World News in Pictures

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A meeting of adversaries: Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko shake hands ahead of key talks in Belarus



Residents of Liberia's West Point slum - quarantined to try to halt the spread of the deadly Ebola virus - react with anger behind a wired fence

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Palestinian children play on the wreckage of a building destroyed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza City



Supporters of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, gather in front of his mausoleum in Ankara during celebrations of Victory Day

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Theme's such as Notting Hill Carnival/Doggy shows pics don't carry individual font, just a headline.

Anyone experiencing a problem with missing font from single news stories?

All good here.
Thanks Lick.

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^ Gus are you using dark blue default style or light blue Vbulletin Original?

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^ The default style. the other one is to bright for me .

OK. I just changed over to the original, and you are right, on some of the posts i have to highlight to see the comments. eg post 30973, the others after that are fine.

[Mr Lick]

A seagull lands on a sailor's hat and takes a sip of his coffee. The sneaky bird perches on the head of Norwegian tour guide Ole Martin Dahle then dips its beak into his mug for a morning caffeine fix. The seagull was photographed by 55 year old professional photographer Andrew Astbury, whilst on a week-long trip in the county of Nord-Trondelag in Norway



A spare bedroom was taken over by a swarm of 5,000 wasps that built their nest on the bed after a window was left open. The owners of the five-bedroom property in Winchester, who have not been named, had not been in the unused room of their home for several months. When the door was opened by the son of the homeowner, he was faced with a wasps' nest measuring three feet wide and over a foot deep. The wasps were also chewing through the pillows and into the mattress

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This is an artist's impression of an ambitious plan which suggests skyscrapers of the future may house an entire city. The Endless City project is an award-winning proposal by SURE Architecture, who propose turning skyscrapers into complete ecosystems. London is the proposed city for the mixed-use tower - which would feature huge ramps linking different sections of the structure. The company, whose design won the SkyScrapers and SuperSkyScrapers Competition, insist the structure would be a great space-saver in dense cities which have previously spread outwards rather than upwards



This is the jaw-dropping moment a crocodile broke the surf to snap up an unlucky turtle as it ventured back into the water. The huge predator emerged from the waves to clamp its fearsome jaws around the slow-moving reptile on the sand. Photographer Alejandro Prieto captured the incredible scenes on the remote Osa Peninsula in south-western Costa Rica

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A camera drone hovers over Tahirul Qadri, a Canadian based Pakistani Muslim cleric, while speaking to supporters during a mass anti-government protest in Islamabad, Pakistan



Scientists put the kite-shaped foil sunshield for the James Webb Space Telescope through its paces in the Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach, California. This sunshield is the largest part of JWST and offers intense protection from the Sun, letting through less than a millionth of the Sun's heat

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Many Palestinians, including these two children, took to the streets to celebrate what they said was a victory over Israel, following a ceasefire in Gaza City



A mechanical horse-dragon made of wood and steel is presented to the public in Nantes, western France. The 'animal', created by the French artist Francois Delaroziere of Les machines de l'Óle (The Machines of the Isle), is the hero of the show Long Ma which will be presented in Beijing on October 17, 2014 as part of the fiftieth anniversary of the relationship between France and China

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A nearly complete skeleton of a mammoth that died 20,000 to 40,000 years ago has been excavated near Dallas, Texas. A North Texas family were gathering materials from a gravel pit on their property in May when they found a 6-foot (1.8 metre) tusk. The family has decided to donate the remains to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas



the swirl of Hurricane Marie just west of Socorro Island, Mexico in the Eastern Pacific. Waves up to 15 feet (4.5 metres) high generated by Hurricane Marie will hammer Southern California beaches in coming days, creating dangerous conditions for beachgoers and threatening coastal flooding, meteorologists said on August 26

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The world's most powerful commercial Earth-imaging satellite was launched less than two weeks ago, but DigitalGlobe's WorldView-3 spacecraft is already sending back ultra-high-resolution pictures of cars with their doors left open and dump trucks that have clearly emptied their loads.

The resolution is so ultra-high, in fact, that the federal government isn't allowing DigitalGlobe to release the pictures at their best just yet. Due to regulatory restrictions, they have to be downgraded from a resolution of 12 inches per pixel to a fuzzier 15 inches per pixel (30 to 40 centimeters per pixel) until Feb. 21, 2015.





The pictures released on Tuesday were taken as WorldView-3 soared 383 miles (617 kilometers) over Madrid, Spain. It's easy to count the cars in a parking lot, and skilled analysts could even identify which types of cars they're looking at.

Pictures of airplanes on a runway reveal the identification numbers, and a picture from a construction site shows what the trucks are carrying.

In the past, DigitalGlobe's satellite images have been used to track activity at Iranian nuclear facilities or North Korean launch pads. WorldView-3 will provide even sharper views of such sites, plus super-spectral imaging of agricultural areas, archaeological hot spots and your own backyard. You can look forward to seeing the difference in commercial databases such as Google Earth and Bing Maps






The camera on DigitalGlobe's WorldView-3 satellite focused on a residential section of Madrid, Spain

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Members of the Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit rappel from a Griffon helicopter on to a ship while taking part in a scenario during the Operation Nanook military exercise on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada August 26, 2014



Women hold posters of Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi during a pro-government demonstration in Sanaa August 26, 2014.

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Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum is carried by Palestinians as they celebrate what they said was a victory over Israel following a ceasefire in Gaza City August 26, 2014.



