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Whitby Pier, an ant on a flower, an osprey fishing and Sir Cliff Richard are among Thursday's Pictures of the Day
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Beagle judges confer at the 13th Festival of Hunting, at the East of England Showground, Peterborough. The event has the greatest gathering of hounds in the country.
David Rose for The Telegraph
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A shark swims with a bait ball in a photograph by Reiko Takahashi, 2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year, who specialises in getting up close and personal with gigantic underwater tornadoes of fish.
Reiko Takahashi / Caters
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Emergency services participate in 'Project Diffuse', a full scale 'real-time' simulation of a noxious substance/acid attack, at Heaven nightclub in London. The event was held by the emergency services to help staff and owners of nightclubs to deal with such an event within their premises.
The key ‘Three R’ message is as follows: Report – dial 999 Remove – contaminated clothing cafefully Rinse – immediately in running water (and keep going!) Paul Grover for The Telegraph
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Actor Jean-Benoit Ugeux performs in the play " Arctique" directed by Belgian Anne-Cecile Vandalem, during the 72nd International Theatre festival in Avignon, France
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Bjork performs onstage at Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, Finland
Santiago Felipe/Getty Images
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Blenheim Art Foundation presents Yves Klein at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, a solo exhibition by the visionary French artist, running 18 July - 7 October 2018. Klein, France's most expensive post-war artist, is best known for his own vivid ultramarine pigment, International Klein Blue (IKB).
Roger Askew/REX/Shutterstock
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Kim Hubball is pictured with her Bruntwood's Bee in the City entry, inspired by Manchester's worker bee emblem, on the opening day of the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2018 in Knutsford, Cheshire
Mark Waugh/RHS
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President of Commission Jean-Claude Juncker (top) ruffles the hair of EU Commissioner of Digital Economy and Society Gunther Oettinger before the College Commissioners meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium
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Michael Avenatti, attorney for porn actress Stormy Daniels, speaks at a protest outside the White House in Washington, USA. This is the second day in a row the group has held a protest following President Donald Trump's meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Andrew Harnik/AP
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Rescue workers look for survivors amidst the rubble at the site of a collapsed residential building at Shah Beri village in Greater Noida, India
ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS
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| Ants are seen on a flower during sunset in Van, Turkey Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images |
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A fallow deer seems unfazed by tourists on the Croatian island Badija in the Adriatic. The species was introduced in the 1950's.
Davor Puklavec/Xinhua / Barcroft Images
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| Local residents walk past pro-government supporter after clashes with demonstrators in the indigenous community of Monimbo in Masaya, Nicaragua Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters |
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Photographer Patrick Marshall spent three hours cooped up in a water hide at Horn Mill Trout Farm in Oakham, Peterborough to capture this moment. When the osprey eventually scooped up the fish, it then flew directly towards the camera, yielding this dramatic image.
Patrick Marshall/Caters News
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Women offer puja to Hindu goddess Bipadtarini Devi in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The name literally means deliverer from troubles, and people often ask her for help with their problems.
ZUMA/Alamy Live
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New Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri speaks during a press conference at Stamford Bridge, London
Steve Paston/PA
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Cunard’s Queen Victoria cruiser pays a maiden visit to Kiel in Germany
Frank Molter/dpa
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A mosaic made of 30,000 cans of tinned food, depicting an image of Nelson Mandela, on the centenary of his birthday, in Cape Town, South Africa
Nasief Manie/AP
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Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela, grand-daughter of Nelson Mandela wipes away tears as she attends a service to mark the centenary of the birth of the former South African President at Westminster Abbey in London. A memorial stone to the late South African Leader and anti-apartheid revolutionary was dedicated in Westminster Abbey on Wednesday.
Jack Taylor/Getty Images
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The 12 boys and their football coach who were rescued from a flooded cave arrive for a news conference in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand
SOE ZEYA TUN/REUTERS
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| Air conditioning units hang off the back side of a row of buildings in Shenyang, China. Some Chinese people spend sanfu, the hottest day of the year, in air-conditioned buildings. Chinese people embraced the second day of Sanfu - the dog days of the summer, on Wednesday.
Visual China Group
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Denzel Washington, who is over six feet tall, looks up at Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who is over SEVEN feet tall, at the premiere of Columbia Picture's "Equalizer 2" at TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.
Kevin Winter/Getty Images
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A 25ft statue of Jeff Goldblum, commissioned by NowTV, lounges in front of Tower Bridge, to mark the 25th anniversary of Jurassic Park.
John Phillips/Getty Images
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| Sir Cliff Richard greets his supporters at the High Court, where he was awarded damages of £210,000 from the BBC after his battle over his privacy. John Nguyen/JNVisuals |
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People fish from the end of Whitby pier on Wednesday morning as the sun rises on the Yorkshire coast & the UK prepares for another hot day.
Andrew McCaren/LNP
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