June: A boy gets buried in pebbles on Brighton beachPhotograph: Andy Rain/EPA12 June 2009: A photograph taken from the international space station and released by Nasa shows the Sarychev volcano in an early stage of eruption on 12 June. It last erupted in 1989Photograph: AFP/Getty Images21 June 2009, Nasir, Sudan: A man has his head shaved in the village. Hundreds of people have been killed in the area in violence caused by farming disputesPhotograph: Finbarr O'reilly/Reuters
16 June 2009, Wrexham, UK: Tourists cross the 204-year-old Pontcysyllte aqueduct. The structure, which is 38m (126ft) high at its centre, is the world's highest navigable aqueductPhotograph: David Levene15 June 2009, Tehran, Iran: Hundreds of thousands of supporters of opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who claims that Friday’s election was tainted by fraud, gather to protest against the result Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP11 June 2009, Peshwar, Pakistan: A man with a metal detector searches through debris at the Pearl Continental hotel in Peshawar, north-west Pakistan, where suicide bombers killed at least 11 peoplePhotograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters10 June 2009, London, UK: Former members of the International Brigade receive their Spanish citizenship and passports in a ceremony at the Spanish embassy in London yesterday. A recent change in Spanish law has allowed volunteer fighters who fought in the 1936-39 Spanish civil war to be granted citizenshipPhotograph: Graeme Robertson4 June 2009, Ireland: Gardai Damian Mulkearns stands beside the ballot box on Inishfree isle, Co Donegal, yesterday as a resident votes. The island has a peak season population of 30 Photograph: Cathal McNaughton/Reuters2 June 2009, Tokyo, Japan: A plant factory in Tokyo, where lighting, temperature, humidity and watering are controlled to guarantee the stable production of vegetables throughout the year Photograph: Junko Kimura/Getty ImagesMafinga, Tanzania: Eight-year-old Faraja and 10-year-old Pishon Mhewa with their baby brother Jerminus at their home. Their parents, who are black-skinned but carriers of the recessive albinism gene, have a one in four chance of producing children with the condition. Such children face prejudice in wider society and must stay out of the sun as they are at high risk of skin cancer. This picture was taken by Jackie Dewe Mathews , winner of the 2008 Guardian Royal Photographic Society Joan Wakelin bursaryPhotograph: Jackie Dewe Mathews
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