Pope Francis laughs as he meets with newly married couples at the end of his weekly general audience at the Paul VI hall at the Vatican.
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The up close and personal encounter with the breaching whale calf as seen from the Sanctuary boat in Monterey Bay, Californina. Seen bursting out of the water, the huge whale sends a surge of water droplets high into the air merely metres away from the edge of a boat full of tourists.
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A baby crowned sifaka that was born to mother, Linoa, at Belfast Zoo. For the first few weeks after birth crowned sifaka babies hold onto their mothers' stomach and, for that reason, keepers have not yet been able to determine the sex or the name of the infant.
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A flock of coloured pigeons fly during a pigeon-breeding competition in the southern Spanish village of Bollullos de la Mitacion. During the competition a single dove is chased by dozens of pigeon cocks resulting winner the male which courts the hen for the longest.
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Thousands of Cuban students and government officials march in Havana to celebrate the 162th anniversary of Cuban national hero Jose Marti's birthday. Marti, a leader of the Cuban independence movement from Spanish rule and an illustrious poet and writer, is considered a national hero in Cuba.
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