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Looking cool: photogenic secret servicemen guarding Barack Obama as he boards Air Force One in Chicago, Illinois, on his way to Los Cabos, Mexico, to attend the G20 summit Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

Meanwhile, Obama's Republican presidential rival, Mitt Romney, talks with Michael Scheib about his 1961 Rambler during a campaign event at a hamburger joint in Troy, Ohio Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

American pastoral: An Su Reh, a Burmese refugee, holds his one-week-old infant, Hillary Su Meh, inside their apartment in Indianapolis on his first Father's Day in the United States. Su Reh and his wife have been in the US for two years, and named their newborn child after the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton
Photograph: Gary Dwight Miller/ZUMA Press/Corbis

That horse looks a bit on the heavy side. Members of the Royal Cavalry of Oman perform at the Cartier Queen's Cup Polo Day, held at the Guards Polo Club in Egham, Surrey, on Sunday Photograph: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images

The start of another long week: a currency trader stretches during a morning session at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul on Monday. Asian stock markets have climbed after election results in Greece eased fears of global financial turmoil Photograph: Ahn Young-joon/AP

Filipino rescuers in a rubber boat go through floodwaters looking for residents who want to escape flooding after a heavy downpour in Quezon City, east of Manila in the Philippines, on Monday morning Photograph: Rolex Dela Pena/EPA

A confused scene on Monday morning as Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi (centre) looks at the cameras after the announcement of the presidential election results at the electoral headquarters in Cairo Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

Looking very confident, Muslim Brotherhood supporters celebrate in Tahrir Square in Cairo Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters

More enthusiastic support for Morsi in Tahrir Square Photograph: Mohamed Messara/EPA

Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood pray on Egypt's national flag in Tahrir Square as they celebrate Photograph: Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images

PC Simon Harwood and his wife, Helen, arrive at Southwark crown court in central London. The police officer is accused of the manslaughter of the newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests in central London in 2009 Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Julia Tomlinson, the widow of Ian Tomlinson, and her sons Richard King, left, and Paul King, centre, arrive at Southwark crown court Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Don't forget the Olympic torch relay: it's day 31 and David State stops midway through his relay leg between Marske-by-the-Sea and Loftus to propose to his girlfriend, Christine Langham, before continuing the relay. Ah! Photograph: Chris Radburn/LOCOG/PA

He hardly has enough water for the job, but this Indian mahout is bathing his elephant on a hot summer day in Allahabad, India Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

Elsewhere in the animal kingdom, 5,000 ducks block traffic as a Chinese farmer drives them to a pond to feed in Zhejiang province, China Photograph: Imaginechina / Rex Features/Imaginechina / Rex Features

From Yinka Shonibare, the artist who gave us the Trafalgar Square ship in a bottle, comes this African-influenced ballerina in a glass jar, which is to be displayed outside the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden Photograph: Sarah Lee/for the Guardian