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Dundee, Scotland

A preview of one of the installations at the new V&A, Scotland’s first design museum, which opens to the public on Saturday.

Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Maar Shurin, Syria

A child tries on an improvised gas mask made by his father as part of preparations for military action in rebel-held Idlib province

Photograph: Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images

London, UK

Conservative MP David Davis ducks his way past a reporter as he arrives at the Royal United Services Institute, with colleagues Owen Paterson and Theresa Villiers (pictured left), to debate Brexit

Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images