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A huge boulder smashed through the side of a house after falling from a lorry in Cenxi, southern China's Guangxi Province. Home owner Wu Junhuang said he was having lunch with his wife on the 2nd floor when suddenly the house shook and there was a loud cracking sound. 'I and my wife ran down and saw a giant rock embedded in my sitting room wall.' The giant rock was from a passing lorry, which was transporting it to a stone materials factory in Yunnan Province. However, due to the bumpy road and poorly fastened restraints the rock tumbled off the lorry and into the wall of the house. Police detained the lorry and the driver will now have to compensate Mr Wu for the damage
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The Duchess of Cambridge grimaces as she watched Andy Murray play Grigor Dimitrov on Wimbledon's Centre Court
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Malmesbury Abbey during a beautiful sunset over the Wiltshire town last night
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Lightning strikes One World Trade Center in Manhattan as the sun sets behind the city after a summer storm in New York
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An employee from the Russian Space Training Centre hangs out to dry space suits of Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin, Nasa's U.S. flight engineer Kathleen Rubins and Japanese space agency's flight engineer Takuya Onishi, right, after they undertook training for a wet capsule landing near in Noginsk, 60 km (38 miles) east of Moscow, Russia
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The spiral galaxy NGC 4258, also known as M106, has two extra spiral arms as seen in this composite image created using X-ray data from Nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory, radio data from the NSF's Karl Jansky Very Large Array, optical data from Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope and infrared data from Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope
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At a zoo in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, albino hedgehog 'Little' munches on fruit and vegetables in front of a Belgium flag thus predicting a Belgian win over Argentina in the World Cup quarterfinals
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San Diego Padres starting pitcher Tyson Ross is drenched by teammates after pitching a complete baseball game 3-0 shutout over the Cincinnati Reds in San Diego.
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Bystanders push a car trapped on a flooded street in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou province. Floods have claimed 134 lives and left 12 people missing in China so far this year, said the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters
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A child paddles a makeshift raft in a flooded neighborhood of Asuncion, Paraguay. Heavy rains have caused flooding across the country, killing at least one person and affecting some 30,000 familes in the Paraguyan capital and 200,000 across the country, according to official sources
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Artist Jade Little touches up body paint on model Renee Somerfield, as she poses with a sign reading 'Save the Earth, Go Vegan' for a new advertisement by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in Sydney
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Riders compete during the 'Palio' horse race in Siena. The Palio medieval horse race is held twice a year in Siena with jockeys riding bareback around a makeshift race course set up in the city's central square
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Children in gowns and mortarboards pose for pictures during their kindergarten graduation ceremony, in Wenxian county, Henan province
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A man stands next to a tshukudu, a wooden push-bike, in Goma. What do you do when you need to deliver several hundred pounds of potatoes, 30 eucalyptus saplings and eight sacks of coal, without motorised transport? For this, and many other problems in the east of war-scarred DR Congo, it's the tshukudu.
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Life-sized a Thomas the Tank Engine (R) and Hiro (L), surrounded by the media, at Senzu station on Japan's Oigawa railway, in the town of Kawanehon in Shizuoka prefecture, west of Tokyo. Rides on popular British character Thomas the Tank Engine will be offered to the public from July 12 through October 12 between Shinkanaya and Senzu stations
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A stream of vacationers and residents began to pack up and leave parts of North Carolina's flood-prone Outer Banks as Arthur strengthened to a hurricane early Thursday.
Bill Kirk of Ashland, Ky., above, carried his belongings from the beach house he had rented on Hatteras Island, which was under a mandatory evacuation order for visitors
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Sarah Contis, 5, holds up an American flag while accompanying her father, Alex Contis, right, of Romania, as he becomes a U.S. citizen in Atlanta, Ga., on July 2. A naturalization ceremony for more than 1,000 citizenship candidates took place at Turner Field, home of the Atlanta Braves baseball team in Atlanta on Wednesday. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services welcomed 1,094 new citizens from 81 countries as part of their annual Independence Day celebration marking the nation’s 238th birthday this year
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A bloodied Palestinian teenager is ferried away after being struck in the face by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli soldiers in Shufat, East Jerusalem, on Wednesday. During the course of the morning several youths were injured by rubber bullets and stun grenades.
Clashes broke out in the Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem after a 16-year-old Palestinian boy was kidnapped and killed overnight.
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A cargo plane crashed into a commercial building in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, shortly after taking off from the city's main airport on Wednesday and the four crew members on board were feared dead, the Kenyan Airports Authority (KAA) said.
KAA said on its Twitter feed all the crew members were "feared to have perished" after the plane crashed into shops in Nairobi's Embekasi neighbourhood
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Syrian migrant Assaf, 44, who was head of security for a government minister, covers his face to hide his identity as he poses for a photograph at an asylum camp outside Stockholm June 8, 2014. Assaf paid smugglers 8000 euros to get to Sweden. He traveled through the mountains to Turkey and then from Turkey to Greece by boat with dozens of others. He then traveled to Stockholm in a truck. When asked about his future he said, "What future? I am in a foreign country with my family living in danger thousands of miles away. There is no future until they are here."
