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The wonders of the scientific world are shown in this picture of a walking rat, provided by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. The rat had suffered spinal cord injuries and severe paralysis, but is now able to walk thanks to researchers lead by Professor Gregoire Courtine Photograph: Reuters

Giorgio Armani takes his fashion to Beijing with an exacting colour co-ordination between catwalk clothes and stage set Photograph: Jason Lee/Reuters

Madonna performs in the guise of a cheerleader at the Ramat Gan stadium in Tel Aviv, Israel Photograph: Venturelli/Getty Images

This little person is exploring the latest attraction, the Sense of Memory garden, at the Eden Project in St Austell, Cornwall, England. The garden – featuring water pools lined with Bodmin Moor granite and filled with some of Cornwall's most popular plants – was first seen at last year's Chelsea Flower Show, but has been given a permanent home here Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

The residents of this street in Goirle in the Netherlands are certainly entering into the spirit with flags, football symbols and the Dutch national colours before the European championships start in Poland and Ukraine on 8 June Photograph: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP

These malnourished children are being measured by aid workers to qualify for care at a nutrition centre in Yida, South Sudan. Refugees are coming to Yida from the Nuba mountains in South Kordofan in desperation to avoid fighting between the SPLA and Sudanese army, as well as starvation Photograph: Giulio Petrocco/AFP/Getty Images

This year's Serpentine gallery pavilion has been unveiled to the press in Hyde Park. The pavilion, designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei, is the 12th in the gallery's annual architectural commission – and a passerby in contrasting outfit conveniently sets the scene Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

A model prepares for the Royal College of Art's graduate fashion show in London where 28 postgraduate students are presenting their final collections to press and trade. Renowned alumni of the fashion school include Philip Treacy, Julien Macdonald, Christopher Bailey and Ossie Clark Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Wherever next? The Olympic flame has made it to the top of the Jodrell Bank observatory in the grip of comedian John Bishop during day 13 of the London 2012 Olympic torch relay Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Children escaping the heat play in a fountain at the India Gate monument in New Delhi. A heatwave is continuing across the northern Indian capital and temperatures are expected to remain above 40C all week Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images

It takes a moment to spot Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she is surrounded by Thai reporters posing for photographs at Government House in Bangkok. The Nobel peace prize winner has ventured outside Burma for the first time in 24 years Photograph: Sukree Sukplang/Reuters

He can run but he can't hide ... the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, leaves his central London home this morning for the Leveson inquiry with photographers in hot pursuit. When asked at the inquiry if he had once tried to avoid the media by hiding behind a tree, he admitted that he had moved to a different part of the quadrangle – and there may or may not have been trees Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images

An activist from the feminist group Femen, who held a protest near the Euro 2012 mascot image in Kiev, Ukraine, finds herself under lock and key in a police van. Activists are protesting against the expected rise in prostitution for the upcoming Uefa Euro 2012 football championship, hosted jointly by Ukraine and Poland Photograph: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA

Hmmm, we're not sure that the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, is about to do the dishes as she jokes with Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, after a penguin-feeding session at the Oceaneum during the Council of the Baltic Sea States leaders' summit in Stralsund, Germany. Rumour has it that one nervous penguin was quite keen to get back in the water Photograph: Fabian Bimmer/Reuters

Teenage fans of Justin Bieber are overcome with emotion before a performance at the Opera House in Oslo, Norway. It's like Beatlemania all over again – or should that be Biebermania Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

The yellow shirts are back in action outside parliament in Bangkok. Thailand's yellow shirts, who forced Bangkok's airports to close during protests in 2008, are rallying against a planned national reconciliation bill which is seen by some as a way of letting the former premier Thaksin Shinawatra return home from exile Photograph: Sukree Sukplang/Reuters