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A round-up of our favourite photographs from the week gone by
Five-year-old Karkar tries to drink water from a faucet near his home in the Eshash el-Sudan slum in the Dokki neighbourhood of Giza, south of Cairo, Egypt. Photograph: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/ Reuters
A couple lies down and smokes during the fourth annual Made in America Music Festival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to organizers, attendance is expected to exceed 1,40,000 for the two-day festival which features more than 50 acts. Photograph: Mark Makela/ Reuters
Policemen are hit by eggs as farmers and dairy farmers from all over Europe take part in a demonstration outside a European Union farm ministers' emergency meeting at the EU Council headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Thousands of farmers gathered in the European capital calling for more help with low prices and high costs. Photograph: Eric Vidal/ Reuters
Students stand on the roof of a wooden boat as haze blankets the MusiRiver while they travel to school in Palembang, on Indonesia's SumatraIsland. Photograph: Beawiharta/ Reuters
Bystanders look at a car that has partially fallen into a small sinkhole along a street in Beijing, China. According to local media, no one was injured during the incident. Photograph: Stringer/ Reuters
An elderly woman is carried by an ambulance worker after being rescued by a helicopter from an area flooded by the KinugawaRiver, caused by typhoon Etau, upon their arrival at Ishige Sports Park acting as an evacuation centre in Joso, Ibaraki prefecture. Photograph: Issei Kato/ Reuters
The LishuiBridge is seen during a controlled demolition in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province, China. The bridge, built in 1971, is 246.6-metre-long and 12-metre-wide. A new bridge will be built on the same location as replacement, local media reported. Photograph: China Daily/ Reuters
A Syrian refugee kisses his daughter as he walks through a rainstorm towards Greece's border with Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni. Most of the people flooding into Europe are refugees fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries who have a legal right to seek asylum, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Photograph: Yannis Behrakis/ Reuters
Deke Breuer feeds his dog Cahlupa some lasagna in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York. Breuer, originally from Detroit, have been living and traveling for the last few years and has taught his dog many tricks. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/ Reuters
A Syrian refugee girl and her brother try to escape from an armed Macedonian policeman as they try to cross the border from Greece into Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni. Most of the people flooding into Europe are refugees fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries who have a legal right to seek asylum, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Photograph: Yannis Behrakis/ Reuters
A reveller covered in paint takes part during the annual Cascamorras festival in Guadix, southern Spain. The festival was inspired by a dispute between the town of Baza and Guadix over the possession of an icon of the Virgin of Piedad. Photograph: Marcelo del Pozo/ Reuters
Spectators use their mobile phones to take pictures and videos as Z-19 helicopters of the People's Liberation Army perform during an aerobatic display at the China Helicopter Exposition in Tianjin. Photograph: China Daily/ Reuters
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton does the "Nae Nae" dance move with DJ Stephen "Twitch" Boss (L) and television host Ellen DeGeneres (R) during a taping of "The Ellen DeGeneres show" in New York. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/ Reuters
A man attempts to pull the neck off a dead goose while being repeatedly being plunged into the water during Antzar Eguna (Day of the goose) in the Basque fishing town of Lekeitio, near Bilbao, northern Spain. Geese are hung from a rope over the harbour as participants passing on a boat attempt to grab the animal and are then lifted up and plunged into the water until they pull off its neck or fall down into the water. Those who succeed in pulling the neck off get to keep the goose. Photograph: Vincent West / Reuters
Pope Francis laughs with a baby during a special audience with parish cells for the evangelisation in Paul VI hall at the Vatican. Photograph: Tony Gentile/ Reuters