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A Tall Ship makes its way along the coast off Harlepool, England, on the last day of the Hartlepool Tall Ships event. -- PHOTO: AP


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A child looks through a slice of watermelon in the small town of Medgyesegyhaza, south-eastern Hungary, during a festival dedicated to the fruit. Tens of thousands of people descended on the town of Medgyesegyhaza near the Romanian border for a three-day watermelon festival featuring concerts, contests and markets. Nearly 25,000 people attended the three-day festival, which started in 1995, with visitors coming from as far as Australia and Canada, organisers said. -- PHOTO: AFP


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Photo shows the cattle shoot used to vaccinate the cattle, holding the cattle still in a stress free way while they are vaccinated on the Siben Ranch outside of Helena, Mont. John Baucus observes on Right. -- PHOTO: AP


 

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South Koreans who claim to be former comfort women, who served as sexual slaves for the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, shout slogans during a rally demanding full compensation from the Japanese government in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. -- PHOTO: AP


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Luntik, a three-month-old kitten with four ears, looks on in Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok. There are no ear canals in Luntik's second pair of ears. The kitten lives at an automobile service station. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


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A Pakistani mans walks in a flooded area of Saangi about 30 km from Sukkur. The United Nations is launching an appeal to help 13.8 million people hit by one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters after floods paralysed parts of Pakistan and raised fears of disease. -- PHOTO: AFP


 

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Tibetan Buddhists and tourists view a huge Tangka, a religious silk embroidery or painting unique to Tibet, during the Shoton Festival at Drepung Monastery on the outskirts of Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


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Members of Kosovo Security Force attend an operation of demining in the village of Harilac, during the visit of commander of the Joint Force Command Naples Admiral Mark Fitzgerald. Kosovo Security Force is working daily for the clearance of minefields and the removal of any unexploded ordnance in order to minimise the risk for the people in Kosovo. -- PHOTO: AFP


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Supporters of the late Polish President Lech Kaczynski and protestors hold banners and torches as they walk in an evening procession from Warsaw Cathedral to the wooden cross in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw. Thousands of people protested in Warsaw during the night urging the removal of a cross erected to honour victims of a plane crash that killed President Kaczynski and dozens of national leaders in April. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


 

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Palestinian Muslim girls hold traditional Ramadan lanterns while celebrating the announcing of the holy month of Ramadan, in an alley of Jerusalem's old city. Ramadan, when observant Muslims fast from dawn to dusk. -- PHOTO: AP


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People takes part in celebrations honoring the capital's patron St. Dominic of Guzman in Managua, Nicaragua. -- PHOTO: AP


 
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