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Performers wearing costumes made from kelp, rubber and second-hand textiles took part in rehearsals for the Material World design festival at Kew Gardens in southwest London. The event, which begins on September 20, will demonstrate how plants and fungi can tackle fast fashion
OLIVER DIXON
The Ethiopian Orthodox New Year was celebrated on Thursday with songs and prayers in Addis Ababa. Known as Enkutatash in Amharic, the day marked the end of the rainy season and the start of 2018 in the Ethiopian calendar, which runs a few years behind its Georgian counterpart
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Ebony Rainford-Brent lost her bat while taking part in the annual Brambles cricket match, which is contested by the Royal Southern Yacht Club and the Island Sailing Club on the Bramble Bank sandbank in the middle of the Solent at low tide
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A Fischer’s chameleon catches a grasshopper in West Java, Indonesia
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The Royal Opera’s production of Tosca by Puccini began at the Royal Opera House in central London on Thursday evening. The performances run until October 7
ELLIOTT FRANKS
The cows came home from their summer pastures in the Bavarian mountains on Thursday to the village green at Bad Hinelang, southern Germany. After the traditional Almabtrieb procession, the cows were separated from each other at the Viehscheid festival, where they were returned to their owners
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Spanish firefighters took part in an extraction competition at the World Rescue Challenge in Karlovac, Croatia
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The TV presenter Davina McCall took part in a charity day for the financial services company BGC Group, which raised money for Action Medical Research in memory of the employees who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks
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Heavy rain caused flooding in Karachi
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An orangutan shields itself after disturbing a wasps’ next while searching for forest fruits in the Danum Valley, Borneo
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Geraldine James stars with Charles Dance in Howard Brenton’s sold-out adaptation of the August Strindberg play Creditors at the Orange Tree Theatre, in Richmond, southwest London
ELLIE KURTTZ
A visitor tries her hand at controlling an interactive replica of the shark from the 1975 film Jaws. An exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of the film opens at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on Sunday
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The actress Margot Robbie promoting the film A Big Bold Beautiful Journey in central London. Robbie stars alongside Colin Farrell, Kevin Kline and Phoebe Waller-Bridge in the romantic fantasy
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A baby coatimundi was one of a group of mothers and their children migrating through the Tonto Natural Bridge State Park in Arizona. “It was cuteness overload,” said the photographer Mark Koster
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