World News in Pictures

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Ukrainian workers collected the bodies of victims at the site of the crash of a Malaysia Airlines plane

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Williams Formula One driver Felipe Massa of Brazil crashes with his car in the first corner after the start of the German F1 Grand Prix at the Hockenheim racing circuit, Germany, July 20, 2014



A medic helps a Palestinian in the Shejaia neighborhood, which was heavily shelled by Israel during fighting, in Gaza City July 20, 2014



People sunbathe as the Costa Concordia cruise liner is seen during its refloating operation at Giglio harbour July 21, 2014

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Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe stand near a refrigerator railcar, which according to employees and local residents contains bodies of passengers of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane, at a railway station in the town of Torez, Donetsk region, Ukraine, July 20, 2014



Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland kisses the Claret Jug after winning the British Open Championship at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, northern England July 20, 2014.

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A Palestinian woman wearing clothes stained with the blood of other relatives, who medics said were wounded in Israeli shelling, cries at a hospital in Gaza City July 20, 2014.



Two Palestinians, who medics said were wounded in Israeli shelling, sit at a hospital in Gaza City July 20, 2014

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A Bulgarian Roma woman sits in front of her house after it was demolished in a Roma suburb in the city of Stara Zagora July 21, 2014



Bosnian Muslims pray in front of coffins of their relatives during a mass funeral in the village of Biscani, near Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 20, 2014.



Palestinians evacuate a wounded man following what police said was an Israeli air strike on a house in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 20, 2014

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Members of the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry work at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, near the village of Hrabove, Donetsk region, Ukraine, July 20, 2014.



The pack of riders pass a rock formation in Sisteron during the 15th stage of the Tour de France cycle race between Tallard and Nimes, France, July 20, 2014.



Members of the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry gather and place bodies at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, near the village of Hrabove, Donetsk region, July 20, 2014.



Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland poses as he holds the Claret Jug after winning the British Open Championship at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, northern England July 20, 2014.

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Typhoon batters Asia




A man pushes his electric bicycle against strong wind and heavy rainfalls along a flooded seaside street as Typhoon Rammasun hits Haikou, Hainan province July 18, 2014. A super typhoon slammed into China on Friday killing one person, as the government ordered an all-out effort to prevent loss of life from a storm that has already killed at least 64 people in the Philippines. Rammasun made landfall at Wenchang city on south China's island province of Hainan on Friday afternoon. Picture taken July 18, 2014

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Paramilitary policemen try to help a stranded whale back into the ocean as Typhoon Rammasun hits Yangjiang, Guangdong province July 19, 2014. The whale was successfully returned to the ocean after two hours from efforts by the local police forces, local media reported. The super typhoon has killed at least 14 people in China since making landfall on Friday afternoon, state media said on Saturday, after hitting parts of the Philippines and leaving 77 dead. Picture taken July 19, 2014.

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The wrecked Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia is pictured from the air having been successfully raised from the under-sea platform it had been resting on for the past year. It struck a reef off the Italian island of Giglio in January 2012 and capsized, killing 32 people. The Costa Concordia's owners, Costa Crociere, estimate the operation to remove the wreck from the reef and tow it for scrapping will cost 1.5bn euros (£1.2bn; $2bn) in total



Newcastle United players warm up during a training session at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin, New Zealand, during their pre-season tour



Visitors wander through the construction site of the Guedelon Castle in Treigny, central France. Work began on the castle in 1997 and it is being built using only technologies from the 13th Century



Rory McIlroy clinched his first Open Championship and third major title with a two-shot victory over Sergio Garcia and Rickie Fowler on a thrilling final day at Hoylake. The Northern Irishman joined Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus as the only players to win three of golf's modern majors by the age of 25.

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Boats decorated with wreaths sail in the Water Procession of Moos on Lake Constance into the harbour of Radolfzell, Germany. The procession takes place annually on the third Monday of July and is a thanksgiving for the sparing of the citizens of Moos from a cattle plague in 1796.



A wounded Israeli soldier is carried into a helicopter for evacuation outside Gaza. Twenty Israelis - 18 of them soldiers - have died, Israel says, as it seeks to end rocket fire from Gaza.



The former Heilongjiang TV station headquarters collapses as it is demolished by explosives to make way for the city's new administrative service centre in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China.



Dagmara Wozniak reacts after defeating Olga Kharlan of Ukraine to secure the US team's victory during their Women's team sabre semi-final competition at the Fencing World Championships in Kazan, Russia

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A refugee from Myanmar at Mae La refugee camp, near the Thailand-Myanmar border in Mae Sot district, north of Bangkok.



