Dashing doggies and Beyoncé at Coachella: Sunday's photo highlights

The Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world including Azaleas in Japan and netball victory at the Commonwealth Games

  • Eastern Ghouta, Syria


    A Syrian army soldier waves a flag in Shuhada square in Douma after government forces entered the last rebel bastion and declared that all opposition forces had left the town
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    A Syrian army soldier waves a flag

  • Gold Coast, Australia


    Helen Housby and her England teammates celebrate winning the netball gold medal match against Australia at the Commonwealth Games
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    England women's netball team celebrates

  • Gold Coast, Australia


    Scotland’s Callum Hawkins lies on the ground a mile from the finish as Australia’s Michael Shelley runs past him and into the lead during the men’s marathon at the Commonwealth Games. Hawkins was later taken to hospital
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    Michael Shelley runs past Callum Hawkins

  • Indio, California


    Beyoncé performs during 2018 Coachella Valley music and arts festival
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    Beyoncé onstage with band

  • Sasebo, Japan


    Azaleas in full bloom at Nagushiyama park, where about 100,000 different kinds of the shrub are blooming
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    Red, pink and white Azaleas

  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


    Demonstrators take part in a protest against the shooting of the city councillor Marielle Franco to mark the one month anniversary of her death
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    Demonstrator carrying white flowers

  • Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo


    Mave Grace, 11, who had part of her arm chopped off by militiamen when they attacked the village of Tchee, stands with her sister Racahele-Ngabausi, aged two, at a camp for internally displaced people
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    Two young girls at refugee camp

  • Nanning, China


    An aerial view of thousands of bikes that were part of a bike-sharing scheme but which had been impounded by police for being illegally parked or blocking footpaths
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    aerial view of thousands of bikes

  • Hong Kong


    Owners and their dogs take part in HK Doggie Dash 2018, an event held to raise money for for abandoned and surrendered dogs in Hong Kong. Dozens of pugs and dachshunds compensated for their modest speed with peppy spirit in the inaugural race
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    Pugs race down street as crowd looks on

  • Paris, France


    People celebrate at the end of the Colour Run 2018 race in front of the Eiffel Tower
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    People surrounded by coloured smoke

  • London, UK


    A conservator examines the famous ceiling painted by Rubens of The Apotheosis of King James I at the Banqueting House in Whitehall, London, after scaffolding 17 metres high was erected to allow conservation work
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    Woman on scaffolding looks at painting

  • Manchester, UK


    A wreath laying ceremony at the Cenotaph in Manchester to mark the centenary of the first world war’s Battle of Manchester Hill which took place just outside Saint-Quentin in northern France on the first day of then German spring offensive. It became the second worst day in British military history with 8,000 men killed including most of the 16th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment as they sought to defend Manchester Hill
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    Manchester, UK A wreath laying ceremony at the Cenotaph in Manchester to mark the centenary of the first world war’s Battle of Manchester Hill which took place just outside Saint-Quentin in northern France on the first day of then German spring offensive. It became the second worst day in British military history with 8,000 men killed including most of the 16th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment as they sought to defend Manchester Hill
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