HERE are some of the best pictures from around the UK and world this week.

Scenes include Kim Corgiat sifting through the remains of her boyfriend’s home at the Rancho Marina Mobile Home & RV Park following the Brannan Fire in Sacramento County; and a dancer from DeNada Dance Theatre perform during a dress rehearsal for Mariposa, a tragedy inspired by Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, at the Northern Ballet’s Stanley and Audrey Burton Theatre in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

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