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What's it like to spend a night on the Tube?

Though liable to increase my rent to roughly the GDP of Lithuania, the Night Tube is definitely a net positive, in the sense that I can now get home from a late one without having to listen to indeterminable EDM blasted through an iPhone on a night bus, head rattling against the window.

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World news in pictures

World news in pictures

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    Indonesian students play traditional drums called "Dol" from Bengkulu province as they participate in the Indonesian Independence day ceremony in Jakarta

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    A woman attempts to cover a tear gas canister fired by police at a crowd in Srinagar protesting against the recent killings in Kashmir

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    Participants struggle to reach the prizes on the top of greasy slippery poles in Jakarta, as part of Indonesia's celebrations to mark its 71st independent day anniversary

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    An air tanker drops fire retardant on the Blue Cut wildfire in Lytle Creek, California. The fire is currently 9,000 plus acres, with 700 personnel on scene. Fifty-seven engines, 8 crews, 8 air tankers, 2 Very Large Air Tankers (VLATS), with additional firefighters and equipment on order

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    Free Syrian army fighters stand atop of a hill as the moon is seen in the background in the south of Nawa city, in Deraa Governorate, Syria

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    A Palestinian youth is being evacuated after he was wounded during clashes with Israeli soldiers conducting searches in the Palestinian al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Hebron

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    Mine workers sing as they wait for the commemoration to get under way near Marikana in Rustenburg, South Africa. On 16 August 2012 police shot and killed 34 Lonmin striking miners, apparently while trying to disperse them and end their strike. Ten people, including two police officers and two Lonmin security guards, were killed in the preceding week

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    People look at a crater caused by a Saudi-led coalition air strike at the yard of a hospital operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Abs district of Hajja province, Yemen

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    People cool off at a swimming pool in Daying county, China

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    Turkish soldiers from a military guard of honor carry coffins during a mass burial ceremony for Turkish Cypriots who went missing in 1974 and whose remains have been found by the Committee on missing people in Cyprus (CMP), at a cemetery in the village of Tashkent (Vouno) in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. More than 30 Turkish Cypriots, who had disappeared in Tochni near the coastal southern city of Limassol in August 1974 and were found in 2014 in a mass grave in the village, were buried during the ceremony

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    Indian paramilitary soldiers hug each other as they react to the news of killing of two suspected rebels in a gun-battle in the Nowhatta neighborhood of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Suspected separatist rebels and government troops were engaged in two gun battles in Indian-controlled Kashmir despite a complete security lockdown in the disputed region as India celebrated its independence from British rule

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    A spectator poses ahead of the Women's Marathon during the athletics event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Sambodromo in Rio de Janeiro

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    Family members of Sylville Smith gather where he was shot and killed by police in Milwaukee. Police say a black man whose killing touched off arson and rock-throwing, was shot by a black officer after turning toward him with a gun in his hand

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    Men carry a dog, wearing a costume and seated on a stool, as a form of respect as they believe that dogs found water for their ancestors, during a local festival for the Miao ethnic minority in Jianhe county, Guizhou Province, China

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    A truck burns in the town of Lower Lake, California. A wildfire destroyed at least four homes and forced thousands of people in two Northern California towns to flee as flames jumped a road and moved into populated areas

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    Kurdish Peshmerga forces fire a rocket toward Islamic State militants on the southeast of Mosul , Iraq

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    An armed boy walks as he attends a gathering held by tribesmen loyal to the Houthi movement to show support to a political council formed by the movement and the General People's Congress party to unilaterally rule Yemen by both groups in Sanaa

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    A jockey takes part in a traditional cattle race or "Pacu Jawi", to mark the end of the rice harvest in Tanah Datar, West Sumatra, Indonesia

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    Rescue workers carry a survivor on a stretcher, after he was extracted from a collapsed wall in an informal settler house, just beside the city jail building in Manila

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    Revellers take part in the Monsoon Holi Madrid festival in Madrid, Spain

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    Revellers chat on Havana's Malecon seafront before performing at a carnival parade, Cuba

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    A man fights against the active front of a forest fire near Arouca, Portugal

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    A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky above medieval tombstones in Radmilje near Stolac, south of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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    An injured man receives first aid after two bombs exploded in the Thai seaside resort of Hua Hin

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    Children try to push an injured and weak dolphin back into the water after it washed ashore during bad weather and high tide on a beach in Cilacap, Central Java, Indonesia

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    A man collects coconuts and other items thrown as offerings by worshippers in the Sabarmati river, a day after the "Dashama" festival in Ahmedabad, India

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    An injured riot policeman is helped by comrades during clashes with independent miners against Bolivia's President Evo Morales' government policies, in Mantecani near La Paz, Bolivia

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    A team equipped with anti mosquito spray packs walks through the Koumassi district of Abidjan during an operation aimed at preventing the spread of the zika virus in Côte d’Ivoire

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    An Indian policeman uses a slingshot during clashes with demonstrators following a protest in Srinagar against the recent killings in Kashmir

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Relaxing as they are, holidays can present a whole host of hair dilemmas: long days in the sunshine, not to mention dipping in and out of the sea or pool can play havoc with your ‘do. Whether you’re planning to laze on a lounger, or head off the beaten track on an adventurous excursion, we’ve got all the styles you need to see you through a few weeks of sun. 

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