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Residents walk along a flooded street in the Bago township in Burma. Heavy downpours in recent days have caused severe flooding in the Bago and Mon states
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A Spanish protestor takes part in a demonstration in Madrid against the Israeli army’s bombings in Gaza
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Flying high: A dog takes part in an agility skills test during the International Agility Festival at Rockingham Castle in Leicestershire.
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A Palestinian woman holds a mock rocket during a protest against the Israeli offensive in Gaza, in the West Bank city of Ramallah August 8, 2014. Israel launched air strikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday in response to Palestinian rockets fired after Egyptian-mediated talks failed to extend a 72-hour truce in the month-long war.
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A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot to throw a stone at Israeli troops during clashes at a protest against the Israeli offensive in Gaza, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem August 8, 2014. Israel launched air strikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday in response to Palestinian rockets fired after Egyptian-mediated talks failed to extend a 72-hour truce in the month-long war. The writing on the T-shirt reads "Gaza is bleeding and Palestine is winning."
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Smoke rises following Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza City, Aug. 8, 2014. The Israeli army hit targets in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket attacks by Palestinian militants, after a three-day ceasefire ended and Egypt-mediated indirect talks failed to secure a longer truce
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Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland hits out of a greenside bunker on the 12th hole during the second round of the 2014 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, August 8, 2014.
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A boy takes part in a protest by supporters of losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, who is contesting last month's presidential election result, outside the Constitutional Court in Jakarta August 8, 2014. Prabowo launched a last-gasp attempt to overturn the official election result on Wednesday, telling the nation's highest court last month's vote was tainted by "massive" fraud
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Pornphet Vichitcholchai (C) gestures in a traditional greeting after being elected as President of The National Legislative Assembly at the parliament house in Bangkok August 8, 2014.
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Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez arrives for a hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne August 8, 2014. Suarez is appealing against a four-month ban from all football-related activities for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
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Lebanon's Prime Minister Tammam Salam (L) walks with former prime minister Saad al-Hariri (C) at the government's headquarters in Beirut August 8, 2014. Hariri arrived back in Lebanon on Friday for the first time in three years, a visit seen as reasserting his leadership over the Sunni community after a deadly incursion by Islamist militants in the northeast. Seen in the background are pictures of Hariri (4th R) and his father, Lebanon's assassinated former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri (R), among other pictures of former Lebanese prime ministers
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British corporate investigator Peter Humphrey leaves the the Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court inside a police vehicle in Shanghai August 8, 2014. Humphrey was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison for illegally obtaining records on Chinese citizens, while his American wife was handed a two-year jail sentence, a court in Shanghai said on Friday
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Pankaj Parakh, a municipal corporator, wears a shirt made of gold as he walks with his bodyguards to attend his birthday celebrations in Yeola, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra August 8, 2014. Local politician Parakh said it cost him $228,870 for the shirt, which is made of 18-22 carat gold, weighs 3.90 kilograms and took two months to be stitched.
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Alitalia Chief Executive Officer Gabriele Del Torchio (R) shows the newly signed contract during a media conference in Rome, August 8, 2014. Alitalia and Etihad airlines' executives signed a tie-up agreement on Friday in Rome that foresees Abu Dhabi-based Etihad taking a 49 percent stake in Italy's loss-making carrier
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Crew member Jason Watkins works on Kurt Busch's (41) race car in preparation for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race at Watkins Glen International, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, in Watkins Glen N.Y.
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Baltimore's controversial curfew law, the strictest in the nation, took effect Friday night with the aim of protecting children. The curfew requires children 13 and younger to be indoors by 9. Those 14 to 16 can stay out until 10 p.m. on school nights and 11 p.m. over the summer and on weekends.
ABOVE: Police patrol a residential neighborhood in east Baltimore minutes after the curfew law took effect.
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Scientists excavating an ancient Wyoming sinkhole containing a rare trove of fossils of Ice Age mammals have unearthed hundreds of bones of such prehistoric animals as American cheetahs.
The two-week dig by an international team of researchers, led by Des Moines University paleontologist Julie Meachen, marked the first exploration of Natural Trap Cave at the base of the Bighorn Mountains in north-central Wyoming since its initial discovery in the 1970s.
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An internal court video shows British investigator Peter Humphrey arriving at a courtroom after a lunch break, during his trial at Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court August 8, 2014. Chinese prosecutors on Friday charged Humphrey and his American wife Yu Yingzeng with illegally obtaining private information in a case that is seen as key to a bribery investigation against GlaxoSmithKline Plc.
