Thursday 7 May 2015 11.10 EDT Last modified on Thursday 7 May 2015 11.36 EDT  London, UK A couple poses for a wedding photo in front of the Houses of Parliament  Moscow, Russia Paratroopers march during a rehearsal for a military parade in Red Square  Witney, UK Conservative party leader David Cameron leaves after casting his vote at Spelsbury Memorial Hall, as Britain goes to the ballot box today in the most uncertain general election for decades  Sao Vicente, Brazil An image of Barcelona’s Neymar is shaved into a customer’s hair at a barber shop  Kathmandu, Nepal People pay tribute to the 25 April earthquake victims  Bujumbura, Burundi A suspected member of the ruling party’s Imbonerakure youth militia pleads with soldiers to protect him from a mob of demonstrators, after he emerged from hiding in a sewer  Venice, Italy A woman wears a yellow burqa during the a performance of High Visibility Burqa at the Biennale  Gamina, Ivory Coast Prospectors search for gold at a mine  Pyongyang, North Korea Schoolgirls perform a song during an accordion class at the Pyongyang School Children’s Palace, where talented children attend extracurricular classes  Hull, UK The public vote at East Hull amateur boxing club, which is being used as a polling station in the election. See our quiry polling stations gallery here  Srinagar, India A daily wage government employee holds up his injured hand from a police vehicle after he was detained during a protest march to demand regularisation of their services in Kashmir  Central Valley, USA Cows at Harris cattle ranch in Coalinga, California. It takes 150 gallons of water to make a 1/3 pounder hamburger according to the US Geological Survey  Paris, France Portraits by the contemporary artist JR are displayed in the dome of the Pantheon
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