Jockey unseated, Banksy’s freezer and world’s fastest zip line: Thursday’s best photos

Jockey unseated, Banksy’s freezer and world’s fastest zip line: Thursday’s best photos

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A Mexican soldier burns coca plants in the mountainous area best known for growing poppies, the base ingredient for producing heroin. The Mexican army said the plantation was one of the largest found so far

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Atoyac de Álvarez, Mexico

Sally Webster, 85, a care home resident from Cheshire, who has completed the world’s fastest zip line in Wales, going at about 100mph, with the help of Care UK

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Penrhyn slate quarry, UK

A protective screen is placed over the new artwork, Valentine’s Day Mascara, claimed to be by Banksy, as a freezer incorporated into it is replaced by Thanet district council

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Margate, UK

A Ukrainian soldier of the 93rd brigade stands near a pile of empty mortar shell containers

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Bakhmut, Ukraine

The remains of the Puketapu Bridge that was washed away during Cyclone Gabrielle

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Napier, New Zealand

Iraqi Shia Muslim pilgrims gather to pray at the shrine of the 8th-century imam Musa al-Kadhim in the Kadhimiya district

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Baghdad, Iraq