Workers install a new lighting system in Cheddar caves, which will reopen to the public tomorrow after more than 18 months of pandemic darkness. Air purifiers have also been added at Cheddar Gorge and Caves — so visitors can breathe easy as they take in the cathedral-like caverns and extraordinary rock formations
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Street fight: A woman appreciates the work of the Berlin-based street artist Eme Freethinker, who was quick to recreate best actor Will Smith slapping Chris Rock during the Oscars ceremony this week
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Dawid Glawdzin, an amateur astrophotographer, captures the International Space Station as it races across the moon. Glawdzin, who does not own a telescope, uses a standard camera kit from his back garden in Southend-on-Sea in Essex
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Runway bride: A model wears an ice white wedding gown by Silvia Fernandez during a fashion show at the Atelier Couture bridal event in Madrid yesterday
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World on his shoulders: A solitary cleaner gets to work on the annual weeklong spruce-up of the grade I listed Atlas Fountain at Castle Howard in North Yorkshire. The house will open to the public on Saturday
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The premier parachute display team of the Royal Air Force, the RAF Falcons, practise over RAF Brize Norton as they prepare for the airshow season, which starts next month
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Count Peter Pininski shows the Book of Hours, a prayer book inscribed by Mary, Queen of Scots, which he has loaned to the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. It will be exhibited for the first time, until August 3, and contains a four-line verse by the teenage Mary in the late 1550s, at around the time of her marriage to Francis, Dauphin of France
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Famous grouse: Two feisty black grouse engage in spring battle on the snowy forest floor in Sotkamo, Finland
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Good enough to eat: Roger Federer, one of the greatest tennis players of all time, has another sweet victory — as a chocolate sculpture by the Swiss chocolatier Jorge Cardoso, a world champion in artistic chocolate sculptures
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The artist John Culshaw adds the finishing touches to his towering mural of the Liverpool and Egypt soccer player Mo Salah in Culshaw’s home city of Liverpool
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Tsuyoshi Shinjo, the manager of the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters and a former Major League Baseball player, enters the Sapporo Dome in Hokkaido on a hoverbike before the start of the Fighters’ game against the Seibu Lions, which opens the Japanese pro-baseball season
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How do I look? Bella peers straight into the camera for the award-winning pet photographer Cat Race, 36, from Preston in Lancashire. Race has been called a dog whisperer for her remarkable ability of capturing the animal’s personality
Estefanya Rojas, Yareli Mendoza and Celic Jimynez are chosen as cultural ambassadors of La Flor mas Bella del Ejido — the most beautiful flower of the Ejido — at the Mexico City Museum on Tuesday. The pageant has been held in the borough of Xochimilco since pre-Hispanic times
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A lion cub has something to smile about at At Gir National Park in India. “My mother taught me to be brave when faced with life's problems. This cub reminded me of that lesson,” said Urmil Jhaveri, the wildlife photographer who caught its expression
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An aircraft belonging to the United States missionary group Agape Flights is set on fire in Les Cayes, Haiti, as protesters demand that the government do more to address gang violence, including kidnappings
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Riot police arrest a demonstrator during a protest to mark the non-official Day of the Young Combatant to raise awareness of human rights in Santiago, Chile, on Tuesday. March 29 commemorated the assassination of the left-wing militant siblings Rafael and Eduardo Vergara at the hands of police in 1985
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Nile Rodgers and Chic perform in a concert for Ukraine at the Resorts World Arena in Birmingham on Tuesday. Proceeds will be donated to the Disasters Emergency Committee's Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal
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A gentleman takes an early morning cycle through London's Hyde Park on a penny-farthing, as you do
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