Thames barges tied up in the sunset at Gravesend after the 86th Thames Match race. Nine vessels followed a course that went out beyond Southend and back
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This shot of an Argentine horned frog by the Michelle Howell, a nature photographer based in West Yorkshire, won a Society of International Nature and Wildlife Photographers contest. Other entries on the theme of “creatures great and small” included studies of a kingfisher and rhinoceros
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Bulgarian, American and Serbian soldiers take part in a Nato drill in southeast Bulgaria
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Acrobats and puppeteers from as far away as South Africa joined dancers and musicians for the opening parade of the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
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Dozens of historic cars re-enacted the Cotton Race, a climb from Oakamoor, Staffordshire, to the Star pub, which was first held in 1906
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A hot air balloon drifts over the Wuqing district of Tianjin, China
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The British actress Alia Bhatt performs at the Indian Film Academy festival held in New Jersey
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A visitor to the annual Himawari Matsuri festival stops for a selfie as she wends her way through the 1.5 million blooms growing in Hyogo, Japan
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Slick unseats its rider, Taylor Broussard, during the bareback division at the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo in Colorado Springs
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People cool off at a water park in Wuhan, eastern China, where temperatures reached 36C at the weekend
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