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SAILING ROBOTS: A robofish is seen at the 2019 World Robot Conference in Beijing.

SAILING HIGH: Athletes take part in the women’s windsurfing RS:X class competition during a sailing test event for the Tokyo

HAVANA CARNIVAL: Dancers get ready to participate in the Havana Carnival in Havana on Sunday. This year the carnivals are

KEEPING TRADITIONS ALIVE: Larry Yazie, of Tama Iowa, performs traditional dance during the 98th annual Santa Fe Indian Market, the

HIGH DIVE: A diver takes off from top of 22 metres high, Pliva River waterfall, in Central-Bosnian town of Jajce,

Indonesian students participate in a carnival to celebrate the country’s 74th Independence Day, in Banda Aceh on Sunday. — AFP

PRESERVING THE SPECIES: Volunteers stand around flamingo chicks gathered in a corral before being fitted with identity rings at dawn

BATTLE REENACTMENT: Members of military-historical societies shoot with historical guns and reenact a battle of imperial troops of the year

SAND ART: Enguerrand David of Belgium and Leonardo Ugolini of Italy work on their fairytale sand sculptures as they prepare

ARCH OF ATTRACTION: A group of tourists visit the Al Kharza area of Wadi Rum in the south of Amman,

CELEBRATION TIME: Pakistanis watch as a camel is prepared for sacrifice on the second day of the Eid al Adha

SAUDI ARABIA: An aerial view of Kaaba at the Grand mosque in the holy city of Mecca. — Reuters

JOLLY RIDE: Tourists riding camels in the desert in Dunhuang in China’s northwestern Gansu province. — AFP

FESTIVE FERVOUR: Women wear colourful wigs as the Dome of the Rock is seen in the background during celebrations marking

A royal Bengal white tiger looks on inside an enclosure at the ‘Arignar Anna Zoological Park’ on a hot sunny

THE FELINE ‘VENDOR’: A cat sits on heads of garlic at a stall at the Central Market in greater Buenos

BEATING THE HEAT: A young man dives in the river Treska near Skopje as temperatures reached 37 degrees celsius. —

CHAMPIONSHIP BID: Pilots fly their paragliders during the 16th FAI Paragliding World Championship in Krusevo, North Macedonia. — Reuters

DAILY STRUGGLE: People living on the other side of the river, the site of the proposed New Yangon City project

FEATHER TOUCH: Picture shows bird feathers, painted by Bulgarian artist Galya Stoyanova in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. — Reuters

MAJESTIC POISE: Giraffes are seen in Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. — Reuters