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  • A clown loses their head amid the chaos in Clown Show

    Roll up, tumble down! The show that imagines the US as a collapsing circus – in pictures

    At the newly reopened King’s theatre in Edinburgh, as part of the international festival, Geoff Sobelle’s Clown Show is a dizzying whirl through US history
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  • Aerial view shows buildings buried in mud beside a river after flooding in Nepal

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

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  • A firefighter walks past engines at night as wildfire glows on distant hills in Big Sur

    Nepal rescue and California fires: photos of the day – Friday

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  • Puok Gatjor Puk, with a prosthetic right leg, sits with arms crossed on a chair as he faces parallel walking bars and two lines of small red cones

    Overcoming war’s legacy: learning to walk again at a South Sudan clinic – in pictures

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  • Extreme close-up of an alligator's eye and textured scaly skin, with a vertical slit pupil

    Week in wildlife: a Cornish wallaby, a frazzled opossum and rare Montagu’s harrier chicks

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    Tribute to Dolly Parton and a tomato festival: photos of the day – Wednesday

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    Verdi opera rehearsal and a police tribute: photos of the day – Tuesday

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  • Oleksii Kozak is helped out of the water during a sporting event in Kyiv

    Ukraine’s Independence Day and a Tokyo heatwave: photos of the day – Monday

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  • Stack of photos with top one showing humanoid robot being dragged out of a combat ring

    Cheerleaders and a tennis-playing robot: photos of the weekend

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  • A soldier firing to shoot down a Russian FPV-drone.

    On Donetsk’s ‘life or death’ highway with the Khyzhak brigade – photo essay

  • A line of men in grey sweatshirts and brown trousers stand facing metal gates in a prison.

    Life behind bars in Britain’s surviving Victorian prisons – photo essay

  • Rangers Munkh-Erdene and Delgertuul ride horses across grassland, followed by a dog

    Fire rangers of Mongolian steppe: climate crisis spurs revival of ancient knowledge – photo essay

  • A person holds out an eye prosthetic on their hands

    Blinded by War: documenting the aftermath of injury in Ukraine – photo essay

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    The Kettlewell scarecrow festival – in pictures

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    International Cowboy Day celebrations in Nairobi – in pictures

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  • A woman inside a green-lit 'pay here' hut

    A Hopping good time: one of Europe’s largest travelling funfairs returns to Newcastle – in pictures

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  • A drone view shows a sports field known as the Field of the Gods, inside the crater of the Teoca volcano

    Fields of the Gods: Mexico’s football pitches from above – photo essay

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