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Members of the Honourable Artillery Company, the City of Londonís Army Reserve Regiment, fire a 62 gun salute to mark the birth of a new royal baby at the Tower of London in central London. International messages of congratulations poured in for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge following the birth of the third in line to the throne. Photo: AFP
Syrian refugee children peer from the window of their classroom, newly decorated with a mural, at Zaatari refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan. Writings in Arabic can be read on the mural, made up of old sayings and poetry that encourage the people to seek knowledge and express their lives and hopes. Photo: AP
Girl performers march with drums at the "Arirang" mass games, the song-and-dance carnival that has become North Korea's most famous tourist draw. It has staged the event off and on for more than a decade to showcase the country's history and propaganda. And opening night saw tens of thousands of young people singing, dancing and tumbling at Pyongyang's May Day Stadium. Photo: AP
A space probe 1.5 billion kilometres from earth turned its gaze away from Saturn and its moons to take a picture of its home planet. The image shows earth as a very small, blue-tinged dot, overshadowed by the giant Saturn's rings in foreground. Usually, spacecraft in the far reaches of the solar system don't look back toward Earth to avoid damaging their instruments by direct sunlight. Last week, the sun was temporarily blocked relative to Cassini's line of sight, allowing the US space agency Nasa to take the picture. Photo: AP
A group of divers narrowly avoid going the way of the Biblical character Jonah and ending up in the belly of a humpback whale. The divers were filming fish off the Californian coast when the two huge beasts lunged out of the water, mouths agape. Photos: SCMP Pictures
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Members of the Honourable Artillery Company, the City of Londonís Army Reserve Regiment, fire a 62 gun salute to mark the birth of a new royal baby at the Tower of London in central London. International messages of congratulations poured in for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge following the birth of the third in line to the throne. Photo: AFP
Syrian refugee children peer from the window of their classroom, newly decorated with a mural, at Zaatari refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan. Writings in Arabic can be read on the mural, made up of old sayings and poetry that encourage the people to seek knowledge and express their lives and hopes. Photo: AP
Girl performers march with drums at the "Arirang" mass games, the song-and-dance carnival that has become North Korea's most famous tourist draw. It has staged the event off and on for more than a decade to showcase the country's history and propaganda. And opening night saw tens of thousands of young people singing, dancing and tumbling at Pyongyang's May Day Stadium. Photo: AP
A space probe 1.5 billion kilometres from earth turned its gaze away from Saturn and its moons to take a picture of its home planet. The image shows earth as a very small, blue-tinged dot, overshadowed by the giant Saturn's rings in foreground. Usually, spacecraft in the far reaches of the solar system don't look back toward Earth to avoid damaging their instruments by direct sunlight. Last week, the sun was temporarily blocked relative to Cassini's line of sight, allowing the US space agency Nasa to take the picture. Photo: AP
A group of divers narrowly avoid going the way of the Biblical character Jonah and ending up in the belly of a humpback whale. The divers were filming fish off the Californian coast when the two huge beasts lunged out of the water, mouths agape. Photos: SCMP Pictures
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Members of the Honourable Artillery Company, the City of Londonís Army Reserve Regiment, fire a 62 gun salute to mark the birth of a new royal baby at the Tower of London in central London. International messages of congratulations poured in for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge following the birth of the third in line to the throne. Photo: AFP
Syrian refugee children peer from the window of their classroom, newly decorated with a mural, at Zaatari refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan. Writings in Arabic can be read on the mural, made up of old sayings and poetry that encourage the people to seek knowledge and express their lives and hopes. Photo: AP
Girl performers march with drums at the "Arirang" mass games, the song-and-dance carnival that has become North Korea's most famous tourist draw. It has staged the event off and on for more than a decade to showcase the country's history and propaganda. And opening night saw tens of thousands of young people singing, dancing and tumbling at Pyongyang's May Day Stadium. Photo: AP
A space probe 1.5 billion kilometres from earth turned its gaze away from Saturn and its moons to take a picture of its home planet. The image shows earth as a very small, blue-tinged dot, overshadowed by the giant Saturn's rings in foreground. Usually, spacecraft in the far reaches of the solar system don't look back toward Earth to avoid damaging their instruments by direct sunlight. Last week, the sun was temporarily blocked relative to Cassini's line of sight, allowing the US space agency Nasa to take the picture. Photo: AP
A group of divers narrowly avoid going the way of the Biblical character Jonah and ending up in the belly of a humpback whale. The divers were filming fish off the Californian coast when the two huge beasts lunged out of the water, mouths agape. Photos: SCMP Pictures
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