Pictures of the day from The Huffington Post brings you the very best news and sports images, from around the world chosen and created by our own photo editors, Elliot Wagland, Tahira Mirza and Michael Cripps.
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Simon Cowell and Lauren Silverman attend the Health Lottery tea party at The Savoy Hotel on June 2, 2014 in London, England. (credit:Getty Images)
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Before he became "a working actor," as he now proudly calls himself, Jamie Dornan initially caught the public's attention as a model—you may remember him from those greasy underwear ads with Eva Mendes, among many others. His first real acting gig, a small role in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006), similarly treated him as little more than a sex object. But what finally cemented his status as an overnight success—and the years of toil that generally goes with (and contradicts) that phenomenon—was his landing of the coveted lead in the forthcoming adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey.
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U.S pop singer Prince, left and unidentified women, watch Spain's Rafael Nadal playing Serbia's Dusan Lajovic during their fourth round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France
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The Prince of Wales meets pupils at the King Edward VI School as he sits in on a Tudor school class during his visit to Warwickshire.
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Diners take lunch suspended in the air above the Parc du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.'Dinner in the sky' is a 'unique occasion' to discover Brussels's high cuisine and enjoy a spectacular view of the city from the air. (credit:Getty Images)
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David Beckham is questioned by Michael Palin about his new TV show 'David Beckham, Into The Unknown', at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London. (credit:PA)
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Aircrafts of the Italian Air Force aerobatic unit 'Frecce Tricolori' leave smoke trails in the colours of the Italian national flag over Rome's Vittorio Emanuele monument, on June 2, 2014, as part of the ceremonies marking Italian Republic Day. (credit:