Young kestrels ready to fly for the first time after nesting on the side of a house in Rochdale, Greater Manchester
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Bubbles at the pyramid stage in Glastonbury as performances begin at the sold-out music festival in Somerset
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A Christie’s art handler poses with the banjo played by Rod Davis and John Lennon in the Quarrymen from 1956-57. The auction house’s Classic Week, which began on Friday, features a range of items, including a letter from Ringo Starr on joining the Beatles and a bridesmaid’s dress designed by Norman Hartnell and worn at Queen Elizabeth II’s wedding
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A woman bathes a Palestinian child in Deir al Balah, Gaza
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At Pebbles Beach in Bridgetown, Barbados, racehorses from the nearby Garrison Savannah track enjoy a daily morning swim. They will stay longer in the water if recovering from injury or soreness after a race
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Tankfest 2024, a three-day display of historic armour, runs until Sunday at the Tank Museum in Bovington, Dorset
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A polling station in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. Parliamentary elections are taking place across the country
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An owl does its best Pavarotti impression at an abandoned quarry near Kiryat Gat, Israel
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Joseph Dunlop, 20, an apprentice at Jensen’s Cooperage, North Yorkshire, the last of its kind left in England. Run by the master cooper Alastair Simms, it hopes to keep the 700-year-old tradition of barrel-making alive
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A three-day exhibition featuring artists from the Paintbox School of Art runs until Sunday at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh
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A camel trek to the tourist spots of Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Moon Spring in Dunhuang, in China’s northern Gansu province
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Waterlogged streets in Delhi, India. The city has seen the highest June rainfall for 88 years
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Carrying the national flag on Ukraine’s Constitution Day, a public holiday, in the western city of Lviv
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Campaigners from Surfers against Sewage on their election tour bus at Plymouth Hoe, Devon
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Siberian tiger cubs at Yangzhou zoo, northwest of Shanghai, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province
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Training on the beach in Asnelles, Normandy, for the sand yachting world championship, which begins on Saturday and continues all next week
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The brig “Russia” in the waters of the Neva River during the dress rehearsal for the Scarlet Sails music and theatre youth festival in St Petersburg
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