World News in Pictures

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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott lays petals at Mahatma Gandhi's memorial in New Delhi. Mr Abbott is on a two-day visit to India.



Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (third from right), stands with Nato leaders including US President Barack Obama (right) British Prime Minister David Cameron (second from right) during a flypast at the Nato summit at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales



A man repairs electricity and communications cables on a pylon in Beijing, China

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Forensic investigators prepare to examine a property in Islington, London, where police have shot dead a man who broke into a house and threatened a woman with a knife. The woman was unharmed but is being treated for shock



Flowers surround Joan Rivers' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles following the announcement that she had died. Rivers, 81, had been on life support in Mount Sinai Hospital since having a cardiac arrest in New York last week

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Floods in Kashmir





People transport a sick woman in an empty water tank on a flooded street during rain in Srinagar September 5, 2014.

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A model has make up applied backstage before showing the BCBG Max Azria collection during New York Fashion Week September 4, 2014



A man walks past a garage set ablaze by what locals say was shelling by Ukrainian forces in Donetsk, September 4, 2014.

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Flowers and mementos are pictured on the star of comedian Joan Rivers on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California September 4, 2014



Demonstrators take a break from a protest against the NATO summit taking place at the Celtic Manor resort, near Newport, in Wales September 4, 2014.

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An orangutan holds a paper bag over its head under the hot sun at the National Zoo in Washington September 4, 2014.



A fan reacts outside the clinic where Argentine musician Gustavo Cerati died today at the age of 55 in Buenos Aires September 4, 2014.



Regine Grosinger and her three-years-old dog Hope pose in Vienna September 3, 2014.

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Girls pose in front of an inflatable 8-metre tall Snoopy in Shanghai, China



Special relationship, special access. President Barack Obama gets up close to the ancient monument when he visited Stonehenge after leaving the NATO summit in Newport, Wales.

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A wooden structure in the shape of a giant hippopotamus floats past Battersea Power Station on the River Thames in London, Bali Zoo's Orangutan, Jacky celebrates his 37th birthday eating fruit in Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia and a military vehicles burn on a country road in the village of Berezove, eastern Ukraine are some of the photos of the day



Unmarked military vehicles burn on a country road in the village of Berezove, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, after a clash between pro-government troops and Russian-backed separatist militia. Separatist rebels have made major strides in their offensive against Ukrainian government forces in recent days, drawing on what Ukraine and NATO says is ample support from the Russian military

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Demonstrators protest against the NATO summit being held at the Celtic Manor resort, near Newport, in Wales September 4, 2014. The resort is the venue for the two day NATO summit which started today.




The Turanor PlanetSolar, the world's largest solar-powered boat, travels on the Venetian Lagoon in Venice September 4, 2014. The vessel is a catamaran powered exclusively by solar energy.

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Kashmiri residents struggle to withstand sudden and strong water currents while wading through floodwaters in their efforts to move to safer places in Srinagar, India, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. At least 100 villages across the Kashmir valley were flooded by overflowing lakes and rivers, in the worst flooding in 22 years caused by heavy rains.



Thailand's Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, front left, leaves after taking a group photo with his cabinet members, at the government house in Bangkok Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Thursday led his 32 cabinet members to take oath in front of King Bhumibol Adulyadej at the palace

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Underwater photographer Andrey Nekrasov, 42, photographed bigfin reef squid in the pitch black Red Sea putting on an extraordinary light show when the sun goes down



Karis, an eleven week old lion cub, plays in fallen leaves brushed up by keepers in her enclosure at Blair Drummond Safari Park, near Stirling, central Scotland

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A crocodile in the aptly named Crocodile River next to the 13th green during the second round of the Alfred Dunhill Golf Championship in Malelane, South Africa



Sheep are herded from their alpine summer grazing grounds down to Belalp, Switzerland

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Surfers ride one of the world's most dangerous waves near Sydney,

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Flooding in India and Pakistan

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Bestival 2014




Sophie Ellis Bextor performs on the third day of Bestival 2014, September 6, 2014

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Emma Sulkowicz, a senior visual arts student at Columbia University, carries a mattress in protest of what she says was the university's lack of action after she reported being raped during her sophomore year, on Friday in New York City. Sulkowicz has said she is committed to carrying the mattress everywhere she goes until the university expels the rapist or he leaves.

“I will be carrying this dorm room mattress with me everywhere I go for as long as I attend the same school as my rapist,” the visual arts major says “I feel like I carried the weight of what happened there with me everywhere since then."

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ABOVE: Medical staff carry James Dorbor, 8, suspected of having Ebola, into a treatment facility in Monrovia, Liberia, on Friday.
When a starving Ebola patient escaped from a treatment center in Monrovia and staggered through a crowded market in search of food, bystanders who scattered in his path voiced their anger — not at him but at Liberia's president. To many in this impoverished West African country, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's government has not done enough to protect them from the deadly virus.


Ebola has killed more than 1,000 people in Liberia since its arrival six months ago.

Across West Africa, the death toll from the world's worst Ebola outbreak has surpassed 1,900. Panicked residents said the patient was the fifth to escape in recent weeks from the understaffed ELWA hospital. Dozens watched anxiously as workers in protective clothes bundled the struggling patient into a truck and drove him back. "The patients are hungry, they are starving. No food, no water," said one terrified woman in the crowd.

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A Palestinian protester uses a sling shot to hurl a stone at Israeli troops during clashes at a weekly protest against Jewish settlements, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, September 5,2014.



Trapped coal miners leave after they were rescued at the Raspotocje coal mine in Zenica September 5, 2014. Five Bosnian miners were confirmed dead on Friday, a day after an earthquake triggered a collapse at the mine, as emergency teams helped 29 others to the surface.

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Serena Williams of the U.S. celebrates a point against Ekaterina Makarova of Russia during their semi-final match at the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, September 5, 2014.



England's Moeen Ali attempts to catch a ball hit by India's Suresh Raina (not pictured) during the fifth one-day international cricket match at Headingley cricket ground, in Leeds September 5, 2014.

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People walk past a coffin with the body of Russian photojournalist Andrei Stenin during a memorial service in Moscow, September 5, 2014. Stenin, staff photographer of Rossiya Segodnya (Russia Today) news agency, former RIA Novosti, went missing while covering a military conflict in the eastern regions of Ukraine as his colleagues could not contact him since the beginning of August, according to local media. Stenin, 33, was confirmed dead earlier on Wednesday by his employers, state-run Rossiya Segodnya, or Russia Today, and by Russia's Investigative Committee



Peng Shuai of China grimaces as she is placed in a wheelchair after dropping to the court in pain during the semi-final match against Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark at the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, September 5, 2014

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A family member of a trapped miner cries in front of the Raspotocje coal mine in Zenica, September 5, 2014. Thirty-four Bosnian coal miners were trapped half a kilometre underground on Friday after an earthquake triggered a rock burst, leaving rescue teams struggling to clear debris to reach them. The 3.5 magnitude earthquake hit the central town of Zenica on Thursday afternoon, causing rocks in the nearby Raspotocje mine to fracture half an hour later, blocking parts of the mine, officials said on Friday



Followers of the Shi'ite Houthi group attend the weekly Friday prayers during an anti-government rally in Sanaa September 5, 2014. Yemen will partially restore a fuel subsidy from Thursday in an attempt to calm anti-government protests in the capital that have threatened to destabilize the impoverished Arab state, according to the cabinet. The plan to ease petrol prices by about 30 percent has however failed to mollify the Shi'ite Houthi rebel group, which also rejected a proposal - still on the table - by president Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi on Wednesday to form a unity government.