World News in Pictures

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This is the shocking moment a group of men risk their lives by posing for photographs - while dangling their legs over the crumbling 500 foot high cliffs at Beachy Head in East Sussex



The inaugural Red Bull Cape Fear surfing contest was held at Cape Solander in Botany Bay on Sunday in 2-3 metre waves. Reknowned as being one of the craziest and most dangerous waves in the world, Cape Solander breaks over reef only a couple of feet deep and 10 metres from barnacle covered rocks. Fourteen of the best big wave surfers from around the world were flown in for the contest including surfers from Hawaii, USA, New Zealand and Australia

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Burma's first international beauty queen May Myat Noe, who was the winner of 2014 Miss Asia Pacific World, poses with the $100,000 crown that she allegedly ran away with during a press conference in Rangoon. The dethroned beauty queen says she won't return the crown until the pageant's organisers apologise for calling her a liar and a thief



Cheerleaders perform during the FIBA World basketball championship match between Puerto Rico vs Greece at the Palacio Municipal de Deportes in Sevilla



Scientists have reported that cave art made more than 39,000 years ago, seen here in Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar, quashes Neanderthal's reputation as the dumb cousins of early modern humans. The activity is regarded as a major cognitive step in the evolution of humankind

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Iraqi Shiite militia fighters fire their weapons as they celebrate breaking a long siege of Amerli by Islamic State militants



Indian artist Subodh Gupta stands behind his isntallation 'Geheri Neemd' (2008) at the Museum for Modern Art in Frankfurt Germany. The exhibition 'Subodh Gupta - Everything is Inside' will run at MMK 1 from 12 September 2014 till 18 January 2015

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The pilot of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was laid to rest Tuesday outside Kuala Lumpur. Captain Wan Amran was buried in Shah Alam after his body, along with eight others, was repatriated to Malaysia from the Netherlands.
All 298 people aboard were killed when the commercial jet was shot down near the Ukraine-Russia border on July 17.

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Mexican authorities are investigating after hundreds of thousands of fish died of unknown causes. Fish weighing nearly 50 tons have been found floating in Lake Cajititlan in less than a week, the European Pressphoto Agency reports.

Effluent from local wastewater treatment plants could have caused the fish to die, Jalisco state's secretary for the environment told the BBC

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Tourists have dinner as fish swim around them, at the Tianjin Haichang Polar Ocean World in Tianjin, China on Monday

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Police officers carry packages containing seized cocaine after their arrival at the police airport in Lima September 1, 2014.



President Barack Obama delivers remarks at Laborfest 2014 at Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin September 1, 2014



Folk artist Yu Guangjun places "Maohou" figures onto a miniature display at his house in Beijing, September 2, 2014.

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Women in elaborate costumes take part in the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn New York. Every Labor Day, this colourful carnival celebrates the end of summer in one of the biggest and most popular parades in the Big Apple.



Royal Horticultural Society Ambassador Mary Berry adds a flower to a floral cake at the opening of the RHS Flower Show at Wisley Gardens. 40,000 visitors are expected to enjoy the range of floral art and specialist nursery exhibits during the six day show which opens today.

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Cast members perform during the launch of Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza at The Royal Albert Hall : on show at the Royal Albert Hall from January 3



A Vote Yes slogan chalked on a wall with famous Edinburgh landmarks in the background

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A devotee daubed in colored powder prays as she takes part in the immersion of the idols of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity on the fifth day of the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai September 2, 2014. Ganesh idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing, and later immersed in a river or the sea, symbolising a ritual seeing-off of his journey towards his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind.