Coffins containing bodies of migrants who died are carried off a navy ship at the Sicilian harbor of Augusta August 26, 2014. At least 24 migrants trying to reach Europe from Africa died after their boat sank in the Mediterranean, the Italian navy said after completing a two day search for bodies. A further 364 migrants were rescued by navy and coastguard vessels

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Michael Lucarelli runs from the media as he leaves the federal court building after posting bail in Manhattan, New York August 26, 2014. Lucarelli, the director of market intelligence at Lippert/Heilshorn & Associates, was arrested at his Manhattan apartment, a spokesman for the FBI said. A criminal complaint made public in federal court charged Lucarelli with 13 counts of securities fraud.



A worker at a General Motors (GM) vehicle factory reacts during an assembly that was held to vote to accept the company's proposal to furlough 930 workers for up to five months, in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil August 26, 2014.

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Great shot.

Ukraine giving it the biggun and Moscow teaching the shit-eating grin.

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Many Palestinians, including these two children, took to the streets to celebrate what they said was a victory over Israel, following a ceasefire in Gaza City

Two sides to a story. Look what they're being taught.

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Sunblushed: crowds of people throw tomatoes at each other, during the annual ‘tomatina’ tomato fight fiesta, in the village of Buñol, near Valencia in Spain.



Dez Johnston, 31, theology student and security guard, from Lenzie. Scotland has the highest percentage of people with ginger (or red) hair in the world, with Edinburgh - where 40% of people carry the gene - the global capital

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Kate Bush accepts the acclaim of her fans as she takes to the stage for the first of her Before the Dawn concerts.

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Freed US journalist Peter Theo Curtis addresses the media outside his mother's home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 27 August 2014. The US journalist initially abducted in Antakya, Turkey, in October 2012 as he was allegedly trying to enter Syria to teach English, was released 24 August 2014 in Syria to UN representatives. He was handed over to UN peacekeepers in al-Rafid village in the Quneitra area of the Golan Heights, the UN said. He received a medical check-up and was delivered to US government representatives. Curtis' handover was arranged through Qatari mediation, according to an Al Jazeera report



Photographer Maria Pirsch falls on the road after being hit by anti-riot policemen during a protest staged by state-run workers who were seeking to block a road in Buenos Aires August 27, 2014. Opposition labour unions have planned a 24-hour strike across Argentina for Thursday to press President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's administration for wage increases in line with inflation rate and to reduce the tax income in salaries.

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Cyclists in action during the fifth stage of the Vuelta Ciclista cycling race, of 183.3 kilometres between Priego de Cordoba and Ronda, Andalusia, southern Spain, 27 August 2014



Druze men look at smoke rising on the Israeli-controlled side of the line dividing the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria following fighting near the Quneitra border crossing August 27, 2014. Al Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front and other Islamist fighters have taken control of the border crossing, a group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Wednesday. The fighters captured the Quneitra post on the Syrian side from forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad after fierce clashes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The crossing is monitored by the United Nations, which oversees traffic between the two enemy countries but the distance between the two warring adversaries' posts is some 200 meters (yards). During the fighting, a stray bullet wounded an Israeli soldier in the Golan Heights and Israel responded with artillery fire at two Syrian army positions, the Israeli military said. It was the latest spillover of violence from the three-year conflict.

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A goat named 'Barney' from Vauxhall City Farm, walks through a ticket barrier with morning commuters at Vauxhall Underground Station in London, during a photocall to launch Transport for London's first 'above ground map' of the Victoria line, in a bid to encourage people to explore more of London



Red squirrel steals its friend's nut, Queen Elizabeth Forest Park, Trossachs, Scotland. The squirrel on the right has successfully stolen the nut, whilst the squirrel onthe left seemingly slaps the other in the face

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Company of the HMS Illustrious stand in formation during her decommissioning ceremony in Portsmouth. The HMS Illustrious was the last of the Royal Navy's Invincible class aircraft carriers, and is to be replaced by HMS Ocean after serving for 32 years. The ship is to be sold with the condition that the buyer must keep HMS Illustrious in the UK



A hungry kingfisher plunges into a river to catch its dinner. The photo was taken by Jacopo Rigotti who lives near Trento in Italy

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Members of the British Twister aerobatics team perform a stunt during a test flight for upcoming performances during the 2014 Shenyang Faku International Flight Convention in Shenyang, China



103-year-old sprinter Hidekichi Miyazaki is helped by his daughter Kiyono (R) and 89-year-old athlete Hiroshi Miyamoto (L) after crossing the finish line in the men's 100m dash at a Japan Masters Athletics competition in Kyoto. Miyazaki, who holds the 100 metres world record for centenarians at 29.83 seconds and is dubbed 'Golden Bolt' after the Jamaican flyer, plans to wait another five years for his dream race and was happy to reveal his secret weapon: his daughter's tangerine jam

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'Walkies!': Jiff, the 4-year-old Pomeranian, walks on his two front legs in his Los Angeles home. Jiff blazed into the 60th edition of the Guinness World Records book due out Sept. 10, 2014 after running 10 metres (9.1 yards) on his hind legs in 6.56 seconds and 5 metres (4.55 yards) on his front paws in 7.76 seconds



Magician Dynamo appears to levitate above the Shard

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Noodles the dog, wearing a Philadelphia Phillies cap, and owner Anthony Smith attended the Taney Dragons Little League baseball game against Chicago in Philadelphia



Israeli couple, Noga and Moshiko Siho, have their wedding photo taken in an army staging area on the Israeli Gaza border, near Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel



The Chinese navy has held a memorial ceremony for the 120th anniversary of the first Sino-Japanese War in Weihai, Shandong province of China. The First Sino-Japanese War was fought from August 1, 1894 to April 17, 1895