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The Queen and the Duchess of Cambridge laugh as they watch part of a children's sports event during a visit to Vernon Park in Nottingham as the jubilee tour goes on … and on Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

...and on and on...young children look a bit tired of waiting to see the Queen outside Nottingham Town Hall Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Little Brendon Morris captures Catherine's attention with his Prince Charming style Photograph: Rui Vieira/AP

Refugees are seen trying to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence in Burma. Bangladesh refused entry to other boatloads of Rohingya Muslims, mainly carrying women and children, fleeing the violence despite growing calls for the border to be opened Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images

Today's award for most enthusiastic protester goes to this Kashmiri government employee jumping and shouting slogans as he is detained by police during an anti-government demonstration in Srinagar. The employees are demanding the government compensate them for unpaid salaries and raise the retirement age Photograph: Mukhtar Khan/AP

A man wounded in a bomb attack is treated at a hospital in Kerbala, south of Baghdad. Bombings and shootings targeting Shia Muslim pilgrims and police across Iraq killed at least 53 people in apparently co-ordinated attacks during a major religious festival Photograph: Reuters

More tears from the North Koreans as this time members of the Korean Children's Union (KCU) are listen to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's speech during a ceremony to celebrate the KCU's 66th anniversary at Kim Il-sung Stadium in Pyongyang Photograph: Yonhapnews/EPA

It was a gorgeous morning in St Andrews to take a run along West Sands for Joseph Forrest and children from Madras College, who are carrying the Olympic torch on day 26 of the relay Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Rebekah Brooks and her husband, Charlie, arrive at Westminster magistrates court in London. The former News International chief executive is charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice in connection with the police investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World. Her husband and four other employees are also charged Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Trouble broke out in Warsaw on Tuesday night during the Euro 2012 tournament. Plain clothes police officers arrest a soccer fan during clashes before the Group A match between Poland and Russia Photograph: Reuters

It made for a glittering scene in the city of Leon on Tuesday evening as Spanish coal miners lit the streets in protest. The miners are staging a nationwide strike action organised by unions opposed to subsidy reductions from €300m to €110m Photograph: Cesar Manso/AFP/Getty Images

This young child has been rescued from bonded labour during a raid by workers from Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save the Childhood Movement, at a garment factory in New Delhi. Police rounded up 26 children from three textiles factories and a metal processing plant Photograph: Kevin Frayer/AP

People gather to pay their respects around a beached humpback whale that died during low tide in White Rock, British Columbia. Photograph: Darryl Dyck/AP

The Portuguese know how to dress for the occasion, as they set off to celebrate Saint Antony's day in Lisbon. Photograph: Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images

A man searches for food in a container outside a supermarket in central Bilbao. In a sign of the times more than 11 million people are now thought to live below the poverty line in Spain. Photograph: Vincent West/Reuters