Pictures of the Day / 21 September 2017 / The earthquake

Pictures of the Day: 23 June 2017

Aerial view of collapsed buildings after the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that jolted central Mexico damaging buildings, knocking out power and causing alarm throughout Mexico City, Mexico.

The earthquake comes 32 years after a magnitude-8.0 earthquake hit on September 19, 1985.

HECTOR VIVAS/GETTY IMAGES

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Pictures of the Day / 23 June 2017 / Hurricane Maria

Pictures of the Day: 23 June 2017

Rescue workers help people after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria in Guayama, Puerto Rico

CARLOS GARCIA RAWLINS/REUTERS

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Pictures of the Day / 23 June 2017 / Woman

Pictures of the Day: 23 June 2017

Artisans carry a fibreglass model of a woman which, according to the artisans, will be used to decorate a pandal, a temporary platform, for the upcoming Hindu festival of Durga Puja in Kolkata, India

RUPAK DE CHOWDHURI/REUTERS

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Pictures of the Day / 23 June 2017 / Lights

Pictures of the Day: 23 June 2017

The Northern Lights and the Milky Way over Loch Killimster, Caithness, Scotland. These rare photographs show the Northern Lights and the Milky Way in one awe-inspiring frame. In one star-filled image, you can see the billions of stars that make up the galaxy, along side the purple and green hues known around the world as the Aurora. Photographer Maciej Winiarczyk, 44, watched the fascinating display from his window.

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Pictures of the Day / 23 June 2017 / More than 100 ducks

Pictures of the Day: 23 June 2017

More than 100 ducks encircle a farmer's boat waiting to be fed, creating a beautiful spiral pattern. The Khaki Campbell is a species of domesticated duck and is seen here crowding the farmer's boat as he prepares to feed them. The pictures were taken in the Dhunat Upazila region of Bangladesh, in a small river known as the Karatoa which flows across northern parts of the country.

ABDUL MOMIN/SOLENT NEWS & PHOTO AGENCY

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Pictures of the Day / 23 June 2017 / A bee

Pictures of the Day: 23 June 2017

A bee sits on a blossom on a sunny and warm summer day in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

MARTIN MEISSNER/AP

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Pictures of the Day / 20 August 2017 / Barcelona

Pictures of the Day: 23 June 2017

People gather at a memorial at the beginning of Las Ramblas in Barcelona, where 14 people were killed by terrorists in a hired van

MANU FERNANDEZ/AP

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Picture of the Day / 23 June 2017 / Sansa

Pictures of the Day: 23 June 2017

Adorable rescue kitten Sansa has become an internet sensation after her foster mum posted a video online of her taking a bath. Amber Nadinic is caring for 3-week-old Sansa and her three siblings after they were abandoned by their mother. However, Sansa didn't respond well to the transition to solid food and the resulting "poop explosion" meant that she was in urgent need of a clean up. Amber decided to film the clean-up as she bathed then dried Sansa with a hair dryer and gentle strokes of a toothbrush mirroring a mother cat's lick.

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Pictures of the Day / 23 June 2017 / A pair of wrens

Pictures of the Day: 23 June 2017

A pair of wrens have made a nest in a hanging basket. The ball shaped nest made of moss is home to five fledglings. These fledglings have a voracious appitite for flies and beetles. The wren is one of Britains smallest birds.

ARNOLD SLATER PHOTOGRAPHY LTD

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Pictures of the Day / 23 June 2017 / The rare moment

Pictures of the Day: 23 June 2017

A photographer captures the rare moment a group of wasps blow water bubbles. Lim Choo How, 49, from Kedah, Malaysia, was walking around a factory compound one day in June when he noticed the wasp flying round a nest, absorbing water and blowing water away to keep their nest dry. Lim, who has practised photography as a hobby for 12 years, rushed back to his office to pick up his camera. He said: This behaviour is rare in macro photography.

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Pictures of the Day / 23 June 2017 / The Sistine Chapel

Pictures of the Day: 23 June 2017

A man looks at "Up Close: Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel", an exhibit of museum quality, near-life size reproductions of the master's frescos that adorn the Sistine Chapel in Rome, on display during a press preview at The Oculus at Westfield World Trade Center in New York. The exhibit debuts in New York running June 23-July 23, 2017.

TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

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Pictures of the Day / 23 June 2017 / A woman

Pictures of the Day: 23 June 2017
A woman climbs a ladder to reach a bottle from a collection of gin in the "gin tower" of Atlas bar in Singapore.

REUTERS/EDGAR SU

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Pictures of the Day: 18 June 2017 / Agatha Ruiz de la Prada

Pictures of the Day: 18 June 2017

A model displays a summer swimwear collection's creation by Spanish designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada during a fashion show held as part of Gran Canaria Swimwear Fashion Week in Maspalomas, Canary Islands.

ELVIRA URQUIJO A./EPA

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Pictures of the Day / 18 June 2017/ A cage with pigeons

Pictures of the Day: 18 June 2017

A displaced Iraqi boy carries a cage with pigeons as people arrive to a temporary camp at the compound of the closed Nineveh International Hotel in Mosul.

MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

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Pictures of the Day / 18 June 2017 / My bike is one life

Pictures of the Day: 18 June 2017

Cyclists lay on the ground during a gathering called by the "mon velo est une vie" committee (my bike is one life) to prevent bike accidents in Paris.

FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

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Pictures of the Day / 18 June 2017 / In Caracas

Pictures of the Day: 18 June 2017

An anti-government demonstrator participates in a multi-denomitational march, in Caracas, Venezuela.

ARIANA CUBILLOS/AP

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