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Six thousand Filipino participants,wearing yellow and black shirts, form a human smiley in Manila, attempting to break the Guinness World record held by Doha, Qatar, with 4,047 participants.
Picture: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images



A car drives past walls of snow on a mountain road between Sirdal and Setesdal, 185 miles (300 km) south west of Oslo, Norway
Picture: Erik Schroder/AFP/Getty Images



When five slides were installed by Carsten Höller at the Tate Modern in 2006, they proved popular with the public. They have now returned to London. This time they run from the Hayward Gallery's glass pyramid ceiling to the entrance several floors below.
Picture: Rex Features



Heavy smog shrouds the Los Angeles skyline in California, USA, on Sunday. An atmospheric pattern known as inversion keeps the pollution from escaping. It is particularly bad in LA, but it is a problem across the whole of California
Picture: MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images



Actress Aimee Perez, 19, has her body painted to perform as part of the creation 'Mutacion Forzada', or Forced Mutation, by Cuban Artist Alberto Lescay during the 12th Havana Biennial, in Havana, Cuba
Picture: Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters


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The annual Goroka Show in Papua New Guinea is one of the largest tribal gatherings in the world. Photographer , 30, originally from France, travelled to the festival in the the western South Pacific Ocean and took these amazing photographs
Picture: Fabien Astre



Fabien Astre went to Papua New Guinea to photograph the Goroka Show, travelling in the country for a month.
Picture: Fabien Astre



Fabien crossed from Indonesia to Vanimo in PNG, and finished his visit in Bougainville, crossing the strait east to the Solomon Islands, where he now lives
Picture: Fabien Astre



Australian patrol officers, known as kiaps, started the tradition of the festival in 1957. One of the reasons was to help the warring local tribes come together and forget their differences.
Picture: Fabien Astre



The tribes perform singsing, a combination of singing and dancing
Picture: Fabien Astre


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One tribe represented at Goroka are the Mud Men of Asaro. Tradition says they were once defeated by another tribe and subsequently covered their bodies in mud to make themselves look more intimidating. They encase their heads in globular clay helmets, moulded into scary grimaces.
Picture: Fabien Astre



Warriors wear spiky fingers of sharpened bamboo
Picture: Fabien Astre



The feathers of the bird of paradise often feature in the singsing outfits
Picture: Fabien Astre



The 3 day show is open to tourists, who can buy a VIP pass for about £20 or a day pass for as little as £1
Picture: Fabien Astre


Fabien went for the VIP option, which allows photographers access in the morning as tribespeople arrive, because by the afternoon there are so many people it is difficult to work
Picture: Fabien Astre


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A moorhen walks along a chain whilst carrying building materials for its partners nest, in the Serpentine Lake
Picture: REUTERS/Toby Melville




A Buddhist monk inspects candles during Vesak Day, an annual celebration of Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death, at Wat Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand
Picture: REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom




A blue tit pauses to admire its crystal clear reflection in a pool
Picture: Rex



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City municipal employees lower iron grills covered with 'love locks' into a truck after they were removed from the Pont des Arts in Paris
Picture: REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer




Silvana Lima of Brasil ditches her surfboard at the last minute and air drops out of the lip of the wave during Round 1 of the Fiji Womens Pro in Tavarua, Fiji
Picture: EPA/KIRSTIN SCHOLTZ



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A Seagull flies through a stunning rainbow over
Picture: Alan Lewis/PhotopressBelfast.co.uk



A Rufous-tailed hummingbird, Amazilia tzacatl, flies while approaching its nest on a tree in San Jose
Picture: Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters



The sun rises behind a lines of trees
Picture: Paul Kingston/NNP



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Buddhist monks walk next to Borobudur temple, the largest Buddhist temple in the world, during celebrations marking Vesak Day in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. Vesak Day commemorates the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha.
Picture: Roni Bintang/Reuters



Indian performers dance during the state's formation day celebrations, marking one year since the formation of the new state in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad
Picture: Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images



Supporters of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) wave flags during a campaign rally by Turkish Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Justice and Development Party in Istanbul. Turkey votes in legislative elections on June 7 with the Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party tipped to win but fall short of landslide victory it scored in previous years.
Picture: Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images



The Namib desert of Namibia
Picture: Alex Stauch



A view of Copacabana Beach from Sugar Loaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Picture: Nicola John


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A group of storm chasers, known as Basehunters, photographed this fairy-tale scene of a simultaneous rainbow and tornado in Eads, Colorado, USA
Picture: Caters



Indonesian Buddhists release lanterns near Borobudur Temple, the world's largest Buddhist monument, during a Vesak Day procession in Magelang, Central Java
Picture: AP



