Homecoming: a Palestinian family ride on top of a horse cart as they head home with their belongings in the Shejaiya neighbourhood in Gaza, one of the areas hardest hit by the recent fighting, after a ceasefire was agreed today. Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty ImagesSunblushed: crowds of people throw tomatoes at each other, during the annual ‘tomatina’ tomato fight fiesta, in the village of Buñol, near Valencia in Spain. Photograph: Alberto Saiz/APPecking order: two common kingfishers fight over a prime fishing spot near the Dal Lake in Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir. Photograph: Shams Ul haq Qari/Barcroft India
Airbus employees throw flower petals to welcome Nick Clegg to their facility in Bangalore, India. Photograph: Aijaz Rahi/APIt’s back to school time for these children as they sit in a cycle rickshaw waiting for the rickshaw-puller in Delhi, India. Photograph: Anindito Mukherjee/reutersTwilight in Queens: the sun sets as Roger Federer of Switzerland plays against Marinko Matosevic in the US Open, in New York. Photograph: Streeter Lecka/Getty ImagesWet day at the beach: spectators watch the beach volleyball in the rain during the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympics in China. Photograph: Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty ImagesA shadow is cast against the bullring wall as a Castillejo de Huebra bull looks on during the first bull run of the San Sebastián de los Reyes festival, near Madrid. Photograph: Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty ImagesDez Johnston, 31, theology student and security guard, from Lenzie. Scotland has the highest percentage of people with ginger (or red) hair in the world, with Edinburgh - where 40% of people carry the gene - the global capital. See Kieran Dodds’ pictures here. Photograph: Kieran Dodds/PanosTwin Tango: Nicolas and German Filipeli, identical twins from Argentina, dance during the final round of the Tango World Championship in in Buenos Aires. Photograph: Marcos Brindicci/ReutersBingham Cup gay rugby training ahead of the start of competition in New South Wales, Australia. Photograph: MediaServices/AP/Demotix/CorbisA surfer cuts through a wave at Venice Beach, as California awaits the effects of Hurricane Marie. Photograph: Ed Crisostomo/APHow did he do that? Magician Dynamo appears to levitate over the Shard skyscraper in London. Rising into the air from the viewing platform at the top of building, stunned residents and tourists looked up in amazement as he continued to ascend between the shard towers. Photograph: Barcroft MediaIsraeli soldiers rest in an army staging area next to the Israeli Gaza border, after an open-ended cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip was announced. Photograph: Oded Balilty/APEmma Stone attends premiere of her new film The Birdman at the Opening Ceremony of the 71st Venice International Film Festival. Photograph: James Higgins/Corbis
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