World News in Pictures

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Pampered Australian pooches who turn their noses up at generic tinned food can now rejoice after dog dinners went gourmet. Darwin mum Renee Kotis was so tired of her fussy cocker spaniel-poodle cross Max refusing to eat that she decided to take matters into her own hands. She started experimenting with making doggie treats in her kitchen and has now produced a whole host of tasty treats for canines.



Australian surfer Harley Ingleby captured this amazing shot while on a surfing trip to the Telo Island Lodge, Indonesia

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Artist Lucy Sparrow stands behind the counter of her felt corner shop in Bethnal Green, east London. The pop-up shop features everything from huggable ready meals and squeezable confectionery to stitched felt newspapers, ice lollies and oven chips - and even a felt pricing gun. The 28-year-old painstakingly stitched together an incredible 3,944 items over a seven month period - requiring more than a quarter of a million. The shop will be open throughout the month of August - with everything available to buy, with prices varying from £3 for a felt cigarette lighter to £840 for the store's till - the most expensive item on display.



Inakadate is a small village in Northern Japan that has become famous for creating art in its fields by planting a range of colourful plants on a rice paddy canvas. This helps attract over 200,000 visitors to the small village each year. This year's designs include a recreation of Mt Fuji and a depiction of the characters from the popular Japanese animation Sazaesan

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Caitlin Jenkins, 17, (L) and Natascha Newbold, 17, ride the StarFlyer on London's South Bank. London is currently experiencing a period of warm weather forecasted to continue the rest of this week



Lutz Eichholz the one wheeled wonder rides his unicycle down treacherous mountain tracks and deep desert dunes. The 25-year-old from Kaiserslautern, Germany has taken in routes from New Zealand to the Sahara Desert including the Great Wall of China. He has been riding unicycles since he was nine and has even started slacklining, which means riding across a drop on a thin line

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Firefighters work near an open drain on the UCLA campus, which was flooded by a broken thirty inch water main in the Westwood section of Los Angeles. The 100-year old water main flooded parts of the campus and stranded motorists on surrounding streets



Here are a couple of fun police booking mug shots. On the left we have Scott A. Carmitchel who was arrested on charges in connection with the armed robbery of $43,500 from the Bellagio casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Las Vegas police said he was combative and uncooperative during the booking process so they had to hold his head steady for the photograph. And on the right we have Jamie Henson, who ended up with a face full of dirt after being busted for drunken behavior at a Burger King in Orlando

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Kamie Jo Kipe, 8, of Finksburg, Maryland, takes her first of two rides on a sheep in the second heat of the Mutton Busting competition, part of Wild West Night at the Carroll County 4-H & FFA Fair in Westminster, Md



A destroyed UN vehicle in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip following Israeli military strikes



A plane drops fire retardant as firefighters battle a blaze in El Portal, Calif., near Yosemite National Park. Firefighters in the state are also battling another wildfire in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Sacramento

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A photo distributed by the Madera County Sheriff's department shows a bear running through smoke in the Sierra foothills in Sierra National Forest, Calif., on Tuesday. Fire crews gained ground Tuesday on two of the largest wildfires in California, lifting evacuation orders for about half the homes in the path of a blaze in Yosemite National Park and redeploying firefighters battling another fire in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Sacramento



President Theodore Roosevelt once came to North Dakota's Badlands to find solitude and solace amid the area's "desolate, grim beauty." But Roosevelt's Dakota is barely visible today.
The area's oil boom has resulted in an infrastructure-building frenzy as the rush for jobs and oil demands more roads, homes, food trucks and stores. The epicenter is a 45-mile stretch of U.S. Route 85 between the towns of Williston and Watford City. Once a sleepy two-lane road across the lonely prairie, it's being transformed into a four-lane highway with bypasses cutting around towns. In the spring and summer, oil patch roadwork slows traffic to a trickle akin to a major metropolis' rush hour.

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Israeli aircraft struck dozens of Gaza sites on Wednesday, including five mosques it said were being used by militants, while several other areas came under tank fire

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A miner with a donkey makes his way through the low and narrow tunnel leading out of a coal mine in Choa Saidan Shah in Punjab province, Pakistan, April 29, 2014.



A boy, covered with blood, reacts after sustaining injuries following what activists said was an air strike at a site by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Duma in eastern al-Ghouta, near Damascus, Syria, July 29, 2014



Israeli soldiers mourn next to the grave of Israeli soldier Daniel Kedmi during his funeral in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 29, 2014

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A woman carries her child as she wades through a flooded street with others after heavy monsoon rains in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, India, July 30, 2014.