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Estela de Carlotto (bottom, R), president of human rights organization Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo), embraces her grandson Ignacio Hurban as others applaud during a news conference in Buenos Aires, August 8, 2014. Carlotto, a leading human rights activist in Argentina finally met the grandson torn from her family 36 years ago when he was kidnapped by agents of the country's right-wing dictatorship
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Supporters of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood wave Jordanian, Palestinian and Islamic flags, as they shout slogans during a rally in support of Palestinians in Gaza, in Amman August 8, 2014. Israel launched its Gaza offensive on July 8 in response to a surge of rocket attacks by Gaza's dominant Hamas Islamists. Hamas said that Palestinians would continue confronting Israel until its blockade on Gaza was lifted.
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Bodysurfers and boogie boarders catch waves at Sandy beach on the east side of Oahu as Tropical Storm Iselle passes through the Hawaiian islands, in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 8, 2014. The center of Tropical Storm Iselle made landfall on Hawaii's Big Island on Friday, bringing strong winds and heavy rain, knocking down trees and causing power outages ahead of a more powerful storm gathering strength behind it.
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Battle for Iraq
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Kurdish peshmerga troops participate in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State militants on the front line in Khazer August 8, 2014.
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Kurdish peshmerga troops participate in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State militants on the front line in Khazer August 8, 2014.
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Sailors guide an F/A-18C Hornet assigned to the Valions of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 15 on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) in the Gulf, in this handout image taken and released on August 8, 2014.
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Water bundles align a C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, prior to a humanitarian air drop over Iraq on August 8, 2014
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A Palestinian boy, wounded in an Israeli strike on a house in Beit Lahiya, waits to be treated at the emergency room of the Kamal Adwan hospital
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And, in another photography by Marco Longari, a Palestinian man leads a cow on a street in front of destroyed buildings in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas vowed to continue its fight against Israel, which has cost more than 1,670 Palestinian lives
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A female green iguana floats gracefully to the surface in a cave at sunset off the Caribbean island of Bonaire
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A tiger cub has joined a family of pigs at Sriracha Tiger Zoo, in Pattaya, Thailand
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Traffic is stopped for a freight train crossing Main Street in downtown Pine Bluff, Ark. Once the city's main commercial thoroughfare, the street now sits largely abandoned. In recent years the town has been noted as the second most dangerous metropolitan area in the country by several publications, behind Detroit.
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A competitor takes part in the first international waterfall jumping competition held in the old town of Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Saturday.
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NEW YORK — A sea of Palestinians and their sympathizers lined Manhattan streets Saturday, marching to the United Nations and shouting that Israel's response to missile attacks was genocide that took children's lives.
"What they're doing is wrong," said Ayia Mustafa, 12, of the New York borough of Bronx. "I'm here to protest what's going on in Gaza. What's going on is wrong — bad things like killing children."
She was among about 500 demonstrators who walked to the United Nations on Manhattan's East Side after gathering behind police barricades off Columbus Circle to protest Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip.
In midtown Manhattan, police on motorcycles stood by, engines revved up to accompany the marchers before they peacefully headed toward the United Nations building.
In the image above, Safa Khouli, center, of New York, marches in support of ending the violence in Gaza during a rally in New York on Saturday
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Shed of the Year 2014 - the winners
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The winners of the Shed of the Year competition, sponsored by Cuprinol, have been announced. An "eco shed" with an allotment on its roof won the overall prize. Designed by Joel Bird from North London, the shed's lights are entirely powered by a solar panel
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The relaxing Reelwood Shed owned by Paul Slim, from Amblecote in West Midlands, was the winner of the unique category
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The My Caribbean Moroccan Retreat shed owned by Alison Kynaston -Jones, from Shropshire, the winner of the cabin/summerhouse category. The shed is home to a day bed, stereo, mementos from trips away and Moroccan tapestry cushions
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The Appleton Arms shed owned by Mark Appleton, from Merseyside, the winner of the Pub category. It has a traditional handmade wooden bar, a 'snug' area, dartboard and even a wood-burning stove
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The 'Disco Shed' owned by Paddy Bickerton & Aidan Larkin, from Oxfordshire, the winner of the 'normal' category. The shed is a fully mobile shed that travels the country to play at music festivals. It contains DJ decks, lights, a smoke machine, a disco ball and a record sleeve-lined roof
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The Little Thatch shed owned by Gemma and Jamie Dix, from Bedford, the winner of the Garden Office category
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The Stencil Shed, owned by Luke Hollingworth from Malmesbury in Wiltshire, won the workshop/studio category
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Renne and Albert's Shed from the Sutton, a finalist in the 'normal' category, resembles an American diner
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Richard Pim, from Pembridge, with his Bottle Dome shed, a finalist in the eco category. The shed is made with about 5,000 glass bottles set between crossed arches
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Vintage Motor Works Shed from Hereford, a finalist in the workshop/studio category
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The Gothic Retreat Shed from Brian Bailey in Wolverhampton, a finalist in the cabin/summerhouse category. The shed was inspired by a visit to Castle Coch in South Wales. It has stained glass windows, reclaimed church furniture, while underneath is an underground shell grotto
