Week in pictures: 19 - 25 June 2021 - BBC News

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Women offering prayers in Mumbai
FRANCIS MASCARENHAS / REUTERS

Women offer prayers, and tie threads around a banyan tree during the festival of Vat Purnima in Mumbai, India

Boris Johnson poses in an armoured vehicle
DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/POOL VIA REUTERS

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in an armoured vehicle of the new Ranger Regiment during a visit to mark Armed Forces Week, at the Aldershot Garrison.

Human tower
ALBERT GEA / REUTERS

The first festival of human towers since the start of the coronavirus pandemic took place in the medieval city of Valls in Spain. Numbers in the towers were limited to 50. Before the pandemic, the towers could see ten times that number.

Members of the Royal Collection Trust staff pose for a photograph with a portrait of the Duke of Edinburgh
PETER NICHOLLS / REUTERS

Members of the Royal Collection Trust staff pose with a portrait of the Duke of Edinburgh by Ralph Heimans, which forms part of the Prince Philip: A Celebration display in Windsor Castle.

A fallow deer is released
CLODAGH KILCOYNE / REUTERS

Laura Griffin, a PHD student in Wildlife, Ecology and Behaviour at University College Dublin, lets a days-old fallow deer fawn out of its weighing bag during an annual stock take of Phoenix Park's new-born fallow deer fawns in Dublin, Ireland.

Arms raised around the Sun
OGNEN TEOFILOVSKI / REUTERS

Celebrating the summer solstice at the Kokino megalithic observatory, near the city of Kumanovo, North Macedonia.

Homeless families rest inside a gymnasium
FRANCIS R MALASIG / EPA

Homeless families rest inside a gymnasium turned into a shelter in Manila. The capital of the Philippines, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, is celebrating its 450th founding anniversary this year.

Fred Cobbett and his wife Monica
STEVE PARSONS / PA MEDIA

Fred Cobbett, 96, and his wife, Monica, 92, celebrate their 71st wedding anniversary with a renewal of their vows at Fred's care home in West Byfleet, Surrey, England. Due to Monica living separately from Fred's care home, they have been apart because of the pandemic in recent months, but they are now able to see each other again a couple of times a week.

A car buried in rubble
LAURENT GILLIERON / EPA

Severe weather conditions led to the River Ruhault flooding in Switzerland, causing significant damage in Cressier.

The moon rises over the Temple of Poseidon
AYHAN MEHMET/ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY IMAGES

A super moon rises behind the Temple of Poseidon near Athens in Greece.