SOME of the best pictures from around the UK and world this week include a dramatic thunder storm in Hungary; and a gay rights demonstration taking place in Mexico.
Also pictured is the moon as it sets in the morning during a partial lunar eclipse behind the Frauenkirche and the dome of the Kunstakedmie with the angel “Fama” in Dresden, Germany; and a woman standing next to a destroyed house in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People’s Republic, eastern Ukraine.
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