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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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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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Dezhou, China
- Robots give a dance performance during a robotics contest in Shandong province
- Photograph: China Stringer Network/Reuters
London, UK
- Flower power: a man drives an elaborately decorated Saab through Oxford Circus
- Photograph: John Walton/PA
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
Volgograd, Russia
- A man sunbathes on the bank of the Volga river
- Photograph: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images
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
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
New York City, US
- A man dressed as the Statue of Liberty watches a partial solar eclipse
- Photograph: Xinhua/Barcroft Images
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
Almazán, Spain
- People release homing pigeons during the solar eclipse
- Photograph: Jorge S/Pacific/Barcroft Images
Daraa, Syria
- Children’s toys hang from a laundry line near a group of tents
- Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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
Cape Town, South Africa
- Baboons monkey around at Cape Point
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/EPAOriginally 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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