Smiling and growling sculptures line the stairs leading into a shopping center in Bangkok, Thailand, September 2, 2014. Since the military coup in Thailand on May 22, 2014, the Thai economy is showing signs of recovery with August figures showing inflation continuing to ease over the past three months

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Firefighters battle to extinguish a large fire on 12th floor of the Chatterjee International Centre building in Calcutta, India, September 2, 2014. Reportedly the fire originally started on the 12th floor and slowly extended to other floors. At least twelve fire engines reached the spot and at least four persons were evacuated but noboby was injured



Melvic Choo, 13, carries the ashes of his father MH17 co-pilot Eugene Choo, while standing near his mother Ivy Loi (L) at the wake in Seremban September 2, 2014. Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 crashed after being shot down over war-torn Ukraine on July 17, killing all 298 people on board



Anti-government protesters pull a rope to remove a container barricade during the Revolution March in Islamabad September 2, 2014. Pakistani protesters pushed closer to the prime minister's house in central Islamabad on Monday in their bid to force his removal and forced national television off the air after clashes turned violent over the weekend

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Visitors tour one of two completed caverns at the Jurong Rock Caverns, before its opening in Singapore September 2, 2014. The Jurong Rock Caverns, the first commercial underground facility for liquid hydrocarbons storage in Southeast Asia, opened on Tuesday. When all five caverns are completed, the facility located 150 meters below the ground will be able to store up to 1.47 million cubic meters of liquid hydrocarbons, equivalent to 600 Olympic-sized swimming pools. The remaining three caverns are expected to be completed in 2016



A turret with a gun from a Ukrainian army tank is pictured at the site of a destroyed Ukrainian check-point as road workers clear debris outside the town of Olenivka near the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, September 2, 2014.



German army medical personnel attend to a wounded Ukrainian soldier in Berlin's Tegel airport, September 2, 2014. Some 19 Ukrainian soldiers wounded during fights in eastern Ukraine were brought to Berlin from Kiev on Tuesday for further medical treatment in German military hospitals.

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Kei Nishikori, of Japan, reacts after defeating Milos Raonic, of Canada, during the fourth round of the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, in New York.



European Ryder cup team captain Paul McGinley stands by a list of his chosen players during a press conference at Wentworth Golf Club to announce his three wild card selections for his team to play at Gleneagles in Scotland against the USA, in Wentworth England, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014.

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Casino workers and customers walk out of The Revel Hotel Casino together early in the morning Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, in Atlantic City, N.J. The casino section of the Revel closed at 6:30 a.m.Tuesday. Revel is shutting down a little over two years after opening with high hopes of revitalizing Atlantic City's struggling gambling market



People on electric bikes cross a busy traffic intersection on a rainy day on Chang'an Avenue in Beijing, China Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014.



England's Harry Gurney is bowled by Mohammed Shami during the fourth One Day International match between England and India at Edgbaston cricket ground, Birmingham, England, Tuesday, Sept 2, 2014



A scoreboard operator watches the match from behind the board during the cricket One Day International between South Africa and Australia in Harare Zimbabwe Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014



An Indian army solider shouts to his colleague to throw a magazine loaded with bullets during a gunbattle in Rajpora village south of Srinagar, India, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. Indian government forces killed three suspected rebels in a gunbattle Tuesday in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, where many residents oppose India's decades-long rule, officials said

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The 2014 British Wildlife Photography Awards have been selected from thousands of entries, with a brooding shot of a greylag goose under a stormy London sky named the overall winner.

It was taken by the River Thames by Lee Acaster from Wortham in Suffolk, capturing the Shard in the background.







Judges awarded prizes in 16 categories. A Life At Sea For Nesting Gannets was taken in the Shetland Isles by Ruth Asher, from Cholsey, Oxfordshire and won the habitat category



This picture of an otter capturing a puffin was taken in the Shetland Isles by Richard Shucksmith from Shetland. It won the animal behaviour category

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This year's coast and marine category was won by Alexander Mustard from Peterborough, with this shot taken in Cornwall, called Big Blues, Blue Sharks. He also won the British nature in black and white category, with the shot below on the left, called Blue on Black



The centre image of a shag resting was taken in Northumberland by Steven Fairbrother from Derby and won the animal portraits category, while the category called hidden Britain was won by this picture of a gnat on a window, taken by Susie Hewitt from Belfast



