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Annette Edwards with Darius, her continental giant rabbit – she has offered a £1,000 reward for his return. Photograph: Mcfadden/ANL/Rex/Shutterstock

A rabbit proclaimed the biggest in the world has been stolen from its home in Worcestershire on Saturday. The rabbit was awarded a Guinness World Record in 2010 for being the biggest of its kind.
 

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Joe Foyster receives a free haircut from Michael Douglas while having a pint of Heineken at a pop-up hairdressing station at The Gregorian pub in Bermondsey, London, on the first day of pubs and hairdressers reopening following a Covid-19 lockdown. Photograph: Anthony Upton/PA Wire
 
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Belfast Riots
The violence comes amid growing frustration among many in the pro-British unionist community at new trade barriers between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom that resulted from Britain's exit from the European Union.
 
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An image by Daniel Whitby who won the Mammal Society Photo of the Year 2021 competition with a separate photo of a lesser horseshoe bat. Photograph: Daniel Whitby/2021 MPOY
 
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Bernie Madoff, the financier who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, died in a federal prison early Wednesday.

Last year, his lawyers filed court papers to try to get the 82-year-old released from prison in the COVID-19 pandemic, saying he had suffered from end-stage renal disease and other chronic medical conditions. The request was denied.
 
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CHERNOBYL: New Safe Confinement covering the fourth block of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Ukraine will mark the 35th anniversary of Chernobyl tragedy on APril 26th. The explosion of reactor four of the power plant in 1986 is still regarded as the worst nuclear disaster ever. Photograph: Oleg Petraasyuk/EPA
 
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NOTRE DAME: French president Emmanuel Macron (left) salutes workers next to Jean-Louis Georgelin (right), a former general leading the restoration efforts, on the roof of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral during a visit marking two years since the blaze that made the spire collapse and destroyed much of the roof. The actual restoration work has yet to begin as time up until now has been spent on securing the building, and the full restoration works should begin early next year. Photograph: Benoit Tessier/Pool/AFP via Getty
 
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Bangkok, Thailand
A worker tests a bed for incoming coronavirus patients at a new field hospital in a sports stadium
Photograph: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images
 
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Two men have died after a Tesla vehicle, which was believed to be operating without anyone in the driver's seat, crashed into a tree on Saturday night north of Houston, Texas.

After the fire was extinguished, authorities located two occupants in the vehicle, with one in the front passenger seat and the other in the back seat.

“There was no-one in the driver’s seat," Sergeant Cinthya Umanzor of the Harris County Constable Precinct 4 said.
 
British actor Helen McCrory, best known for her roles in Peaky Blinders and Harry Potter, has been remembered for her "kindness and generosity", after succumbing to a "heroic battle with cancer", aged 52.

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Damian Lewis was her husband, you may remember him in Band of Brothers
 
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Alexei Navalny’s allies are calling for the biggest street protests of President Putin’s rule over fears that the imprisoned Kremlin critic’s life is “hanging by a thread.”

Navalny, 44, has been on a hunter strike for 19 days in protest at the refusal to allow him access to his chosen doctor for back pain and numbness in his legs and hands.
 
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Breakfast in Italy
The Amalfi Coast is a 50-kilometer stretch of coastline along the southern edge of Italy’s Sorrentine Peninsula, in the Campania region. It’s a popular holiday destination, with sheer cliffs and a rugged shoreline dotted with small beaches and pastel-colored fishing villages. The coastal road between the port city of Salerno and clifftop Sorrento winds past grand villas, terraced vineyards and cliffside lemon groves
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Breakfast in Italy
The Amalfi Coast is a 50-kilometer stretch of coastline along the southern edge of Italy’s Sorrentine Peninsula, in the Campania region. It’s a popular holiday destination, with sheer cliffs and a rugged shoreline dotted with small beaches and pastel-colored fishing villages. The coastal road between the port city of Salerno and clifftop Sorrento winds past grand villas, terraced vineyards and cliffside lemon groves
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OMG, what a dream that is!
 
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NOTRE DAME: French president Emmanuel Macron (left) salutes workers next to Jean-Louis Georgelin (right), a former general leading the restoration efforts, on the roof of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral during a visit marking two years since the blaze that made the spire collapse and destroyed much of the roof. The actual restoration work has yet to begin as time up until now has been spent on securing the building, and the full restoration works should begin early next year. Photograph: Benoit Tessier/Pool/AFP via Getty
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Nerves of steel, that's what those workers have being up so high on rickety old scaffolding.
 
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Wellington, New Zealand

Families are reunited after travellers arrive on the first flight from Sydney, as Australia and New Zealand open a trans-Tasman quarantine-free travel bubble

Photograph: Marty Melville/AFP/Getty Images
 
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Des Moines, US

Myrtle Mae is named winner of the Beautiful Bulldog contest at Drake University’s Knapp Center in Iowa. Twenty-one English bulldogs competed for the title

Photograph: Olivia Sun/AP
 


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