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Iraqi fishermen travel in their boat in Iraqi territorial waters as the sun sets in Basra. Picture: Essam Al-Sudanii/REUTERS Read More »

A model wearing a dress made of 1,000 Orchida Vanda petals, designed by Judith Blacklock, poses for photographers in the M & A Garden during media day at the Chelsea Flower Show in London. Read More »

An Indian tuk-tuk driver waits for passengers at Sangam during a dust storm in Allahabad. Picture: Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images Read More »

Photographers warm themselves round a fire as an annual meteor shower takes place above Mount Bromo in Indonesia, an active volcano that is spewing sulphur. The Milky Way is visible above the volcano. Picture: Justin Ng/HOTSPOT Read More »

Buddhist devotees pour water on a sacred tree during a ceremony at the Shwedagon pagoda in Rangoon, Burma, on the full moon day of Kasone Festival to mark Buddha’s birthday in Rangoon. Read More »

Cunard’s Queen Mary sails into Southampton to join her sister ships Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria. The ships’ foghorns played out Happy Birthday to salute the QM2 as she made her way to the terminal to dock following the dramatic entrance. Picture: REX Read More »

People hold up their voting cards during the annual Landsgemeinde meeting at the Zaunplatz square, in the eastern Swiss town of Glarus. Glarus is one of Switzerland’s two remaining Landsgemeinden, a 700-year tradition of an open-air assembly in which citizens can make key political decisions directly by raising their hands. Read More »