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The inaugural trip of the world's first double-decker cable car system near Lucerne, Switzerland
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The inaugural trip of the world's first double-decker cable car system near Lucerne, Switzerland
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Serena Williams overcame a resurgent Agnieszka Radwanska to clinch a hard-fought 6-1 5-7 6-2 victory and earn her fifth Wimbledon singles title.
The American, a winner in 2002, 2003, 2009 and 2010, had eased through the opener with Radwanska rarely threatening to pierce her defences.
But the Pole regrouped as rain delayed the second set, and clawed back a break before swooping late to win the second.
Williams broke twice in the decider to finally kill off Radwanska's comeback.
It is the 30-year-old's 14th Grand Slam title and her first since spending almost a year out of action between summer 2010 and 2011 with a leg injury and subsequent pulmonary embolism
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Players compete in the 2012 Swamp Soccer World Cup China in Beijing on July 6, 2012. The 10-day competition kicked off on July 5. Thirty two teams consisting of six players, including at least one woman, are taking part. The winners receive a 2012 London Olympics commemorative torch, local media reported.
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A participant poses with body paintings during the 15th World Bodypainting Festival in front of Woerthersee lake in Poertschach, Austria on July 7, 2012. Some 30,000 visitors are expected at the three-day event, with over 200 artists from 44 countries showing off their creations in the hope of taking home a prestigious World Award, the equivalent of a world championship title.
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About 1,000 people dressed as zombies as part of “zombie walk” in downtown Frankfurt on July 7, 2012. The event was organized via social networking
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Sauber Formula One driver Sergio Perez of Mexico drives during the qualifying session of the British F1 Grand Prix at Silverstone circuit, England, July 7.
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Teams take part in the Ironing Board Surfing event at the Chap Olympiad 2012 on July 7, in London, England.
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Spectators watch the ongoing sport at the Chap Olympiad 2012 event on July 7 in London, England
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Competitors takes part in the Butler Racing event at the Chap Olympiad 2012 event on July 7, London
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Competitors take part in the Not Playing Tennis event, where the aim is to make the least effort at playing tennis, at the Chap Olympiad 2012 on July 7, in London.
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The pack rides past a field of sunflowers during the seventh stage of the 2012 Tour de France.
Southern Russia floods
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More than 130 fatalities have been recorded so far
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Wimbledon 2012: Briton Jonathan Marray wins men's doubles final
Jonathan Marray became the first Briton to win the Wimbledon men's doubles title for 76 years after victory with wildcard partner Frederik Nielsen.
Sheffield-based Marray, 31, and Dane Nielsen only teamed up three events ago but beat fifth seeds Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau 4-6 6-4 7-6 6-7 6-3.
Patrick Hughes and Raymond Tuckey were the last British winners in 1936.
"What a great honour," said Marray. "I just wanted to cherish every moment. Thanks to Freddie. It was meant to be."
The last Britons to reach the men's doubles final were Bobby Wilson and Mike Davies in 1960.
Marray had never been past the third round in his previous 10 attempts in the doubles, and had to request a wildcard entry with recent partner Nielsen, whose grandfather Kurt played in the Wimbledon men's singles final in 1953 and 1955.
But instead of being daunted by facing the runners-up for the last two years on one of the sport's biggest stages, Marray and Nielsen were able to provide the Centre Court crowd with a tantalising appetiser for Sunday
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This full-circle scene combines 817 images taken by the panoramic camera on Opportunity, Nasa's Mars exploration rover. Opportunity's camera took the images between the 2,811th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's Mars surface mission (21 December 2011) and sol 2,947 (8 May 2012)
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"The view provides rich geologic context for the detailed chemical and mineral work that the team did at Greeley Haven over the rover's fifth Martian winter, as well as a spectacularly detailed view of the largest impact crater that we've driven to yet with either rover over the course of the mission," said Jim Bell of Arizona State University
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Late afternoon shadows at Endeavour crater on Mars. Taken between 4.30 and 5.00pm local Mars time through different filters, the images have been combined into this mosaic view
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Arganda del Rey, Spain: people run to the stage prior to the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert during the Rock in Rio music festival
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Bangkok, Thailand: students from 96 Penang, a Muay Thai boxing camp, during a daily training session. The gym, located under an overpass in a run-down slum area, has a good reputation for developing and preparing fighters
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Bunagana, Democratic Republic Of Congo: A Congolese rebel fighter shows arms captured from fleeing the Congolese army in a town they overran near the Uganda border
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Pamplona, Spain: a bull umps over revellers in a bullring during the second running of the bulls at the San Fermín fiesta
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Budapest, Hungary: riot police officers with dogs face rightwing demonstrators protesting against the 17th Budapest Gay Pride
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Sabucedo, Spain: A man grabs a wild horse during the traditional round-up of wild horses - nice beard!
