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Margot Robbie in New York City, wearing head-to-toe Celine, including a brushstroke mini dress, triangle handbag, red-tinted wraparound sunglasses and black leather block heel slingback pumps
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Farmers and buyers gather for the largest sheep sale of the venue’s year at Hawes Auction Market in the Yorkshire Dales. Hundreds of animals, including gimmers, hoggets, and breeding rams, are brought forward by local breeders, attracting buyers from across the region seeking quality breeding stock and sheep ready for market
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP
Ripon Cathedral’s artist-in-residence, Lewis Hazelwood-Horner, will be working on an oil painting within the cathedral. Visitors will have the chance to watch the piece take shape and “look over his shoulder” as he paints. The completed artwork will be raffled on Sunday, September 28
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, Queen Maxima, Princess Catharina-Amalia, Princess Ariane and Princess Alexia wave to onlookers from the balcony of Noordeinde Palace during budget day in the Hague. The new working year for the Senate and House of Representatives opens on the third Tuesday of September
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Papua New Guinea tribal groups perform traditional dances at Sir John Guise Stadium in Port Moresby to celebrate 50 years of independence
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The Marquise Masquée gown by John Galliano, for a Christian Dior couture collection, at a preview of the exhibition Marie Antoinette Style. Showing at the V&A in South Kensington, it will explore the origins and influence of the most fashionable (and ill-fated) queen and early modern celebrity. The show opens on September 20
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This adorable rescue dog is one of 80 that were living in squalid conditions in a house in Tickhill, Doncaster, before being rescued by South Yorkshire police and the RSPCA. Nellie, and three other spaniels, have joined the Greater Manchester police dog unit and are undergoing specialist training to become sniffer dogs
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A visitor experiencing the immersive exhibition Leonardo and Michelangelo at the Ideal Centre of Digital Arts in Barcelona, Spain. The exhibition contrasts the lives and works of the two most influential Renaissance figures
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Competitors take part in the annual vintage tractor ploughing match in Wattlefield, Norfolk
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Visitors follow trails that lead to two suspension bridges, which rise above the forest at El Hayal Ecopark. The tourist destination features caves once frequented by ancestral Muisca communities in Santa Sofia, Boyaca, Colombia
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The underwater remains of the British cargo ship Thistlegorm, which was sunk by a German aircraft in 1941 after being deployed to transport military supplies from England to Egypt during the Second World War. The wreck, situated about 40 km west of Sharm El-Sheikh, is one of the Red Sea’s most popular diving spots
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A drone view shows archaeologists and workers carrying out the final tasks on a mosaic of a 6th-century Christian basilica before it is covered until further work resumes next season in Kosovo. The discovery of the inscription with the mosaic by British-French archaeologist Christophe Goddard and his team reveals Emperor Justinian’s dedication to the construction of the city of Justiniana Secunda in the Roman province of Dardania
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Japan’s Shunsuke Izumiya during the men’s 110m hurdles semi final heat at the World Athletics Championships at Japan Stadium in Tokyo
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Tessa Thompson was among guests at the Harper’s Bazaar’s Icons dinner during New York Fashion Week
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Rebecca Lucy Taylor, also known as the musician Self Esteem, performs at the O2 Academy Birmingham
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Ilario Grant performs as Michael Jackson for MJ the Musical at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne, Australia
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Algeria’s Youssouf Bourouba in action at Men’s World Volleyball Championships with Ukraine’s Illia Kovalov and Maksym Drozd
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A pair of Siberian flying squirrels sleeping inside their nest high up in a tree in Hokkaido in Japan
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