World News in Pictures

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Young visitors wearing 3D glasses sit in their car and watch the Disney movie 'Planes' at the drive-in movie theater on the parking lot of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, The Netherlands. The showing was the world's first 3D drive-in movie screening at an airport



Pakistani men carry an injured blast victim at the site of a bomb explosion in the busy Kissa Khwani market in Peshawar. A bomb explosion killed at least 31 people in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, officials said -- the third deadly strike to hit the city in the last week

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The scene at the Dormans coffee shop on the ground floor of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. The four-day siege, which included the collapse of part of the mall, left 67 people dead, according to officials.



Authorities inspect the wreckage of two Chicago Transit Authority trains that crashed Monday in Forest Park, Illinois, USA. The crash happened when a westbound train stopped at the CTA Blue Line Harlem station, and was struck by an eastbound train on the same track. The CTA is investigating the cause of the crash, including why the trains were on the same track. A CTA official said 33 people suffered non-life threatening injuries

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Members of South Korea's Underwater Demolition Team (UDT) march during the 65th anniversary of Korea Armed Forces Day



A bloodied Houston Texans' J.J. Watt walks off the field after the team's overtime loss to the Seattle Seahawks in an NFL football game in Houston. Seattle won 23-20



A skull of pre-Hispanic indigenous man at the Pre-Hispanic Ossuary in Cali, Colombia. The ossuary preserves some 250 bone collections and 220 dental collections of the Sonso, Late Quimbaya, Bolo-Quebrada Seca, Piartal and Tuza cultures, which inhabited the southwest of Colombia between 500 and 1500 AD

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Kosovar policemen walk past a damaged street after a landslide in Pristina brought on by heavy rains



The new French air force military transport Airbus A 400M is welcomed by fire engines at the military airbase BA 123 in Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle near Orleans as part of an official presentation. After years of delays and huge cost over-runs, Airbus delivered its first A400M military transport plane on Monday, handing over the huge turboprop to France



Charlotte Blackledge (L) who is playing Mandy Rice Davies, Alexander Hanson who is playing Stephen Ward and Charlotte Spencer who is playing Christine Keeler (R) in the musical 'Stephen Ward', written partly by Andrew Lloyd Webber which details part of the Profumo affair and is due to open at London's Aldwych Theatre in December



A gallery employee looks at 'Self Portrait of You+Me' by Douglas Gordon which has gone on display as part of 'Art Under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm' which is showing at the Tate Britain in London from October 2nd to January 5, 2014

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A US park police officer and National Park service employees close the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in Washington, DC because of the US government shutdown



A resident throws water to cool off the debris of his house. A fire on this morning wiped out more than 200 homes in the densely populated area of north Jakarta. No casualties have been reported. The cause of the incident is under investigation.



Members of the far-right Golden Dawn party are escorted by Greek anti-terrorist police to the court in Athens, to answer charges of belonging to a criminal organisation

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Scenes from the shutdown







A security guard informs a woman that the Internal Revenue Service offices are closed in New York, October 1, 2013

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Tourists stand next to a sign announcing the closure of the Statue of Liberty, a U.S. National Park, due to the U.S. Government shutdown near the ferry dock to the Statue of Liberty in Battery Park in New York, October 1, 2013.



Speaker of the House John Boehner leads members of his staff and security team out of the U.S. Capitol building after 1:00 a.m. on the morning after the House of Representatives voted to send their funding bill with delays to the "Obamacare" health care act into a conference with the Senate, prompting a shutdown of portions of the U.S. government, October 1, 2013

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Bodies of migrants who drowned lie on the beach in the Sicilian village of Sampieri September 30, 2013. At least 13 people on a migrant boat arriving in Sicily drowned close to the coast near the eastern city of Ragusa, apparently after trying to disembark from their stranded vessel, Italian authorities said on Monday. Officials said the boat was carrying around 250 people but there was no immediate word on where they came from.



A Palestinian passenger, hoping to cross into Egypt, reacts as she waits at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip September 30, 2013. Egypt partially reopened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip for three days on Saturday for the humanitarian needs of patients seeking treatment, and students studying outside of Gaza, a Palestinian official said



A policeman (R) from the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team stands next to a target as his teammate practises shooting with an assault rifle during an anti-terrorism drill in Foshan, Guangdong province September 29, 2013.

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Activists of Ukrainian opposition parties clash with riot police as they attempt to get into the mayoral office during a rally against the election, which was earlier postponed until 2015



Silvio Berlusconi gestures at the Senate in Rome before today's Prime Minister Enrico Letta's confidence vote at the Parliament. Enrico Letta warned lawmakers that the country ran a 'fatal' risk as Silvio Berlusconi tries to topple his government



Proving that gigantic burgers aren't exclusive to the US, a Paris restaurant has launched a giant burger named after PSG footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic, which they say embodies his strength and power.

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Just the thing to slip on if you need to pop to the corner shop for some milk. A model presents a creation by designer Marc Jacobs as part of his Spring/Summer 2014 women's ready-to-wear fashion show for French fashion house Louis Vuitton during Paris fashion week



A four-day-old Chilean flamingo chick is fed by its father named Migi Aka at the Himeji Central Park in Japan. The baby flamingo was born on September 29 and will take up to two or three years to fully develop the pink feathers of mature adults

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Bicycle activists perform a drama during a protest campaign against the administration's ban on bicycles in Kolkata, India. Thousand of milk vendors, vegetable vendors and newspaper delivery boys for whom cycling is tied to earning a living, participated in the protest campaign against the recent ban on bicycles for 174 roads



Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha, arrive at Manchester Central where he will deliver his keynote speech to delegates on the last day of the Conservative Party Conference. During his speech Cameron is expected to say that his "abiding mission" is to make the UK into a "land of opportunity".

