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Pics of the day 8th July 2014
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The Prince of Wales (right) meets Emylia Hall, 35, from Bristol, along with her son Calvin Jack, 5 months, during a visit to Castle Cary Railway Station.
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The Duchess of Cornwall at the University of Aberdeen where she presented degrees at a graduation ceremony at Elphinstone Hall.
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Kristen Stewart attends the Chanel show as part of Paris Fashion Week - Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2014-2015 at Grand Palais on July 8, 2014 in Paris, France. (credit:Pascal Le Segretain via Getty Images)
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Kate McCann (L) and her husband Gerry McCann (R), parents of missing British youngster Madeleine McCann, leave the court house in Lisbon after delivering statements in their case against Portuguese police officer Goncalo Amaral on July 8, 2014. The McCanns, whose daughter Madeleine disappeared in Portugal in 2007, are suing Goncalo Amaral for libel and had flown from England to Lisbon to deliver personal impact statements at the Palace of Justice. Madeleine disappeared from a bedroom of her family's holiday apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz a few days short of her fourth birthday as her parents dined with friends at a nearby tapas restaurant. (credit:PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA via Getty Images)
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A storm over St Mary's Lighthouse in Northumberland, as thunderstorms are forecast to hit the region today
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Halle Berry visits the Late Show With David Letterman in New York City. (credit:AP)
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Emma Watson attends the Christian Dior show as part of Paris Fashion Week - Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2014-2015. (credit:Pascal Le Segretain via Getty Images)
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Super Typhoon Neoguri approaches Okinawa island on July 7, 2014 in Japan. With sustained winds of 198 kilometers per hour, the storm could be one of the strongest to hit Japan in decades. (credit:Handout via Getty Images)
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Israeli soldiers stand on Merkava tanks in an army deployment area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on July 8, 2014. Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza with more than 50 strikes overnight after Hamas militants fired scores of rockets over the border, dragging the two sides towards a major conflict. (credit:JACK GUEZ via Getty Images)
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Oscar Pistorius arrives at court in Pretoria, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel has challenged the credibility of a physician, Wayne Derman, who testified that the athlete has an anxious nature linked to his disability and could not be objective about the double-amputee runner because he had treated Pistorius over many years and traveled with him extensively. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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An Israeli military flare explodes over Gaza Strip-Israel Border, Monday, July 7, 2014. Three Israeli suspects in the killing of a Palestinian teenager who was abducted and burned to death last week confessed to the crime on Monday an official said, as the country's leaders raced to contain a public uproar over the slaying. The authorities reported the confessions as violence continued on Israel's volatile front with the Gaza Strip. Palestinian militants bombarded Israel with some 40 rockets and mortars, drawing Israeli airstrikes in retaliation, and at least eight Palestinian militants were killed. As Israel pressed ahead with a mobilization of forces along the Gaza border, the Hamas militant group vowed revenge, saying "the enemy will pay a tremendous price." (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Neil Tennant of the English electronic pop duo Pet Shop Boys performs during their concert in Budapest Park in Budapest, Hungary, late Monday, July 7, 2014. (AP Photo/MTI, Tibor Illyes) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Sri Lankan asylum seekerS sent back by Australia prepare to enter the magistrate's court in the southern port district of Galle on July 8, 2014. Sri Lankan authorities plan to charge a group of asylum-seekers with attempting to leave the country illegally after they were returned by Australia following a controversial mid-sea transfer. (credit:LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI via Getty Images)
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A boy stands beneath water pouring from a roof during monsoon rains in Mumbai, India.The monsoon rains usually hit India from June to September. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Scores of supporters of Afghan presidential candidate and former finance minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai celebrate in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan officials released preliminary election results Monday showing Ahmadzai well in the lead for the presidency but said no winner can be declared because millions of ballots were being audited for fraud. The announcement came as Ahmadzai is locked in a standoff with his rival Abdullah Abdullah, who has refused to accept any results until all fraudulent ballots are invalidated. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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People walk under a destroyed railroad bridge over a main road leading into the east Ukraine city of Donetsk, near the village of Novobakhmutivka, 20 km North from the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. The bridge has been destroyed, blocking a key access route to the rebel-held city. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Orthodox priests carry the coffin of the leader of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate Volodymyr, during the funeral ceremony in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra church in Kiev, Ukraine.The head of Ukraine's Orthodox Church has died at 78 after leading it for more than two decades during the tumultuous post-Soviet period. In his more than 20 years as head of the country's largest church, Volodymyr weathered the breakaway of two groups that declared themselves independent of the Moscow Patriarchate, which incorporates the Ukrainian church. Observers say he succeeded in preventing even more splits. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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In this photo taken with a fisheye lens, a massive storm cloud packing high winds, hail and heavy rains sweeps over downtown Denver as lightning strikes on the horizon. After a daytime high that reached 100 degree, forecasters predict that heavy thunderstorms will envelop Colorado's Front Range communities through the night. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Lightning strikes in the background during the seventh inning of a baseball game between the Colorado Rockies and the San Diego Padres in Denver. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Palestinians try to salvage what they can of their belongings from the rubble of a house destroyed by an overnight Israeli airstrike in Gaza City Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Israel launched what could be a long-term offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the military said, striking at least 50 sites in Gaza by air and sea and mobilizing troops for a possible ground invasion in order to quell rocket attacks on Israel. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Dolores Aguirre fighting bulls and revelers run during the running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Revelers from around the world arrive to Pamplona every year to take part on some of the eight days of the running of the bulls glorified by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises." (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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People walk over the road destroyed by a strong earthquake in Talquian community, Chiapas state, Mexico on July 7, 2014. A strong 6.9-magnitude earthquake rocked parts of southern Mexico and Guatemala on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring more than 40 others. The US Geological Survey said the quake -- initially measured at a magnitude of 7.1 -- struck the Pacific coast of Mexico's Chiapas state at about 1124 GMT at a depth of 60 km. The epicenter was located just two km from the Mexican town of Puerto Madero, and 200 km from Guatemala City. AFP PHOTO / ELIZABETH RUIZ (Photo credit should read ELIZABETH RUIZ/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ELIZABETH RUIZ via Getty Images)
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For 50 years, Raju the elephant was abused, held shackled in spiked chains and forced to live off scraps from passing tourists. All that changed when he was rescued last weekend by wildlife conservationists who said the animal cried when he was finally set free.
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A British police officer arrests an activist from FEMEN group as she shouts slogans against female genital mutilation during a protest opposite the Houses of Parliament in central London, as the Tour de France pack was expected to pass during the third stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 155 kilometers (96.3 miles) which started in Cambridge and finishes in London, Monday, July 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 07: Jennifer Lawrence attends the Christian Dior show as part of Paris Fashion Week - Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2014-2015 on July 7, 2014 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images) (credit:Pascal Le Segretain via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian government soldiers look at wrecked tanks and armored personnel carriers (APCs) left by pro-Russian insurgents on July 7, 2014 in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk. Retreating pro-Russian insurgents dug in on July 7 in Ukraine's sprawling industrial hub of Donetsk after government forces scored a string of morale-boosting victories in the bloody battle for the future of the country. The separatists' 'tactical retreat' began on July 5 with the fall of their symbolic bastion Slavyansk and continued overnight into July 6 until government forces had reached the very gates of the region's main metropolis. (credit:GENYA SAVILOV via Getty Images)
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Revelers try to protect against a cow on the bull ring at the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Revelers from around the world in Pamplona take part in an eight-day event of the running of the bulls glorified by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises." (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Riders make their way up the short climb in the village of Finchingfield in north Essex during stage three of the Tour de France from Cambridge to London. (credit:Nick Ansell/PA Wire)
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A mother protects her ten day old snowy owls in Germany zoo