Spring flowers and spring sunshine at the Harrison Tulip Festival, in Agassiz, British Columbia, Canada
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Dancers in Mexican-themed costumes in Times Square, New York, hosting the Tlayacapan Brigido Santamaria band, one of Mexico’s oldest bands
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A young leopard hides in the tall grass of Botswana’s Okavango Delta during one of its first forays to hunt impala.
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Mine Verges, responsible for creating the costumes for the dancers of the Moulin Rouge musical cabaret in Paris, with the Australian dancer Madison
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An Icelandic foal, a few minutes old, next to his mother at a stud farm in Wehrheim, near Frankfurt, Germany. The farm’s first foal of the season was born just after a night of storms and heavy rain.
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The Arken Museum of Contemporary Art in Ishoj, Denmark, is hosting an exhibition of works by British-Indian conceptual artist Sir Anish Kapoor – the largest ever in Scandinavia.
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Lisa Parigi, Charlotte Tilbury and Kate Moss with Lionel Richie, Robert Kraft and Dana Kraft at The King’s Trust Gala at Cipriani South Street in New York
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Crias – young alpacas – with their mothers at Petlake Alpacas, Bartley, Hampshire, at the start of the alpaca birthing season. Farm owners Sue and Brian Sears say the alpacas will wait for good weather before giving birth.
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Italy’s Alice D’Amato performs a jump on the uneven bars during the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rimini, Italy.
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A ghostly white peacock on full display at Blackpool Zoo, Lancashire. White peacocks are a color mutation of the Indian blue peacock, but are not albino and have blue eyes – their unusual lack of color is the result of missing pigment.
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Each of the 9,000 individual dove sculptures at Wells Cathedral, Somerset, has been adorned with a message of peace by members of the public. The installation will run in Wells until June 8, after which it will move to Durham and Lincoln Cathedrals.
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Beth Strange, aged 7, from Mossneuk Primary School, with two crocheted sheep for the National Museum of Rural Life’s Wooly Weekend in East Kilbride. The event will take place on May 18 and 19 and will feature demonstrations of sheep shearing, spinning, weaving and dyeing.
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Tourists take the opportunity to pose in front of a convenience store with Mount Fuji in the background, in Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, before a huge black barrier is installed to block the view of the mountain. The city is exasperated by the crowds of ill-mannered visitors
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Gentoo penguins in a photo by amateur photographer David White, who has just spent a week in the Falkland Islands. “Gentoos are always busy having fun and will come very close to you – excellent characters,” he says.
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Landscape artist Joe Grieve, right, displays his paintings at Colstoun House near Haddington, East Lothian
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The sun sets behind Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh
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