World News in Pictures

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A separatist fighter stands guard on September 10, 2014 in Donetsk, Ukraine. Despite a declared ceasefire between separatists forces and the Ukrainian military, tensions on the ground are still high throughout the east of the country. Sporadic shelling is heard in Donetsk daily and gunfire in the port city of Mariupol. The city of Donetsk has only around 300,000 people remaining out of a population of 900,000 due to the fighting.



A drug mule carries a load of marajuana, according to U.S. federal agents, as seen from a helicopter flown by the U.S. Office of Air and Marine on September 10, 2014 near Rio Grande City, Texas. Narco traffickers on the Mexican side of the river were apparently preparing to float the bundles across the Rio Grande into Texas when U.S. agents flying over the border surprised them

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A spotted-wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) sits on a grape of wine type Portuguese in the vineyard of family Mohr in Bensheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany, 10 September 2014. Wine growers are worried about the fly. Some red wine grapes will have to be harvested earlier because of the fly, according to the German Wine Institute.



A woman observes the art installation '24 hours in photos' by Dutch photographer Erick Kessels, containing 350,000 photos sized 10x15cm and piled up in Sainte Claire church during the 'Festival Image' in Vevey, Switzerland, 10 September 2014. The festival with 68 projects and over 1,500 photographs runs from 13 September to 05 October.



An athlete takes part in the World Nomad Games in Cholpon-Ata, 270km from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 10 September 2014. Teams from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan participate during the World Nomad Games

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Oscar Pistorius arrives for the verdict in his murder trial at the high court in Pretoria on Thursday. Pistorius, the double amputee who became one of the biggest names in athletics, shot dead his model and law graduate girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year

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One of the baby pygmy slow lorises born at El Paso Zoo in Texas to father Steven Tyler - named after the Aerosmith singer - and mother Kym Ly. The 13-day-old lorises - one male and one female - have had their first medical examination and both weigh the equivalent of a small lime. The pair, who have not been named yet, are the second set of twins born at the zoo after Meka and Malia were born to Kym Ly in April



A river of lava flows down the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland. The dramatic pictures of the Holuhraun eruption were taken from an altitude of 50-500m by Orvar Atli Porgeirsson. Access to the volcano on foot is currently restricted because of the dangerous gases released from the eruption and the risk of flooding due to melting glaciers

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London Mayor Boris Johnson teaches Latin at the East London Science School in Newham. He taught the pupils how to say 'London loves Scotland, don't leave us'.



Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius cries while the verdict is being read by Judge Thokozile Masipa during his trial in Pretoria

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Men with their bodies painted with images of tigers for the annual 'Pulikali' or Tiger Dance in Thrissur, in the southern Indian state of Kerala



Twitter user '@sinomoritsukasa' from Tokyo has made his own Apple Watch carved from...an apple

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Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev looks out of the Russian Soyuz TMA-12M space capsule shortly after landing southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Two Russian cosmonauts and a Nasa astronaut returned to Earth after spending nearly six-months on board the International Space Station

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The Red Arrows fly past the ArcelorMittal Orbit at the opening ceremony of the Invictus Games at the Queen Elizabeth Park in east London



Prince William and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, laugh during the opening ceremony of the Invictus Games at the Queen Elizabeth Park in east London. The Invictus Games which will run from September 10-14, is an international sporting event for wounded servicemen and women from 13 countries

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A screenshot from a video taken by a remotely operated underwater vehicle shows two small cannons among the scattered timbers of the shipwreck of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845-48 British Arctic Expedition on the sea floor in northern Canada, when it was found on 07 September 2014 by the Victoria Strait Expedition. British Navy Captain Sir John Franklin set out to seek the Northwest Passage with British Navy ships specially outfitted HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. The Erebus and Terror became icebound near King William Island. When no word from the expedition had been received by 1847, search parties from Canada, Britain and the United States set out to find signs of Franklin and his crew. No member of the crew survived



Police form a line as protesters try to shut down Interstate 70 in Berkeley, Montana near the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson where Michael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old was shot and killed by a white police officer on Aug. 9

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A local resident portraying a French WWI soldier attends the re-enactment of the First Battle of the Marne, which took place a century ago, at Chauconin-Neufmontiers, Eastern Paris. Dozens of volunteers dressed in French and German military uniforms recreated the battle from two trenches dug out by local residents to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War (WWI).



Long distance bus driver Clemente Lovera, 29, has had his lips sewn together with wire and his hands nailed to a wooden cross during a hunger strike in protest over losing his job when he and two other drivers demanded social security benefits and reduced working hours, in San Lorenzo, Paraguay

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Coloured chicks are seen for sale at a roadside stall in the Indian town of Amritsar. Stall-owner Ashok earns approximately 200 INR (just over £2) per day selling chicks



A woman stands among some of the 3,000 flags placed in memory of the lives lost in the September 11, 2001 attacks, at a park in Winnetka, Illinois. On Thursday people will mark the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks

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MAINZ, Germany - A 6-ton tractor smashed into the bedroom of a family home near the German town of Homberg on Wednesday after its driver failed to secure the emergency brake. The 55-year old female farmer had stepped out of the vehicle to give first aid to an injured cyclist.

