The aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, were seen on the horizon on Friday night over St Mary’s Lighthouse in Whitley Bay in Tyne and Wear
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Gardeners at Levens Hall, near Kendal in Cumbria, prepare for World Topiary Day on Sunday. The stately home, which has the the oldest topiary garden in the world, has hosted the event since 2021
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Taylor Swift performs at the La Défense arena in Paris on Thursday as her Eras tour comes to Europe. She will wrap up the European leg of her tour in London in August
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A pro-Palestinian protester and her dog on Thursday at a demonstration outside the New School in Manhattan. Faculty members set up an encampment inside the school on Wednesday demanding an end to the New York Police Department presence on campus and calling for disciplinary charges against students to be expunged
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Ripley – The Household Cavalry Exhibition can be viewed at Floors Castle in the Scottish Borders until June 25. The photographer and artist Ripley, who creates artworks using high-resolution medium-format photography, with extensive work in post-production, has created 12 large-scale portraits of the cavalry and a boxed set was given to the King for his coronation
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Robert Sheehan as Withnail and Adonis Siddique as Marwood in Withnail and I, which runs at the Birmingham Rep until May 25. The adaptation of Bruce Robinson’s 1987 film is directed by Sean Foley, a double Olivier award-winner
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Three zebras make six at a watering hole in Amboseli national park in Kenya
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Finn Barlow, a blacksmith, and his trusty assistant put the finishing touches to a sculpture to celebrate the 19-century Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan, who is credited with inventing the pedal bicycle. The work will be placed on the West Pier in Stranraer to show the starting point of the Kirkpatrick C2C, a 250-mile coast-to-coast cycling route across the south of Scotland
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A pelican rescue team member watches over a flock of sick birds at Newport Beach pier. Scores of sick and starving pelicans have been found along the Californian coast in recent weeks, but the cause of their illness is not yet understood
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Arnaud Kasper, a French visual artist, lets his sculpture do the talking in his open-air gallery in Épiais-Rhus, northern France
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On Friday demolition workers tore down Cliff Farm in Trimingham, Norfolk, after a recent landslip put it too close to the cliff edge
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A swan shows its less graceful side in Kinghorn Loch, Fife
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A new lease of life for dogs in Turkey that were injured in the devastating earthquakes in February last year: modelling equipment for disabled animals
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The Arc de Triomphe frames the sunset in Paris
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The Glaswegian artist Rae-Yen Song’s colourful sculptural costume scares an admirer before it takes its starring role in the Royal Scottish Academy exhibition on the Mound in Edinburgh from Saturday until June 16
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It does not have a name yet, but a critically endangered African white-backed vulture chick has made history at Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire by being its first successful hand-reared hatchling
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Jacob Trouba of the New York Rangers jumps over Martin Necas of the Carolina Hurricanes in the Stanley Cup Playoffs at Madison Square Garden in New York on Tuesday. The Rangers won 3-2
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The pack rides through Tuscany in the sixth stage of the Giro d’Italia cycling race on Thursday. The event, which started in Turin last Saturday, will finish in Rome on May 26
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Four Asian short-clawed otter pups have been born to parents Badger and Isa at the Sea Life Centre in Weymouth, Dorset. Badger had been a bachelor for ten years before he found his mate
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All is calm, all is bright … in the harbour at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
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