World News in Pictures

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A man representing the devil leaps over babies during the festival of El Salto del Colacho (the devil's jump) on Sunday in Castrillo de Murcia, Spain. The festival, held on the first Sunday after Corpus Christi, is a catholic rite of the devil cleansing babies of original sin

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Lebanese army soldiers secure a site of an explosion in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut June 23, 2014. A suicide bomber blew up his car in southern Beirut near an army checkpoint, killing himself and wounding several people watching the soccer World Cup in a nearby cafe.

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Mud People - Covered in dried banana leaves and mud, a religious ritual known locally as "Taong Putik" as people attend mass on the Catholic feast day of St John the Baptist in Bibiclat, the Phillipines



Chilean architect Smiljan Radi designed the fourteenth Serpentine Pavilion which opened this morning



Queen Elizabeth makes a visit to King's Landing during a visit to the set of Game of Thrones on day two of a visit to Northern Ireland

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Come on England - Line painting on Day Two at Wimbledon



A horse rears in a crowd during in the traditional San Juan festival in the town of Ciutadella, on the Balearic Island of Menorca.

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A masked Mexican fan waits for the start of their 2014 World Cup Group A soccer match against Croatia at the Pernambuco Arena in Recife June 23, 2014



A rider rears up on his horse while surrounded by a cheering crowd during the traditional Fiesta of San Joan (Saint John) in downtown Ciutadella, on the Spanish Balearic Island of Menorca, June 23, 2014. The riders of the horses are representatives of ancient Ciutadella society - nobility, clergy, craftsmen and farmers.

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Brazil's Neymar celebrates their win against Cameroon after their 2014 World Cup Group A soccer match at the Brasilia national stadium in Brasilia June 23, 2014.



Qin Zhengyu, 78, shows moles and tumors on her back in her home at Heshan village, in Shimen county, central China's Hunan Province, China June 4, 2014. From the 1950s, mines and chemical plants mushroomed in the area around Heshan which is rich in realgar, or arsenic disulphide. They were shut down in 2011 due to the pollution they caused but dust and runoff from arsenic plagues Heshan to this day. In 2010, 157 villagers from Heshan, with a population of about 1,500, had died of cancer caused by arsenic poisoning in the previous two decades, and another 190 had developed cancer due to arsenic poisoning, the villagers wrote in a letter to the local government, seen by Reuters, seeking compensation and aid.



Senior soccer players take part in a match at a soccer field in Miraflores, in Lima, June 19, 2014. Senior players, aged from 60 to 90, play weekly in a program organized by the municipality to promote activities for older adults

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Residents, covered with dried banana leaves and mud, walk along a road as they participate in a religious ritual known locally as "Taong Putik" (Mud People), while celebrating the Catholic feast day of Saint John the Baptist in the village of Bibiclat, Nueva Ecija, north of Manila, Philippines June 24, 2014. According to Saint John the Baptist parish church, hundreds of devotees participated in this year's feast day, which has been observed in the village since 1945, to seek blessings and bountiful harvests



A National Heritage Trust historical re-enactor in Victorian-era Royal Malta Artillery uniform waits to fire one of several cannons during an activity to mark the feast day of Saint John the Baptist, patron saint of the Knights of the Order of Saint John, on the bastions of Valletta, June 23, 2014. The Order ruled Malta between 1530 and 1798.



Mexico's Javier Hernandez celebrates his team's third goal against Croatia during their 2014 World Cup Group A soccer match at the Pernambuco Arena in Recife June 23, 2014.

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A Chinese tourist has claimed to have encountered a human-like 'monster' in a valley in Huairou near Beijing. The man said he and his friends were camping when he spotted the 'creature'. "I walked far away to have a pee, and suddenly saw a monster. I took a few pictures of it, but I am now terrified." It's still not clear whether the pictures are authentic, but one online commenter wrote: "over the weekend I and my friends went to the mountains to take a mini sci-fi film. And when I was having a pee, a person popped up and took pictures of me and shot away."



A truckload of live shrimps was sent slithering over a road after the truck carrying them overturned on a highway in Fuyang city in central China's Anhui province. Considered a great delicacy, locals swooped to collect as many shrimps as they could for their cooking pots

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Divers rescue an endangered grey nurse shark at Magic Point near Maroubra Beach in Sydney, Australia. The 1.2 metre shark had fishing hooks caught in its mouth which could have caused serious infection and eventual death



Police were called when a woman in Portland, Oregon returned home from work to find her house had been burgled. When police entered the home to search for a suspect, Portland Police Bureau Officer, Sarah Kerwin (above) noted broken glass on the floors of the basement and a bathroom. Kerwin picked up the cat to make sure it didn't step in the glass. The cat happily climbed onto Kerwin's shoulders and stayed there as police finished searching the house



Gabrielle Aplin stunned festival goers heading to Glastonbury when she launched into a solo performance of hits on the 7.15am First Great Western service from London Paddington to Glastonbury. Gabrielle, who is performing at the festival on Sunday, played guitar and sang chart-topping songs including Power of Love and Please Don't Say You Love Me

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Police in Hinton, Alberta, Canada have advised the public they have seized two stun guns that were disguised as mobile phones



Iraqi men line up for physical examinations at the main army recruitment centre in Baghdad to volunteer for military service after authorities urged Iraqis to help battle insurgents



A man walks past a sculpture by Jeff Koons titled Woman in a Tub during a press preview of an exhibition titled 'Jeff Koons: A Retrospective' at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The show spans the artist's three decade career and will fill nearly the entire museum from June 27 through October 19.

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Festivalgoer Neil Brunnock, from Brighton, is the first in the queue for the toilets as the Glastonbury Festival gets under way at Worthy Farm in Somerset

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Bigmouth strikes again: Luis Suárez (right) appeared to bite Italy's Giorgio Chiellini in their final group game in Brazil



A protester throws a molotov cocktail at police during a protest against the government of President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela

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Forget banners. Many Japanese fans were waving bright blue garbage bags at the group stage finale against Colombia.
The Japanese have touched spectators around the world by cleaning up their trash after every match at the World Cup. After their 0-0 draw against Greece last week, fans of the Blue Samurai shrugged off disappointment and cleaned up after themselves inside the stadium following the final whistle. It's a class act that has its roots in Japan's values of being respectful of hosts and protecting the environment.





Japan's 1-4 loss to Colombia on Tuesday eliminated the team from the World Cup

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Installation worker Nik Rieth organises entries for the 2014 Archibald Prize for portraiture as they arrive at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.



A passenger train derailed in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, killing at least four people and injuring eight others.

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A South Korean girl listens to her grandfather at a photographic exhibition of the Korean War at the National Cemetery in Seoul, as the country marks the 64th anniversary of the start of the conflict.



Tour de France fever has hit the Yorkshire Dales, with yellow bicycles appearing in hedgerows, outside pubs and in people's front gardens. The county will host the start of this year's race.

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The former News of the World editor Andy Coulson (right) has been found guilty of conspiracy to hack phones and is seen here arriving at the Old Bailey in London. Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron is set to face questions from MPs later about employing Coulson as his communications chief.



A horseman gallops with a lance during the traditional San Juan (Saint John) festival in the town of Ciutadella, on the Balearic Island of Menorca.



A man wades out to help a driver in a partially submerged car in Fort Worth, Texas, following heavy rain.

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Bouncing beneath Blaenau



It's already home to the world's longest zip-wire, now Blaenau Ffestiniog boasts what is believed to be the world's largest underground trampoline in the abandoned Llechwedd slate quarry



The cavern is illuminated with incredible neon lights, with the trampolines interconnected by stairways and slides. The atmospheric cavern is twice the size of St. Paul's Cathedral and the biggest slide reaches 60ft high

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A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) holds an ISIL flag and a weapon on a street in the city of Mosul, June 23, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held crisis talks with leaders of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region urging them to stand with Baghdad in the face of a Sunni insurgent onslaught that threatens to dismember the country.



Liu Xinjun (L) and Jia Xiaoyu (R) hold a woman who fell out a window at her home in Tianjin, June 17, 2014. Liu and Jia held up an elderly who fell out her window and was stuck on a rack of an air-conditioner for five minutes, as another man Yang Ming held on to the woman with a rope from inside the room while waiting for firefighters to rescue

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A representative of students who survived the April 16 ferry disaster cries while reading a letter as a teacher comforts him at Danwon High School in Ansan June 25, 2014. Holding hands as they walked through the school gates, some fighting back tears, 75 children who survived South Korea's worst maritime disaster in 20 years, returned to class vowing to remember their lost friends. Wailing parents of the 250 children who did not survive, when a ferry taking them on a school trip capsized and sank, greeted the children outside the Danwon High School.



Visitors walk inside a cave situated below the ancient towns of Maresha and Beit Guvrin in the Judean Lowlands June 24, 2014.

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A man inspects the sculpture Hulk (Organ) during a press preview before the opening of a Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York June 24, 2014.



Crew members of a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane are seen beside the body of a woman who was killed on board their aircraft, at a hospital in Peshawar early June 25, 2014. Gunmen fired on the PIA plane as it was landing in the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing the woman and injuring three crew members in the third incident at a Pakistani airport this month.



A member of the Iraqi security forces opens fire during clashes with fighters from Sunni militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Ibrahim bin Ali village, west of Baghdad, June 24, 2014

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Colombia's James Rodriguez greets Japan's Yuto Nagatomo after Colombia won their 2014 World Cup Group C soccer match at the Pantanal arena in Cuiaba June 24, 2014.



Formula One Chief Executive Bernie Ecclestone arrives in court in Munich June 24, 2014. Ecclestone is accused of bribing jailed former German banker Gerhard Gribkowsky by channeling $44 million to him in return for smoothing the sale of a stake in Formula One held by bank BayernLB to the private equity firm CVC eight years ago.

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Judy Murray serves coffee to spectators queuing for tickets during day three of the Wimbledon.Andy Murray plays his second round game today.



Pretty in pink: Balinese teenagers with painted bodies take part in the sacred Gerebeg ritual, Indonesia. The sacred Gerebeg ritual is staged every six month and mainly aims to driving all evil spirits out of the villages

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More court action, this time from Tulisa Contostavlos who is arriving at Southwark Crown Court on charges relating to an alleged drug deal.



Tour de France excitement is building in Yorkshire ahead of next weekend's Grand Depart as a yellow bicycle hangs from the wall of a stone cottage in Holmfirth. The people of Yorkshire are preparing a grand welcome as the route of stages one and two are decorated with bunting, bikes and yellow jerseys

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Members of the National Federation of Farmers' Unions (FNSEA) and young farmers struggle with CRS riot police as they burn rice straws to protest against their conditions and tax increases in front of the National Assembly in Paris, June 24, 2014



Members of an Iraqi volunteer force pu t on their newly issued boots in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has put on hold plans for a counteroffensive to retake Iraqi cities captured by Sunni insurgents in the north and west of the country, instead deploying elite forces in Baghdad to bolster its defenses, Iraqi officials tell the AP. Shiite militias who have responded to a cleric's call to arms also are focusing their efforts on protecting the capital and other Shiite shrines, while Kurdish fighters have grabbed a long-coveted oil rich city outside their self-ruled territory in the name of defending it from the al-Qaida breakaway group leading Sunni extremists in their advance. With each sect focused on self-interests, the situation on the ground is increasingly looking like the fractured state the Americans have hoped to avoid. "We are facing a new reality and a new Iraq," the top Kurdish leader says