Three young barn owls huddle together in their nest near Carlby, Lincolnshire
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John Taylor, also known as Brasso John, polishes the altar cross at Ripon Cathedral, North Yorkshire, before choral evensong on Sunday
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Environment Canada has issued heat warnings for Vancouver, amid signs of drought
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A trail of 40 colourful lighthouse sculptures will be displayed across Southampton and Cowes this weekend to support Southampton Children’s Hospital
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The Galeón-Andalucia, a replica of a 16th-century ship and a floating museum, left the River Tyne in the northeast on Monday morning
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Emma Corrin, best known for portraying Diana in The Crown, attends a fan event for her new film Deadpool & Wolverine at the Uber Arena in Berlin
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Bear cubs playfight in the forest of Loska Dolina, southern Slovenia
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Pro-cannabis activists stage a protest against the Thai government’s proposals to reinstate the drug on the list of banned narcotics
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A sheep herd grazes at an altitude of about 3,000m in the Mercan Mountains, eastern Turkey
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Kateryna Tabashnyk, a high jumper, visits an athletics arena that was destroyed by a Russian rocket attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine
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Maurice Newman, an 80-year-old skater, practises in Ramsgate, Kent
STEVE FINN
A Ural owl and a squirrel appear to be playing a game of hide and seek in Higashikawa, Hokkaido, Japan. Ural owls prey on squirrels and other small mammals
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A dance group practising Bharatanatyam, the oldest classical dance tradition in India, before the annual Ratha Yatra, or chariot festival, in Kolkata. The procession dates back some 5,000 years
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The Kajla canal in Dhaka, Bangladesh, is filled with household waste. Most canals of the city are clogged with plastic
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Visitors pose next to Furnace Creek visitor centre’s famous thermometer as the temperature in Death Valley, the desert in California, reaches 55C
TY ONEIL/AP
Chinelos, traditional dancers in costumes, celebrate the 802nd anniversary of the foundation of Cuitlahuac, a municipality in eastern Mexico
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The artist Impro has installed a cash machine on Sonning Bridge, Berkshire, to highlight the issue of bank branch closures
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Three pygmy goats that were stolen from a farm in Sussex have been reunited with their owner after being found abandoned in a field
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Laura Philipp, a German triathlete, celebrates coming second in a race in Roth, southern Germany
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Officials from the California Fish and Wildlife Department give a mountain lion a check up before releasing it back into the wild
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Glastonbury Tor in Somerset is bathed in the morning light of a glorious sunrise
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