Pictures of the Day: 30 July 2012
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are all smiles whilst watching the Cross Country phase of The Eventing at Greenwich Park. (PA)
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The Prince of Wales shelters from the rain under an umbrella during a visit to Sibster Farm near Wick in Scotland. (Danny Lawson/PA)
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People throw colored powder into the air during the Holi Festival in Berlin. The original Holi, also known as the festival of colours is a festival celebrated in India and other Hindu countries. Some thousands of people celebrated this event with Indian DJ's, acrobatics and dance in the German capital. (AP Photo/dapd/Oliver Lang)
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An Indian farmer participates in a bull race at a paddy field in Canning village around 105 kms south of Kolkata. Farmers participate in the race in the belief that participation before ploughing their fields will bring good rain and a better harvest. (DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP/Getty Images)
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The Olympic cauldron is lit after it was moved from the infield to its resting position at the Olympic Stadium during the 2012 Summer Olympicsin London. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Trafalgar Square's most famous resident, Admiral Lord Nelson gets a new hat for the first time in 200 years, as part of the visual spectacular that is HATWALK, commissioned by the Mayor of London, in partnership with BT, Grazia magazine, the British Fashion Council and the London 2012 Festival. Nelson is one of 20 well-known statues across the capital adorned with newly created, bespoke headwear from today. (Martin McNeil/Getty Images for Mayor of London's Office)
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An elementary school sumo wrestler reacts after his bout at the National Children's Sumo tournament in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
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A Bahraini anti-government protester runs with petrol bombs during clashes with riot police in Sitra, Bahrain. Bahrain's Interior Ministry says it is opening investigations into possible rights violations by police during crackdowns on opposition protesters. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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Matt Kenseth's car catches fire after an accident during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Brickyard 400 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Ron Sanders)
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Residents try to salvage materials from their destroyed homes under the bow of one of two barges that smashed into an informal settler area in Manila, after strong winds and rains due to Tropical Storm Saola hit the capital. At least one person was killed and millions were left without power on July 30, as Tropical Storm Saola brought heavy rains to large parts of the Philippines, the government said. (TED ALJIBE/AFP/Getty Images)
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A near full moon is seen in the background of a fairground attraction in London. (Andrew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images)
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Young seal Fips looks out of a tub at the seal nursery in Friedrichskoog, Germany. The animal was found at a shipyard in Hamburg at the beginning of July and was brought to the nursery in Friedrichskoog. (DANIEL BOCKWOLDT/PA)
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US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney shakes hands with people after placing a message, written on paper, in the ancient stones of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City during the annual Tisha B'Av (Ninth of Av) fasting and a memorial day, commemorating the destruction of ancient Jerusalem temples. Romney is meeting Israeli leaders as he seeks to burnish his foreign policy credentials and portray himself as a better friend to Israel than President Barack Obama. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Female 'pilot' Anna salutes after demonstrating Japanese electronics company Suidobashi Heavy Industry's newly unveiled robot 'Kuratas' at the Wonder Festival in Chiba, suburban Tokyo on July 29, 2012. The Kuratas robot, which will go on sale with a price tag of one million USD ,measures 4m in height, weighs four tons and has four wheeled legs that can either be controlled remotely through the 3G network or by a human seated within the cockpit. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)
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First placed Lewis Hamilton (of Great Britain and McLaren celebrates on the podium with McLaren Sporting Director Sam Michael following the Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix at the Hungaroring in Budapest, Hungary. (Drew Gibson/Getty Images)
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Curator Claude Wang Sui stands next to the world's oldest photograph (left) and holds a reproduction of it in his hands at the Reiss-Engelhorn museums in Mannheim, Germany. The photo from 1826 titled 'View from the window at Le Gras' will be part of the exhibition 'The birth of photography' which open doors on 09 September 2012. (UWE/PA)