Malaysian Chinese devotees prepare charcoal during the Nine Emperor Gods Festival in Ampang, Selangor. It is an important religious event in the Chinese lunar calendar in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand
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Sting and Trudie Styler, whose film — Can I Come in? An Ode to Naples — premiered at the Rome Film Festival
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A team at the American Museum of Natural History install the head on a woolly mammoth model for an exhibition opening next month: The Secret World of Elephants
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The rutting season has started at Bushy Park in southwest London and the first battle between stags vying for a mate is vocal
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Halloween has come early to London Zoo where the keepers put out pumpkins stuffed with the favourite treats of animals such as the okapi, or zebra giraffe
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The Royal Princess, which is 330 metres long, arrives in Sydney. Over the next six months she will be running cruises around Australia and New Zealand
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In Malawi elephants are moved from Liwonde National Park to Kasungu National Park to reduce the population and alleviate human-wildlife conflict in the area
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Queen Maxima of the Netherlands begins a three-day state visit to Kenya by picking maize
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Lois Moremon and Paul Chadwick take a break during the International Bodybuilding & Fitness Association’s British finals night of champions in Gateshead
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Ely Cathedral looked spectacular at dawn yesterday but rain is coming
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At the Spill Festival in Ipswich, Cardinal Wolsey’s Tudor College is created entirely from cardboard and then flattened
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A 16th century Iznik dish is among the Islamic and Indian Worlds lots at a Christie’s sale on Thursday. It’ll fetch between £20,000 and £30,000 as long as he doesn’t drop it
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In Romania bears come down from Carpathian mountains and get closer to humans, attracted in part by the food they throw out of car windows
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On Wednesday Charlie Barton’s “Celestial Bodies” will be unveiled at the Women in Stem festival at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
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The squash display at Sunnyfields Farm in Southampton has been awarded a Guinness World Record for the largest picture made out of squash — 10,000 of them
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Parts of Scotland have been devastasted by wind in rain in the past week but Queen’s View, near Pitlochry, looks as serene as ever
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In Paranaque, a city in the Philippines, children prepare to celebrate United Nations Day on Tuesday
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Supporters of Argentina's presidential candidate Javier Milei ended the night disappointed after his rival Sergio Massa took a first-round lead. They will face each other again in a run-off next month
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A participant dressed as the popular figure "Catrina" attends a parade as part of the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City
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In China’s Yuli county an Orionid meteor shower lights up the night sky over the desert — captured in a long-exposure shot
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At Bonhams in London on Wednesday they are selling designer handbags and fashion. The estimate on these two is £600 to £800. Each.
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