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The photographer spots a nice moment of repetitive pattern as a visitor looks at a display in the floral marquee at the Hampton Court Palace flower show Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Maria Sharapova looks like she just wants to go home as she sits in her seat during a break in her women's singles tennis match at Wimbledon. She was beaten by Sabine Lisicki of Germany in straight sets Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters

A Turneresque sky looms, full of monsoon rain, as a boat carries flood relief materials to villages affected by severe flooding in Assam, India Photograph: Anupam Nath/AP

Some lovely fashion on the runway in Paris during the Christian Dior haute couture show Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Imogen Davis poses with Rufus the hawk on day seven of Wimbledon. Rufus was recovered after being stolen from a car. He will not resume his pigeon-scaring duties for the time being Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

The Duchess of Cornwall plants a tree during a visit to the Heartlands community regeneration project in Truro. Prince Charles and the duchess are on a three-day trip to Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Does the woman with the umbrella follow her everywhere, we wonder Photograph: Chris Jackson/Getty Images

This may look like a scene of dereliction but it is actually a carefully constructed garden. This installation at the Hampton Court flower show, designed by Chris Beardshaw, features a wrecked car, rubble and rubbish Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Sudanese refugees listen to a sermon at a makeshift church at the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan, close to the border with Sudan. The camp has swollen to nearly 60,000 as refugees flee from South Kordofan in Sudan, with 300 to 600 new arrivals a day. The rainy season has increased the numbers of sick children suffering from severe malnutrition as the international aid community struggles to provide basic assistance to the growing population Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland hopes he can keep his yellow jersey – worn by the overall leader – as he waits to begin the second stage of the Tour de France, which covers 129 miles (207.5km) between Vise and Tournai Photograph: Laurent Cipriani/AP

Firefighters rescue a slightly startled baby from a stranded bus after it became trapped in floodwater after heavy rain in Hunan, China Photograph: Top Photo Corporation/Rex

A still from a video shows Islamist militants destroying an ancient shrine in Timbuktu, northern Mali. Islamist rebels seized control of the area three months ago, and consider the shrines to Muslim saints to be idolatrous. They have wrecked seven tombs in two days Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Workers mark out an Olympic Lane on the Embankment in London in preparation for the Olympic Games. The lanes can only be used by athletes and Olympic officials and will be off limits to other drivers. Best stick to cycling during the Games then Photograph: Sang Tan/AP

The streamers are out in Rugby and Dunchurch as Katherine Spaughton carries the Olympic flame in the torch relay Photograph: Yui Mok/LOCOG/PA

Gill Mulingani, from Lichfield, shelters from the rain under an umbrella in the queue during day seven of the Wimbledon championships. Andy Murray is due to play but on court one, which does not have a roof, so it looks unlikely we will see him Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Enrique Peña Nieto claimed victory in the Mexican elections 12 years after his Institutional Revolutionary party lost power. Before that, the party had been in power for seven decades Photograph: Alexandre Meneghini/AP

Two sisters return to the remains of their family's home in Mountain Shadows, Colorado Springs, for the first time since they were evacuated. Their home was one of more than 350 burned in the Waldo Canyon fire Photograph: Mahala Gaylord/AP

Russia's prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, gives nothing away behind mirrored glasses as he visits the Pacific port of Vladivostok. Medvedev will visit the largest of the four Kuril Islands, whose ownership is disputed with Japan Photograph: Dmitry Astakhov/AFP/Getty Images

Yohan Blake beats Usain Bolt in the men's 200m final at the Jamaican Olympic trials in Kingston. It's the second time Blake has beaten Bolt in his favoured event, though Bolt's coach has no doubt that he will be fully ready for the Olympics at the end of the month Photograph: Gilbert Bellamy/Reuters

Stranded villagers wave to a helicopter as they wait to be rescued in Tezpur, India. The floods from monsoon rains in north-eastern India killed dozens of people, with more than 2,000 villages inundated as rivers breached their banks Photograph: AP

A girl collects water from a puddle at the flooded Jamam refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile. Refugees have streamed into the Upper Nile region following conflict in northern parts of South Sudan, swelling refugee camps. Added to this, heavy rains and contaminated water pose a grave threat to those already displaced from their homes Photograph: Adriane Ohanesian/Reuters