World News in Pictures

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A group of kayakers got the treat of their lives when they were joined in the sea by a massive basking shark. The group were out for an evening paddle around the coastal town of Peel on the Isle of Man



it is over for at least another year. Festival goers leave Glastonbury 2013

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A worker unloads a giant Grasshopper from a container as it arrives at Chester Zoo. The grasshopper will form part of an exhibition featuring 13 giant robotic replicas including scorpions and ladybirds



Paddy the wombat who at 27 years old makes him the oldest of his kind on record. His keeper and lifelong friend Stuart Parker, who grew up with him at the Ballarat Wildlife Park in Australia, said their friendship was unusual. When Paddy was young, the wildlife park attempted to release him three times, but he kept getting beaten up by other wombats



Guapo, a jaguar at San Diego Zoo, bares his teeth as he leaves a pool in his enclosure

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A sightseeing helicopter is lifted from the Hudson River at the 79th Street Boat Basin to the deck of the U.S. Army Corps ship Hayward after an emergency landing on the water. The four passengers and pilot on board were rescued unharmed



Fireworks light up the sky to mark Croatia's entry into the European Union. It is a major milestone some 20 years after the country won independence



A man performs with his flyboard during the Red Bull Flugtag. 27 teams took part in the competition by launching their human-powered home-made flying machines off a pier in Stockholm



China's Peoples' Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers march during the Hong Kong special administrative region establishment open day at the Ngong Shuen Chau Barracks



Toby Faletau (R) and Mako Vunipola of the British and Irish Lions jetski in Noosa, Australia



Cars are parked near the summit of Pikes Peak mountain during the Pikes Peak International Hill Climbing in Colorado. The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is an annual automobile and motorcycle hill race to the summit of Pikes Peak. The course is 12.42 miles



One of Mark Roberts' sculptures which features fully clothed dummies placed in unusual places, in this case a rubbish bin in Wrexham



An aggressive seagull swoops.The Royal Mail have suspended its postal deliveries to Liskey Hill Crescent in Cornwall, due to the street being plagued with the aggressive seagulls

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Soldiers recreate the death of General Stonewall Jackson during the Chancellorsville 150th reenactment in Spotsylvania, VA.



Clutching a cavalry saber, Ed Zamorsky, Union Army lt. colonel, and chief engineer of the GAC 150th re-enactment, poses with his sister-in-law Julia Ann Sedlock, camp seamstress and 2nd assistant cook, in Zamorsky's Pottstown, Penn. residence on June 28, 2013.



"My granddaddy had a CSA (Confederate States of America) tattoo, mine are 1861 and 1865." said T.J. Miller, 18, a Confederate 13th North Carolina Company B 'hardcore.' "It's a history that's dying and I want to be that young kid that keeps it going,"

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Capt. Michael Potoczniak marries his partner Todd Saunders, in a ceremony conducted by deputy marriage commissioner John Loschmann at City Hall in San Francisco on June 29, 2013.

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Wimbledon 2013: day seven

All the best images from SW19 on Manic Monday, as Serena Williams is shocked by Sabine Lisicki, Laura Robson's run is ended, and Andy Murray continues his campaign



Judy Murray is in the Royal Box ready to watch her son Andy take on Mikhail Youzhny. They're on Centre Court after reigning women's champion Serena Williams takes on Sabine Lisicki



Also in the Royal Box on day seven is golfing legend Jack Nicklaus and his wife Barbara

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Meanwhile over on Court One, Laura Robson's fourth-round match against Kaia Kanepi is getting under way. It's the first time in 15 years that Britain has both female and male representatives in the fourth round. It's a tight opening set and Robson took the initiative in the ninth game, breaking Kanepi to lead 5-4



However, Kanepi immediately broke back and the set eventually went to a tie-break, which Kanepi took courtesy of a couple of Robson errors. The youngster has a few things to focus on ahead of the second set



These problems continued in the second set with mis-hits and laboured movement inflicting Robson's game. Frustration then set in and the Brit lost her serve in the 11th game before losing the set 7-5



