Week in pictures: 3 - 9 August 2019 - BBC News

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People hold up their phones during a prayer and candle vigil in El Paso, Texas, following a mass shooting at a Walmart store. The gunman is believed to have targeted Hispanics, murdering 22 people.

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An RAF Chinook Mk6a helicopter approaches the damaged Toddbrook Reservoir dam, near the village of Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire, to drop sandbags to shore it up. Whaley Bridge residents were had to leave the town for six days.

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A Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department officer takes part in the search for 15-year-old Nora Quoirin, who went missing while on holiday with her family. Her mother's voice has been played over loudspeakers in a bid to help find the teenager.

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A restored silver World War Two Spitfire plane is escorted by three others after taking off for a round-the-world flight attempt from Goodwood Aerodrome in Chichester.

KIM KYUNG-HOON / REUTERS

An anti-government protester throws a brick at a police station in Tseung Kwan O residential district in Hong Kong.

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Tista Das, who is a transgender woman, poses for a photo before her wedding in Kolkata, India.

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Fans celebrate the 50th anniversary of the famous cover photo of the Abbey Road album by The Beatles. The original image was taken by the late Scottish photographer Iain Macmillan, who stood on a ladder in the middle of the street while a policeman blocked the traffic.

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People protest outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immigration detention centre in Adelanto, California. The protest follows a large raid in Mississippi by ICE officials in which nearly 700 workers from agricultural processing plants were arrested.

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Graeme Watson, from North Yorkshire, poses with his record-breaking gooseberry, seen on the left. The fruit beat the previous world record of the heaviest gooseberry, weighing in at 64.56g.

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Burryman Andrew Taylor is given whisky through a straw by local resident Mary Hamblin, as he parades through the town of South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, encased in burrs as part of an ancient tradition.