Ten best photographs of the day

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A mourner carries a pink rose as she arrives for the funeral service of murdered schoolgirl April Jones at St Peter's church, Machynlleth in Wales. Photographing a funeral can be very intrusive so focusing on this gesture is poignantly effective. Photograph: Nigel Roddis/Getty Images

Funerals are taking place too for the victims of the Westgate shopping centre siege in Nairobi. You can feel the silence in this picture as the mourners pay their respects. Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images

I find this photograph so intriguing because it asks more questions than it answers. It has been sent in with a simple caption saying 'children asleep on the platform of the Shwedagon Pagoda' in Rangoon, Burma. But who are they, who takes care of them, what events in their young lives have led them to find shelter in the temple? Photograph: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA

Often a scene is eye-catching purely for its bizarre nature. An 18-metre-high rubber duck sits in the Kunming Lake in the Summer Palace in Beijing, China. Whoever would have thought? The giant duck is the work of Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman will be in at Summer Palace until late October. Photograph: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images

This picture needs no explanation for being in today's top ten other than it's purely delightful. Relatives of pilgrims wave in the rain as they say farewell to family members who are leaving Ahmedabad in India for Mecca for the annual Haj pilgrimage. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters

At first glance they look like dancers in the sky but actually they're window cleaners replacing banners on Jugoslovensko Dramsko theatre in Belgrade, Serbia. Photograph: Marko Djurica/Reuters

Employees of the French chemical firm Kem One light flares in the streets of Lyon, giving their demonstration a visual drama. The 1,300 employees of Kem One, which was placed into receivership in March, were due to be informed about potential buyers and their restructuring projects but the court has delayed its final decision until December. Photograph: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images

It's fortunate that our photographer Graham Turner has a head for heights. Today he's been perched with the pigeons taking this wonderful view of the newly opened King's Cross Square, which marks the final stage in the £550m redevelopment of the station. Photograph: Graham Turner

Greenpeace activist Dmitry Litvinov, a US and Swiss citizen, sits in a cage in a court room in Murmansk, Russia. In a story the Guardian has been following for a few days now, he has been jailed after Russian coastguards disrupted an attempt by Greenpeace activists to scale a Russian Arctic oil platform. The activists are being investigated for piracy. Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP

The macro world never fails to amaze: this ladybird captured holding on to a dandelion stalk like a broomstick was taken by a young photographer, Jagoda Cholacinska, near her home in Poland. Photograph: Caters News Agency