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| The Highland Games, Bamburgh Castle, Palestinian riots and marguerites feature among Tuesday’s Pictures of the Day |
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The sun shines on a cold, misty morning after overnight frosts, at the start of the day in Rufford, Lancashire. A ground frost after a clear night brings risk of damage to newly planted crops. MediaWorldImages / Alamy Live News |
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Sheep are silhouetted against the sky during sunrise near Ditcheat in Somerset JASON BRYANT/APEX |
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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall has a hair-raising experience as she attends the 'NHS Heroes Awards' held at the Hilton Park Lane in London Justin Goff/goffphotos.com |
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A meadow of wildflowers comes into bloom on the Northumberland coastline near Bamburgh Castle Paul Kingston / NNP |
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Gourock starts off the "Games" season with hundreds of pipers, "heavies" and dancers from across the country, all competing in traditional Scottish Highland Games that include pipe bands, individual piping, country dancing for all ages and all the traditional heavyweight competitions such as tossing the caber, throwing the hammer and lifting the Keppoch Stone. Findlay/Alamy Live News |
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| Thousands of toxic caterpillars are set to be removed from cliffson the Norfolk coast this week over fears they could harm the public. Footpaths in Cromer have been taped off to protect holidaymakers from coming into contact with the brown-tail moth caterpillars. Alban Donohoe |
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Brazilian actress Bruna Linzmeyer (L) and Brazilian actress Mariana Ximenes smile during a photocall for the film "O Grande Circo Mistico (The Great Mystical Circus)" at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in France ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images |
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US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin (C-L) claps as US President's daughter Ivanka Trump unveils an inauguration plaque during the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem. The United States moved its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem after months of global outcry, Palestinian anger and exuberant praise from Israelis over President Donald Trump's decision tossing aside decades of precedent. MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images |
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The opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem was overshadowed Monday by bloodshed in Gaza, where at least 50 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the deadliest day since the end of the 2014 Gaza conflict. |
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A Palestinian man uses a slingshot during clashes with Israeli forces along the border with the Gaza strip east of Khan Yunis SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images |
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French state-owned SNCF railway company employees and labour union members demonstrate as part of a nationwide strike in Paris, France BENOIT TESSIER/REUTERS |
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Newly elected Catalan regional president Quim Torra (L) shakes hands to Catalan parliament speaker Roger Torrent during a session at the Catalan parliament in Barcelona, Spain Lola Bou/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images |
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Models prepare backstage ahead of the Swim show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Resort 19 Collections at Carriageworks in Sydney, Australia. Jennifer Polixenni Brankin/WireImage |
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A model shows off a creation in the Swimwear show during Fashion Week PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images |
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A migrant prepares his belongings aboard rescue ship MV Aquarius, off the coast of Sicily. Roughly 73 migrants of various nationalities, including women and children were rescued by MV Aquarius on May 12. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images |
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People put flowers onto the funeral cortege of goes past Everton's Goodison Park ground in Liverpool. Doctors at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool stopped providing life-support treatment to Alfie last month after his parents, Tom Evans and Kate James, lost two rounds of fights in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights. Andrew Price/PA |
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| The Royal Academy of Arts, in its 250th year, has undergone a huge redevelopment designed by the British architect David Chipperfield. Pictured here is the Collection Gallery which houses a magnificent, almost full size, 16th Century copy of Michelangelo's Last Supper and biblical works by Sir James Thornhill ,after Raphael David Rose for The Telegraph |
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| L-R Liberal Democrat former deputy PM Sir Nick Clegg, Tory ex-education secretary Nicky Morgan and Labour former foreign secretary David Miliband speaking at a cross-party intervention Brexit negotiation at Tilda Rice Mill in Rainham, Essex Stefan Rousseau/PA |
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An Iraqi man celebrates with a picture of Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr during the general election in Baghdad, Iraq. The race to become Iraq's next prime minister appeared wide open as two outsider alliances looked to be in the lead after the first elections since the defeat of the Islamic State group AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images |
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A farmer sorts edible rose petals in Haian in China's Jiangsu province AFP/Getty |
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Belgium's Largie Ramazani in action during the UEFA European Under-17 Championship Quarter-Final against Spain Carl Recine/REUTERS |
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Teachers shout slogans as they are stopped by Indian police during a protest demanding the release of their wages in Srinagar, India Danish Ismail/Reuters |
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A small snail is reflected in rainwater covering a wooden floor after a shower in a garden in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany FRANK RUMPENHORST/AFP/Getty Images |
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Marguerites are in full blossom on a meadow in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany Michael Probst/AP |
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