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Jakarta, Indonesia: a father holds his child while riding a bicycle during car free day
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Yealmpton, England: a shed lies overturned in flood water outside a property near the River Yealm after heavy rainfall
Flash floods in Russia - more pics
Two months' average rainfall fell in a few hours on Friday night in the Black Sea region of southern Russia, unleashing intense flooding that has killed 144 people
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A local resident looks at the debris of a house damaged by floods in the town of Krymsk
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An icon hangs on the wall, with a watermark showing the level of the floodwater in Krymsk
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A runner is dragged by his scarf by a Dolores Aguirre fighting bull at the entrance to the bullring during the first running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona July 7, 2012. One person was gored and four others injured in a run that lasted two minutes and fifty-two seconds, according to local media.
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Local residents watch as sediment-laden flood water gushes through the Xiaolangdi Dam on the Yellow River in Luoyang, Henan province July 6, 2012.
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A man waves a gun from his balcony to threaten anti-Institutional Revolutionary Party, or anti-PRI, protesters from the opposition movement Yosoy132 (I am 132) in Xalapa, in the Mexican state of Veracruz July 7, 2012. The man was detained and taken to a police station after threatening the protesters that were taking part in a march, local media reported. Thousands of protesters marched through the Mexican capital on Saturday against Pena Nieto, accusing him of buying votes and paying off TV networks for support. The demonstrators, including students, leftists, anarchists and union members, shouted slogans criticizing PRI and the electoral authority
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Women, wearing nylon masks, rest on the shore as youths walk past them during their visit to a beach in Qingdao, Shandong province, China, July 6, 2012. The mask, which was invented by a woman about seven years ago, is used to block the sun's rays. The mask is under mass production and is on sale at local swimwear stores
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US heatwave
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(Reuters) - A prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric who was wanted by the police was detained in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province on Sunday over calls for more rights for the minority Muslim sect in the Sunni monarchy, his brother and an activist said.
Early reports of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr's arrest, which spread online on Sunday, prompted demonstrations in the village of Awamiya where Shi'ites have clashed with security forces several times since early last year, said Tawfiq al-Seif, a Shi'ite community leader.
Activists from the Eastern Province, where most of Saudi Arabia's Shi'ites live, posted pictures on the Internet of the grey-bearded Sheikh Nimr in a vehicle covered with what appeared to be a blood-stained white blanket.
An Interior Ministry spokesman could not be reached for comment after several attempts by Reuters. Sheikh Nimr's brother said the cleric was detained by police while driving from a farm to his house in al-Qatif. "They (police) took him from his car and blood can be seen near his car," said his brother Mohammed al-Nimr.
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Rebels of the M23 group stand on a road after their troops entered the town of Rutshuru that had already been deserted by the Congolese army, near the Ugandan border on Sunday. Mutineers from the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday seized control of three towns in the country's eastern Nord-Kivu province, an AFP correspondent reported today. The rebels, known as M23, took Rutshuru and the towns of Ntamugenga and Rubare, less than 10 kilometres away on the road to the provincial capital Goma, shortly after 12:00 pm local time (1000 GMT).
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Refugees escaping from Rutshuru are on the way to Bunagana on Sunday. Sporadic gunfire could be heard in the eastern DR Congo town of Rutshuru, seized earlier in the day by renegade soldiers.
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A section of Nyakabande refugee transit camp in Kisoro town, 324 miles southwest of Uganda's capital Kampala on Sunday. Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo said on Sunday they seized the town of Rutshuru in North Kivu province after government forces abandoned it.
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A local man inspects his flooded house in the southern Russian town of Krymsk on Sunday. Russia on Sunday was reeling from devastating flash floods in its southern Krasnodar region where at least 150 people were killed and 29,000 remained without power in the region's worst natural disaster in history.
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Competitors in the World Snuff Championships take their snuff in Peutenhausen, southern Germany.
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Combo of six pictures shows participants of the Snuff World Championship sniffing smokeless tobacco. About 300 men and women try to put a maximum of five grams of tobacco in their noses within one minute to win the competition. According to experts, not a big nose is the best condition to be succesful, but intensive training and a sophisticated technique.
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An anti-Institutional Revolutionary Party, or anti-PRI, protester from the opposition movement Yosoy132 gives a flower to a policeman during a demonstration in Cancun on July 7, 2012. Thousands of protesters marched through the Mexican capital on Saturday against President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto, accusing him of buying votes and paying off TV networks for support. The demonstrators, including students, leftists, anarchists and union members, shouted slogans criticizing PRI and the electoral authority.
Thank you again for the wonderful pics Mr Lick. And thanks to the others who added pics. Great thread here.
Always a pleasure Hampsha, thanks for your very kind comments
Some sad news
Ernest Borgnine, TV and film actor, dies at 95
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Oscar-winning actor Ernest Borgnine, whose career spanned more than 60 years, has died, his spokesman has said.
He died of renal failure in a Los Angeles hospital with his family by his side, his spokesman, Harry Flynn, told the Associated Press.
Mr Borgnine, who was 95 years old, continued acting until recently with a role in the hospital drama ER in 2009.
He won an Oscar in 1955 for his role in the film Marty.
His family released a statement saying Borgnine "had been in excellent health until a recent illness".
Borgnine was also known for his roles in western The Wild Bunch and disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure.
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