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French President Francois Hollande leaves after a meeting with Ukrainian and President Petro Poroshenko President Vladimir Putin , and German Chancellor Angela Merkel and in Milan, Italy, Friday, Oct.17, 2014. European leaders and Russia signaled cautious optimism over a peace deal for Ukraine after a high-level meeting in Milan on Friday, but emphasized details still need to be worked out. European leaders are pressing Russian leader Vladimir Putin to fully respect a cease-fire deal signed last month in Belarus, which has reduced by not completely ended hostilities in eastern Ukraine. (credit:AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
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Independent Financial Advisors complete with shiny suits, briefcases and chunky calculators have joined Tyrannosaurs, Triceratops and Velociraptors in a new exhibition featuring out of date animals. The exhibition at The Dinosaur Museum on Britain’s Jurassic coast in Dorset is sponsored by Beagle Street, an online life insurance company that aims to transform the market by offering an alternative to the traditional way of buying life insurance. The exhibition follows research that reveals that 63 per cent of UK adults do not trust Independent Financial Advisors and 84 per cent believe that the ‘middlemen’ are an unnecessary point in the financial services process.
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Anglo-Saxon re-enactors charge across Chamberlain Square outside Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery ahead of the opening of the new Staffordshire Hoard Gallery (credit:PA)
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Ukip leader Nigel Farage (left) walks around Rochester in Kent with Mark Reckless (right), who defected from the Conservative Party to Ukip last month and will now represent them in the forthcoming by election on November 20th. (credit:Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)
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Nicole Scherzinger seen leaving the ITV Studios after an appearance on 'This Morning' on October 17, 2014 in London, England. Photo by Neil Mockford/Alex Huckle/GC Images) (credit:Neil Mockford/Alex Huckle via Getty Images)
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Tourists gather near the French production company La Machine's latest creation "the Long Ma" or Dragon Horse during it's first show held in front of the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing, China, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. A series of performances over three days will mark the climax of celebrations for the 50th anniversary of Sino-French diplomatic relations on Sunday, Oct 19. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A photo provided by the Nepalese army, rescue personnel carry a victim of an avalanche before they airlift the body from Thorong La pass area, in Nepal. Rescuers widened their search Friday for trekkers stranded since a series of blizzards and avalanches battered the Himalayas in northern Nepal early this week leaving at least 29 people killed, officials said. (AP Photo/Nepalese Army) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Thai martial artist and actor Tony Jaa gives a martial arts demonstration to the press at the Ciragan Palace Kempinski Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey on October 16, 2014. (Photo by Bulent Doruk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Renowned British Director Guy Ritchie has teamed up with award winning advertising agency adam&EveDDB to produce 'Welcome', featuring HAIG CLUB™ partner and global icon, David Beckham. The advert will air for the first time on UK television on Friday 17th October on Sky and the extended 90 second directors cut will be available to view from 9 am the same day on YouTube.com/HaigClub. (credit:HAIG CLUB™)
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Renowned British Director Guy Ritchie has teamed up with award winning advertising agency adam&EveDDB to produce 'Welcome', featuring HAIG CLUB™ partner and global icon, David Beckham. The advert will air for the first time on UK television on Friday 17th October on Sky and the extended 90 second directors cut will be available to view from 9 am the same day on YouTube.com/HaigClub. (credit:HAIG CLUB™)
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Britain's Prince Harry, poses for a photograph with members of the 100 Women in Hedge Funds Philanthropic Initiatives prior to their gala dinner in aid of the Well Child charity at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, in London, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Prince harry is patron of the 100 Women in Hedge Funds Philanthropic Initiatives. (credit:AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool))
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Syrian Kurdish refugees who fled fighting in Kobani, Syria, go about at a refugee camp in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. The onslaught has forced more than 200,000 people to flee across the border into Turkey. (credit:AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) speaks Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi looks on prior their meeting on Ukraine's crisis with Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko (not seen), on October 17, 2014 on the sidelines of the 10th ASEM summit in Milan. Putin and Poroshenko last met one-on-one in August in Belarus. They failed then to agree a peace plan for Ukraine, but did reach an accord in early September. Since then they have been in regular telephone contact. (credit:DANIEL DAL ZENNARO via Getty Images)
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Oscar Pistorius cries in court in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014 during the last day of sentencing procedures where the defense and prosecution will put their case for and against sentencing. Pistorius was found guilty last month of culpable homicide in the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day in 2013. (credit:AP Photo/Mujahid Safodien, Pool)
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Left to right, EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Francois Hollande, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel meet on the sidelines of the ASEM summit of European and Asian leaders in Milan, northern Italy, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin is looking to get relief from Western economic sanctions imposed since Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and its support for a pro-Russia insurgency in eastern Ukraine. To that end, he has scheduled a series of meetings on the sidelines of a two-day ASEM summit of European and Asian leaders. (AP Photo/Daniel Dal Zennaro, POOL) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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From left, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron meet on the sidelines of the ASEM summit of European and Asian leaders in Milan, northern Italy, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin is looking to get relief from Western economic sanctions imposed since Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and its support for a pro-Russia insurgency in eastern Ukraine. To that end, he has scheduled a series of meetings on the sidelines of a two-day ASEM summit of European and Asian leaders. (AP Photo/Daniel Dal Zennaro, POOL) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Aaron Paul arrives at the LA Premiere Of "Felony" on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP) (credit:Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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A rodeo rider and a buffalo of the 'Wild West' themed pumpkin exhibition are see at egapark in Erfurt, Germany, 16 October 2014. More than 20,000 pumpkins in autumn colors are presented in different shapes. The exhibition will run until 31 October 2014. Photo: Martin Schutt/dpa (credit:Martin Schutt/DPA)
