A look at the best news photos from around the world.
July 12, 2017
![Spain's Queen Letizia and Britain's Prince Philip sit together in a carriage as they are taken to Buckingham Palace after a Ceremonial Welcome at Horse Guards Parade in London.](https://gdb.voanews.com/ff081a53-d6e7-45b9-98c6-b4a219374911_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Spain's Queen Letizia and Britain's Prince Philip sit together in a carriage as they are taken to Buckingham Palace after a Ceremonial Welcome at Horse Guards Parade in London.
![A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched from the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, during Flight Test THAAD (FTT)-18, July 11, 2017.](https://gdb.voanews.com/5846dfa8-347b-4a81-9ab3-54fb9891bee3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched from the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, during Flight Test THAAD (FTT)-18, July 11, 2017.
![This undated video grab obtained on July 11, 2017, shows Chinese Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo (C) surrounded by doctors and his wife Liu Xia at an undisclosed location. A Chinese hospital said that it was scrambling to save terminally-ill Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, while human rights groups decried his treatment by the authorities and the leak of a video showing him in his sickbed.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e07f8196-a881-43ba-8a54-859934dcd771_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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This undated video grab obtained on July 11, 2017, shows Chinese Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo (C) surrounded by doctors and his wife Liu Xia at an undisclosed location. A Chinese hospital said that it was scrambling to save terminally-ill Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, while human rights groups decried his treatment by the authorities and the leak of a video showing him in his sickbed.
![A woman poses as David Hammon's painting on an America flag 'Injustice case' at the exhibition Soul Of A Nation, exploring the art made by African American artists between 1963 and 1983, in London, July 11, 2017.](https://gdb.voanews.com/49227b18-6d97-4ff2-aa3c-a28bb202e544_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman poses as David Hammon's painting on an America flag 'Injustice case' at the exhibition Soul Of A Nation, exploring the art made by African American artists between 1963 and 1983, in London, July 11, 2017.