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Russia's prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, and the Chechen president, Ramzan Kadyrov, at Akhmad Arena stadium on a sweaty afternoon in Grozny Photograph: Astakhov Dmitry/ITAR-TASS/Corbis

Body art: a member of Mara Salvatrucha gang in the Ciudad Barrios prison, El Salvador. Inmates participated in a mass to celebrate 100 days after a truce was declared between gangs and the government Photograph: Jose Cabezas/AFP/Getty Images

Fishfaces: giant fish made of recycled plastic bottles and are exhibited at the Botafogo beach, in the shanty town of Dona Marta, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Photograph: Antonio Lacerda/EPA

It's that one who used to be from the block. US actress and singer Jennifer Lopez performs during her concert as part of the "Dance Again" world tour in Santiago, Chile Photograph: Francesco Degasperi/AFP/Getty Images

A young male jaguar nervously peeks at visitors in San Diego zoo, California Photograph: Ken Bohn/AP

A firefighter carries a young child who was rescued from the wreckage of a passenger bus that crashed into a valley in Xiafu, in southern China's Fujian province. Seventeen people were killed and three others severely injured Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Ai Weiwei, second from left, is stopped by a plain-clothes policeman while he argues with another policeman, foreground, outside his home in Beijing. Chinese police barred Ai from attending the first hearing of a lawsuit brought by his company against Beijing tax authorities and blocked reporters from filming at the courthouse Photograph: Andy Wong/AP

A frustrated Ai Weiwei wipes his face as he sits in a chair in the courtyard of his studio in Beijing after his confrontation with the police Photograph: David Gray/REUTERS

So where have they parked their taxis? South Korean taxi drivers participate in a mass rally against the government's oil policy in front of the Seoul City Hall, South Korea today Photograph: Jeon Heon-kyun/EPA

Yes it's now on a train, but have health and safety been alerted? Torchbearer Josephine Loughran carries the Olympic flame on the Scots Guardsman steam locomotive as they make the journey from York to Thirsk Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA

Giant Olympic rings are popping up everywhere. These were unveiled at Heathrow airport, Terminal 5, on Wednesday morning Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA

People queue to receive free vegetables in Athens, on Wednesday Photograph: Petros Karadjias/AP

And here a mother and her children carry away a box of free vegetables in good condition Photograph: Petros Karadjias/AP

Police officers stand outside Ecuador's embassy in London, on Wednesday morning. The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has taken refuge at the embassy and asked for asylum Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters

You wouldn't get this on a tray: people put together a giant jigsaw puzzle of a self-portrait of German painter Albrecht Dürer in front of the state historical museum in Manezh Square outside the Kremlin in Moscow on Wednesday Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi after receiving her honorary degree at Oxford University. She studfied and lived in Oxford before returning to Burma Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters

Weeds grow in a field of uncut grass in front of the skeleton of the main Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival site at Worthy Farm, Pilton, near Glastonbury. Today would have been the day that the gates would have opened for what has become Europe's biggest music festival, but because of the London 2012 Olympics it was decided by the organisers to take this year off, much to the relief of the local cows
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This has got to beat a boat trip on the Thames, in the rain: the Queen and Prince Philip, arrive in the parade ring during Royal Ascot today Photograph: Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images