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Perseid meteor shower — and other news in pictures
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Times picture editors select the best images from the UK and around the world: which is your favourite?
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Sakarya, Turkey
IBRAHIM YOZOGLU/ANADOLU/GETTY IMAGES
Mount Nemrut in Adyaman, southeastern Turkey
KEMAL ASLAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Sui, aged three, takes a close look at one of the 21 bronze elephants installed in Spitalfields, central London, as a walking trail by the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
DAVID PARRY/PA
Niall Johnston tends to the fruiting room at the Yorkshire Mushroom Emporium in Ilkley, which supplies local restaurants and was once run from a garage owned by his co-founder's mother
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP
Loch Tay in the Highlands provides a welcome plunge off of the HotBoat, billed as Scotland's first floating sauna. Temperatures are expected to peak at 27C in Scotland on Wednesday
PHIL WILKINSON
Temperatures in London peaked at 33C on Tuesday; some headed straight for the sky pool
ANDY RAIN/EPA
MARK PASSMORE PHOTOGRAPHY
Six sets of twins are starting school in Inverclyde next week and marked the occasion in uniform at St Ninian's primary in Gourock
WATTIE CHEUNG
Sziget Festival brings hundreds of thousands of people to Budapest for a bill ranging from Chappell Roan and Charli XCX to the Troula Street Theatre
TAMAS VASVARI/EPA
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The Glorious Twelfth was glorious after all on the West Glenalmond Estate in Perthshire, despite shoots being cancelled elsewhere on the first day of grouse-shooting season
JANE BARLOW/PA
Mt Marapi spews ash a mile into the sky in West Sumatra, Indonesia. It has erupted more than 460 times in two years
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Visitors to St James's Park are used to pigeons scurrying around their feet. Pelicans, perhaps not so much
YUI MOK/PA
NAOKI HIRAOKA/AP
Colombian civil servants release balloons in memory of Miguel Uribe, the senator and prospective presidential candidate who was shot at a rally in Bogota in June and died on Monday
IVAN VALENCIA/AP
A 'rabbit dachshund' cools down with an ice cream in Milan as Italy swelters in 40C temperatures
STEFANO RELLANDINI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Parkour! France's Eloan Hitz competes at the World Games in Chengdu, China, which hosts non-Olympic sports including tug of war, life saving and American football
LISI NIESNER/REUTERS
It doesn't make for the most flattering photoshoot, but there is a reason these zebras at Lewa wildlife conservancy in Kenya are stood head to tail: they use their tails to swat flies from each others' faces
ANDREW CAMPBELL/SOLENT
JORDAN PETTITT/PA
Rupert Kirkwood ventured off the coast of Devon expecting bluefin tuna to emerge from the water, but it was his son that captured this 3m-long fish taking him by surprise
