World News in Pictures

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Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico, Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Director for Energy Markets at the European Commission Klaus-Dieter Borchardt open the Vojany-Uzhhorod pipeline during the official launch ceremony at a compressor station on Slovakia-Ukraine border in Velke Kapusany September 2, 2014.



Relatives and soldiers from the Lebanese army react as they carry the coffin of Lebanese soldier Ali al-Sayyed, who was beheaded by Islamic State militants in Arsal, during his funeral in Qalamoun, in Akkar September 3, 2014.

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Balloons released during a commemoration marking the 69th anniversary of the second world war victory of China over Japan in Beijing



Parents of British boy Ashya King, Brett King and Naghmeh King, leave their lawyers’ offices after a press conference in Sevilla, southern Spain

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A Tunisian woman walks past a mural by Spanish artist Btoy as part of the street art project‘Djerbahood’ in the village of Erriadh on the island of Djerba, Tunisia



The Cincinnati Reds watch from the dugout as heavy rain falls during a rain delay in the first inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles

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Hundreds of thousands of fish have been washed up on the shores of Lake Cajititlan, in the Mexican state of Jalisco, during the past week. The local authorities said it was part of a "natural cycle", but state officials said it was due to the lake's "poor management".



The electric train, the first of its kind in Lima, links the northern and southern districts of the capital of Peru, from Villa El Salvador to San Juan de Lurigancho

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Afghan day-labourers load recyclable cans on to a truck at a scrap yard on the outskirts of Kabul



A Royal Navy type-45 destroyer, HMS Duncan, is berthed in Cardiff Bay, ahead of the forthcoming Nato summit in Wales

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Apologies for the delay, back on track now guys.




An 18-year-old Indian girl has married a stray dog as a part of a tribal ritual designed to ward off an evil spell. Village elders hastily organised the wedding between Mangli Munda and the canine as the teenager is believed to be bringing bad luck to her community in a remote village in Jharkhand state. Mangli's father Sri Amnmunda agreed and even found a stray dog named Sheru as a match for his daughter. And while Mangli was a hesitant bride, she believes that the ceremony will help ensure that her future human husband will have a long life



Becky, a 35-year-old minature donkey, is a regular visitor to the Brewers Arms near Heathfield, East Sussex. She mingles with the locals including Stella the dog

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Five-year-old Fresa, from Santuario Milagros Caninos on the outskirts of Mexico City, has undergone reconstructive surgery after her owners hacked off half of her snout with a sharp object, possibly a machete, according to surgeon Jesus Paredes. After neighbours found Fresa wandering on the streets, they handed her over to a shelter where Paredes performed a three-hour operation to enable her to breathe again through her nostrils, to remove her protruding jaw and reconstruct the lips with flaps of skin



Novak Djokovic of Serbia makes fun of himself after missing a shot during his US Open quarter-final match against Andy Murray in New York

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Fans duck to avoid a bat after it came out of the hands of Texas Rangers' Tomas Telis during a game against the Kansas City Royals in Kansas City, Mo



A craftsman from a model-making company applies final touches to a full-sized model of a Typhoon fighter jet at the Celtic Manor Hotel ahead of the Nato summit in Newport

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(From left) a Foxhound armoured vehicle, a Scout Specialist Vehicle and a full-size model of a jet fighter are displayed on the Celtic Manor Hotel golf course ahead of the Nato summit in Newport, Wales



A model of Mexico City's new airport designed by British architect Norman Foster and Mexican Architect Fernando Romero

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An Icelandair pilot took passengers on a mini sightseeing tour around Iceland’s Bardarbunga volcano. Erla Vinsý managed to take this photo of lava and steam flowing from the fissure



North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his wife Ri Sol-ju watch a performance by the Moranbong Band in Pyongyang

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An anti-government protester covers himself with a plastic sheet during heavy rain in the morning in front of the President's house in the Red Zone during the Revolution March in Islamabad



Harbour and grey seals bask in the sunshine on the Kent coastline as the Zoological Society of London combine land, sea and air surveys to get a clear idea of the Thames' population of the seals and their range helping to determine the best conservation efforts in the future



A Palestinian man looks out of his damaged house at neighbouring houses which witnesses said were destroyed during the Israeli offensive, in the east of Gaza City



A man walks up a spiral staircase at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois



Television presenter Rachel Riley tries the new Samsung Gear VR device at the Unpacked 2014 Episode 2 event ahead of the IFA Electronics show in Berlin

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MAINZ, Germany -- A pilot passed just feet above cars and trucks before crashing his plane next to a busy stretch of Germany's high-speed autobahn on Wednesday.

“The pilot and the commuters surely had a guardian angel,” police spokeswoman Ramona Hoerst told NBC News after the aircraft flew into an embankment beside the A43 highway.



The 62-year-old pilot was able to escape the wreck on his own but suffered severe injuries. According to police reports, he was preparing to land at Loemuehle airfield when the four-seater Socata TB10 experienced a sudden loss of power. Traffic was backed up for miles as rescue workers used a crane to remove the aircraft from the undergrowth. The cause of the crash is under investigation

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An Associated Press reporter saw three military-type vehicles ablaze Thursday in Berezove, a village along the road connecting Mariupol with Donetsk, the largest rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine. Russian-backed separatist fighters were on the move, indicating they could be trying to take control of the strategic highway. Later, columns of smoke rose outside the nearby village of Olenivka, suggesting that Ukrainian forces could be trying to retake it.

