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1/33 A beautiful Huan
Huan Huan with her cub inside her enclosure at The Beauval Zoo in Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, central France. She had given birth to twins earlier this month, but unfortunately one died
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2/33 Lighting it up
A view of the new Queensferry Crossing, seen from South Queensferry, as it is illuminated ahead of it's official opening by the Queen
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3/33 Smokin costume
Damian Hammond as Killer Croc, at the London Super Comic Con, at the Business Design Centre in London
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4/33 International Rescue
People work to save a humpback whale stranded on the shore at Rasa Beach in Buzios, Brazil. With the help of hundreds of people and the return of the high tide, the whale returned to the ocean
Bebeto Karolla/Folha de Buzios via AP
5/33 You'd weigh this much too with these on your back
Squirrel monkeys sit on a weighing scale during the London Zoo annual weigh-in
AP Photo/Frank Augstein
6/33 Rubbish city
Laura Jackson views an artwork showing the London skyline created entirely from recycled litter at the Museum of London as part of The City is Ours exhibition
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7/33 Kookie koala
A white koala joey clings to her mother Tia at the Australia Zoo on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. The female joey's extremely pale colouration is caused by a recessive gene and thought to be inherited from her mother Tia who has had other pale coloured joeys in the past
8/33 Waiting for the eclipse
A woman looks through a telescope on the football field at Madras High School the evening before a solar eclipse in Madras, Oregon
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9/33 Free-flowing
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10/33 Game on
A small Orang-Utan plays with a football in his enclosure at the animal park Hellabrunn in Munich, southern Germany
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11/33 Taking the plunge
A Chinese boy dressed in swimwear poses on a swimming pool-themed bus in Jinhua city, east China's Zhejiang province. The interior of a bus was decorated by staffs to resemble a swimming pool in Jinhua city, east China's Zhejiang province
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12/33 Flashpoint
A combined picture shows One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson taking off a full Islamic burqa veil during Senate Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
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13/33 Messing about on the river
Tourists escaping summer heat by canoeing cause a traffic jam in a river at a gorge in Sanmenxia city, central China's Henan province
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14/33 Close encounter
A meerkat bites another meerkat into its nose in the zoo in Kronberg, Germany
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Participants take part in Panjat Pinang, a pole climbing contest, as part of festivities marking Indonesia's 72nd Independence Day on Ancol beach in Jakarta
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Sunrise from Waterloo Bridge
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People swing flame torches during the 'Hiondori' ritual at the former battlefield of the Battle of Nagashinoin Shinshiro, Aichi, Japan
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President Donald Trump reaches into his suit jacket to read a quote he made on Saturday regarding the events in Charlottesville, as he speaks to the media in the lobby of Trump Tower. New York
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Pigs are herded off a platform into water by breeders during a daily exercise at a pig farm in Shenyang, Liaoning province, Chin
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20/33 I wanna be like you
A baby orangutan - born on August 5 - relaxes with its mother Padana at the zoo in Leipzig, Germany
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21/33 Human pyramid
A devotee breaks a clay pot containing curd during celebrations to mark the Hindu festival of Janmashtami, in Mumbai, India
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22/33 Ring of fire
A policeman performs a stunt during India's Independence Day celebrations in Srinagar
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23/33 Red alert
A firefighting helicopter makes water drop as a wildfire burns north of Athens, Greece
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24/33 Stir crazy
Members of the Giant Omelette Brotherhood of Malmedy during the annual Giant Omelette festival in Belgium
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25/33 Hot stuff
Competitors eating chili peppers while taking a "chili bath" during a chili pepper eating competition in Ningxiang, China
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26/33 Long day
School children dressed as Hindu Lord Krishna, wait to perform during the celebrations ahead of the Janmashtami festival, which marks the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna in Ajmer, India
Reuters
27/33 Great escape
Two men and a dog on a motorbike flee a wildfire burning near the village of Varnavas, north of Athens, Greece
Reuters
28/33 Up, up and away
Hot air balloons gather for the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta
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29/33 Bear battle
Polar bears Walker and Arktos getting a grip with each other at The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland Highland Wildlife Park
PA
30/33 Balloon-atics
A hot air balloon is prepared for flight at this weekend's Bristol International Balloon Fiesta
Reuters
31/33 Action shot
Spain's Irene Sanchez-Escribano jumps as she competes in the women's 3000m steeplechase athletics event at the 2017 IAAF World Championships at the London Stadium
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32/33 Cheeky cluckers
An inflatable chicken mimicking US President Donald Trump is set up on The Ellipse, near the White House
AFP/Getty Images
33/33 For Your Eyes Only
An Indian student seemingly channels James Bond as he looks down the barrel of an 84-MM rocket launcher during an Indian Army exhibition at Panther Stadium in Amritsar
AFP/Getty Images
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