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Sport picture of the day: the bird tifo of Benfica

Before their Champions League quarter-final second leg against Bayern Munich, the Benfica players lined up beneath an impressive giant tifo of their bald eagle mascot Vitória sitting atop of the competition’s logo, mimicking the club crest

World View: Fäbodvall, and a farmer’s life in Sweden

Chef Magnus Nilsson’s new photography book captures Sweden’s rural traditions, including fäbodvall – the seasonal movement of people and livestock

Empty Britain: portrait of a nation without any people – in pictures

The holy trinity of surfing: wave, board and rider – in pictures

Dutch blogger Yolan Post set off for the coral atolls and islands of the Indian Ocean to see if he could enjoy a taste of paradise on a budget

Readers share their photographs of wooden buildings around the world

Steel mills, severed heads: the wired world of Thomas Struth – in pictures

Sport picture of the day: Australian Swimming Championships

Ryan Roche of Australia competes in the Men’s 50-metre breaststroke during day six of the 2016 Australian Swimming Championships at the South Australian Aquatic & Leisure Centre

Photo highlights of the day: a naughty elephant and an airborne whale

The Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of the best photographs from around the world, including a Thai water festival and kites on a French beach

The best photos from the 2016 Masters at Augusta

After four days of great action which culminated in Danny Willett’s victory, we take a look back at some of our favourite images from the first major of 2016

Window on the world: Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock\'s Alaska – in pictures

The mercury’s dropped to minus 36 degrees and there’s a moose in your back garden, welcome to Alaska. Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock gives us an insight into the setting of her new novel, The Smell of Other People’s Houses

Looking for Lenin: Ukraine banned the statues - but where did they go?

One man\'s trash: the filtered flotsam of artist Stuart Haygarth – in pictures

The Dozen: the weekend\'s best Premier League photos

Our selection of eye-catching pictures from the weekend’s matches in England’s top flight

Photo highlights of the day: Elvis in Scotland and Peruvian tuk-tuks

The Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of the best photographs from around the world

Martin Parr’s Real Food: everyday eats in all their grim glory

Amid the fashion for expensive, Instagramable meals, the photographer captures in his new book the more common cuisine enjoyed by a silent majority

Merle Haggard: the maverick musician and his ‘defiantly contrarian journey’

The singer-songwriter, who died on 6 April, drew on his genuine outsider experience to forge a tougher sound in opposition to Nashville’s slickness

Your pictures: share your photos on the theme of \'crease\'

Wherever you are in the world, we’d like to see your pictures on the theme ‘crease.’ Share your best photos via GuardianWitness

Dusk yourself down: readers\' photos on the theme of evening

Artist films daughter once a month for a minute over seven years – in pictures

The continuing refugee crisis in Europe, the ongoing violence in Syria, the Nuit debout protest movement – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week

Artist Melanie Manchot filmed her daughter for one minute a month for seven years, starting when she was 11. The edited sequence is a fascinating record of a child becoming an adult. Plus, in pictures

\'It was hard to publicise a famous failure\': Eddie the Eagle’s manager looks back

He tried really hard. He had no funds behind him and was using hand-me-down boots too big for him

Rolling Stones, stolen Munch and the €1bn flop of Les Halles – the week in art

Art is not immune from the biggest document leak in history and Glasgow International kicks off for another year – all in your weekly art dispatch

Utopia now: the heritage of London\'s brutalist architecture – in pictures

A new project by photographer Rory Gardiner and studio esinam highlights the subtle beauties hidden beneath the hard surface of London’s oft-maligned brutalist buildings, from the Barbican to the National Theatre

Photographer Sabyl Ghoussoub always wanted to take pictures of the country, but he was’t interested in veiled women, clerics

or the underground scene in Tehran. The road less traveled led to Dezful

Photo highlights of the day: a Mumbai festival and the Hoff in Honkers

Archaeologists feared they would find widespread devastation after Palmyra was recaptured from Islamic State by pro-Assad forces in March. While the ancient city’s most famous monuments were desecrated, other notable artefacts survived and experts hope the whole site will be restored

An \'epic poem\' of life in Soviet Lithuania – in pictures

Rebelling against political propaganda, acclaimed photographer Antanas Sutkus embarked on a life-long journey to capture the everyday scenes around him. A landmark exhibition of his work,

Welcome to the New York store with nothing to sell – in pictures

Bill Henson on photographing the \'monumental\' artefacts of ancient Greece

Artist given rare chance to take artefacts from 8,000 years of Greek civilisation and photograph them with live model