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The Ref 96 Quantieme Lune timepiece, which originally belonged to Aisin-Gioro Puyi, the final monarch of the Chinese Qing dynasty, was sold on the auction block in Hong Kong.
In the Sonora Desert, Jacques-Andre Istel, 94, has been building his "Museum of History of Humanity in granite" for nearly four decades. Istel's ambitious project stretches over 2,600-acre (1,052-hectare) and is not yet complete.
Admirers of Brittany's stunning pink granite coast are aiming to get the impressive, bizarrely shaped rock formations which are over 300 million years old, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Sealed sarcophagi and statues, that were buried more than 2,500 years ago, were found at the famed Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara.
French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson watch a flypast in London to mark the 80th anniversary of wartime resistance leader Charles de Gaulle's rallying cry against Nazi occupation from the British capital. IMAGES