Russia and Ukraine say they are working on a deal to halt months of fighting in eastern Ukraine between government troops and Russian-backed separatists

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Protesters demanding higher wages and unionization for fast food workers march near Times Square on Sept. 4, 2014 in New York City. Protests were planned in more than 100 cities throughout the U.S. on Thursday, as workers demanded higher wages




















Police handcuff protesters blocking traffic on Mack Avenue in Detroit

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Ka'apor Indian warriors hike during a jungle expedition to search for and expel loggers from the Alto Turiacu Indian territory, near the Centro do Guilherme municipality in the northeast of Maranhao state in the Amazon basin, on Aug. 7, 2014. Tired of what they say is a lack of sufficient government assistance in keeping loggers off their land, the Ka'apor Indians, who along with four other tribes are the legal inhabitants and caretakers of the territory, have sent their warriors out to expel all loggers they find and set up monitoring camps in the areas that are being illegally exploited



















A Ka'apor Indian warrior chases a logger who tried to escape after he was captured

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Imagine the angst that a rich Roman woman must have felt in the year 61 when she had to abandon her gold and silver jewelry, buried beneath the floor of a house in the British town of Colchester. Almost two millennia later, those treasures have been unearthed at last — thanks to a dig at a department store that sells the 21st-century equivalents.

The hoard includes three gold armlets, a silver chain necklace, two silver bracelets, a silver armlet, a small bag of coins and a wooden jewelry box containing four gold rings and two sets of gold earrings. The Colchester Archaeological Trust says the Roman British bling was discovered while experts were excavating the site of a Williams & Griffin store that's undergoing redevelopment.

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Smoke rises from the Happy Camp Complex Fire in the Klamath National Forest in northwestern California in a satellite image captured on Sept. 3. The Klamath Forest remains under emergency closure as firefighters combat the blaze

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Jockey Johnny King struggles to stay on his horse Arbitrageur as they prepare to start a race at Laytown, County Meath, Ireland. The pair went on to come seventh in the race



Chris Roland walks his pet turtles Cindy (L) and Kuka up Madison Avenue in the Upper East Side of the Manhattan borough of New York. Roland has had the turtles for years and walks them daily

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The Gulden Leeuw (Golden Lion) of Holland arrives on the Thames at Tilbury for the Tall Ships Festival 2014



Visual artists gather during a rally against the Ebola virus in Abidjan, the capital of the Ivory Coast

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Indian school girls wear saree as they perform a Thiruvathirakali, a popular group dance ahead of the Onam festival and on Teachers' Day at a school in New Delhi. The Onam harvest festival will be celebrated mostly in India's southern state of Kerala



Iraqi Shiite militia fighters fire a rocket at Islamic State militant positions outside the city of Tikrit in Iraq

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The Duke of Devonshire with the Churchill / Roosevelt bench sculpture ahead of the 2014 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition at Chatsworth House in the Derbyshire Peak District



8,000 feet up ? No problem if you're a mountain goat, bit more of a challenge for these hikers on the peak of Ergischhorn mountain in Switzerland



A lioness pounces on a lone hippopotamus on the plains of Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. The brave hippo fought back, eventually forcing the pack of lions to flee.

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The Vila Franca de Xira bullfighting troop perform their unique technique in Lisbon's Campo Pequeno bullring: the front foracdo provokes the bull and the eight barehanded forcados behind him then attempt to subdue it



The Solar observatory at the peak of the Lomnicky Stit, in Slovakia's High Tatras mountains. The coronal station at Lomnicky Stit observatory systematically observes emission spectral lines of the corona

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The new Mazda MX-5 in pictures



Smaller, lighter and more purposefully-styled than before, it marks a notable departure from the steady growth in size







Mazda has also said that it's designed the MX-5 to look as good with the hood up as it does with it down. As these pictures show, a soft-top will definitely be available, but it's widely expected that Mazda will offer a retractable hard-top version, as it does with the current model












The new model's platform has been developed jointly with Fiat, and is expected to underpin an upcoming Fiat or Abarth-badged roadster. Mazda says the new car offers perfect 50:50 weight distribution



That's thanks largely to the fact that the engine of the new car has been moved behind the front wheels, making it front-mid-engined, as can be seen in this overhead cut-away view. It also shows the way the body sits around the platform, including the shorter nose and tail



The new model is expected to cost under £20,000 when it goes on sale in 2015. Read more about it here

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Ahead of their wedding next year Qin Riyang (left) and Leng Yuting, both 26, pose underwater at a photo studio in Shanghai. Mr Riyang said they had their wedding photographs taken underwater because "it's romantic and beautiful".



Angel Di Maria set up three goals and scored another as Argentina beat world champions Germany 4-2 in Dusseldorf during a friendly football match

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Brett Gardner of the New York Yankees dives into second base during the first inning of an MLB baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York City



Colombian National Army soldiers oversee workers hired by the government during an operation to eradicate coca plants at a plantation in Yali, north-eastern Antioquia



A milkman rides a cart through floodwaters following heavy rain in Lahor, Pakistan. More than 30 people have been killed as a result of monsoon rains in the country, officials said on 4 September, as authorities warned that more intense rainfall and flash floods were likely to follow soon



Taliban militants have attacked an Afghan government compound in the eastern town of Ghazni killing at least 10 people, officials say. Gunmen detonated two truck bombs as they blasted their way in to attack police and intelligence officers