Encarnacion, which describes itself as the carnival capital of Paraguay, attracts more than 100,000 people to its annual celebration
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Illuminated animals, butterflies and flowers by Patrice Warrener were on display in Leicester Square for the Lumiere festival of light in London
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Penny Coomes and Nicholas Buckland, of Britain, perform at the European figure skating championships in Moscow
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The Queen braved the snow yesterday to attend church with the Duke of Edinburgh and other family members in Castle Rising, Norfolk
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Spanish acrobats floated on lines to perform at the Triton Fountain in Valletta, Malta, at the start of its year as European Capital of Culture
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A Rohingya girl poses as she applies makeup in a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
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Malia Obama, daughter of former president Barack, was seen in New York with her boyfriend, Rory Farquharson, a Briton she met at Harvard
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Penny Mordaunt, the international development secretary, meets mothers at a World Food Programme centre funded by Britain in northern Kenya
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The British Homing World Show of the Year was held at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, over the weekend
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Dee Dee gave birth to a 3lb female at Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, Florida. Wild Bornean orangutan numbers have fallen 50 per cent in 60 years
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Jordan Beecher, an army veteran who lost his leg while serving in Afghanistan, and his friend and former colleague Jon Armstrong with their 7m-long boat in Antigua. The pair have become the fastest rowers to cross the Atlantic in 37 days and eight hours, beating the previous record by about three days
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Kokugakuin University students who will be 20 years old in 2018 take part in an ancient coming-of-age ceremony in Tokyo
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