The under 12 category of the WildPix Young People's Awards went to 11-year-old William Bowcutt, from Lutterworth, Leicestershire for his photo Dipper With Grubs - taken in Dumfries. Year 5 and 6 pupils at Michael Drayton Junior School, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, won the school award for a series of pictures including a ladybird and bluebells

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This shot of a fox on the prowl in South London was taken by Joshua Burch, 16, from Carshalton, Sutton and won the 12 to 18-year-old category. The photograph of a grey seal claw (centre) taken in Lincolnshire won the close to nature category for Jim Greenfield from Harrogate, North Yorkshire. The botanical Britain category was won by this shot of an overgrown telephone box, taken by Londoner Philip Braude

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Wildlife photographer Chris Fallows took this amazing picture of a great white shark breaching to attack a dummy seal



Babies experience the Float Baby spa in Houston, Texas

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The Three Gorges Dam opens gates to discharge floods for first time this year on the Yangtze River, Hubei, China. Heavy rains are pushing water levels at the Three Gorges Dam past the flood level limit



This motorcyclist had a lucky escape after crashing into a car after overtaking a Google Street View vehicle - which captured the event for posterity. The young man was riding the bike in shorts and t-shirt when he overtook the Google car. He then approaches a car in front and unsuccessfully tries to squeeze past it before clipping the vehicle and falling off. The bike ends up in the path of a Volkswagen Polo but luckily the motorcyclist avoids being hit by passing traffic

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A controversial children's colouring book company have re-released their anti-terrorism series to include Islamic State references. The books, designed by US company Really Big Coloring Books, feature pages of scenes such as the crucifixion of a Christian by a member of IS to the assassination of Osama Bin Laden



A shoeshine boy cleans the boots of a policeman outside the congress building in Lima, Peru

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This is the hair-raising moment a huge great white shark took a bite out of a GoPro camera rig worth more than £7,000 before sending it to the bottom of the sea. The footage was captured from the relative safety of a shark cage off the coast of New Zealand



A member of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) takes up his position during a patrol looking for militants of the Islamic State in a neighbourhood in Ramadi

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A Goffin's cockatoo named Kiwi manufactures a tool after watching another cockatoo perform the same trick. Scientists have observed the brainy birds teaching each other how to make and use wooden tools to obtain food.



Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's first ever UK commission 'HippopoThames' is towed along the River Thames from its build site at Royal Docks to its end position at Nine Elms on the South Bank



A couple of cars lie in a portion of a collapsed street due to heavy rains in the Gulf port city of Veracruz, Mexico

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An exceptionally dry summer — and a watering hose that was too short — helped archaeologists clear up a centuries-old mystery surrounding Britain's Stonehenge monument: Did the ancient stones make a complete circle in ancient times?
The dried-up grass around Stonehenge suggests that they did. A steward at the site, Tim Daw, noticed in July 2013 that there were some particularly parched spots on the monument's southwest side, spanning a gap in today's incomplete arc of stones. Archaeologists say those spots represent places where the ground was disturbed by the digging of stone holes.





"If these stone holes actually held upright stones, then we've got a complete circle," Susan Greaney, senior properties historian for English Heritage, said in an emailed statement. "It's really significant, and it shows us just how much we still have to learn about Stonehenge.

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Health workers push an Ebola patient who escaped from quarantine from Monrovia's Elwa hospital, into an ambulance in the center of Paynesville, Liberia in this still image taken from a September 1, 2014 video



Palestinian militants from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian take part in a military show in Gaza City September 2, 2014

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Members of Ukrainian police special task force "Kiev-1" inspect weapons hidden by pro-Russian separatists in the basement of an unfinished house in Slaviansk September 2, 2014



Two men stand on the roof of a damaged building after a Libyan war plane crashed in the eastern city of Tobruk September 2, 2014.