World News in Pictures

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An opponent of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi wears a toy knife on his head in front of a national flag in Tahrir Square following dawn prayers marking the Eid al-Fitr feast at the end of the Muslim month of Ramadan



Wind-blown embers fly from an ancient oak tree that caught fire near Banning, California. The fire broke out shortly after 2 p.m. near a back-country road south of Banning, about 90 miles (145 km) outside Los Angeles

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Bruce Forsyth attends a plaque unveiling ceremony at the Hippodrome Casino in London, England. Two plaques were unveiled; one to mark Bruce Forsyth's record breaking number of appearances at The Hippodrome and the second in tribute to Sammy Davis Junior



A pilot whose plane nose dived out of the sky before somersaulting through a hedge walked away with just a grazed thumb. The twin-seater aircraft plunged to the ground after suffering engine failure and the pilot, a 59-year-old man, attempted to make a crash landing. He managed to land the plane in a field but was going too fast and crashed through a fence before coming to a rest upside down in a hedge. Despite the pilot being trapped for 40 minutes, when he was freed the only injury he had suffered was a slightly grazed right thumb

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NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio during a training session at the Star City space centre outside Moscow

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French egg producers throw crates of eggs from the back of a truck onto the pavement in front of the taxes and internal revenue service office in Carhaix-Plouguer, France. They are protesting the low market value and pricing of eggs and called for up to 100 000 eggs (5 % of French daily production) to be broken everyday to try and raise the egg's market value



Jaih Betote Dipito, who will play the Scarecrow in a hip hop version of the Wizard of Oz strikes a pose as he poses for a photograph. Groove on Down the Road will be performed at the Southbank Centre in London

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A boy looks at a giant sand castle depicting Britian's Prince William, and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge holding their son Prince George, in London



People read the names of the victims of gun violence in Trenton,New Jersey. The rows of shoes placed on the Statehouse steps represent the lives lost to to the this crime

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Destroyed apartments are seen after an explosion believed to be caused by a gas leak, which tore through a 10-storey building in Rosario city, in the province of Santa Fe



A J111 yacht sails downwind in perfect conditions during day six of the Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week, off the Isle of Wight.



A three-week-old black panther cub at the zoo of Bad Pyrmont, Germany. The young animal will live with its mother for the next five weeks



Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers patrol near the Line of Control (LoC) in the Sabjiyan sector of Poonch about 200 miles from Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir, India. Five Indian soldiers were killed in India-administered Kashmir on 6 August, allegedly by gunmen from Pakistan

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One of the two British teenage victims of an acid attack gets out of a car at the airport in Zanzibar, August 8, 2013 in this still image taken from video. Men riding a motorbike threw acid at the two British teenage girls in Tanzania's semi-autonomous Zanzibar region



Indian medical students scuffle with police during a protest in New Delhi. Hundreds of medical students were protesting against the compulsory year-long rural posting required by the Indian government, demanding it be made voluntary

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The gallery watches Matt Every hit a stroke on the 13th fairway during the first round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Oak Hill Country Club, in Pittsford, New York

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A couple ride a motorcycle along a street flooded from heavy rains caused by tropical storm Mangkhut in Hanoi, Vietnam



An animal rights protester lies on the pavement covered in fake blood during a demonstration calling for the abolition of bullfights, in central Brussels.

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Sir Peter Blake launching Art Everywhere which showcases the nation's favourite British art on tens of thousands of poster sites across the UK for two weeks from 12 August 2013



A baby weighing 6.2kgs (13lbs 10oz) born in Denia, Valencia, Spain: the heaviest baby born in Spain naturally. The baby's mother is British citizen Maxime Marin, 40



A young monk gets distracted during a long session of learning the national 'dzongkha' script at the Dechen Phodrang Monastery in Thimphu, Bhutan

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Prime Minister David Cameron talks to staff during a visit to the Salford Royal Hospital accident and emergency department. Struggling A&E departments are to be given a £500m Government bailout to help relieve pressure in the coming months



A girl eats ice-cream as Indonesian muslims perform Eid al-Fitr prayers on 'sea of sands' at Parangkusumo beach in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Eid Al-Fitr, marks the end of Ramadan.

