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Soldiers of the British Coldstream Guard, wearing their traditional "bearskin" tall fur cap, take part in the changing of the Republican Guard on the steps of the presidential palace in Paris, to celebrate 120 years of Entende Cordiale agreements between France and the UK. IMAGES
The US West Point military academy finds no apparent contents in a 200-year-old time capsule recently discovered inside the base of a monument at West Point, New York, and believed to have been left by cadets in the 1820s. "The box didn't quite meet expectations," says an expert during the unveiling ceremony, adding that his team will collect a layer of silt from the bottom of the box to see if they can find any remains in it. IMAGES
The trial of a 100-year-old former concentration camp guard, the oldest accused of Nazi crimes ever tried in the country, opens in Germany. Josef Schütz, a former master corporal in the Waffen-SS's "Totenkopf" (Death's Head) division, is on trial for "knowingly and willingly" assisting in the murder of 3,518 prisoners when he operated in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, not far from Berlin, between 1942 and 1945. IMAGES
The final part of the trial of Russian historian Oleg Sokolov, accused of murdering and dismembering his former student lover, resumes in St Petersburg. Prosecutors in Saint Petersburg have requested a 15-year jail term for a decorated Russian historian and Napoleon enthusiast. IMAGES
"Emmanuel", the bell of Paris's Notre-Dame cathedral, rings at 8pm on the first anniversary of the cathedral fire. A few passers-by gather to cheer, as the reconstruction site remains dormant due to the coronavirus epidemic. IMAGES
US astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir become the first all-female pairing to carry out a spacewalk, following a spacesuit flub earlier this year that caused the historic mission to be aborted. IMAGES