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Students burn a mock US flag during a protest inside the state university campus in Manila on October 17, 2014, to condemn the murder of Filipino transgender allegedely by a US marine. Relatives of a transgender Filipino allegedly murdered by a US Marine angrily demanded October 16 that the accused be thrown in a Philippine prison. (credit:TED ALJIBE via Getty Images)
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Oscar Pistorius adjusts trouser as he arrives at the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Following the testimony hearing, which is expected to end this week, Judge Thokozile Masipa will rule on what punishment Pistorius must serve after convicting him of culpable homicide for shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through a toilet door in his home. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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In this photo released by the Nepalese Army, rescue team members carry a victim of an avalanche before they airlift the body from Thorong La pass area, in Nepal, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Search teams in army helicopters rescued dozens of stranded foreign trekkers and recovered more bodies of victims of a blizzard and avalanches in the mountains of northern Nepal on Thursday. (credit:AP Photo/The Nepalese Army)
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'Tree', Paul McCarthy's monumental artwork at Place Vendome on October 16 in Paris, France. This installation is part of the FIAC - Contemporary Art Fair - from October 21 until November 1, 2014, and extends out from the Grand Palace and takes over several famous spots all over Paris. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images) (credit:Chesnot via Getty Images)
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Host Amber Rose attends the XXIV Karat's Launch Party at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on October 16, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Valerie Macon/Getty Images) (credit:Valerie Macon via Getty Images)
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Hundreds of graves at the overcrowded Bashoura cemetery for Muslim Sunnis in Beirut, Lebanon. The congested city of more than one million is cramped with cemeteries wedged into residential areas, increasingly forcing families to bury several members of the same family in one grave. Available land plots are extremely scarce and what is left is being used by developers to build luxury office towers and apartments. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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This image provided by NASA shows Hurricane Gonzalo taken at 2:45 p.m. EDT by NASA's Aqua satellite. Gonzalo was expected to pass within 29 miles (46 kilometers) of Bermuda on Friday night, close enough to be considered a direct hit, the Bermuda Weather Service warned. Gonzalo is a Category 4 storm late Thursday with top sustained winds of 140 mph (220 kph). It was centered about 340 miles (545 kilometers) south-southwest of Bermuda and was moving north-northeast at 14 mph (22 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. (AP Photo/NASA) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Firefighters battle a factory fire in the suburb of Revesby on October 17, 2014 in Sydney, Australia. More than 100 people were evacuated as emergency services battled the blaze of highly flammable solvents. (Photo by Fiona Morris/Getty Images) (credit:Fiona Morris via Getty Images)
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A pro-democracy protester holds a shield standing in between some local residents at a main street in Mong Kok district in Hong Kong Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Riot police cleared an offshoot Hong Kong pro-democracy protest zone in a dawn raid on Friday, taking down barricades, tents and canopies that have blocked key streets for more than two weeks, but leaving the city's main thoroughfare still in the hands of the activists. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) (credit:Vincent Yu/AP)
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Screen grab taken from PA Video of a car believed to be carrying Ched Evans leaving Wymott Prison near Leyland in Lancashire, as the footballer is believed to have been released after serving half of a five-year sentence for raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel. (credit:PA Video/PA Wire)
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Alleged serial killer Tiago Gomes da Rocha (C), suspected of killing 39 people, is escorted by police officers at the Department of Security, a day after his arrest, in Goiania, state of Goias, Brazil, on October 16, 2014. Rocha attempted suicide by slashing his wrists with pieces of a lamp of his cell. AFP PHOTO/EVARISTO SA (Photo credit should read EVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:EVARISTO SA via Getty Images)
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Picture of objects seized during the arrest, on the eve, of alleged serial killer Tiago Gomes da Rocha, suspected of killing 39 people, at the Department of Security in Goiania, state of Goias, Brazil, on October 16, 2014. Rocha attempted suicide by slashing his wrists with pieces of a lamp of his cell. AFP PHOTO/EVARISTO SA (Photo credit should read EVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:EVARISTO SA via Getty Images)
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A visitor looks through the clock of the Orsay museum, overlooking Paris, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Since 1977 the Orsay museum is housed in a former Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin reacts during a press conference after talks with his Serbian counterpart Tomislav Nikolic in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Putin arrived on a one-day official visit to Serbia during which he will attend a military parade commemorating 70th anniversary of Belgradeâs liberation from Nazi occupation. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Emergency crews stand next to a plane, carrying 163 people, at the Madrid Airport, Spain, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. An Air France plane was isolated at Madrid's airport on Thursday because of a suspected Ebola case after a passenger was reported to have a fever and shivers, officials said. The passenger, who had traveled from Lagos, Nigeria, was taken by ambulance to an unspecified hospital in Madrid but the rest of the passengers were allowed to leave the plane as normal, Air France said in a statement. (credit:PA)
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Lockheed Martin claims compact fusion reactors just a decade away. The magnetic coils inside of the compact fusion (CF) experiment are critical to plasma containment. (credit:Lockheed Martin)
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The Duchess of Cornwall hosts a reception to mark International Credit Union Day at Clarence House, London. (credit:PA)
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Actor Steve Carell attends the VIP arrivals of the Amex Gala premiere for 'Foxcatcher' during the 58th BFI London Film Festival at Odeon Leicester Square on October 16, 2014 in London, England. (credit:Yunus Kaymaz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)