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This photo shows penitents carrying the statue of Saint Mary of the Snow during the religious festival 'The Lucerne' (oil lamp) in Casamale, near Naples, in southern Italy. The festival it is held in remembrance of dead relatives and takes place every four years. -- PHOTO: AFP Tourists...

A plane flies in front of a rainbow above the Mediterranean sea in Nice, south-eastern France. -- PHOTO: AP Activists of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party take cover from a police water canon during a protest against the mismanagement of the preparations ahead of the...

Riot police use tear gas to help disperse the crowds as they clash with Polish soccer fans of Jagiellonia Bialystok during their game with Aris for Europa league third qualifying round second leg soccer match at Toumba Stadium in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki. -- PHOTO: AP...

Mourners react as the cortege carrying bodies of Lance Sgt Dale McCallum and Marine Adam Brown is driven through the town of Wootton Bassett in western England. -- PHOTO: REUTERS A Russian tries to stop the fire near the village of Golovanovo, Ryazan region. -- PHOTO: AFP Kashmiri...

Kambiri, the first pygmy hippo calf is shown with her mother Petre at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. Born on June 26 2010 and weighing a very healthy 5.3kg, Kambiri has doubled her birth weight and now tips the scales over 13kg, putting on about 300g a day. Pygmy Hippos are a solitary forest-dwelling...

A girl plays with a doll at a makeshift camp where displaced Pashto families from Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, live on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. -- PHOTO: AP This September, 1945 file picture shows the remains of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industry Promotion Building...

The sun sets behind luxury apartments in the Chung Hom Kok district of Hong Kong island. The city's government has ushered in a series of measures to cool overheating in the property market over the past year, such as increasing residential land supply and hiking stamp duty on luxury flats...

People simulate a slavery scene in Abidjan as part of the 50th anniversary of the Independence of Ivory Coast on August 7, 1960. -- PHOTO: AFP Michael Phelps swims the men's 200m butterfly at the US championships swimming meet. Phelps won the event. -- PHOTO: AP A woman stands on the...

Fallen trees cover the Hietasaari camping site in Uurainen, central Finland, following a freak wind storm. -- PHOTO: AFP Tourists take cable car for sightseeing as they take part in a Yangtze cruise tour in south-west China's Chongqing municipality. -- PHOTO: AFP Hello Kitty poses...

A colourful lorikeet peers out of its' birdhouse at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, Oregon. -- PHOTO: AP Mickey Garza (left) and Tom Orr (second from left) both of San Francisco, watch a rally in the Castro district celebrating a federal judge's decision overturning California's same-sex...

In this family handout photo from the Mayorga Family, from left: Matilde, Aaron, Priscilla, Isaac and Joel Mayorga are shown shortly after their birth in Houston. -- PHOTO: AP A double rainbow shines through the rain over the forest in West Kalimantan province on Borneo island. In 2007...

Filipino mothers tuck their babies on their chests at a ward of state-owned Fabella maternity hospital in Manila. The Philippine government along with some 73 countries worldwide joined the observance of the 19th World Breastfeeding Week. -- PHOTO: REUTERS Obese Chinese boys do sit-ups as...

South Korean students carry a parachute during a training camp for civilians at a military base of the Special Warfare Command in Bucheon, west of Seoul. The camp is part of a summer programme organised by the army for 1,245 civilians including 364 women who have volunteered to experience...

Erin Campbell dives into the pool at the start of Heat B of the women's 100m butterfly at the US National Swimming Championships in Irvine, California. --PHOTO: REUTERS People walk along a beach on the outskirts of Havana during sunset. --PHOTO: REUTERS Light shines through forest fire...

View of several animal graves at the 'Asis Park cemetery' for pets, in Buin some, 25 km south of Santiago. Ninety per cent of the 3,000 pets buried in the cemetery are dogs, and the rest cats, rabbits or hens. The cost of a big dog's grave is of US$78 per year, whilst smaller dogs cost US$75...

Veterinarian Christiana Hensel and safari park owners Fabrizio Sepe and Giovanni Sepe (left) pose with four white tiger cubs following the first medical examination of the cubs at the 'Serengeti' Safari Park in the northern German village of Hodenhagen. --PHOTO: REUTERS Houston Texans...

People launch fireworks inside a cemetery during festivities honoring the capital's patron St. Dominic of Guzman in Managua, Nicaragua. -- PHOTO: AP Croatia's Blanka Vlasic competes in the Women's High Jump final during the European Athletics Championships, in Barcelona, Spain. -- PHOTO...

A dancer performs during a rehearsal for modern dance 'Touch', directed by Israeli choreographer Rami Beer, during summer festivities in the Adriatic City of Split. -- PHOTO: REUTERS A cyclist bikes along Lake Mary, part of the Coconino National Forest near Flagstaff, Ariz. -- PHOTO: AP...

A GENERAL view shows the Rhine Falls in the town of Neuhausen, south of Schaffhausen. The Rhine Falls are the largest falls in Europe, with an average flow of 700 m3 per second as the water cascades down the cataracts, which are 150 metres wide and 23 metres high. -- PHOTO: REUTERS A...

A GENERAL view of the decoration at the Monte Carlo Sporting Club where the Red Cross Ball takes place. The Red Cross Ball is a traditional and annual charity event in the principality of Monaco. -- PHOTO: REUTERS STUDENTS from the National University of El Salvador hold images of...