TODAY’S World in Pictures features photographs of attempts to extinguish a wildfire in Colorado, Nasa launching rockets to conduct weather experiments and Susan Boyle and actress Elaine Smith on stage after a performance of the musical ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle.
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A trail of slurry is deposited by a bomber during a run over a smouldering ridge in the Lower North Fork in Conifer, Colorado. Firefighters are now able to actively battle the blaze on the ground that started on Monday and has already destroyed at least 16 homes
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Five suborbital sounding rockets are launched from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Atlantic, Vancouver. The first rocket was launched at 4:58am and each subsequent rocket was launched 80 seconds apart
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Susan Boyle and actress Elaine Smith take a bow at the end of the performance of the musical I Dreamed A Dream at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle
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Models present creations from VISCAP's autumn/winter 2012-2013 collection during China Fashion Week in Beijing
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A Madame Tussauds sculptor works on the new wax figure of Queen Elizabeth II which will portray Her Majesty as she appeared in the official Jubilee portrait photograph released in December
