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Egypt, football and revolution

Since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, politics has entered every aspect of Egyptian life - even football. This is most evident in the Cairo derby, a game between arch rivals Al Ahly and Zamalek.

The brightly lit metropolitan areas of Turin (Italy), Lyon, and Marseille (both in France) stand out amid numerous smaller urban areas in this dramatic astronaut photograph. The image captures the night-time appearance of the France-Italy border. The south-western end of the Alps separates the two countries. The island of Corsica is visible in the Ligurian Sea to the south (image top). The full moon reflects brightly on the water surface and also illuminates the tops of low patchy clouds over the border (image centre)

Papua New Guinea’s Manam Volcano released a thin, faint plume on 16 June, 2010, as clouds clustered at the volcano’s summit. Brown valleys, bare of vegetation, extend downwards from the summit craters. The valley floors are filled with recent lava flows and scoured by hot volcanic avalanches (called pyroclastic flows). The remaining slopes are carpeted in lush tropical vegetation

This satellite view highlights a unique cloud formation south of the Canary islands, some 95 km from the north-west coast of Africa (right) in the Atlantic Ocean. Seven larger islands and a few smaller ones make up the Canaries; the larger islands are (left to right): El Hierro, La Palma, La Gomera, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote

Guardian Review

How many times have you wished that, instead of some high-concept, high-budget piece of art, a band would just give you the video budget money instead, and spend the four minutes of their terrible song punching themselves in the face?

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