A mother comforting her son in Concord, Alabama, near his house which was entirely destroyed by a tornado. Photograph: Jeff Roberts/AP
Royal wedding celebrations in the Victoria memorial fountain outside Buckingham Palace. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty
Lightning over Kathmandu. Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Lightning over Portland Harbour and Chesil Beach on Dorset's Jurassic Coast. Photograph: Justin Turner/Dorset Media Service
Lava shooting from an Icelandic volcano as photographer Skarphedinn Thrainsson stands nearby (he regularly risks injury to get his pictures) Photograph: Skarphedinn Thrainsson
The Royal Festival Hall stage in london filled with grand pianos from Lang Lang Inspires - the Chinese piano star plays alongside 100 outstanding young British pianists. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA
Believe it or not this is actually a photograph. It's of the flooded rice fields of Laohuzui in Yuanyang, Yunnan province, China reflecting the sky. The Hani people have grown rice here for more than 700 years. The blue strips are vegetable greenhouses; the black, rows of trees and water embankments. Photograph: George Doupas/Solent News
The skies above southern Chile the day after an eruption in the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcanic chain. An average of 230 earthquakes an hour were recorded in the region before the eruption, which blew an ash cloud six miles high and produced storms of volcanic lightning. Photograph: Francisco Negroni/AP
Chelsea pensioners at the annual Founders Day Parade at the Royal hospital in London. Photograph: Max Mumby
The Olympic stadium in east London as all the arena lights are turned on simultaneously for the first time. Photograph: Jason Hawkes/Barcroft Media
People walking in to a familiar sight at Glastonbury Festival. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
A pigeon at a fountain in Madrid. Photograph: Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images
Gay Pride parade participants march down Regent Street. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA
A group of crested black macaques at a national park in Indonesia turn the tables on wildlife photographer David Slater. Photograph: Wild Monkey/David Slater/Caters News
Artist David Mach's most recent piece, Golgotha, made from coat hangers and pinned to steel girders. Photograph: Rosie Hallam/Barcroft Media
A calf leaps over revellers in the bullring after a running of the bulls at the San Fermin fiesta in Pamplona, Spain. Photograph: Ivan Aguinaga/AP
Samantha Langsdale plays at the 27th Underwater Music Festival off Florida. About 500 musical divers took part. Photograph: Dan Burton/Barcroft Media
Sydney Truba, 11, participates in Mud Day, when 75,000 litres of water are mixed with 180 tonnes of topsoil to create a giant sludge bath in Michigan. Photograph: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images
Lucien Freud, who recently died aged 88, working in his Holland Park studio in 2005. David Dawson, Freud's long-time assistant, artist and photographer, took the picture. Photograph: David Dawson
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