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    Four hungry swallow chicks wait open-mouthed for their parents to bring the next meal back to their nest - made in an old storm lantern. The mum and dad swallows set up home in the rusty old lamp last month and shortly after four chirping chicks were hatched. But the young family faced a race against time - because the chicks needed to be big and strong enough to join the rest of the Swallows which will fly south to warmer climes when the British autumn arrives. Thanks to a spell of fine weather - and an abundant supply of insects and grubs to eat - the chicks have flown the nest just in time to join their brood. Their unusual nest was caught on camera by Robert Fuller, a wildlife photographer and artist, who returned to his home in Thixendale, North Yorks, from his summer holiday to find the nesting birds



    Mano, the son of maths teacher Sebastien Bascoules poses next to a 17ft anaconda which ate his friend's dog in Montsinery, French Guiana. Sebastien wrestled the huge serpent out of a river close to his friend's house, blindfolded it with a t-shirt and left it in his bath over night. With the help of his friends and young sons Sebastien then released the 175lb anaconda into a large river six miles away.

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    Thrillseeking slackliners rest in their hammocks attached to ropes stretched between rocky outcrops during the International Highline Meeting in Monte Piana, near Misurina, in the northern Italian Alps



    Mount Slamet spews lava and gas during an eruption as seen from Pandansari village in Brebes, Central Java, Indonesia



    A 1967 Jaguar XK-E convertible that was stolen 46 years ago is shown to the media by the U.S. Customs and Protection agency in Carson, California. The car was recovered at the Port of Long Beach by the California Highway Patrol along with four other cars in a container en route to the Netherlands

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    A team of British and Georgian vets treat the teeth of 19-year-old male Asiatic elephant 'Grand' at the Tbilisi Zoo, in Tbilisi, Georgia...


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    A bulldozer and 50 people worked to rescue a buffalo after it fell into a 40-foot deep bore-well in Lucknow, India. The successful rescue operation lasted for over five hours. After being hoisted out of the well, the creature was rushed to a veterinary hospital nearby with suspected fractures to both its back legs



    Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton gestures to fans as he passes teammate Nico Rosberg of Germany while in Singapore for this weekend's Grand Prix



    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry wipes his eyes as he testifies at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on 'U.S. Strategy to Defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant' on Capitol Hill in Washington

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    A man holding an air rifle fights with two other men as he tries to stop looters from storming into the Mega Supermarket in Los Cabos, Mexico. According to employees the supermarket donated all the food in the store and established a system by which every person had 5 minutes to get whatever they could for free. Fights broke out as other people inciting the crowd to loot. Desperate locals and tourists were in survival mode in the resort area of Los Cabos also on Wednesday, with electrical and water service still out three days after Hurricane Odile made landfall as a monster Category 3 storm



    Catcher Geovany Soto of the Oakland Athletics gets hit in the head with the back swing of Leonys Martin of the Texas Rangers in the top of the third inning at O.co Coliseum in Oakland, California



    A protestor holds a smoke bomb during a demonstration outside the President Palace in Kiev. Activists from far-right nationalist movements protested against the adoption on September 16, of laws that give extra self-rule powers to some rebel-held territories in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions on eastern Ukraine



    A man passes by a damaged vehicle on a street covered with mud due to heavy floods in Tekija village, Serbia



    A man takes shelter amid strong winds and rainfall in Zhanjiang, south China's Guangdong province. A powerful typhoon slammed into China's Hainan island after sweeping past Hong Kong where it disrupted flights and forced the closure of the stock market and container ports

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    A fearless daredevil has scaled some of Asias tallest buildings - just for fun. Thrillseeker Ivan Kuznetsov, originally from Russia, has reached the top of skyscrapers in the likes of Hong Kong and Shanghai (above). The 20-year-old rooftopper said that he actually finds climbing quite difficult, and that he does not advise others to follow his lead. Despite the difficult climbs he has embarked on - including looking down on the 101-floor Shanghai World Finance Center - Ivan said that he is not scared of heights and trusts himself while scaling the mammoth constructions



