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Clive Myrie and Sir Mo Farah take part in the academic procession to the Sheldonian Theatre before Oxford University's annual Encaenia ceremony, where honorary degrees are awarded
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A defiant protester in front of a burning barricade in central Nairobi during a demonstration marking one year since the storming of Kenya's parliament, the deadliest day of anti-government unrest
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Fog drifts over farmland in the Kaipara Hills, softening the ridgelines and trees in the rural landscape north of Auckland, New Zealand
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Children cool off in fountains during the Benton Harbor Department of Public Safety's Spray & Play event at Pete Mitchell City Center Park in Michigan
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A policeman grapples with a cyclist as Extinction Rebellion protesters block the A12 highway in the Hague during a demonstration against the Nato summit, which is being hosted in the Netherlands for the first time
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Liziano Ostiana performs a free running flip above Siebe van de Spijker, left, and Dez Maarsen during a media preview of Elements of Freestyle by ISH Dance Collective at the Sydney Opera House
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Kristi Noem, the US secretary of homeland security, boards the Coast Guard cutter Escanaba in Panama City for a meeting on drug interception during a regional visit focused on immigration and security partnerships in Central America
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Myo Min Aung, a veterinarian, tends to ten-month-old baby elephant Kyaw Pearl at Wingabaw Elephant Camp in Phayargyi, Myanmar, after the calf was rescued with injuries from the wild
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Flamingos fly over pink salt flats in the Camargue region of southern France, their dark shadows trailing across the patterned ground below. The vivid colour of the landscape comes from Dunaliella salina, a pink microalgae found in the salt lakes and evaporation ponds
Nadia El-Nakla, a councillor and wife of the former Scottish first minister Humza Yousaf, examines Palestinian dresses at V&A Dundee as part of Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine, an exhibition marking 45 years of the city's twinning with Nablus
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A visitor takes a leap from a 50-metre crane at Coram's Fields in central London, where new electric car brand Leapmotor is offering free bungee jumps alongside test drives in an unusual marketing ploy
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Mae Ann Jorolan and Luke Brady take centre stage with the cast during the curtain call for Disney's Hercules at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London's West End
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Two black-necked cranes mirror each other in a territorial display on a wetland in Ladakh, India, raising their heads and calling out to defend their nesting site in the high-altitude landscape
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Nick Park, creator of Wallace and Gromit, poses with sculptures from Gromit Unleashed 3 during the launch event in Bristol, where a heritage steam train delivered characters designed in collaboration with Pixar, Lucasfilm, Sir Paul McCartney and others for a public art trail across the city
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Brothers Leo, 2, and Raphey Almeida, 3, explore a neon-painted T-Rex named King Rexford the Great by artist Laura Alp, part of a vibrant dinosaur trail at Furzey Gardens in the New Forest featuring 50 prehistoric installations among the plants
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