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Former first lady Imelda Marcos kisses the glass coffin of her husband, late president Ferdinand Marcos, who remains unburied since his death in 1989, during her 85th birthday celebration in Ferdinand Marcos' hometown of Batac, Ilocos Norte province, in northern Philippines July 2, 2014.
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A Palestinian prepares to hurl a stone as he stands in a cloud of smoke from tires set ablaze during clashes with Israeli police in Shuafat, an Arab suburb of Jerusalem July 2, 2014. The discovery of a body in a Jerusalem forest raised suspicions that a missing Palestinian youth had been killed by Israelis avenging the deaths of three abducted Jewish teens. Rock-throwing Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces in Jerusalem after the news, but no serious injuries were reported
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Residents and protestors attend a town hall meeting to discuss the processing of undocumented immigrants in Murrieta, California July 2, 2014. Dozens more Central Americans caught sneaking into the United States were shipped quietly to California for processing by immigration officials, a day after protesters blocked bus loads of migrant families bound for the Murrieta Border Patrol station.
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Health workers carry the body of an Ebola virus victim in Kenema, Sierra Leone, June 25, 2014. The Ebola outbreak has killed 467 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since February, making it the largest and deadliest ever, according to the World Health Organization. West African states lack the resources to battle the world's worst outbreak of Ebola and deep cultural suspicions about the disease remain a big obstacle to halting its spread, ministers said.
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raqi security forces pull down a flag belonging to Sunni militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a patrol in the town of Dalli Abbas in Diyala province, June 30, 2014. The leader of the al Qaeda offshoot now calling itself the Islamic State has called on Muslims worldwide to take up arms and flock to the "caliphate" it has declared on captured Syrian and Iraqi soil.
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Kim Young-ja, a sister of Kim Young-nam who is a South Korean abductee living in North Korea, cries during an interview with Reuters in Jeonju July 2, 2014. Kim Young-nam was a teenager living on the coast of South Korea when he disappeared in 1978, only to turn up in North Korea. There, he met and married Megumi Yokota, a Japanese national abducted by North Korean agents on her way home from school a year previously. Kim, one of more than 500 South Korean civilians thought to have been abducted and held in the North, is all but forgotten.
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A woman stands near a car which was damaged by a tree that fell after heavy rains and strong winds in the northern Indian hill town of Shimla July 2, 2014.
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A police officer shows members of the media the face of one of two alleged members of the Mara 18 criminal gang after their arrest, in Zona 18, Guatemala City, July 2, 2014. According to local media, members of the Mara 18 criminal gang attacked a truck delivering water in Zona 18 with a hand grenade, which resulted in 16 people injured and a woman dead in the attack. Those involved in the attack were arrested with three guns of different calibers, media added.
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Bystanders watch from the sidewalk as rocks and stones litter the street during a protest against a fisheries law which fishermen say the government has failed to improve, in Valparaiso city, Chile July 2, 2014
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Family members of victims killed cry near the site of a landslide in an impoverished neighborhood in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico July 2, 2014. A woman and her two children died after their house was destroyed by a landslide triggered by heavy rains, local media reported
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Rowers prepare to compete in the Royal Regatta in Henley-on-Thames. Celebrating its 175th year as it opens today, the regatta is held annually over five days on the River Thames.
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Kashmiri muslim children attend a class where they learn verses of the Koran during the beginning of the fasting month of Ramadan in Srinagar, India.
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A painted face at a traditional wedding ceremony for Bosnian women from Zhupa at the Ethnological Museum in Pristina. Traditionally, older ladies prepare young brides, painting their faces in many layers of colours
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The Princess Royal, Prince William, the Queen and Prince Philip arrive at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh as they take part in the Knights of the Thistle service
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A protester shows his support for LGBTQ couples who are asking the state to recognise their marriage in Miami, Florida.
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Arsenic poisoning in rural China - in pictures
Mines and chemical plants mushroomed in the realgar-rich area around Heshan from the 1950s. Shut down in 2011 due to the pollution they caused, dust and run-off plagues the village to this day, destroying crops and poisoning people
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Disused tanks at a closed realgar mining plant. Arsenic and inorganic arsenic compounds, often used for herbicides, wood preservatives and in the metallurgical industry, are listed as carcinogenic to humans by the World Health Organisation, and can cause cancers of the skin, bladder and lungs.
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A sealed mine entrance. Mines and chemical plants mushroomed in the realgar-rich area around Heshan from the 1950s
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Damaged cowpea seedlings in a field in Heshan village, in Shimen county, central China's Hunan province. Rice can not grow because of heavy arsenic concentrations in the water, many other plants often die when rain washes airborne pollutants into the fields, villagers said.
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The damaged walls of a cistern are seen at a closed realgar mining plant. Research in the 1990s showed that arsenic concentration in the mining area near Heshan was up to 15 times the level deemed safe for farm land by Chinese government standards, according to state media.
