Near the border with North Korea, an American army Apache helicopter fires a Hydra rocket during live-fire exercises with the South Korean army
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A rhino runs through the misty morning sunrise at the Solio reserve in Mwiga, Kenya
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Renée Zellweger was in Sydney for the Australian premiere of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
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The aurora borealis captured above St Hubert’s church in the South Downs was a runner-up in the national park’s Dark Skyscapes photography competition
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A crucifix weighed down with lit candles attached to jars of honey to mark the feast day of Saint Charalambos, the Orthodox saint of beekeepers, at the Church of the Blessed Virgin in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
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Royal Marines from the 40 and 47 Commando Raiding Groups train for amphibious operations on a beach in Cornwall. Each drill involves soldiers approaching a beach from the sea, deploying and recovering back into their craft
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A squirrel made its home in a woodpecker’s nesting box in King’s Lynn, Norfolk six months ago and has gnawed the opening larger so it can fit through more easily
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Roger Allam as Winston Churchill and Peter Forbes as Josef Stalin in dress rehearsals for Churchill In Moscow, a play by Howard Brenton, at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, southwest London, where it opened last week
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Rescue workers search for missing people in Junlian county, southwest China, after a landslide left one person dead, 28 missing and two injured
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The Indian Air Force’s Surya Kiran aerobatics team performs during Aero India 2025, a military airshow at the Yelahanka air base in Bangalore
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A dancer from the Gavioes da Fiel samba school prepares for carnival in Sao Paulo at the Anhembi Sambadrome
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The American nuclear-powered submarine USS Alexandria docks at a naval base in Busan, South Korea, for a routine supply restock
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A grasshopper clings to a kumquat tree in Los Angeles
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Wayang Kulit, a form of shadow puppet theatre native to Java, retells Hindu myths. A member of the Sanggar Widya Pramana theatre group plays bonang gongs to accompany a play in Jakarta
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Kazakhstan’s Assylkhan Assan suffers a fall during the freestyle skiing mixed team aerials final at the Asian Winter Games in Harbin, northeast China
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An illuminated wedding hall in Kabul, where the wealthy use private generators to avoid the power blackouts that plague the rest of the Afghan capital
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Ariana Grande attends the Virtuosos Award ceremony during the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in California. She was honoured for her role in Wicked
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A child floats inside a plastic ball at the artificial pond known as Piscinao de Ramos in Rio de Janeiro
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A spectacular sunset illuminates the sky above Mudeford Sandbank and Christchurch Harbour in Dorset
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Rain in southern California helped to ease fears of wildfires and provided relief for drought-damaged gardens in places such as Placentia in Orange county
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A fishing boat surrounded by sea ice in Jiaozhou Bay near Qingdaa in eastern China
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The former lighthouse Smeaton’s Tower is illuminated to celebrate Plymouth Argyle’s upset victory against Liverpool in the FA Cup
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The American rock band Papa Roach headlined M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool on Sunday
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