Andrew Robertson, a piper, playing at sunset standing on Salisbury Crags above Edinburgh, while his girlfriend Tierney Reid waits out of shot nearby to propose to him
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Iranian soldiers take part in a parade to commemorate Army Day at the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran
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A young Kirk’s dik-dik, named Pistachio, arrives at Chessington World of Adventures Zoo in time for the long Easter weekend
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Activists dressed as President Putin; Friedrich Merz, the chancellor of Germany; and President Trump pose with a fake nuclear bomb during a protest in front at Reichstag building in Berlin
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Young refugee girls practice taekwondo before an event at the Kalobeyei Sports Complex, near Kakuma refugee camp — Kenya’s second-largest settlement
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People enjoy the golden hour at sunset after a balmy day at Birubi Point, north of Sydney in Australia
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The Hokan-ji Temple, in the Gion district of Kyoto, is known for its historic wooden buildings, tea houses, geishas and women wearing traditional kimonos
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Children punch the air as protesters, largely Houthi supporters, in Yemen show solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
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Kaori Sakamoto, from Japan, at the ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating 2025, held in Tokyo. Teams from all over the world compete in a number of events with two men, two women, one pair and one ice dance entry
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The “butterfly tide” in the Qiantang River in China, a rare phenomenon in which two converging tidal waves form a striking pattern in the water
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A young Ukrainian soldier from the 127th Brigade in the trenches near the border with Russia
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A surfer in the middle of a barrel as they take on the sets at the Queenscliff “Bombora” — a wave that forms over a submerged offshore reef or rock and breaks heavily, forming a large swell — off Manly Beach in Sydney
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A duckling perches on top of a pupil’s hat at Kelvinside Academy in Glasgow, after children helped to incubate and hatch eggs
Fourteen paintings created by the artist Chris Gollon that tell the story of Easter hang at the grade I listed church of St John on Bethnal Green — designed by Sir John Soane — as a fundraising campaign to restore it starts
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A bloodied actor portraying Jesus takes part in commemorating the Passion of Christ in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Poland
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An attendee of the Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025 event in Chiba city arrives in full Stormtrooper attire
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Dozens of racing pigeons are released at an Up North Combine contest in Worksop begins
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