"The tractor rolled 540 yards down a hill and crashed into the house. Luckily, the owner was in the garden at the time and no one was injured," police spokesman Roman Eisenbach told NBC News. The house is now considered uninhabitable as it could collapse at any time, officials say

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A model presents a creation from the Jeremy Scott Spring/Summer 2015 collection during New York Fashion Week September 10, 2014.



Civilians transport an injured man on a motorbike after what activists said were airstrikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus September 10, 2014

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Test person Niklas Thiel poses with an electroencephalography cap which measures brain activity, at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen in Garching near Munich September 9, 2014



A wounded Syrian man walks in a hospital room he shares with other Syrians at Ziv Medical centre in Safed, northern Israel September 10, 2014.

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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble speaks with Chancellor Angela Merkel during the budget debate in the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, in Berlin, September 10, 2014



President Barack Obama delivers a live televised address to the nation on his plans for military action against the Islamic State, from the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington September 10, 2014.



Activists of Ukrainian womens' rights group Femen stage a protest at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kiev, September 11, 2014.

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Mud fight! People play with mud in Zhangjiajie, China.



Singer Miley Cyrus and designer Jeremy Scott at New York fashion week yesterday. Dirty Hippy, the anticipated collaboration between the pair, is a series of accessories resembling plastic toys and beads.

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Plaits are in, big plaits are really in! A model on the catwalk during the Blonds show at New York fashion week



A performer waves Catalan flags in the streets of Barcelona. Several pro-independence demonstrations were held before the National Day of Catalonia today

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PETA activists holding signs reading 'No Bunny Should Suffer for Fashion' and wearing bunny masks protest during a demonstration organized by PETA outside Somerset House in London, Britain 11 September 2014, ahead of the London Fashion Week. The Spring/Summer 2015 collections are presented from 12 to 16 September



A slow shutter effect image of Filipino protesters shouting slogans opposing the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) outside the US embassy, Manila, Philippines, September 11, 2014. The demonstrators denounced the defence pact, which allows US troops to access designated military camps, construct new facilities and position equipment, aircraft and vessels in the Philippines, warning the pact could lead to permanent US troop deployment in the Philippines

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A woman looks at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, September 11, 2014



U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry waits for the start of a meeting of the Gulf Arab region at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014. Kerry sought to pin down Middle Eastern allies gathering in Saudi Arabia on Thursday on what support they are willing to give to the new U.S. plan to beat back the Islamic State group that has seized large swaths of Iraq and Syria

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Australian Museum conservator Heather McKay inspects a piece depicting Mictlantecuhtli, God of Death and Lord of the Underworld, from the Aztecs exhibition in Sydney, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014. More than 200 stone, terra-cotta and other artifacts are on display showcasing the Aztec history and culture in the exhibition that opens Saturday and runs through to Feb. 1, 2015



Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani stands at the edge of the North Pool during memorial observances on the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014. In New York, family members of those killed at the World Trade Center will read the names of the victims at a ceremony at ground zero



Timothy Ray Jones Jr., is escorted by lawmen out of the Smith County Jail in Raleigh, Miss., Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014 to a vehicle for transport to Lexington County, S.C., where is expected to be charged with murder in the deaths of his five children after he led authorities to a secluded clearing in Alabama, Tuesday, where their bodies were found wrapped in garbage bags

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Catalan demonstration for an independence vote:

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Circles of green irrigated crops in the desert of northern Saudi Arabia, one of the most arid regions on earth



An aerial photograph shows homes surrounded by floodwaters in Pakistan's central Punjab province. More than 450 people have been killed by extensive flooding in Pakistan and India in recent days. Large tracts of farmland have been inundated and houses swept away



Herders wearing lederhosen attempt to persuade a cow to leave summer pastures in the mountains of the Allgaeu region of southern Germany and return to the farm for the winter. The seasonal movement of livestock has been taking place in the Alps for centuries

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People are knocked over as a tidal wave surges over the bank of the Qiantang River in Hangzhou city, east China's Zhejiang province



Three pigs are trapped in their sty as floodwater rises after heavy rainfall in Youyang county of Chongqing municipality

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A Balinese man stabs his chest with two short ceremonial daggers while in a trance during a sacred ritual in the Karangasem District, Bali, Indonesia



Prince Harry poses for a photograph with British competitor David Henson during the Invictus Games at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre in north London

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A 'No' campaign poster in a field after being vandalised by a 'Yes' supporter on the outskirts of Edinburgh



Fabrizio Zanotti of Paraguay is attended to by medical staff after being struck with a golf ball while Alexandre Kaleka (red top) of France who hit the shot looks on during Day 1 of the KLM Open held at De Kennemer Golf and Country Club in Zandvoort, Netherlands