Week in pictures: 26 August - 1 September 2017 - BBC News

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Members of the public look at flowers and tributes left in memory of the late Princess Diana, at the gates of her former residence in Kensington Palace, to mark the 20th anniversary of her death.




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Hundreds of thousands of revellers descended on Notting Hill in west London for the final day of the annual carnival.




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Former five-weight world champion Floyd Mayweather extended his perfect career record to 50 fights unbeaten by stopping Conor McGregor in the 10th round of one of the richest bouts in boxing history. The fight surpassed the reported $620m (￡480m) earned by Mayweather's win over Manny Pacquiao in 2015.




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People from across the world gathered in the small Spanish town of Bunol to celebrate the annual Tomatina Festival. Participants hurled tomatoes at each other at the event inspired by a food fight in 1945.




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Some two million Muslims from across the world have begun the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. They started at sunset on Wednesday by circling the Kaaba in Mecca's Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest site.




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Burning Man participants perform a shibari rope scene during a driving desert dust storm inside an art project created by artist Shane Pitzer during the arts and music festival in Black Rock Desert, Nevada.




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Elderly residents of La Vita Bella care home in storm-hit Texas were rescued after a photo of them part-submerged in water was widely shared on social media. The water went from ankle-deep to waist-deep in about 15 minutes.




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Storm Harvey has now been downgraded to a tropical depression, but heavy rainfall is expected from Louisiana to Kentucky over the next two days and flood warnings remain in effect for south-east Texas and parts of south-west Louisiana.




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Heavy monsoon rains in Mumbai saw roads hit by waist-deep flooding, flights cancelled and train services suspended on Tuesday.




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SPLA-In Opposition (SPLA-IO) rebels fire weapons during an assault on government Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) soldiers in the town of Kaya, on the border with Uganda, South Sudan.