Despite defeat, the 19-year-old leaves the court to appreciative and rousing applause

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First up on Centre Court is 24th seed Sabine Lisicki, who is taking on five-times champion Serena Williams



Williams had no answer to Lisicki's serves and returns in the opening set and was broken twice as the German took it 6-2



After losing the first game in the second set, the defending champion seemed to find her groove and put together nine straight games to take the second set 6-1 and claim a 3-0 lead in the decider



Then it was Lisicki's turn to storm back and she eventually broke Williams, before taking a 5-4 lead which meant she was serving for the match



She missed one match point after a forehand error, but held her nerve on the second to put a forehand away and dump out the world No1 and end the American's winning streak at 34 matches



Lisicki caused one of the biggest shocks in recent history in the women's event with her 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 victory, which booked her place in the quarter-finals. She was so overcome with joy that she fell to the ground in celebration and was shaking when interviewed immediately after the match

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Andy Murray seems to be on his game at the start of his match against Mikhail Youzhny, going into a 5-3 lead






Despite a blip Murray duly obliges and takes the first set 6-4



After being broken in the third game, Youzhny returns the favour and breaks Murray's serve in the fourth game of the second set






Murray wins the tie-break 7-5 to take a two set lead

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Murray has the bit between his teeth and surges to a 4-0 lead in the third set



Normal service is resumed as Murray win the next three games to take the set 6-1, the match and a place in the quarter-finals

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A happy family portrait: Julian Marsh, left, poses with his husband Tray Popov, a Bulgarian graduate student, and their Yorkshire Terriers at their home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. They are the first gay couple in the nation to have their application for immigration benefits approved after the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriages



One way or the other ....: Ecuadorean President Rafael Corrrea getures during an interview at the Carondelet Palace in Quito. Correa, whose government has mulled an asylum request from US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, said the fugitive's bid for sanctuary in Russia could resolve the standoff

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Gas masters: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (L) Russian President Vladimir Putin (2-L front), Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2-R) and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (R) are seen during a gathering of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) in the Andrew (Throne) Hall in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia.



Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi greets members of a support rally outside his villa in Arcore. Berlusconi did not make a statement on the advice of his lawyers. Judges in Milan sentenced Berlusconi to seven years in prison and banned him for life from holding public office, rulings he will appeal

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Jockey Sebastiano Murtas of the Nicchio parish leads during the fifth of six trial horse races in Del Campo square in Siena, Italy. Every year on July 2 and August 16, almost without fail since the mid-1600s, 10 riders compete bareback around Siena's shell-shaped central square in a bid to win the Palio, a silk banner depicting the Madonna and child



Happy birthday: Canada's Governor General David Johnston inspects the honour guard during Canada Day celebrations on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Canadians are celebrating their country's 146th birthday.

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Silhouetted opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi stand on railway bars during a protest outside the presidential palace, in Cairo. Egypt's military issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the Islamist president and his opponents to reach an agreement to "meet the people's demands" or it will intervene to put forward a political road map for the country and ensure it is carried out



Another big summer festival: guests use wheelbarrows to carry their belongings at the Roskilde festival in Denmark. The festival is one of the largest annual music events in Europe and runs from 29 June to 7 July this year



A giant Canadian flag is seen during the national anthem to commemorate Canada Day before the Toronto Blue Jays play Detroit Tigers in heir MLB American League baseball game in Toronto.

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European Rabbinical leaders demonstrate in front of the EU Headquarters in Brussels. They appealed to the EU Commission to provide international protection to those of the Orthodox Jewish community who flee Israel and to ensure that all its member states recognize them as refugee and political asylum seekers



President Barack Obama greets the cheering crowd as they arrive at the State House in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania



This is rather a sculptural look created by designer Iris van Herpen as part of her Haute Couture autumn/winter show in Paris

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Girls wearing traditional costumes wait to greet foreign ministers before a cultural event attended by US secretary of state John Kerry during the ASEAN security conference in Bandar Seri Begawan in Brunei.



It may seem a little premature but members of the press are already setting up outside St Mary's Hospital in preparation for the birth of the first child of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge due early this month.



