SOME of the best pictures from around the UK and world this week include fire fighting in Chile, and cleaning aquarium tanks in London.

Also pictured are Palestinian workers using a backhoe to break and remove parts of the Al-Jawhara building, that was damaged in Israeli airstrikes during Israel’s war with Gaza’s Hamas rulers last May, in the central al-Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Aquarists at the Sea Life London Aquarium use brushes to clean during the annual 'count and clean'; and a neighbour helps fight a fire in the low income area of Laguna Verde, in Iquique, Chile.

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