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Damaged residential houses of the Indian army are seen after a landslide caused by heavy rains in Tihra Lines near the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala August 7, 2013



Members of an honour guards carry coffins of military personnel killed after tribal militants shot down a military helicopter in Marib province, 173 km east of the capital, during a procession in Sanaa August 7, 2013.

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Australia's Adam Scott tosses a hat he autographed to the gallery as he walks on the 17th hole during a practice round for the 2013 PGA Championship golf tournament at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York August 7, 2013.



A police trooper checks a van at the entrance of Sanaa International Airport August 7, 2013. Al Qaeda's Yemen-based branch AQAP has been behind plots against Western targets and neighbouring Saudi Arabia. The U.S. Air Force on Tuesday flew some American personnel out of Sanaa, Yemen, the Pentagon said, as the U.S. told its citizens to leave the country and ordered the evacuation of non-essential government staff because of a terror threat. Britain also said on Tuesday it had withdrawn all staff from its embassy in the capital Sanaa, adding there was "a very high threat of kidnap from armed tribes, criminals and terrorists".

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Activists of the Delhi Pradesh Youth Congress try to cross a police barricade during a protest against Pakistan near the Pakistan Embassy in New Delhi August 7, 2013. Two Pakistani soldiers were wounded in an exchange of fire with Indian troops along the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir in the latest flare-up of tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, officials on both sides said Wednesday.



An anti-government protester clashes with riot police officers outside the parliament in Bangkok August 7, 2013. Thailand's parliament was due to debate a political amnesty bill on Wednesday as anti-government protesters marched to try to get it scrapped, saying it could let ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra return from exile without having to serve a jail sentence.

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Passengers sit on the top of an overcrowded train as it approaches a railway station in Dhaka on Aug. 8. Millions of residents in Dhaka are traveling home from the capital city to celebrate the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday.










A Bangladeshi woman tries to jump onto an overcrowded train from a bridge to travel home for Eid al-Fitr in Dhaka, Bangladesh

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A soccer fan ran on to the field in Miami Wednesday night as Real Madrid took on Chelsea in a pre-season friendly match. Evading security, the fan made a beeline for Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo.

Clad in a replica kit with Ronaldo's name on the back, the supporter knelt down in front of his hero and then received a long and affectionate hug from the Portuguese star.

After the invader was eventually escorted from the field, Madrid went on to win 3-1 — with two goals and a man-of-the-match performance from Ronaldo.

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El Salvador celebrates its patron saint

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Jersey's demolition derby



Frank Hammerling of Hanover, New Jersey works on his car at the Nation-Wide Demolition Derby taking place at the New Jersey State Fair Sussex County Farm and Horse Show in Augusta, New Jersey, August 4, 2013. Originally begun in the 1950's in the United States, Demolition Derbies have been popular at state and county fairs throughout the U.S. and have spread to western Europe and Asia. With the dwindling availability of older large American-made vehicles, smaller full-sized vehicles of the 1980's and 1990's are more frequently used today. The two-day event at the New Jersey State Fair featured more than 100 cars and drivers from New Jersey and surrounding Northeastern states competing in cars dating from the 1960's to the 2000's.

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The methane lake Ligeia Mare on Titan. Larger than Lake Superior.

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A baby albino wallaby pokes its head out from its mother's pouch at the Gumbuya Park in Australia



A NASA handout image of the Magellanic Stream which was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope

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A Reborn Baby kit is seen at Belgian artist's Beatrice Van Landeghem's workshop, called La nurserie des Tis Lous De Bea in La Louviere, Belgium. Reborn Babies are life-like baby dolls carefully crafted in vinyl, which have become swiftly popular with collectors. A doll can cost anywhere between hundreds to thousands of euros and takes around 25 hours to be assembled depending on the level of precision requested by people who adopt the dolls



Novak Djokovic dons a wig and dances following his win over Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan in Montreal