Conditions were glorious for a fishing boat off Tynemouth . . .
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. . . and a little gloomier off Newlyn, in Cornwall
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Northern Ireland’s biggest celebration of cultural diversity, the annual Belfast Mela launched yesterday, rolls into the city on August 27 in a riot of colour
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A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter flies over the USS Gerald R Ford during a training exercise in the Atlantic
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The Pope appeared happy to feature in a spiritual selfie for one of the faithful during his weekly audience at the Paul VI hall in the Vatican
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The cast of the 68th Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo rehearse together for the first time at Redford Barracks
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Silvana Lima, of Brazil, bails out on her way to losing in a heat of the women’s surfing US Open in California
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A child joins a procession of “diablitos” during a festival in honour of Santo Domingo de Guzman, the patron saint of Managua, Nicaragua
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Penguins swim past a diver cleaning algae from a tank at Living Coasts Zoo & Aquarium, Torquay
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People head to a water park to cool off as temperatures reach 30C in Minsk, Belarus
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