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Skin ulcers are seen on 69-year-old Gong Zhaoyuan's torso. China has many so-called cancer villages, blamed by residents on industrial pollution
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Wen Jin'e, 65, shows a scar, the legacy of an operation to treat cervical cancer. Wen got 10,000yuan ($1,600) from the local government for their cancer, but it was not even enough for one round of chemotherapy and radiotherapy,
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Former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone comes face to face with a portrait of himself by artist Andrew Tift, at the National Portrait Gallery.
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Figures at a model village in The Hague, the Netherlands, show their support for the Dutch national soccer team who face Costa Rica in the football World Cup in Brazil.
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The eye of Hurricane Arthur is seen over the Atlantic in this photo taken from the International Space Station tweeted by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst. The first hurricane of the Atlantic season has gained strength as it spun toward the North Carolina coast on the verge of Category 2 status, forcing thousands of vacationers to scrap their July Fourth holiday plans amid evacuation orders
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A middle-aged Taiwanese man made waves when he styled his hair into a perfectly right-angled flat top to make himself look younger - but instead ended up looking like a plastic Lego toy. Wu Lei, 54, was quizzed about the hairdo by a Chinese web site reporter. He said he had wanted to impress a 23-year-old girl who he had tried to chat up but who had rejected his advances
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Members of the death metal group Unfathomable Ruination warm up before performing inside a 183cm by 183cm x 183cm sealed metal cube in central London. 'Box sized DIE featuring Unfathomable Ruination' is an art installation by Portuguese artist Joao Onofre where the band will be hermetically sealed inside the box before playing for as long as they can until their oxygen supply runs out. The four piece group had to strip their equipment down to the absolute minimum to fit inside the structure. Once sealed inside, members of the public could press their ears to the outside to hear the heavily muted music through the sound-proofed casing.
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A dust storm approaches Phoenix, Arizona at sunset casting an orange glow over the landscape
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A horse named Money Rules falls on its head as Yance' Day of Weatherford, Oklahoma, hangs on during the bareback event at the Greeley Stampede in Greeley, Colorado
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Participants take part in a high-heel race at a Gay Pride party in the central neighbourhood of Chueca in Madrid
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A member of the United States Army Golden Knights Parachute Team jumps out of a plane over Dubuque, Iowa. The team will also be jumping for the annual firework display over the Mississippi River on Thursday night
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Qi Lijun undergoes 'fire therapy' at an appartment in Beijing. A therapist pours alcohol over the patient and sets him alight. For some in China, playing with fire is a treatment for illness.
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Muslim youths pray on top of tuk-tuks during the fasting month of Ramadan in front of Al-Satie Mosque in Baseco, Tondo city, metro Manila
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Hurricane Arthur, the first named storm of the Atlantic season, offered a breathtaking view — from a safe distance.
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this image taken aboard the International Space Station around 9:30 a.m. EDT on Friday July 4 as the ISS flew 260 miles directly over the storm, which was moving northeast away from the outer banks of North Carolina.
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"#Hurricane #Arthur through a 10.5mm fish eye lens. Amazing to see nature at work," @astro_reid tweeted.
It was the latest of several dramatic images Wiseman has shared from space through Twitter. In addition to images of Arthur, he recently tweeted a short video of a lightning storm over Houston.
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People walk along a flooded street near the waterfront in Manteo, N.C., on Friday after Hurricane Arthur passed through the area leaving some roads underwater.
Hurricane Arthur began moving offshore and away from North Carolina's Outer Banks early Friday after hitting the state's barrier islands overnight, creating a Fourth of July holiday that saw flooding and tens of thousands of power outages.
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Rescuers labored with pickaxes and shovels to dig out 11 miners trapped by a landslide at an illegal gold mine in southern Honduras, and are close to reaching three of the workers, officials said on Thursday.
The workers were trapped when the entrance of the mine in San Juan Arriba collapsed on Wednesday. Officials said the mine, 110 km (70 miles) south of the capital Tegucigalpa, had been ordered to close a few months ago because it was unsafe.
Rescue workers said they had made contact with three of the workers and were close to freeing them, though eight are still missing and it was unclear whether they were alive
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Masked Palestinian protesters threw stones towards Israeli police during clashes in the Shuafat neighborhood in Israeli-annexed Arab East Jerusalem, on Thursday.
Israel faced a second day of violent Palestinian protests in Jerusalem after the discovery of the body of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy on Wednesday in a forest near the city.
The Palestinian teenager was kidnapped and killed in an apparent act of revenge for the murder by militants of three Israeli youths.
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HMS Queen Elizabeth sits in Rosyth Dockyard, Fife, ahead of being formally named by Queen Elizabeth. It is the Royal Navy's biggest ever ship, with whisky replacing the more traditional champagne at the ceremony.
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Hurricane Arthur, packing winds of 100mph, made landfall in the US state of North Carolina, as thousands abandoned their 4 July holiday plans. Here lifeguards and firefighters lower a lifeguard stand ahead of the storm's arrival.
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Visitors walk down a steep section on a restored part of the Great Wall of China, at Mutianyu, north of Beijing.
