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A boy looks on as protesters gather in front of the Chinese Consulate in Makati city, Philippines during a protest against China's claims on the South China Sea.
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An injured woman receives treatment at a hospital after the earthquake hit Minxian county
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Protesters build barricades outside the parliament building in Sofia. More than 100 Bulgarian lawmakers, ministers and journalists were escorted out of parliament early on Wednesday after being trapped inside for about eight hours by anti-corruption protesters outside.
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Spanish model Eva Gonzalez kisses a smurf costumed character before a symbolic tree planting act by Andres Iniesta (unseen) during a WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) reforestation program, which is part of the promotional event for the film "The Smurfs 2", in the Andalusian village of Juzcar, near Malaga, southern Spain, July 23, 2013
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A Palestinian labourer (L) from a town in the West Bank, who does not have a permit to work in Israel, arranges the mattress where he sleeps on a construction site near Tel Aviv July 11, 2013. There are two ways for Palestinian workers to cross into Israel every day. Those with work permits can pass through a military checkpoint. Those without have to find a way through the separation barrier, which is made up of mostly fences and some cement walls, snaking its way through the West Bank. Those caught entering illegally risk a fine or imprisonment. Both ways are time consuming but the reward for those who find a job in Israel is four times the amount of pay that they can earn in the West Bank.
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Patients in military costumes wait to march during a parade, as part of Independence Day celebrations, at the Larco Herrera psychiatric hospital in Lima July 23, 2013. The hospital, founded in 1917 and the biggest of its kind in Peru, currently houses more than 450 patients. Peru will celebrate its Independence Day on July 28.
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Friends and relatives of Jewish immigrants from North America greet them upon their arrival to Israel at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv July 23, 2013. Some 231 Jews, including 106 children, from North America took a chartered flight by the Nefesh B'Nefesh organization and arrived in Israel on Tuesday. The organization, which plans such flights regularly during summer, helps Jewish immigrant families to relocate and find jobs in the country.
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Illegal immigrants from Central America, Nepal and Bangladesh are seen in a trailer truck after being detected by police X-ray equipment at a checkpoint in La Pochota outside Tuxtla Gutierrez, capital of Mexico's Chiapas State, in this July 23, 2013 handout X-ray image provided by the Attorney General's Office (PGR) of Chiapas State. Mexico detained 94 illegal immigrants, including 19 from the Indian subcontinent, packed into the truck bound for the U.S. border, authorities said on Tuesday. Among the people found near the southern city of Tuxtla Gutierrez were 10 Nepalese and nine Bangladeshis trying to reach the U.S., officials said. The driver of the vehicle, who was from central Mexico, was arrested on human trafficking charges. The truck had set out from Huehuetenango, Guatemala, and police detected the migrants using an X-ray at the checkpoint after midnight on Monday.
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Peter Studer (R) drives his 1962 Lotus 24 Formula One race car ahead of Georg Kaufmann (L) on a 1958 Maserati 250 F through a steep turn during the Indianapolis in Oerlikon race demonstration at the Offene Rennbahn cycling track in Zurich's Oerlikon suburb July 23, 2013. Picture taken with a fisheye lens
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Former French Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac waits for the start of a hearing at the National Assembly in Paris July 23, 2013. Former Budget minister Cahuzac, targeted in a tax fraud inquiry, resigned from his post on March 19, 2013 over holding a secret bank account in Switzerland.
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Professor Xie Yong works on an art installation of a beaver, which is made out of plastic and around 300,000 needles, in Shenyang, Liaoning province, July 23, 2013. The needles, according to Xie, represent the pain felt by animals when their fur is taken off to produce clothing.
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'A-Ha'! Steve Coogan as his alter-ego Alan Partirdge at the World Premiere of the movie Alpha Papa, held at the Hollywood Cinema in Anglia Square, Norwich.
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Georgia May Jagger models a gown as England rugby captain Chris Robshaw (centre) and South African rugby players Bryan Habana (left) and Jean de Villiers (right) attempting to pull the new British Airways Airbus A380 Superjumbo at Manston Airport. It was announced Wednesday that Johannesburg will be the third destination that BA will fly the A380 to from early next year
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Blush, a young herring gull was found covered in bright pink paint in Mallaig in the Scottish Highlands. Scotland's animal welfare charity fears the gull chick may have been targeted as a prank and it is keen to emphasise that this could have resulted in the bird's serious injury or death
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Ready for your close up? A fox turns the tables on photographer Michaela Walch after she left her equipment unattended on a camp site in northern Canada
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A giraffe sticks out its tongue inside its enclosure at the Madrid Zoo
Think i've just lost my coveted title :)
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Residents lean on a damaged car covered with mud after torrential rains caused a landslide in a neighborhood in Tegucigalpa, Mexico. At least 14 houses were buried in the landslide but no victims have been reported, according to local media.
