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1. A van is trapped in a hole after a road caved in at Fuxing road in Guilin, ChinPicture: China Foto Press / Barcroft Media
2. Several drivers miraculously escaped death after two rocks weighing more than 300 tons rolled down from the cliff and flattened two parked cars in Chongqing municipality, southwest China. The two rocks smashed a 2m wide and 1m deep pit on the road.Picture: Quirky China News / Rex Features
3. Firefighters examine the wreckage of a police car after a bus crashed into it on a street in Beijing, killing one person in the police vehiclePicture: REUTERS/China Daily
4. A miniature artwork showing six pandas living in an eye of a needle, created by miniature artist Chen Forng Shean, is seen at Cheng Forng-Shean Miniature Art Museum in Xinbei City, ChinaPicture: Xinhua /Landov / Barcroft Media
5. Last month, while the world’s eyes were on the Space X Dragon launch, another piece of history was made – the first tent in space. Four intrepid doll-sized space explorers – dubbed Vangonauts – managed to pitch a tent at 104,000ft. The mission was carried out by VASA (Vango Association of Space Accommodation) on behalf of Scottish tent company Vango AirBeam…Picture: Vango AirBeam / Rex Features
6. ..The Vango AirBeam tent crew, The Vangonauts, celebrate after landing safely in wilderness near Loch Tay, ScotlandPicture: Vango AirBeam / Rex Features
7. A rare fire rainbow halo or circumhorizontal arc – caused by the sun shining through ice crystals – is seen at sunset in Wanning, ChinaPicture: China Foto Press / Barcroft Media
8. Telegraph reader Norbert Trokki sent us this photo of a rare halo taken in Santa Marianita, south of Manta in Ecuador. If you have a photograph you’d like us to consider for a picture gallery, please email it to mypic@telegraph.co.uk, supplying a little info on where and when the picture was taken.Picture: Norbert Trokki
9. Waves batter Porthleven harbour wall in CornwallPicture: Bernie Pettersen / SWNS.com
10. Torquay Council owned beach huts, near Cornyn Head on the main tourist beach, being washed out to sea in the tidal surge caused by the stormsPicture: Julian Johnson
11. Maasai men promoting Kenyan tea struggle with an umbrella on London BridgePicture: Tony Kyriacou / Rex Features
12. Ebony Underwood (8) holds her nose next to The Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) flower at The Eden Project, Cornwall. The giant flower that smells like rotting flesh has bloomed spectacularly, reaching a height of 2.57m (8ft 5in).Picture: MARK PASSMORE/EDEN PROJECT
13. Russian climber and base jumper Valery Rozov jumps from a height of 6,420 metres on the the western ridge of the Shivling, Gangotri National Park, The Himalayas, India. The ascent to perform the highest base jump in history took six days and the descent with a wing suit just 90 seconds, before Valery landed safe on the glacier 2,200 metres below.Picture: DENIS KLERO/SPORTSANDNEWS/SIPA / Rex Features
14. Participants of a jet ski tournament ride through Corinth Canal, connecting the Peloponeese with mainland GreecePicture: LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/GettyImages
15. Extreme kayaker Ben Brown plunges down a raging waterall nicknamed ‘Drowning Drop’ in IcelandPicture: Desre Tate / Barcroft Media
16. A kayaker catches the leading edge of the biggest bore tide of the summer as it roared into Turnagain Arm south of Anchorage, AlaskaPicture: Ron Barta/AP
17. Tourists gather to watch a tidal bore on the Qiantang river in Ninghai, China…Picture: China Foto Press / Barcroft Media
18. People look at a very large and heavy dock measuring 7′ tall, 19′ wide and 66′ long that has washed ashore on Agate Beach one mile north of Newport, Oregon, US. The Japanese consulate has confirmed that the dock is debris from the March 2011 tsunami in Japan.Picture: REUTERS/Oregon Parks and Recreation Department
19. A Japanese float is collected on the shore of Montague Island near Seward, Alaska, more than a year after a tsunami devastated JapanPicture: Chris Pallister/AP
20. Telegraph reader Mike Klajnert sent us this night view of Vancouver from the North Shore, with a full moon rising over the city skyline. If you have a photograph you’d like us to consider for a picture gallery, please email it to mypic@telegraph.co.uk, supplying a little info on where and when the picture was taken.Picture: Mike Klajnert
21. A flotilla surrounds the space shuttle Enterprise as it is carried by barge up the Hudson River on route to its permanent home at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York CityPicture: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
22. The Space Shuttle Enterprise makes its way up the Hudson River past a busy street in New YorkPicture: DON EMMERT/AFP/GettyImages
23. Tang Shuquan from Chengdu, China, touches his nose with his mouth after winning a gurning Guinness world recordPicture: China Foto Press / Barcroft Media
24. A woman prepares to swallow a live fish that has been dipped in homemade medicine during a camp in the southern Indian city of HyderabadPicture: REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder
25. Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite captures an ultra-high definition image of the Transit of Venus across the face of the sunPicture: SDO/NASA via Getty Images
26. The Diamond Jubilee Thames Pageant on the ThamesPicture: Geoff Pugh
27. The younger generation of royalty waving as they pass the Houses of ParliamentPicture: AFP/GETTY
28. Grace Jones keeps a hula hoop going throughout her entire song at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee concertPicture: Paul Grover
29. The concert ends with a spectacular fireworks display over Buckingham PalacePicture: Ian West/PA
30. The Queen arrives at Buckingham Palace in her 1902 horse-drawn carriagePicture: Jamie Wiseman
31. A Hawker Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight flies as part of a formation over Buckingham Palace and the crowds on The Mall, during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrationsPicture: REUTERS/Senior Aircraftsman Daniel Herrick/MoD/Crown Copyright
32. The Red Arrows fly in formation over Buckingham Palace as the Royal family stand on the balconyPicture: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
33. Telegraph reader Richard Harper writes: The Queen rides in, joining in the celebrations at our cottage at Bishop Monkton, North Yorkshire. If you have a photograph you’d like us to consider for a picture gallery, please email it to mypic@telegraph.co.uk, supplying a little info on where and when the picture was taken.Picture: Richard Harper
34. Soft drink cups are displayed at a news conference at City Hall in New York. Under a new law proposed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, all soft drinks over 16 ounces will be banned in restaurants and stores that fall under the jurisdiction of New York City.Picture: REUTERS/Andrew Burton
