The King’s College choir in Cambridge rehearses for this year’s world-famous carol service. It will be broadcast on Christmas Eve
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A staff member puts the finishing touches to the Lego Great Barrier Reef installation at Chichester's Novium Museum. The Brick Wonders exhibition runs until June 2022
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An artist captures the big swell on the North Cornwall coast at Polzeath in the wake of storm Barra, which battered Britain, last week
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A team of kayaking and paddleboarding Santas and elves spread some festive cheer as they floated down the River Tyne in Newcastle yesterday collecting debris and litter
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Tracey Nicol-Lewis, 47, has the world's largest collection of Harry Potter memorabilia, and even had a Wizarding World-themed wedding
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The Christmas lights reflected in a lake at Peterborough in Cambridgeshire give an impression of colourful stained glass
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A picture drawn by Gabriela Beard, seven, from Worcester, of Father Christmas delivering presents to homeless people will feature on the cover of this week’s Big Issue
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Workers collect colourful marigolds to be sold at the local market in the village of Khirai — known as the Valley of Flowers — in West Bengal, India
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Models showcase the bridal collections of 28 designers and retail brands during Bridal Couture Week in Lahore, Pakistan
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Laura Shepard Churchley, daughter of the first American in space Alan Shepard, is pictured after her journey to the edge of space in Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocketship
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Jesus Sierra, 13, takes part in the Virgin of Guadalupe pilgrimage in Mexico City. One of the world's largest religious pilgrimages resumed after a one-year absence due to the pandemic
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Couples stand in line before getting married in a mass wedding ceremony on the beach in Lima, Peru
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A fox whose hind legs were paralysed in a traffic accident goes for a walk with the help of a wheeled device developed by an animal rehabilitation centre in Van, Turkey
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The author Zadie Smith with a portrait of her by Toyin Ojih Odutola, a Nigerian-born artist, as part of a display celebrating inspirational people of colour. It will be shown at the Brent Museum and Archive, North West London
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Two people were killed and seven were missing after a gas explosion caused a four-storey apartment building to collapse on the Italian island of Sicily
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Members of the Palestinian security forces loyal to Hamas show their skills at a graduation ceremony for police officers in Gaza City
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The 5k Big Leeds Santa Dash gets under way at the city’s Roundhay Park. The fun run is organised by St Gemma's Hospice, which provides care for people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses
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Wonder Woman strikes a pose at the Oz Comic Con, a fiction entertainment and comic convention in Melbourne, Australia, after a break due to the pandemic
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A young ballet dancer waits to perform at a Christmas celebration in the Vila Olýmpica at the Vila Kennedy favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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The projection artwork ”Hug” by Illumentiel of France is displayed during the Tokyo Lights show at Meiji Jingu Gaien stadium
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Bram Chardon, a equestrian driver for the Netherlands competes in the FEI Driving World Cup during the CHI de Geneva — Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping in Switzerland
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Members of the Snegiri winter swimming club pose for a group photo before taking a bracing dip in Lake Krasnoye in eastern Russia
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