People dressed in the colours of the Somali flag gather for a celebration to mark Somalia's Independence Day at Konis stadium in Mogadishu, Somalia

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Protesters storm Brotherhood HQ




A protester opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi tosses copies of book titled "President Mursi Building a New Egypt" out a window of the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood, after it was damaged by protesters, in Cairo's Moqattam district July 1, 2013. The Brotherhood said on Monday that armed men who ransacked its national headquarters had crossed a red line of violence, and the movement was considering action to defend itself. Hundreds of people threw petrol bombs and rocks at the building, which caught fire as guards and Brotherhood members inside the building exchanged gunfire with attackers















Policemen ask people to leave the Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters after it was burned down by protesters opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi in Cairo's Moqattam district July 1, 2013.



A looter gestures as part of an air-conditioning is thrown down from the Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters after it was burned down by protesters opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi in Cairo's Moqattam district July 1, 2013.

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Antonio Lopez Chaj, a 43-year-old house painter, appears at a news conference in Los Angeles, Calif., on July 1. Lopez Chaj is so badly brain damaged after a beating in a bar that left him with half his skull permanently bashed in, that he cannot speak. His lawyers announced he has been awarded $58 million by a jury in Torrance Superior Court.

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Displaced cocoa farmers from the village of Baleko-Niegre leave with their belongings, in a protected forest about 43 miles from the city of Sassandra, south western Ivory Coast June 16, 2013. The Ivory Coast is clearing tens of thousands of cocoa farmers from protected forests, threatening exports from the world's top grower and leading to complaints about human rights abuses.












President Alassane Ouattara's government says it is prepared to pay the economic price of phasing agriculture out to save the dwindling tropical forest and the security services have started flattening houses and forcefully removing the farmers.

"In America, you couldn't imagine people illegally occupying Central Park just because they say they have nowhere else to live, could you?" said government spokesman Bruno Kone

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Arizona wildfire: 19 firefighters die while battling Yarnell Hill blaze - more pics



























A Facebook page has been created in memory of the fallen firefighters and included a photo showing 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots crew

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Belarus teenagers take part in a rehearsal for tomorrow's Independence Day parade in Minsk. Independence Day is an official holiday marking the day in 1944 when the Red Army liberated Minsk from Nazi troops during the World War II.



The Queen talks to the Scottish First minister Alex Salmond during an audience at the Palace of Holyrood House in Edinburgh



Sri Lankan Buddhist monks protest outside the Indian High Commission in Colombo. The monks demanded that India stop its alleged anti-Sri Lanka stance by supporting Tamil separatists among the island's ethnic Tamil minority

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A protester holds up Egypt's flag demanding President Mursi's resignation in Tahrir Square, Cairo.



Giant Panda Shin Shin is seen at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, Japan. Shi Shin had shown signs of pregnancy, but it turned out to be a false hope.

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Members of the European Parliament vote to strip far-right lawmaker Marine Le Pen of her legal immunity so she can be prosecuted in France over a remark she made about Muslims in 2010



Supporters of Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi hold sticks and wear protective gear during training outside the Rabia el-Adawiya mosque near the presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt

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A prototype of a tiny house at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. The two metres square living space contains a bed, a chair and a small table. The experimental project is a cooperation between Italian architect Renzo Piano and Swiss furniture company Vitra



President Obama demonstrates the 'Soccket Ball', which uses kinetic energy to provide power to charge a mobile phone or power a light, during an event to promote energy innovation at the Ubungo power plant in Dar Es Salaam

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A large catamaran smashes onto rocks north of Opossum Bay, after gale-force winds in Hobart, Tasmania



Firefighters hug as they mourn their lost colleagues during the Yarnell fire memorial service held at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona. The Yarnell Hill fire - which killed all but one member of a 20-strong 'hotshot' team - was the biggest loss of firefighters' lives since the September 11 attacks



A police officer makes his way through a crowd protesting against an alleged government plan to privatise PEMEX, the state-owned oil company, in Mexico City