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Dancing noses and performing robots: today's unmissable photos


A selection of the day’s best images, including baboons in South Africa, pilgrims in Mecca and sleeping under the stars near London’s Big Ben
Iain MacDougall
Tuesday 22 August 2017 13.08 BST Last modified on Tuesday 22 August 2017 16.53 BST
  • Space


  • Moon shadow: As millions of people across the United States experienced a total eclipse as the umbra, or moons shadow passed over them, only six people witnessed the umbra from space. (NASAs astronauts Randy Bresnik, Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson, and ESAs Paolo Nespoli, and Roscosmos Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Sergey Ryazanskiy)
  • Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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  • A view of the eclipse from orbit

  • Tokyo, Japan


  • Women dressed in yukata, casual summer kimonos, walk through torii gates at the Nezu shrine
  • Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
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  • Women dressed in yukata, casual summer kimonos, walk through torii gates at the Nezu shrine, Tokyo, Japan

  • Dezhou, China


  • Robots give a dance performance during a robotics contest in Shandong province
  • Photograph: China Stringer Network/Reuters
  • Robots perform during a robotics contest in Dezhou, Shandong province, China

  • London, UK


  • Flower power: a man drives an elaborately decorated Saab through Oxford Circus
  • Photograph: John Walton/PA
  • A man drives an elaborately decorated Saab through Oxford Circus, London, UK



  • Zhangjiajie, China


  • China’s first monks’ chorus, from the Tiantai Temple conservatory of Buddhist music, performs at the 2017 Huanglong music festival and international chorus week
  • Photograph: VCG/Getty Images
  • China’s first monks’ chorus, from the Tiantai Temple conservatory of Buddhist music, performs at the 2017 Huanglong Music Festival and International Chorus Week, Zhangjiajie, China

  • Volgograd, Russia


  • A man sunbathes on the bank of the Volga river
  • Photograph: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images
  • A man sunbathes on the bank of the Volga river, Volgograd, Russia

  • Amritsar, India


  • A member of the Nihang, the Sikh warrior order, holds a flaming cube on his tongue during a procession marking the 413th anniversary of the installation of the Guru Granth Sahib at the Golden Temple
  • Photograph: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images
  • A member of the Nihang, the Sikh warrior order, holds a flaming cube on his tongue during a procession marking the 413th anniversary of the installation of the Guru Granth Sahib at the Golden Temple, Amritsar, India

  • Santa Monica, California, US


  • Fitness instructor Darren Gumbs works out on the beach wearing a bodysuit showing the human muscular system
  • Photograph: Jae C. Hong/AP
  • Fitness instructor Darren Gumbs works out on the beach wearing a bodysuit showing the human muscular system, Santa Monica, California, US



  • New York City, US


  • A man dressed as the Statue of Liberty watches a partial solar eclipse
  • Photograph: Xinhua/Barcroft Images
  • A man dressed as the Statue of Liberty watches a partial solar eclipse, New York City, US

  • Mecca, Saudi Arabia


  • Muslim pilgrims gather to circumambulate around the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, located in the centre of the Masjid al-Haram
  • Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
  • Muslim pilgrims gather to circumambulate around the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, located in the centre of the Masjid al-Haram mosque, Mecca, Saudi Arabia

  • Almazán, Spain


  • People release homing pigeons during the solar eclipse
  • Photograph: Jorge S/Pacific/Barcroft Images
  • People release homing pigeons during the solar eclipse, Almazán, Spain

  • Daraa, Syria


  • Children’s toys hang from a laundry line near a group of tents
  • Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
  • Children’s toys hang from a laundry line near a group of tents, Daraa, Syria

  • London, UK


  • Londoners snuggle up to enjoy the city’s first silent night, after Big Ben’s bongs sounded for the last time in four years
  • Photograph: Imagewise Ltd/Rex/Shutterstock
  • Londoners snuggle up to enjoy the city’s first silent night, after Big Ben’s bongs sounded for the last time in four years

  • Cape Town, South Africa


  • Baboons monkey around at Cape Point
  • Photograph: Dan Callister/Rex/Shutterstoc
  • Baboons monkey around at Cape Point, Cape Town, South Africa

  • Sydney, Australia


  • Opera Australia cast members dance in costume outside the Sydney Opera House, during a preview of their production of Shostakovich’s The Nose
  • Photograph: David Moir/EPA



    Originally published on ...https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2017/aug/22/some-nosey-opera-singers-and-dancing-robots-todays-unmissable-photos

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