    Thousands of Chinese fishing boats in the eastern province of Zhejiang rushed out into the East China Sea today to fish after the 3.5-month-long summer fishing moratorium ended

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    George Chambers tweeted this photo of his friend Lucy's Salmond en Croute



    The painted nails of a female Kurdish Peshmerga fighter as she holds her gun during combat skills training before being deployed to fight Islamic State militants, at their military camp in Sulaimaniya, northern Iraq

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    About 3,000 Syrian men, women and children arrived at the Turkish border roughly 10 km (6 miles) from Kobani but were still waiting on the Syrian side after night fell, a Reuters witness said, as Turkish forces stopped the crowd from crossing



    Ukraine National Guard soldiers take part in military exercises on a firing range in the Kharkiv region



    Flood victims are evacuated in a rescue boat after their homes were swamped by heavy flooding in Marikina, Metro Manila

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    Statues of purple cows have appeared around downtown Detroit as part of an effort to build awareness for cancer survivors and the American Cancer Society's Cattle Baron's Ball. The 13 life-sized cows are on display at locations including Hart Plaza and Campus Martius. The cows carry a message: 'For a World With Less Cancer and More Birthdays



    A guest wears a glitterball-inspired mask while posing for photos outside the Fendi fashion show in Milan



    An art installation by Brazilian artist Eduardo Srur made with a life-size mannequin stands over the highly polluted Pinheiros River in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Srur says his work aims to warn people about the pollution in the city's rivers

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    Beer drinkers gathered Saturday to celebrate the opening of the 181st Oktoberfest in Munich. Tourist officials said the average beer price had risen just under three percent compared to 2013. A one-liter stein of Bavarian ale costs up to $13.70 in the enormous marquees where the revelers drink to the tune of oompah music. An estimated six million people from around the globe visit the festival every year. A funfair amuses children while the adults drink.


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    Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino closed its doors early Tuesday, the fourth Atlantic City casino to go belly-up so far this year.
    Seconds before it closed for business, a dealer dealt the final hand of blackjack, which according to NBC New York was a 21. The two men playing left as security guards escorted the remaining people from the building at 5:59 a.m.





    When it opened on May 14, 1984, Donald Trump called it the finest building in Atlantic City, and possibly the nation


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    His pants soaked in blood, Oscar Pistorius stands at the scene of the fatal shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in photos released Friday by South African police. The photos were released after Pistorius was convicted Friday of culpable homicide but cleared of a more serious murder charge. Pistorius – often called the "Blade Runner" – shot Steenkamp while she was in the bathroom of his luxury home on Valentine's Day last year.

    The images were shown on a screen at the trial but not released by police until Friday





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    The Bardarbunga volcano system has been rocked by hundreds of tremors daily since mid-August, prompting fears the volcano could explode. In the photo released today, but shot on Sunday, Bardarbunga spews lava and smoke in southeast Iceland.

    Bardarbunga, at 6,500 feet, is Iceland's second-highest peak and is located under Europe's largest glacier, Vatnajoekull


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    Infinity Pool Falls Into Sea After Hurricane Odile


    Instagram user Alycia Houser, a student at Oregon State University on vacation, posted these before and after photos of the Grand Solomar resort's infinity pool after Hurricane Odile slammed Cabo San Lucas on Monday.

    The storm whipped through the beach resorts of Mexico's Baja California peninsula on Monday, causing chaos as it uprooted trees, downed power lines and smashed shop windows, sparking looting.

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    An extreme athlete is seen during the International Highline Meeting in Monte Piana, near Misurina, in the northern Italian Alps



    Scotland voted "No" to independence in a referendum, meaning its 300-year old union with the UK will continue. Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond (right), who led the campaign for independence, said he accepted his defeat. "I accept that verdict of the people and I call on all of Scotland to follow suit in accepting the democratic verdict of the people of Scotland."