People demonstrate against gender violence outside the National Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Every 30 hours a woman is murdered in Argentina due to gender violence, according to Ada Rico from La Casa del Encuentro, an NGO that helps abused women and called for the protest.
Picture: Natacha Pisarenko/AP



A visitor view artworks including 'Captcha No.11 (Doryphoros)' by Matthew Darbyshire (centre) at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2015 in London.
Picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA



Norwegian researcher and biologist Karl-Otto Jacobsen (49) took this photo of a lifetime in Tromsø, Norway. The 40 tonne humpback whale emerged from the water for a few seconds, performing a barrel-roll before crashing back into the icy seas.
Picture: Karl-Otto Jacobsen/ Media Drum World


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Photographer Sean Ensch captured this shot of western Norway's famously serpentine Trollstigen road. "I was lucky enough to live here for two months during summer, and one evening I saw the valley filling with fog," he says in his 2015 Traveler Photo Contest submission. "So I drove up the road to watch the late summer midnight sun set as the fog swayed through the valley below."
Photo By Sean Ensch



Very friendly and curious lionfish in the Red Sea.
Photo by Christian Schlamann



Matsu, the Goddess of the sea. Every year on Matsu’s birthday, the believers place a great amount of firecrackers under Matsu’s palanquin, they surround it and ignite the firecrackers causing a cinematic blast scene. The believers believe that the stronger the blast is, the more luck Matsu will bring, hence everything will be prosperous for you in the coming year!
Photo by 泓愷 陳



Sunao Chiba photographed the woman who finished shellfish fishing in the evening of the day of the flood tide, in Tokuchinoura, Japan
Picture: Sophie Carr



Zoé Fidji says“I took this photo while the Brazilian football [soccer] team was playing for the World Cup,” writes Zoé Fidji, who took this picture and submitted it to the 2015 Traveler Photo Contest. “The beaches and streets were all deserted; everyone was watching the game. It was kind of surrealistic to see this usually crowded beach at sunset completely empty except [for] this kid who was playing in the waves.”
Picture: Sophie Carr


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National Geographic is inviting photographers from around the world to enter the 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. The grand-prize winner will receive an eight-day National Geographic Photo Expedition to Costa Rica and the Panama Canal.The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, June 30, at 12 p.m. EDT. Eligible contestants can to submit photographs in any or all of four categories: Travel Portraits, Outdoor Scenes, Sense of Place and Spontaneous Moments. The entry fee is $15 (USD) per photo, and there is no limit to the number of submissions per entrant. Here is a selection of this year's entries:

Above - The Fury of Calbuco Volcano. An eruption creates a mountain of ash and smoke over Calbuco Volcano near Puerto Varas, Chile. In April, the volcano erupted three times in a week, forcing thousands to evacuate.
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Frozen Niagara Falls. Photographer says "40 below zero with the windchill. Everything frozen."
Picture: CoteBaeza



Watered by underground streams from Mount Kilimanjaro, the marshes and grasslands of Amboseli National Park in Kenya provide a dry-season refuge for elephants that draw visitors from all over the world.
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Every year, humpback whales come to Kingdom of Tonga during July to September. The mothers raise their babies and when they are enough strong they go far away to the cold water. During whale watching activity, you can live some incredible experiences by interaction with this fabulous mammal. This young calf played with me during 30 minutes under the control of his mother, a great memory ! Photo by Marc Henauer



This is taken at the volcanic beach at Stokksnes in south-eastern Iceland in February 2015. Sophie used a 2-second exposure to capture the water trails as the waves receded over rocks at the edge of the beach, just as the sun was setting behind her, illuminating the mighty Vesturhorn mountain and some peaks in the far distance.
Photo by Sophie Carr


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Lightening strikes near the Country Club Plaza as thunderstorms move through the area in Kansas City
Picture: TNS /Landov / Barcroft Media



A figure of a giant stands as revellers dance during the Patum in the Catalan village of Berga, Spain.
Picture: AP



A young ragpicker floats on an inflated tube as he searches for recycled materials in the polluted waters of River Kuakhai on the outskirts of eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar.
Picture: AP



Catholic priests gather in front of the Cathedral of Brasilia while celebrating the holiday of Corpus Christi in Brasilia, Brazil. The tradition is celebrated on the eight Thursday following Easter and commemorates the ritual of the Eucharist. Brazil holds the largest number of Roman Catholics on the planet and Pope Francis will be returning to Latin America next month for a three-country visit. The pontiff's first foreign trip was to Brazil.
Picture: Mario Tama/Getty Images



A cemetery is seen flooded by the rising Rio Solimoes, one of the two main branches of the Amazon River, in Anama, Amazonas state, Brazil
Picture: REUTERS


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