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Several dozen British soldiers from the 47th Royal Marine Commando disembark from barges on Gold beach to the sound of bagpipes before a large crowd of spectators who have come to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings. IMAGES
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai says that Taliban rule in Afghanistan has made "girlhood illegal", in her keynote speech at an event held by the Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg to commemorate the anti-apartheid icon. “The Taliban have made girlhood illegal and it is taking a toll,” she says. IMAGES
Israel's Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, pays tribute to Holocaust victims at the Mauthausen concentration camp, as part of his travels across Austria to commemorate the 77th Holocaust Memorial Day. IMAGES
Police in in Puerto Rico's capital fire tear gas at protesters after hundreds of thousands of angry protesters take to the streets seeking the resignation of the US territory's embattled governor. IMAGES
Austrian paediatrician Hans Asperger, after whom Asperger's syndrome is named, "actively cooperated" with the Nazi euthanasia programme, according to a new study. IMAGES of the Spiegelgrund centre and memorial in Vienna.
The eye of Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico, pummeling the island as a Category Four storm with winds of 155 miles (250 kilometers) per hour, the US National Hurricane Center says. IMAGES