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A supporter decorated with the logo and colours of the ruling Union for the Republic party attends a rally in Lome, Togo
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A boy clown juggles during a parade to inaugurate the 5th Annual Clowns' Convention in Guatemala City
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People on the edge of the Xiaolangdi reservoir look on as the Yellow River floodwaters are released for the second time since the end of June in Xiaolangdi, in central China's Henan province
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Labourers take a nap on a road as cars drive past in Chongqing Municipality, China
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A tourist posing with a model of a soldier near the demilitarised zone on the banks of the Imjingang river at Imjingak, Paju, Korean Peninsula
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A barbershop quartet named the Broadscapers entertain the crowds in Times Square, New York
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A man covers himself with algae as he poses for photographs on a beach in Qingdao, Shandong province
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Despite an economic survey saying that the Eurozone's 18-month-long recession may be over, Spain is still suffering. Here paramedics help an activist who is having a panic attack as police remove the last members of the Victims' Mortgage Platform (PAH) and neighbours during the eviction of Susana Santiago Montoya and her family in Madrid. Both unemployed, Santiago Montoya and her husband, have occupied an apartment of the City Hall Housing Company (EMVS), together with their two young children, for the past year, as they could not afford to pay rent. The police evicted the family and detained a dozen of members of the PAH
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Susana Santiago Montoya cries in her apartment as her eviction is carried out in Madrid. Santiago Montoya, 26, her husband Angel Gimenez de la Rosa, 26, and their two sons (10 and 7 years old) had been squatting for the past year in a social rent flat of the Municipal Housing and Land Company (EMVS) in Madrid. Unemployed and unable to afford rent, Santiago and Gimenez de la Rosa resorted to occupying a two-bedroom apartment that had gone vacant.
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Australia's asylum seekers
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A police officer carries an unconscious child who was on the boat that capsized late on Tuesday after hitting a reef off the coast of Sukapura, at Jayanti beach, Sindang Barang district of Cianjur, Indonesia West Java province July 24, 2013.
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The view of the South Beach skyline and pool area of the South Beach mansion formerly owned by fashion designer Gianni Versace in Miami Beach, Florida July 23, 2013. Versace spent $33 million renovating the house, which features a 54-foot mosaic pool lined with 24-karat gold, according to Fisher Auction Company. The mansion will be offered for sale at an auction on September 17, 2013.
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People wait for the wild ponies in the marsh as a storm approaches in Chincoteague, Va., on July 24, 2013.
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Wild ponies are herded into the Assateague Channel during a rain storm for their annual swim from Assateague Island to Chincoteague on July 24, 2013 in Va.
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Men wearing high heeled shoes walk along the sidewalk at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro July 24, 2013
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Men were photographed wearing high heels in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil during what they said was 'an artistic' protest ahead of Pope Francis' visit to the beach. Pope Francis is on his first trip abroad as pontiff, spending a week in Brazil where over a million people are expected to see him. Brazil is home to the world's largest Catholic population
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U.S. Air Force C-47 wreckage from a 1950 crash near Haines Junction, Yukon, Canada. According to the Aviation Safety Network, the plane was participating in a search for a missing plane when it was caught in a downdraft and flew into the side of the mountain. All ten people aboard survived.
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According to Eckell, the wreck seen above is called 'Swamp Ghost" by the locals in Papua New Guinea. It's a massive American B24D heavy bomber that force-landed in 1943. All nine airmen survived. It's over 16 feet high and the swamp grass is 6 feet high.
At first glance, "Happy End" may not seem like the most natural title for pictures of wrecked planes in forbidding landscapes, but German photographer Dietmar Eckell has a very positive outlook on what these photos represent. As described by Eckell, these pictures document 'miracles' in aviation history: forced landings where everyone on board survived and was rescued from the remote locations. Where some might see technological failure, Eckell sees these images as testament to the ingenuity and skill of the pilots, "heroes" who managed to narrowly avert disaster.
In the last few years Eckell has traveled to 15 abandoned planes on four continents, from Papua New Guinea to the Arctic Circle. The sites are from 10-70 years old and some of the planes seem almost to be melting into the landscape or slowly consumed by the surrounding vegetation.
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Curtiss C-46 Commando near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Reportedly, this aircraft was overloaded when it was forced to land in 1979 a half-mile short of a nearby airport. All the passengers survived.
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Grumman Albatross near Puerto Escondido, Mexico. According to local news reports, the plane was suspected of involvement in drug trafficking and was forced to land in 2004 when it was intercepted by two government planes. All aboard survived. It is unclear whether the occupants of the plane were found to be involved in the drug trade.
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Curtiss C-46 Commando near Thompson, Manitoba, Canada. This cargo lost height due to engine problems and was force-landed in trees in 1977 while trying to return to the airport. The two crew members survived
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Cessna 310 that crashed in Australia in 1993. To achieve aerial views of the wrecks, such as this one, Eckell sometimes mounts his camera on a radio-controlled Oktopkopter and triggers the shutter remotely.
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Douglas R4D8 near Vik, Iceland. This U.S. Navy plane was forced to land near the coast in 1973. All aboard survived.
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Alaska, 1965 crash
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Corsair near Honolulu, Hawaii. The pilot of this plane (who is still alive) swam safely to the island of Oahu in 1948 after ditching the small fighter plane
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Protesters clash with riot police during an anti-government protest in front of the parliament building in Sofia, Bulgaria, on July 23, 2013. Anti-government protests in Bulgaria's capital have been going on for 40 days, and escalated on Tuesday evening as several hundred demonstrators trapped 109 people — including three ministers, some 30 lawmakers and their staff — inside parliament.
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A protester lies in a coffin in front of riot policemen making way for lawmakers and parliament staff leaving the parliament building early on July 24
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A woman takes part in an anti-government protest in Sofia on July 23. Several thousand protesters cordoned off the parliament building early on Tuesday evening, preventing 109 ministers, lawmakers and other officials from leaving after budget revision discussions.
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