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    England's Paul Casey on the fairway at the ISPS Handa Welsh Open at Celtic Manor, Newport in Wales



    Thousands of Filipinos fled their homes on the northern island of Luzon after the Mount Mayon volcano began to spew lava. Scientists have warned that Mayon could fully erupt within weeks and have raised the alert level to "critical".



    A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter launches mortars towards Zummar near Mosul in Iraq, held by Islamic State (IS) militants. This week, US General Martin Dempsey said that ground forces could be deployed against the militants if the current US-led strategy failed

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    Labour Conference 2014







    The Labour Party football team warm up before their match against the journalists' team






    During the annual 'Labour Party vs Journalists' football match before the start of the Labour Party Conference things came to a head...






    Mr Merrick, described by colleagues as a combative central midfielder, was taken off the pitch and treated by waiting ambulance staff












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    Participants sing during the climate march along Ipanema beach on Sept. 21, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Protests calling for curbs in greenhouse gas emissions were scheduled for today in 150 countries ahead a U.N. summit on climate change. The Amazon rainforest, mostly located in Brazil, produces about 20 percent of the earth's oxygen but is threatened by deforestation



    Demonstrators in animal costumes walk in the "People's Climate March" in central London on Sunday



    People protest for greater action against climate change during the People's Climate March on Sunday in New York City. The march, which calls for drastic political and economic changes to slow global warming, has been organized by a coalition of unions, activists, politicians and scientists

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    People hold banners and dance during a climate change March demanding politicians to take tougher action to protect the climate in Berlin on Sunday



    People march down Sixth Avenue during the People's Climate March on Sunday in New York City


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    Enviromental protesters form the words "Beyond Coal Gas" during a meeting in a park in Sydney on Sunday as part of a global protest on climate change







    People protest for greater action against climate change during the People's Climate March on Sunday in New York City


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    Demonstrators make their way down Sixth Avenue in New York on Sunday. The march, along with similar gatherings scheduled in other cities worldwide, comes two days before the United Nations Climate Summit, where more than 120 world leaders will convene for a meeting aimed at galvanizing political will for a new global climate treaty by the end of 2015


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    Archaeologists have uncovered the expertly crafted robes of two female stone statues standing guard at the entrance of a huge Macedonian tomb, dating back to the era of Alexander the Great, under excavation in Greece

    Excavators got their first glimpse of the wavy-haired statues — known as caryatids — last weekend, when the stone heads and torsos were unearthed at the ancient burial complex at Kasta Hill in Amphipolis, 65 miles (104 kilometers) east of Thessaloniki. Archaeologists had to remove a wall of sealing stones to reveal the rest of the statues' bodies.





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    Mexican armed forces paraded through Mexico City on Tuesday along with President Enrique Pena Nieto in celebration of Mexico's independence from Spain.

    Also known as the "Grito del Dolores," Sept. 16 marks the 204th anniversary of the country's declaration of independence, which was not fully granted until 11 years later in 1821.

    President Nieto opened the festivities at the National Palace by ringing a bell four times and exclaiming "Long live the heroes that gave us our nation and freedom! Long live this nation that embrace us! Long live Mexico!"

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    A bus torched by protesters sits in front of the Municipal Theater after a repossession of a building inhabited illegally by the FLM (Front Fight for Housing) social movement, in the city center of Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Tuesday.

    The eviction of 200 families from the building led to violent clashes. Protesters set at least one bus ablaze while police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades in an effort to disperse the crowd


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    An elephant flips a black rhino onto its back during a violent battle between the pair in South Africa. Amateur photographer Louis Kok and his wife Marthie were stunned to watch the peaceful scene transform into a fight as the bull elephant attacked the protective rhino mother



    A clever artist managed to make his friends and family 'disappear' - by blending them in with their surroundings using paint. It took Laurent La Gamba, 47, two hours to finish painting each person so they can blend in with what is behind them

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