World News in Pictures

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Costa Rica's Junior Diaz (R) goes around Honduras' Andy Najar to make a pass during their CONCACAF Gold Cup quarter-final soccer match in Baltimore, Maryland July 21, 2013.



Saskatchewan Roughriders offensive lineman Dan Clark celebrates his touchdown while playing against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats during the second half of their CFL football game in Regina, Saskatchewan July 21, 2013. The Roughriders won the game 37-0.

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Still racing: New York City Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner grimaces during a news conference at the Gay Men's Health Crisis headquarters in New York. The former congressman says he's not dropping out of the New York City mayoral race in light of newly revealed explicit online correspondence with a young woman



An air tanker comes in low for a fire retardant drop on wildfires in Frazier Park, California, United States

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Models wear clothing by Colombian designer Francesca Miranda during the first day of the 'Colombiamoda' fashion event in Medellin, Colombia.



Spectators cheer while lead singer Thomas Mars (not pictured) of French band Phoenix performs on the main stage during the 37th edition of the Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland. The Paleo open-air music festival runs from 23 to 28 July

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The mass ranks of the media captures the moment the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge leave the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in London, with their newborn son.



President Barack Obama holds up a Louisville Slugger baseball bat presented to him by Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino as he honored the 2013 NCAA Men s Basketball Champions, the Louisville Cardinals in the East Room at the White House in Washington.

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Great Britain perform their routine in the synchronised swimming team free preliminary event at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain



And finally here it is, the newest Prince in the world: Britain's Prince William, right, and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge hold the Prince of Cambridge as they pose for photographers outside St. Mary's Hospital in London where the Duchess gave birth on July 22. The Royal couple are expected to head to London s Kensington Palace from the hospital with their newly born son, the third in line to the British throne

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Jonnie Peacock of Great Britain wins the Men's 100m T44 final during day four of the IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France.



Now, talking of new babies, two of the three recently arrived baby meercats play together in their enclosure at Bristol Zoo Gardens. The triplets who were born two days ago are yet to be named and bring the number of meerkats homed at the zoo to eighteen

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Proud parents Kate and William show the media Baby Cambridge before taking him home to Kensington Palace

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Commoners

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Great work Mr Lick, but who are these?

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They are famously known as Chelsea Pensioners, Koojo. The baby boy being born to Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge at the Royal Chelsea Hospital in London July 23, 2013.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_pensioner

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Comic-Con 2013: this year's best costumes

The spirit of dress-up is alive and kicking at Comic-Con, where fans and celebrities alike squeeze into lycra to impersonate their favourite comic book and video game characters. Here's our pick of the best psuedo heroes at this year's convention

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Style added to the proceedings on Fifth Avenue in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter

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Two men dressed as headless characters get out of a hotel lift

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A storm rolls through Haven, Kan., leaving baseball-sized hail in its wake.

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Dan McManus and his service dog Shadow hang glide together outside Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 22. McManus suffers from anxiety and Shadow's presence and companionship help him to manage the symptoms. The two have been flying together for about nine years with a specially-made harness for Shadow.

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World Youth Day in Rio

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Footballer Papiss Cisse 'let Muslims down' in casino visit



A football fan took a picture of Papiss Cisse in Aspers in November


A Newcastle footballer who said the team's sponsor clashed with his Muslim beliefs has been criticised for visiting a casino.

Papiss Cisse has been refusing to wear the loan company Wonga-branded strip.

However, it has now emerged that the Senegal striker was spotted at Aspers Casino in the city in November.

His agent said that he was not a gambler, but a Muslim councillor said Cisse would be letting Muslims down just by visiting a casino.

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Montenegro gay activists march during the first ever Pride event in the Montenegrin seaside resort of Budva. Dozens of extremists shouting "Kill the gays" attacked the marchers as they gathered for the event in staunchly conservative Montenegro. The assailants threw rocks, bottles and other objects at the 20 activists and supporters. Police intervened to push the attackers away and the event continued as planned.



Woah! German artist Hubertus von der Goltz has created a series of installations on rooftops in Berlin using aluminium figures. The project is entitled 'Encounters and Positions'.



The bronze Boxer of Quirinal, also known as the Terme Boxer, is photographed after returning from New York to Rome's National Roman Museum. The bronze statue is a Hellenistic Greek sculpture dated around 330 B.C. of a sitting nude boxer, still wearing his caestus, a type of leather hand-wrap. He has a muscled torso, a scarred and bruised face, cauliflower ears, broken nose, and a mouth suggesting broken teeth and he was discovered on the slopes of the Quirinal in 1885, possibly from the remains of the Baths of Constantine.

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British tourists are taken into custody after a 19-year-old was stabbed yesterday in Malia, Crete. The victim, also a British tourist, was found on the street outside a closed bar at 3 am after being stabbed in the chest, police said



Unfortunately this is an all too familiar scene. A man tries to salvage his belongings following a fire that destroyed a shanty town in Pasay city, south of Manila. Authorities reported more than 400 families lost their homes after a fire of undetermined origin razed at least 250 shanties and damaged a school. Thankfully no one was reported hurt.