Flight Lieutenant Adam O’Hare puts a Typhoon through its paces above RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, in preparation for this year’s airshows
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A Steller’s sea eagle chick in the incubation room at the National Centre for Birds of Prey near Helmsley, North Yorkshire. It will grow to have an 8ft wingspan and the biggest beak of all birds of prey
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Zoe Smith, of Woolley & Wallis auctioneers, inspects leftover stock recently uncovered from the Apple Boutique. The retail store set up by the Beatles opened on Baker Street in December 1967 and closed eight months later
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Innes Boyd, two, at the preview of Van Gogh Alive in Edinburgh. The exhibition is an immersive, multi-sensory art experience combining high-definition projections of Van Gogh's paintings with digital surround sound and aromas of Provence
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A baby elephant was seen struggling to use its trunk to drink from a watering hole — but ended up falling face-first in the mud in Mashatu game reserve in Botswana
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US and Moroccan soldiers pose proudly in front of an explosion set up by a Marine Corps technician near Khemisset, Morocco, as part of a mine clearance training project
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Alexandre Correia, 47, captured the bright green aurora of the Northern Lights at the same time as witnessing tiny flakes of ice appear as huge pillars of light in Kautokeino, Norway, forming an atmospheric optical illusion
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A woman wearing a kimono and facemask dashes over a pedestrian crossing at Ginza shopping district in Tokyo. The country is beginning to lift some of its pandemic restrictions after struggling with an outbreak of the Omicron variant last month
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An inquisitive young lion cub plays with a road sign in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier park in South Africa
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A woman with face paint at a meeting where leaders from indigenous communities in the Amazon basin demanded South American governments halt industries that damage the rainforest, in Puyo, Ecuador
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The sun sets behind Wat Saket temple, also called the Golden Mount, in Bangkok, Thailand
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Komusubi Hoshoryu throws Takakeisho Mitsunobu to win on day three of the Grand Sumo Spring Tournament at Edion Arena, Osaka
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Two big beasts of the jungle confront one another, with the sloth bear showing its dominance over the tiger,
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Widows, long barred from Holi festival celebrations, took advantage of a supreme court ruling allowing them to join the fun in Vrindavan, north India
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