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Highlights of the day

  • Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey in wetsuit and helmet falls from a floating assault course into the water during a campaign trail visit to Warwickshire

    Paper Ghosts, pandas and campaign trails: photos of the day – Wednesday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • US Vice President Kamala Harris dances being spun around by singer Kirk Franklin during a Juneteenth concert on the South Lawn of the White House

    US Juneteenth celebrations and wildfires in Brazil: photos of the day – Tuesday

  • Visitors inspect a display at Art Basel in Switzerland

    EU parliament elections and student protests: photos of the day – Monday

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    • Backstage with Bangarra

      Backstage with Bangarra – in pictures

    • Francoise Hardy in London, mid 1960s.

      Miniskirts and masculine looks: how Françoise Hardy epitomised French chic – in pictures

    • Two girls on a swing attached to a lamp-post

      The work of Sam Hanna, the ‘Lowry of film-making’ – in pictures

    • Engine No5 Moel Síabod between Clogwyn station and the summit.

      Full steam ahead on the Snowdon Mountain Railway – in pictures

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    The picture essay

    • Appleby Horse Fair

      Appleby: a celebration of Gypsy and Traveller heritage

    • Backstage during dress rehearsals

      Love, laughs and lavish designs: The Merry Widow at Glyndebourne – photo essay

      We visit rehearsals as an extravagant new staging of Lehár’s 1905 operetta comes to Glyndebourne, brought to life by Cal McCrystal and John Wilson with Danielle de Niese in the title role
    • A muscular bare-chested young man seen from behind in this black and white photo almost seems to blend into the pile of tyres he is standing on as he lifts them out

      ‘In Nigeria, a tyre never quite dies’: reinventing the wheel in Lagos

      The photographer Andrew Esiebo travelled around the city capturing how car tyres otherwise destined for the dump are finding second lives as seats, fences and swings
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    From the agencies

    • A bunker at Løkken, western Denmark.

      The Nazis’ Atlantic wall that failed to prevent D-day

    • A man looks through the window of a property which has the slogan and logo of a political party painted on it and a bicycle resting against it

      India’s ‘sinking island’ looks to election for survival – in pictures

      For many on Ghoramara, the general election is about the climate crisis and survival. The island, 150km south of Kolkata, has lost nearly half its area to soil erosion in the past two decades and could disappear if a solution is not found
    • A woman poses with her snakes

      Snake catchers festival in Italy – in pictures

      Each 1 May, the village of Cocullo in the Abruzzo region honours Saint Dominic of Sora with a procession of his statue draped with live snakes
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