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Roger Tooth

Picture desk live: the day's best news images

Picture desk live: Indigenous protesters at Rio +20 Earth Summit
Indigenous protesters march through the decades-old Vila Autodromo squatter settlement before demonstrating outside the Rio+20 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images
Picture desk live: A Young Victim Of Chicago's Gun Violence
A mourner kisses Joseph Briggs during his funeral service at New Zion Grove Missionary Baptist church in Chicago. Briggs, who was 16 in April, was shot in the head during a drive-by shooting while he was sitting on his front porch with his sister this month Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images
Picture desk live: A car sits in a giant sinkhole
An underground parking lot? A car sits in a giant sinkhole in Duluth, Minnesota. Residents evacuated their homes and animals escaped from pens at a zoo as floods fed by a steady torrential downpour struck north-eastern Minnesota Photograph: Brian Peterson/AP
Picture desk live: Revellers Celebrate Summer Solstice At Stonehenge
As another wet day dawns over Stonehenge, solstice revellers celebrate the arrival of the longest day at the megalithic monument near Salisbury, England. Sunglasses were optional Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images
Picture desk live: Sand-Washing Operation Of Yellow River
A bigger splash: people watch as water gushes out of the Xiaolangdi reservoir on the Yellow river in Luoyang, China. The sand-washing operation, which started on 19 June and will last for about 20 days, is clearing out the silt deposits at the dam Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images
Picture desk live: A man playing an accordion
Yes, I'm unfortunately with him! A man playing an accordion beneath a costume of torn fabrics and a child leave Stonehenge during the summer solstice, which dawned at 4.52am Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP
Picture desk live: People look at the dawn, Macedonia
A drier, luckier group of people look at the horizon on a rocky crest covered with astronomical markers at the megalithic observatory Kokino in Macedonia soon after sunrise Photograph: Robert Atanasovski/AFP/Getty Images
Picture desk live: Swiss-made solar-powered aircraft
A swiss-made solar-powered aircraft, the Solar Impulse, piloted by Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland, takes off from Rabat for a voyage across the Moroccan desert to Ouarzazate Photograph: Abdelhak Senna/AFP/Getty Images
Picture desk live: Liam Holden outside court
Liam Holden with family members outside the court of appeal in Belfast after he had his conviction for murder quashed Photograph: Paul Faith/PA
Picture desk live: A couple sunbathe in front of Costa Concordia
Yes, it's still there. A couple sunbathe in front of the wreckage of the capsized Costa Concordia near the harbour of Giglio Porto, Italy. Salvage crews began preliminary work this week on preparations to refloat the half-submerged cruise liner in the biggest ever operation of its kind Photograph: Max Rossi/Reuters
Picture desk live: Aung San Suu Kyi and David Cameron
David Cameron and Aung San Suu Kyi leave Downing Street en route to the Houses of Parliament. Aung San Suu Kyi addressed both houses – a rare honour bestowed on only four foreign dignitaries since the second world war Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images
Picture desk live: Indian employees are evacuated
Drama in Mumbai as the burning Maharashtra state government building is evacuated. Hundreds of employees fled the seven-storey building as more than two dozen fire engines battled the fire Photograph: AP
Picture desk live: Hindu devotees pull Rath
Meanwhile, Hindu devotees pull the chariot of Lord Jagannath during the 135th annual Rath Yatra, or chariot procession, in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. The procession commemorates a journey by the Hindu god Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra, in specially made chariots Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters
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