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Silhouettes of horse riders during the traditional Holy Blood Procession in Weingarten, southern Germany. The procession in honour of a relic of Holy Blood takes place on the day after Ascension Day every year. FELIX KASTLE/AFP/Getty Images |
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Wildlife photographer Steve Ward waited patiently for two hours in the Bank Holiday heat in north Wales to get this shot of the sun setting behind a cuckoo as it spreads its wings Steve Ward / SWNS.com |
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Britain’s tallest freestanding structure is in Kirkless, West Yorkshire. The Grade II-listed Emley Moor transmitting station is 330.5 metres tall (21 metres taller than The Shard) and the 24th tallest tower in the world. Here a Super Puma helicopter lifts parts for a second mast alongside the existing one. Charlotte Graham |
Jury President Cate Blanchett attends the screening of 'Cold War (Zimna Wojna)' during the 71st annual Cannes Film Festival in France Abaca / Barcroft Images |
Children play by a mountain of rubble as a worker excavates a destroyed building in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq. In the absence of large scale projects to re-build the area, citizens are undertaking work of their own to clear the rubble but in almost a year it has barely made a dent. Sam Tarling for The Telegraph |
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