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One of the photographs showing a new sighting of Bigfoot. The photograph was taken by John Stoneman near Bradford, Pennsylvania. John spotted the the creature just yards from a main road in Kinzua State Park



This young wildebeest looked destined to become lunch for a hungry leopard



...but the big cat hadn't counted on a powerfully protective mother who countered with a precision horned-headbutt to the leopard's upper body. The images were captured by Martin Farrell from Bristol, who was taking a Kicheche safari camp tour of the Mara North Conservancy in Kenya.

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The Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida



CCTV stills show the first tiger cub to be born at London Zoo for 17 years. After a pregnancy lasting approximately 105 days five-year-old Sumatran tiger Melati gave birth to a single cub. It is thought that the as-yet-unsexed cub will remain off-show for a few more weeks, until Melati is ready to show him or her off to the world.



A submarine ''emerges'' through a pavement during a publicity stunt in Milan, Italy. Europ Assistance IT, an insurance group, were behind the sculpture which forms part of an advertising campaign

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A chihuahua called Peekaboo chillaxs as she enjoys a relaxing facial. The Pawfection Pet Boutique in Wales has more than 2,000 clients on their books who pay up to £100 a time for their pets to enjoy luxury treatments including manicures, facials and fur dying.



PC Rob Thomas with his mini-me Lego figure which bears an uncanny resemblance to him, even down to his shoulder number. PC Thomas said the coincidence was so bizarre he even asked Lego about the new figure. But they told him the matching shoulder number and the policeman's features had been designed purely by chance

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These abandoned lurcher puppies have been named after characters from Downton Abbey in the hope that it may encourage people to rehome them. (Lt-Rt) Jimmy, Carson, Martha,Tom, Earl, Cora, Edith, Daisy and Alfred were found in a cardboard box in Southampton



The London Chamber Orchestra rehearse a medley of Hans Zimmer film scores, including 'The Dark Knight Rises' which will feature at the Classic BRIT Awards. Hans Zimmer will receive the Outstanding Contribution Award during the ceremony



David Cameron prepares his Conservative Party conference keynote speech in Manchester today

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Dani Marlborough from Gromit Unleashed walks among the giant Gromit sculptures that have been decorated by artists and celebrities as they are kept in a secret location ahead of their auction on Thursday for Bristol Children's Hospital



South Korean navy underwater demolition team personnel march during the 65th anniversary of the Armed Forces Day ceremony at Seoul military airport in Seongnam, South Korea

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A man walks near a huge picture of U.S. President Barack Obama and South Korean President Park Geun-hye displayed in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the South Korea-US Alliance in Seoul, South Korea



A street artist dressed as a bronze statue smokes as he sits next to his partner during a break in their performance in Kunming

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Riot policemen clash with protesters during a rally in support of Egypt's ousted President Mohamed Mursi in Cairo's Tahrir Square October 1, 2013

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Scenes from the shutdown



A sign at the entrance to Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico announces its closure October 1, 2013.






Lindsey Tillisch (L), an employee with Alcatraz Cruises, informs people on the closure of Alcatraz Island due to the government shutdown in San Francisco, California October 1, 2013.

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Extreme-right Golden Dawn party supporters celebrate outside the police headquarters in Athens, Greece.



A sea of sheep: a major sign that autumn has definitely arrived is the small ocean of sheep assembled at Lazonby Village's Auction mart in Cumbria's Eden Valley. Thousands of Lambs from upland pastures across the North of England are gathered into a giant flock for the annual one day sale. With around 17 and a half thousand Lambs to be sold in just the single day the sale ring is packed with farmers from across the UK.



Plenty of gingerbread hearts for sale at the world's biggest beer festival, Oktoberfest, in Munich which will run until October 6



Indian children dressed like Mahatma Gandhi assemble at an event during Gandhi Jayanti in Ajmer, India, to celebrate the birth anniversary of Gandhi

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Ka-pow. A Batman suit is seen during clashes in Rio de Janeiro.



Nixiwaka Yawanawa, an Amazon Indian from Brazil, holds a placard during a demonstration against Brazil's assault on indigenous rights outside the Brazilian Embassy in London



Masked female rebel fighters wearing camouflage fatigues and carrying their handbags gather to take part in a training session at the Salaheddin district of the war-battered northern Syrian city of Aleppo

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The latest in dental fashion: singer Rita Ora flashes her teeth grills at Kings Cross St Pancras station in London, England



Slamming on the brakes. This cyclist narrowly avoids being mowed down by a train after cycling around the level crossing barriers, despite the warning lights and dropped barrier to indicate the arrival of a train. The British Transport Police released this photo in attempt to show cyclists the danger of ignoring traffic signals and warning lights



Recycling on the West Bank. Farmers in Ramallah have found an ingenious use for old tear canisters, collected over years of clashes with Israeli forces, by growing flowers in them

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Manchester City's goalie Joe Hart had a particularly bad game against Bayern Munich in the Champions League match at the Etihad Stadium. Our very own photographer Tom Jenkins captured Hart watching yet another ball slip through his fingers during the match which ended 3-1 against the UK team



Models present creations by designer Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton during Paris fashion week. The show was Jacob's last one as he is leaving after 16 years with the label. See more images from the show in our gallery