Paris, France Demonstrators hold flags during a pro-unity rally outside the Spanish embassy. Photo: Ian Langsdon/EPA

Scientists release young fish near a ‘Biohut’ artificial habitat that allows the fish to take refuge from predators, off Marseille, southern France. Scientists hope this will promote marine biodiversity partly destroyed by the urbanization…

With Islamic State expelled from Mosul after a prolonged siege, residents who joined the million-strong exodus from Iraq’s second largest city are slowly starting to return. However, most of them have no home to return to, other than a few…

Damascus, Syria A Syrian boy stands amidst the rubble of a building in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of Damascus. Photo: Hamza Al-Ajweh/AFP/Getty Images

Grozny, Russia All in white, 199 brides gather in Tsvetochny Park to celebrate the city’s 199th birthday. Photo: Yelena Afonina/Tass

Pantanal, Brazil The world’s largest freshwater wetland, the Pantanal covers more than 180,000 sq km of western Brazil and parts of Bolivia and Paraguay. This image shows one of its vast plains, 80% of which are inundated during the wet…

Hawija, Iraq Shi’ite Popular Mobilization Forces and Iraqi army gather on the outskirts of Hawija. Photo: STRINGER/Reuters

Jerusalem, Israel An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man carries palm branches for the roof of his Sukkah, a temporary hut constructed for use during the festival of Sukkot. Photo: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images

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