World News in Pictures

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Fatboy Slim plays the 10th birthday bash at Bestival



Snoop Dogg performs at Bestival

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A model sits in an acrylic glass car body at the TRW booth during the Frankfurt Motor show



The World Triathlon Grand Final is launched by Jessica Ennis at the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London. She unveiled of 'Victor', a big floating sculpture



Filipino soldiers take up position behind an armoured personnel carrier during clashes in Zamboanga city. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced by a three-day standoff between government troops and Muslim rebels holed-up with scores of hostages in the southern Philippine city, officials said.



Here Filipino people, believed to be hostages, signal with a white blanket to stop the military from shooting during the clashes in Zamboanga.

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A FDNY Firefighter adjusts a picture at the Firefighter's Memorial by the World Trade Centre before the start of official ceremonies



An ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman holds a live chicken while reciting prayers for the 'Kaparot' ritual in Bnei Brak. Kaparot is performed symbolically transferring the person's sins accumulated through the year into the chickens

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Protestors hold placards outside the court where the four men convicted in the fatal gang rape of a young woman are awaiting sentencing in New Delhi



A woman writes on a poster demanding the death sentence for the four men convicted in New Delhi. Prosecutors also called for the death penalty

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Clean drive: The Volkswagen 'eco up' is polished during the 65th Frankfurt Auto Show in Germany



A baby carriage with car wheels at the Skoda car booth at the Frankfurt Auto Show

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Play nice: Qingdao Forestry Zoo uses a live rabbit to stimulate hunting instincts - though the cubs seem a little perplexed.

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The Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft with Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Vinogradov, Misurkin and Cassidy returned to Earth after five and a half month mission on the International Space Station



Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin is carried to the medical tent shortly after he landed in the Soyuz TMA-08M capsule



Visitors to the 9/11 Memorial look at the names of victims during the 12th anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001 that killed almost 3,000 people

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Protests against Syria strike

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The new iPhone 5C in five colours at Apple Inc's announcement event in Beijing, China



A Colombia soccer fan cheers for his team before the start of a 2014 World Cup qualifying game against Uruguay

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Elisabetta Canalis, the 35-year-old Italian model and showgirl, imodels lingerie for the Lormar Fall Winter Collection



Smoke and flames in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia. At least seven firefighters have been wounded and two houses destroyed in this fire



Demonstrators lie on the ground to represent people who disappeared and went missing during Augusto Pinochet's regime, during the 40th anniversary of the coup d'etat in Santiago,Chile

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Tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers (not pictured) hangs in the air over Palestinian protesters during clashes at a protest against the Jewish settlement of Shelo in the West bank



Very rare 'Wave clouds' form over stormy seas battering Roker Lighthouse, Sunderland as strong to gale force northerly winds create large swells on the North Sea

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Rhinoceros keeper Gareth Chamberlain says goodbye to female rhino Demara as she leaves Port Lympne Wild Animal Park near Ashford, Kent, for her new home at Howletts Wild Animal Park as part of their breeding programme



Pictures of victims of human rights abuse are displayed before a ceremony to commemorate 40 years of the military coup at the Parque Por La Paz (Park for Peace) on the grounds of the former Villa Grimaldi torture center in Santiago,Chile

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Students dance during a gala performance held to celebrate the Teachers' Day at the Niulanshan No. 1 Middle School in Shunyi, Beijing,China



Three North Korean soldiers and United Nations Command official inspect a coffin containing the body of a North Korean soldier who was found dead in July in South Korea's side

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A model on the runway at Tommy Hilfiger's spring 2014 show at Pier 94



South Korea's first amphibious landing ship Cheonwangbong is launched during a ceremony in Busan, South Korea

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Villagers arrive on boats in Zamboanga port after fleeing their homes due to fighting between the government soldiers and Moro National Liberation Front in downtown Zamboanga city, in southern Philippines



A government soldier looks through the scope of his rifle as residents believed to be hostages (not pictured) of Moro National Liberation Front rebels shout to the soldiers to stop firing in Zamboanga city, Philippines



Mount Lokon volcano in Indonesia spews giant column of ash clouds 2,500 meters in the air during a series of eruption seen from Tomohon city. The Volcanology and Geology Disaster Mitigation Center imposed a 2.5 kilometer danger zone around the volcano.

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A childhood favourite coin-operated ride was bought for £250 from eBay and was transformed into the roadworthy Pat Van, which has won the title of Fastest Coin-Operated Ride in the Guinness Book of Records, after it reached an incredible 101.36 mph at York Raceway.



Storm chaser Marko Korosec, 31, was on an expedition in the USA for 26 days when he came across these menacing storm clouds, gathered over green fields and quiet roads, about to embark on a path of destruction

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Tattoos by artist Josh Lin before the annual International London Tattoo convention that will be held at Tobacco Dock



A Palestinian man lowers himself into a smuggling tunnel beneath the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in Rafah city



A Palestinian rests inside a smuggling tunnel between Egypt and the Gaza Strip

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Protesters cover their faces after other demonstrators threw smoke grenades during a trade union protest in Warsaw, Poland. Polish trade unions have begun a series of four demonstration days against the governments economic policy



A taxi is washed on the production line at the London Taxi Company(LTC) in Coventry. Today the LTC restarted production of the famous black cab, six months after the business was saved by Chinese car maker Geely.

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Feeling the heat: Barack Obama wipes his face due to the heat and humidity during his speech at the 12th anniversary commemoration of the 9/11 terrorist attacks at the Pentagon Memorial in Washington



A blotter machine clears water from the outfield of the Edgbaston cricket pitch during the Third One Day International at Edgbaston, Birmingham



A Syrian refugee boy sits on the ground at a temporary refugee camp, in the eastern Lebanese Town of Al-Faour, Bekaa valley near the border with Syria, Lebanon. The country of 4.5 million already hosts nearly 1 million Syrian refugees as the civil war continues



A Palestinian girl holds a candle in front of her home during a power cut at the Jabaliya refugee camp, Gaza. Electricity is reported to be cut for 12 hours every day as part of a mains power crisis as a result of political and economic instability on the Gaza Strip



Tear gas was back on the streets of Turkey when riot police dispersed protestors during an anti-government rally in Hatay, southeastern Turkey. The demonstration had been organized to protest about the death of the 22 year old activist Ahmet Atakan who died during a previous anti-government rally

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Guinness World Records 2014

From the fastest sprinter in high heels to the world's smallest donkey, the 2014 Guinness Book of Records presents the latest weird and wacky record breaking events




Zollner Elektronik - largest walking robot award



Rohan Kokane - lowest limbo skating award, photographed in Rome



Steve Sansweet - largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia

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Ozzy, from Norfolk - fastest crossing of a tightrope by a dog award



Leilani Franco - contortionist, photographed in Soho, London



Julia Plecher - fastest 100m in high heels award

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James Brown - largest collection Of vacuum cleaners award



Happie, from Florida - farthest distance skateboarding by a goat award



Fabio Reggiani from Reggio Emilia, Italy - tallest rideable motorcycle award

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KneeHi - the shortest donkey award



Largest drum kit



Chelsea McGuffin - furthest distance on tightrope in high heels award

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Philippine rebel standoff



A local government town hall occupied by Muslim rebels burns during fighting between government soldiers and the rebels in downtown Zamboanga September 11, 2013.

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A weapon concealed in a bag of rice carried by a Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) rebel lies on a road after the rebel was captured at a military checkpoint in downtown Zamboanga September 11, 2013.















Combat police forces check their comrade who was hit by sniper fire of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) during an encounter in downtown Zamboanga City, southern Philippines