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Many artists have been called upon to paint the Queen, but for Face Britain, a selection of children's drawings have been projected on to Buckingham Palace Photograph: Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images

US actor Robert Downey Jr checks over his shoulder to see if other cast members of the film Marvel Avengers Assemble have turned up for its European premiere in London Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA

Scarlett Johansson also appears to be looking for a familiar face on the London red carpet Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA

Bagpiper Kevin M Donnelly performs during the 17th annual Remembrance Ceremony for the victims of Timothy McVeigh's bomb attack in Oklahoma City Photograph: Sue Ogrocki/AP

A supporter of Jean-Luc Melenchon – the French Front de Gauche party's candidate for the French presidential election – holds a flag before the start of a campaign meeting in Paris Photograph: Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images

Campaign posters for the Green party are found appropriately enough in a wood near Belfort, east France Photograph: Sebastien Bozon/AFP/Getty Images

Little Harris O'Riordan struggles with an umbrella almost bigger than he is during a homecoming parade for soldiers in Forfar, Scotland Photograph: David Moir/Reuters

It may have been almost unimagineable even a year ago, but here people are enjoying a 3D movie at the newly opened Minglar cinema in Rangoon, Burma Photograph: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters

Members of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery prepare for an inspection in Hyde Park Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

There's a theme running through some of today's images of politicians revealing their character. Here Hillary Clinton grapples with Spain's minister of foreign affairs, Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, at the meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Brussels Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of our favourite female Russian punk band, Pussy Riot, appears in court in Moscow. The band members were detained two months ago, after they climbed on the altar of Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral and sang a song they called a 'punk prayer' Photograph: Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images

Maria Alyokhina, another Pussy Riot band member, arrives at court amid a media circus. The women have certainly seized the limelight, though it's not all about the music Photograph: Ivan Sekretarev/AP

Photographer Lewis Whyld captured this unlikely scene on a visit to Wellington barracks as the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery prepare for the Queen's diamond jubilee celebrations Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA

The home secretary, Theresa May, leaves parliament after making a statement defending the Home Office's handling of the Abu Qatada deportation affair. One may wonder what left the sour taste ...? Photograph: Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images

The foreign secretary, William Hague, is clearly enjoying the company at the start of a Nato foreign ministers meeting at the alliance headquarters in Brussels Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA

Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik makes a more subdued entry to the court in Oslo after his lawyers asked him to drop his controversial fist salute Photograph: Daniel Sannum Lauten/AFP/Getty Images

A moving moment of reflection: the tram system comes to a halt in Jerusalem as a siren sounds for two minutes to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day Photograph: Jim Hollander/EPA

Security personnel in Kirkuk inspect the site of a car bomb attack. A series of explosions have hit northern Iraqi cities this morning killing at least 36 people and wounding more than 100 Photograph: Reuters

Women celebrate the opening of 10 new classrooms at the three primary schools in the Abu Shouk camp for internal displaced people in north Darfur Photograph: Albert Gonzalez Farran/AFP/Getty Images

It's a tight squeeze as Harry from One Direction meets Kat the koala at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane Photograph: Nathan Richter/Rex Features