A car drives past the remains of a spent ammunition on the suburbs of Donetsk, Ukraine, July 29, 2014.

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A demonstrator blocks a street with burning tires during a protest against fuel price hikes in Sanaa, Yemen, July 30, 2014



An ancient tower is seen balancing on the top of a dirt hill, with its base slightly eroded, along a grassland in Qixian county, Shanxi province, China, July 19, 2014.

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Smoke billows over Gaza city after Israeli shelling during the heaviest bombing of the campaign so far



A Palestinian child, wounded in an Israeli strike on a compound housing a UN school in Gaza receives treatment at a hospital. Israeli bombardments early today killed at least 19 at a UN school.

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Israelis hug during the funeral of Sergeant Barkay Shor, who was killed in fighting in Gaza, at the Mount Herzel military cemetery in Jerusalem



Miners at the coal face at the Choa Saidan Shah mine, Punjab province, India. Workers at this mine dig coal with pick axes, break it up and load it onto donkeys to be transported to the surface for which they earn around £6 a day to be split between them

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Stuck in the middle with you: clowns pose during a parade in Guatemala City during the framework of the VI Latin American Clown Congress.




Usain Bolt shows that he’s having a great time at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow as he watches the netball match between Jamaica and New Zealand. Bolt has denied that he told a Times reporter that the games were ‘a bit shit’.

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Conflict in Gaza

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UCLA floods




A man poses for a photo on stairs to a parking structure outside UCLA's Pauley Pavilion sporting arena as water flows down from a broken thirty inch water main that was gushing water onto Sunset Boulevard near the UCLA campus in the Westwood section of Los Angeles July 29, 2014. The geyser from the 100-year-old water main flooded parts of the campus and stranded motorists on surrounding streets.

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Firefighters managed to salvage two-thirds of Eastbourne Pier, in the south of England, after a blaze broke out on Wednesday engulfing its wooden panelling



The imam of China's largest mosque, the Id Kah mosque in the ancient city of Kashgar, was stabbed to death after morning prayers on Wednesday

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The build-up of rubbish and debris remains a major problem for Brazil's Guanabara Bay, which is due to be the site of sailing events for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games



French President Francois Hollande reflects in the Parisian cafe where French socialist leader Jean Jaures was assassinated exactly 100 years ago



Some 75,000 festival goers have thronged to the German village of Wacken for the start of a four-day heavy metal music festival

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A pod of dolphins surf a wave in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa



Biologist Mark Moffett, 54, travelled to the Atlantic Coastal Forest, Brazil, where he joined Brazilian frog expert, Fernando Mendez on a three-day exploration to find a flea frog. Mr Moffett, from New York, decided the best way to capture pictures of the frog was to allow it to playfully hop around on Mr Mendez's face

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A daredevil in Russia has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase hanging out with his friends. Captured dangling from the edges of building and cranes, fearless teenager, Alexander Rusinov, 19, knows no bounds when it comes to personal safety. Accompanied by a group of plucky pals, the barmy bunch take it in turns to photograph and film Alexander hanging from heights hundreds of metres in the air. After scouting his home city of Saratov, Russia, for some of the highest locations around, the human hangman then carefully plans his next death defying stunt



A 91 year old known as the 'oldest gay in the village' has won support from the Prime Minister as he bids to get a criminal conviction for being gay overturned

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Ifeoma Nwoye of Nigeria is carried away by her coach after she lost her women's freestyle 55kg wrestling semi-final to Brittanee Laverdure of Canada at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow



Ivorn McKnee of Barbados drops the bar during the Men's Weighlifting 75kg Group A Final at Scottish Exhibition And Conference Centre during day seven of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

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A car driver escaped death after his car was flattened by a cement mixer and covered in wet cement in Yangzhou, eastern China's Jiangsu Province. The 25 tonne mixer tipped over after braking suddenly and landed on the car next to it spilling its load of cement everywhere...



...When firemen arrived on the scene they were sure there could be no survivors. 'The car was almost flattened, and buried under a thick layer of wet cement,' said fireman Jiang Tao

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A barrel jellyfish washed up on the beach at Axmouth Harbour, Devon. British coastal resorts are reporting record numbers of jellyfish sightings and an increased number of sting injuries as the warm weather continues and tourism thrives



Codepink activists, dressed to symbolize those wounded and killed in Gaza, rally outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington