World News in Pictures

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Surgeons in Mumbai have removed 232 teeth from the mouth of an Indian teenager in what they believe may be a world-record operation, the hospital said. Ashik Gavai, 17, sought medical help for a swelling on the right side of his lower jaw and the case was referred to the city's JJ Hospital, where they found he was suffering from a condition known as complex odontoma, head of dentistry Sunanda Dhivare-Palwankar told AFP. The condition results in benign tumors made of teeth-like structures

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Relatives of passengers onboard the TransAsia Airways plane that crashed cry at a funeral parlor on Taiwan's offshore island of Penghu, July 24, 2014.

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MH17 bodies arrive in Netherlands

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A relative of a victim cries at the site of a train crash in Medak, southern India. Twelve children were killed when the train crashed into a school bus at an unmanned railroad crossing, police said.



Mourners share their grief at a multifaith memorial service held for victims of flight MH17, at St Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia. Eighteen out of the 298 lives lost aboard the Malaysian Airlines flight were Victoria residents



A 15 metre long sperm whale corpse on Tanganga beach, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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People ride on a bulldozer during the funeral of army commander Brigadier General Hameed al-Qushaibi in Sanaa July 23, 2014. Al-Qushaibi was killed during recent fighting against Muslim Shi'ite Houthi rebels in the northwestern Yemeni province of Amran, according to the army.

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This colourful chameleon shows he's a lizard with conviction by reaching out to pray to St Francis. The one-year-old lizard, Kammer, was being fed by owner Scott Cromwell when he decided he couldn't wait to get closer to God. He reached out his claws in prayer to an eight-inch high statue of the patron saint of animals. TV repairman Mr Cromwell, 43, said his pet was far more interested in celebrating the holy man than in the praying mantis he was given to eat.



For thrill seekers who want to make a splash, a 16ft personal jet ski has just been launched which has 300 horse power, an underwater camera but costs a staggering £50,000. The V8 Wet Rod is the latest design from luxury yacht company Strand Craft and at a massive 16ft, the machine has storage space to keep diving equipment as well as an underwater camera for snapping life below sea level



Pieces of wreckage from a TransAsia Airways turboprop plane that crashed are seen on the rooftop, on Taiwan's offshore island Penghu

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Daniel Gallegos drinks water while the temperature remains in the triple digits in Las Vegas. Gallegos says he drinks two gallons of water a day to stay cool in the furry costume.



Michal Navratil of the Czech Republic dives from 27 metres off the cliff face of Islet Vila Franca do Campo during the first training session of the fifth stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Azores, Portugal

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Canada's Patricia Bezzoubenko performs with the ribbon during women's rhythmic gymnastics team competition at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland



Brits shop online more than any other nation but 75% of us admit to abandoning a basket before buying anything, costing the UK £31bn a year. cloud.IQ have undergone the ultimate trolley recovery mission, with the help of intrepid explorer 'Dotty', to retrieve the first ever shopping cart from space!

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A toy poodle sits in a miniature car at the international pet fair 'Interpets' at the Tokyo Big Sight exhibition hall, in Tokyo, Japan



Pope Francis blesses Mariam Yahya Ibrahim of Sudan during a private meeting at the Vatican



A Sri Lankan activist, who wrapped himself with fire crackers, holds a lighter as he walks in Colombo to symbolically demonstrate against people burned during Anti-Tamil riots on the island thirty-one years ago. Official accounts placed the death toll at 400 while human rights activists put the toll at thousands

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Models present creations by Colombian designer Carmen Belissa during the Colombiamoda fashion show in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia



Israeli soldiers guard Palestinians captured during a military offensive in the Gaza Strip in this photo obtained by Reuters from the Israeli news website Walla. Israel said on Thursday it had detained scores of Palestinians during fighting in the Gaza Strip.

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A massive fire — called the Carlton Complex Fire because it is the spawn of several fires that merged into one enormous blaze — spread over a quarter-million acres of north-central Washington on Wednesday. It was 52 percent contained Wednesday night as crews made significant progress along the fire's east and south sides.

But firefighters had to be pulled off the line on the north side because of the danger posed by strong thunderstorms causing 50-mph winds and flash floods. While the rain slowed the progress of the fire, "it takes a lot more than that," said Andrew Sandri, a spokesman for the combined state and federal incident response team.


One person has been killed and almost 500 homes have been evacuated by the massive fire, which has drawn more than 2,500 firefighters from across the country

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People filled a highway overpass in the Netherlands on Thursday to watch as hearses passed by carrying the remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 victims. For a second day, aircraft carrying remains of some of the passengers arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday, where experts will work to identify them with DNA samples collected from relatives. The process could take months

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The filmmakers behind that new "Jurassic Park" movie better add a lot more plumage to their computer-generated dinosaurs: Researchers say fossils unearthed in Siberia suggest that feathers were much more prevalent among dinosaurs than previously thought.

Paleontologists have long known that a class of dinosaurs called theropods had feathers, based on a close analysis of fossils from geological formations in China.

Theropods were meat-eaters, such as the Tyrannosaurus rex that (and a lawyer) in the original "Jurassic Park."

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Crowds watch as "The Little Giant Girl" walks through the streets of Liverpool, England, on July 25. The girl is one of three giant puppets from the French street theater company Royal de Luxe that is performing for "Memories of August 1914," to mark the centenary of the start of World War I. A "sleeping" grandmother puppet was on display for two days and after "waking up," she began touring the city with the girl and her dog Xolo, telling the story of life leading up to World War I.

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Some 1,000 tropical fish, brought in from the waters around Japan's southern island of Okinawa, are displayed in the window of Sony's showroom in Tokyo



People remove the cover from The Bund Without Us, an artwork made by artist Cai Guoqiang, in Shanghai, China. Cai used gunpowder and hard paper to create the artwork

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Ross Murdoch broke the Commonwealth Games record and beat fellow Scot Michael Jamieson to claim gold in the men's 200m breaststroke final. A thrilled Murdoch, 20, said: "There's no way that just happened. I can't believe it. That was amazing."



Visitors ride the Little train of Artouste in the Pyrenees, France, Europe's highest operational train, which is celebrating its 80th anniversary



Rothschild's Giraffe Freya, with her female baby giraffe calf that was born this week at Woburn Safari Park in Bedfordshire, England

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A Palestinian girl, whom medics said was wounded in Israeli shelling at a U.N-run school sheltering Palestinian refugees, is treated at a hospital in the northern Gaza Strip July 24, 2014.



Race leader Astana team rider Vincenzo Nibali of Italy pushes away a spectator as he cycles to win the 145.5km 18th stage of the Tour de France cycling race between Pau and Hautacam, France, July 24, 2014.

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Varda (2nd R), the mother of Israeli soldier Daniel Pomerantz who was killed during fighting in Gaza on Sunday, mourns during his funeral in Kfar Azar, near Tel Aviv July 24, 2014.

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Leonid Razvozhayev, co-defendant of opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov, gestures from the defendants cage during a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, July 24, 2014.



Members of Vila Franca forcados group perform during a bullfight at Campo Pequeno bullring in Lisbon, Portugal, July 24, 2014. Forcados are traditional Portuguese bullfighters who catch bulls with their bare hands.

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Palestinians walk past a fire following what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike on a building in Gaza City July 24, 2014.



A diver swims next to a replica of the Northern Adriatic amphoras in Historical Underwater Park in Mali Losinj, Croatia, July 24, 2014.



An Israeli soldier speaks on his mobile phone as he sits on a tank outside the Gaza Strip July 25, 2014.

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Jos Pablo Donoso on a highline tightrope 150m above the ground in Chamonix, France



A Palestinian man holds-up the body of one-year-old baby Noha Mesleh, who died of wounds sustained after a UN school in Beit Hanun was hit by an Israeli tank shell, during her funeral in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip

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Goldfishes have much longer memories than 3 seconds, and this friend remembers the last 50 years - for sure.

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Costume designer and viral marketer Chad Evett (right) and members of his family are dressed as the Mad Hatter outside the San Diego Convention Center on the first day of the 45th annual Comic-Con, in San Diego, California.



An Orthodox Jew takes part in a protest with Palestinian supporters in New York, demanding the end of the war by Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

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Chihuahuas sit at the Tokyo Big Sight exhibition hall, in Tokyo, Japan, July 24, 2014. Interpets, the 'International Fair for a Better Life with Pets', is the largest international fair for the pet industry in Japan. Some 300 exhibitors will present their products until July 27.



An Indonesian family on a motorbike queues to board a ferry at Gilimanuk Port in Jembrana, Bali, Indonesia on July 24, 2014. Muslims across Indonesia are moving from major cities back to their home towns, to celebrate the Muslim Eid al-Fitr festival, which marks the end of the muslim fasting month of Ramadan