British Lions player Manu Tuilagi puts two fingers behind the head of British prime minister David Cameron as the squad pose for a team picture at 10 Downing Street. Cameron later told Tuilagi that there was no need to apologise for the bunny ears prankPhotograph: Sang Tan/APA Bangladeshi homeless woman sleeps at a bus stand in Dhaka. The latest Millennium Development Goals Progress Report indicates that fewer than a third of people in Bangladesh now live below the national poverty line. Research has shown that women have been the centerpiece of this impressive human development turnaroundPhotograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFPOu Mei, a 45-year-old female migrant construction worker, shields her face from dust during a shift at a residential construction site in Shanghai. According to data from the World Bank, 68% of China's female population aged 15 and above participate in the labour force, compared with 58% in the United States, 51% in France and 53% in GermanyPhotograph: Aly Song/Reuters
Models present creations by Burberry Prorsum at Kensington Gardens during the 2014 spring/summer London fashion week Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFPIn the front row at Kensington Gardens were Hayley Atwell, Gabriella Wilde, Simon Neil, Alison Mosshart, Paloma Faith, Sienna Miller, Harry Styles, Suki Waterhouse and George BarnettPhotograph: Gareth Cattermole/GettyThe fashion world then moved to Italy where Dsquared2 presented its spring/summer 2014 collection during Milan fashion weekPhotograph: Max Rossi/ReutersIn Isola del Giglio, Italy, the severely damaged side of the stricken Costa Concordia is visible after a parbuckle salvage operation successfully righted the ship. The 114,000-tonne cruise liner ran aground off the shore of Giglio in January 2012Photograph: Marco Secchi/GettyA man rides a motorcycle carrying his children along the top of a dam which is flooded by an overflowing river near Junyue township in Pengzhou, China. Residents have been crossing the river along the top of the dam to save on travel time, after fresh floods crushed a bridge near the dam in JulyPhotograph: ReutersPakistani people walk through a storm near the Ravi river in LahorePhotograph: Arif Ali/AFPA supporter of Ibrahim Boubacar Keita attends his presidential inauguration ceremony in Bamako, MaliPhotograph: Tanya Bindra/EPAA bank worker watches from a window as Occupy Wall Street protesters march in New York. The populist movement marked its second anniversary with a protest near the New York Stock ExchangePhotograph: Joshua Lott/ReutersPaul Beaty photographed the crime scene where a number of people, including a three-year-old child, were shot in a city park on the south side of ChicagoPhotograph: Paul Beaty/APIn Aleppo, Syria, rebel fighters inspect a stairwell during fighting against Syrian government forces. US secretary of state John Kerry urged China to play a 'positive, constructive' role at the United Nations on a resolution to rein in Syria's chemical weaponsPhotograph: JM Lopez/AFPPhotographer Narciso Contreras was back in the country to continue his excellent work documenting the civil war. Here, a Syrian opposition fighter rests inside a cave at a rebel camp in Idlib provincePhotograph: Narciso Contreras/APUltra-Orthodox Jewish children play next to a wooden 'sukkah', a traditional booth built for the seven-day-long Jewish holiday of Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, in JerusalemPhotograph: Menahem Kahana/AFPEgyptian security forces try to help Giza police General Nabil Farrag who was shot after unidentified militants opened fire. They had been deployed to the town of Kerdasa to drive off suspected Islamists taking control of the town near Giza Pyramids, EgyptPhotograph: Ahmed Abdel Fattah/APA stray dog rummages for food among debris in La Pintada, Mexico, after heavy rains hit the country causing landslides and floodingPhotograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFPA giant panda cub born last month relaxes at Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna, AustriaPhotograph: Xinhua/Landov/BarcroftHundreds of tents are pitched at the 2013 International Camping Festival in Mount Wugongshan, China. The event attracted more than 15,000 campers from all over the worldPhotograph: ReutersAn Afghan refugee holds her daughter as she walks to her home through an alley of a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan hosts more than 1.6 million registered Afghans, the largest and most protracted refugee population in the worldPhotograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP
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