Morning over Maximum City, India. Taken by attaching his camera to a 'quadcopter' drone, you can see more of Amos Chapple's aerial photographs of India here

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A Siberian tiger growls during the presentation of two new tigers at Cabarceno Natural Reserve in Cabarceno, northern Spain



A soldier sits on top of a Merkava tank, part of the Israeli army deployment near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip



Cadets take part in the annual military parade for the celebration of Independence Day in Bogota, Colombia..

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The Open 2014: fourth round

The best pictures images from the fourth and final round of this year's Open Championship as Rory McIlroy won his third major

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Australia's Adam Scott prepares to take a drop after playing into a gorse bush on the 7th hole during his fourth round, on the final day

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Rory McIlroy points out a heckler to a marshall on the 16th tee.






Rory McIlroy throws his ball into the crowd to clebrate winning on the 18th green during the final round.






Rory McIlroy celebrates his two-stroke victory on the 18th green with his mother Rosie.

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Rickie Fowler of the U.S. (L) walks with Sergio Garcia of Spain on the 18th green after they finished as joint runners-up.

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A cyclists with his dog in a backpack climbs the race route towards the finish line in Risoul prior to the arrival of the riders in the fourteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 177 kilometers (110 miles) with start in Grenoble and finish in Risoul, France, Saturday, July 19, 2014



President of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Sam Rainsy (C) speaks to supporters over a loudspeaker, after arriving at Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh July 19, 2014. Rainsy returns home as Cambodian police arrested two more opposition members of parliament on Thursday on charges of leading an insurrection, taking to eight the number of government opponents being held on accusations that rights groups say are politically motivated.



A crashed bus is loaded on a platform at the site of the accident on German A2 highway near the eastern city of Dresden July 19, 2014. A bus from Poland crashed at around 02:00 am into another bus from Ukraine, killing at least nine and injuring some 43 people, local media and German police said.

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An Israeli soldier sleeps on his tank in a staging area position outside the Gaza Strip July 19, 2014. Israeli forces on Saturday pressed ahead with a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian militants kept firing rockets deep into Israel's heartland, pushing the death toll past 300 in almost two weeks of conflict.



Indonesian policemen hold rifles as they stand guard in front of the General Elections Commission (KPU) office during preparations to announce the presidential election result in Jakarta, July 19, 2014. Both Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Prabowo Subianto have claimed victory in Indonesia's presidential race, causing a stalemate that is due to be resolved around July 22, when the elections body announces the official result of the country's closest ever election

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Notes stuck on the door of a shop where one of the victims, who died in Thursday's Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash, worked are pictured in Volendam July 19, 2014. Ukraine accused Russia and pro-Moscow rebels on Saturday of destroying evidence of "international crimes" from the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 that Kiev says militants shot down with a missile, killing nearly 300 people. The notes read, "Mailman, please deliver our mail to nr 17 as we are on a holiday"



Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans (R) walks past flowers and messages left by local residents for victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, outside the Dutch embassy in Kiev July 19, 2014.

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Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton from Great Britain crashes his car during the qualifying of the German F1 Grand Prix at the Hockenheim racing circuit, July 19, 2014. The German Grand Prix will take place on Sunday, July 20.



A pro-Russian separatist walks past bodies at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region July 19, 2014. Russia called on Ukraine's authorities and rebels on Saturday to give international experts access to the crash site of the Malaysian Airlines plane, the foreign ministry said.



The pack with Italy's Vincenzo Nibali, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, climbs Lautaret pass, French Alps, during the fourteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 177 kilometers (110 miles) with start in Grenoble and finish in Risoul, France, Saturday, July 19, 2014

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An angry protester points her finger towards the Bangalore police chief during a protest against alleged police inaction after a six-year-old was raped at a school, in Bangalore, India, Saturday, July 19, 2014. More than 4,000 parents and relatives of children who attend the school shouted slogans against the school's administration Saturday and demanded that police arrest those involved in the July 2 incident, which was reported only this past week



A spectators draped in the Italian flag watches the pack with Italy's Vincenzo Nibali, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, pass the summit of Lautaret pass, French Alps, during the fourteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 177 kilometers (110 miles) with start in Grenoble and finish in Risoul, France, Saturday, July 19, 2014



Rickie Fowler of the US waves to the crowd after playing a birdie on the 11th hole during the third day of the British Open Golf championship at the Royal Liverpool golf club, Hoylake, England, Saturday July 19, 2014.

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Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have handed over two flight recorders from the downed MH17 plane to Malaysian experts. The Malaysian Airlines passenger jet crashed last Thursday, killing all 298 people on board. Western nations say there is growing evidence that flight MH17 was hit by a Russian-supplied missile fired by rebels, but Russia has suggested Ukrainian government forces are to blame



Shawn Sahbari of Green Canary sprays green water-based paint on a partially dead lawn at the Almaden Valley Athletic Club in San Jose, California. As the severe Californian drought continues to worsen, home-owners and businesses looking to conserve water are letting lawns die off and are having them painted to look green.