak innovative design and complex Derridian concepts. What begins as an effort to distract from the doom-scroll mentality devolves into a critical analysis of the absurdities we accept as the norm. In a world so unruly, theirs seems the only sane response. At Summerhall, Edinburgh, until 25 August All our Edinburgh festival reviews
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