World News in Pictures

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A man with his dog looks at a damaged area after shelling in Donetsk, Ukraine



Kenya's Denis Okoth lands a punch on England's Samuel Maxwell during their men's Light Welterweight boxing fight at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland



The Iberian peninsula at night as seen from the International Space Station. The entire Iberian Peninsula, which includes Spain, Portugal and Andorra can be seen illuminated at night as also part of France can be seen at the top of the image and the Strait of Gibraltar at bottom, with a very small portion of Morocco noticeable near the lower right corner of the image

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A 'sunken' house is seen in the pond of the Kunsthalle Rostock museum in Rostock, Germany, August 1, 2014. The installation 'Atlantis' by Finnish artist Tea Maekkipaeae has been set up in the pond on July 31. It is part of the exhibiton 'Nature and More' with contemporary artists from Finnland which will run until September 14, 2014.



Georgina Hockenhull of Wales performs on the beam during the women's gymnastics apparatus final at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, August 1, 2014.

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Warsaw residents hold a minute of silence on 'W' hour (17.00h) to honor the start and the heroes of the Warsaw Uprising in Warsaw, Poland, August 1, 2014. The Warsaw Uprising, a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany, broke out on August 1, 1944 and continued for 63 days, costing the lives of between 150,000 and 200,000 civilians and about 18 thousand insurgents. After the failure of the uprising, the Nazis expelled the remaining inhabitants from the city and methodically blew it up, destroying it almost completely.



A sculpture of King Kong made from scrap iron, a prize-winning work at the 2014 Junk Art Contest, is displayed at a resource recycling center in southern Seoul, South Korea, August 1, 2014.

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A Hindu devotee pours milk on a snake as an offering during the annual Hindu Nag Panchami festival, dedicated to the worship of snakes, in Allahabad, India, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014.



A Palestinian protester kicks a burning tyre during clashes with Israeli troops at a protest against the Israeli offensive in Gaza, outside Israel's Ofer military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah August 1,2014. Israel declared a Gaza ceasefire over on Friday and killed more than 50 Palestinians in renewed shelling, saying militants had breached the truce shortly after it began and apparently captured an Israeli soldier. The 72-hour break announced by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was the most ambitious attempt so far to end more than three weeks of fighting, and followed mounting international alarm over a rising Palestinian civilian death toll.

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A bemedalled Chelsea Pensioner walks amongst red poppies in the moat at the Tower of London in London, Britain, August 1, 2014. The Tower of London moat is slowly turning red as some 888,246 ceramic poppies are planted in memory of the British and Commonwealth dead from World War I. The year 2014 sees the 100th anniversary of the beginning of WWI, or the Great War, which according to official statistics cost more than 37 million military and civilian casualties between 1914 and 1918.



Soldiers use electronic sensors to search for missing persons believed to be buried after massive gas explosions in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 1,



Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, gestures, during a press conference at Moncloa palace in Madrid on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. Rajoy said that Spain's economic recovery is better than expected, with the unemployment rate being 24 percent

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Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her Supreme Court chambers in Washington, Thursday, July 31, 2014. Ginsburg says the Supreme Court won't duck the issue of same-sex marriage the next time a case comes to the court. The 81-year-old Ginsburg said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday that she expects a same-sex marriage case to be heard and decided by June 2016, and possibly a year earlier



A poster of later Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is seen on the rubble of a destroyed house in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014.



Palestinians search the rubble their home in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014.

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Nepalese security personnel gather for rescue work at the site of a landslide in Sindhupalchowk area, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Katmandu, Nepal, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014. A massive landslide triggered by heavy rains in northeast Nepal on Saturday has killed at least eight people, injured 40 and buried dozens of homes, officials said. The landslide created a mud dam blocking the Sunkoshi River near Jure in the Sindhupalchowk district, about 60 kms (37 miles) northeast of Kathmandu, heightening fears of downstream floods that could reach as far as Bihar in eastern India







A rescue team from the Armed Police Force rescues a cow from a house in the landslide area in Sindhupalchowk district August 2, 2014.

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The 13th Slovakian National Trabant Gathering Day












There were 53 fully functional Trabant cars in total at the meet-up











The cars were initially developed in 1953 in Zwickau, East Germany, with production starting four years later







Though production stopped in 1994, some are still currently being used mainly by people in ex-Communist countries



Over three million Trabants in total were built over 37 years

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Two female Sri Lankan leopard cubs, born on July 1, 2014, sit in their cage at Maubeuge Zoo, northern France. The Sri Lankan leopard is a threatened species with an estimated 700 living in the wild and 65 in captivity.



A pigeon casually strolling past a placard depicting Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Russian President Vladimir Putin displayed on the Maidan camp on Independence Square in Kiev



A river otter greets a visitor with a high five at Ichikawa Zoological and Botanical Garden in Ichikawa, east of Tokyo

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China factory blast



An explosion at a factory in eastern China has killed at least 65 people, and injured more than 100, state media say






China Central Television (CCTV) identified the factory as belonging to Zhongrong Plating, a manufacturer of car parts

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To launch its new original Shorts programmes, Channel 4 embarked on an elaborate marketing stunt this week in the City of London. As temperatures in the capital soared, male office workers in the City Of London were reported to be embracing a bizarre fashion trend for super high-cut shorts. Passers-by looked on with horror, fear, amusement, awe, indignation and wide-eyed disbelief as the models strutted past, sat down next to them and even dropped their keys before bending over to pick them up… The new original Shorts programmes which are available to watch on the move, exclusively on Channel 4’s on-demand service, 4oD.

