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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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