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Ebola outbreak










The Aeromedical Biological Containment System (ABCS) is shown in this undated handout photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, August 1, 2014. The ABCS is a portable, tent-like device installed in a modified Gulfstream III (G-III) aircraft, providing an emergency means to move exposed or contagious patients without risk to passengers or air crew, according to the CDC. The isolation pod will be used to transport two American aid workers infected with Ebola back to the United States.

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Health workers carry the body of an Ebola virus victim in Kenema, Sierra Leone

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ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF INJURY OR DEATHA landslide victim with wounds on his head undergoes treatment at a hospital in Kathmandu after being rescued from a landslide in northeast Nepal August 2, 2014. A massive landslide triggered by heavy rains in northeast Nepal on Saturday has killed at least eight people, injured 40 and buried dozens of homes, officials said. The landslide created a mud dam blocking the Sunkoshi River near Jure in the Sindhupalchowk district, about 60 kms (37 miles) northeast of Kathmandu, heightening fears of downstream floods that could reach as far as Bihar in eastern India.



A damaged car is removed from the wreckage after an explosion in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, August 2, 2014. A series of explosions caused by a gas leak killed 25 people and injured 267 in Taiwan's second city on Friday, sending flames shooting 15 storeys into the air, setting ablaze entire blocks and reducing small shops to rubble

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A damaged locomotive is pictured at the scene of a train crash in Mannheim August 2, 2014. A German passenger train collided with a freight train late on Friday, injuring 42 people, 4 of them seriously, police said.



Boys run through a water logged street after heavy monsoon rains in New Delhi August 2, 2014. India's monsoon rains were nine percent below average in the week that ended July 30, the weather office said on Thursday, reflecting a patchy phase after the previous week's surplus downpours.



ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF INJURY OR DEATHMedical personnel transport a victim of a factory explosion, at a hospital in Kunshan, Jiangsu province, August 2, 2014. An explosion killed at least 65 people and injured more than 120 at a factory in China that makes wheels for U.S. carmakers, including General Motors, state media said, as the country suffered its worst industrial accident in a year.

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Jamaica's Usain Bolt poses for photographs with fans after Jamaica won the men's 4x100m relay final at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, August 2, 2014.



An Israeli soldier checks a tank near the border with Gaza August 2, 2014. Hamas claimed responsibility on Saturday for a deadly Gaza Strip ambush in which an Israeli army officer may have been captured, but said the incident likely preceded and therefore had not violated a U.S.- and U.N.-sponsored truce. Palestinian officials say 1,650 Gazans, most of them civilians, have been killed, including a muezzin who died in an Israeli strike on a northern mosque on Saturday. Sixty-three Israeli soldiers have been killed, and Palestinian shelling has killed three civilians in Israel. Israel launched a Gaza air and naval offensive on July 8 following a surge of cross-border rocket salvoes by Hamas and other Palestinian guerrillas, later escalating into ground incursions centred along the tunnel-riddled eastern frontier of the enclave but often pushing into residential areas.



A herd of horses run on a grassland in Xilin Gol League, in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, July 31, 2014. Picture taken July 31, 2014



Israelis watch the latest military activity towards Gaza, August 2, 2014. Some Israeli ground forces withdrew from the Gaza Strip on Saturday, two Israeli television stations reported, after the military said it was close to achieving its main war goal of destroying Hamas cross-border tunnels. Asked about the reports, an Israeli military spokesman said she could not comment on troop deployments. Shelling exchanges continued, pushing the Gaza death toll given by Palestinian officials up to 1,669, but in some areas witnesses reported Israeli tanks pulling back toward the border. Israel said Palestinians launched 74 rockets across the border, most of which fell harmlessly wide while seven were shot down by its Iron Dome interceptor, including over Tel Aviv.

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Holidaymakers are jostling and mobbing each other at a Toshimaen Amusement Park pool in Tokyo, Japan, August 2, 2014. The highest temperature at the pool in Tokyo's Nerima district rose to 36.2 degrees Celsius, to record the highest temperature this season.



Participants in fancy costumes attend the annual Gay Pride parade or canal parade in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 2, 2014. The parade is part of the Gay Pride Week

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A boy waits to get his X-ray done at a hospital in Kathmandu after being rescued from a landslide in northeast Nepal August 2, 2014.



Palestinians evacuate a wounded man following what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike on a house in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 2, 2014.

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A woman crowd-surfs in front of the main stage at the Woodstock Festival in Kostrzyn-upon-Odra, close to the Polish-German border, August 2, 2014.



An airplane carrying American doctor Kent Brantly who has the Ebola virus, arrives at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia August 2, 2014. The first of two American aid workers infected with the deadly Ebola virus while in Liberia landed in the United States on Saturday, en route to an Atlanta hospital for treatment. A chartered medical aircraft carrying Brantly touched down at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia shortly before noon, a base spokesman said

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Yunnan earthquake

Several hundred people have died with more then 1,800 injured after an earthquake in the south-western province of Yunnan in China












Residents filled the streets after the earthquake, which knocked out electricity supplies and communication lines

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A green sea turtle being cleaned by yellow tang and gold-ring surgeonfish off the Kona Coast, Big Island, Hawaii



A paddle boarder risked his life by getting close to a giant humpback whale. Photographer Jodi Frediani captured the encounter when she was whale watching in Monterey Bay, California

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People drive amphibious vehicles in the river Mosel near Traben-Trabach, southern Germany during the Amphib 2014 rally. Fans of amphibious vehicles join the event that takes place for the 4th time from August 2 to 8



Chelsea Pensioners admire vintage cars ahead of their departure from the Royal Hospital Chelsea as part of the Great War Centenary Parade in central London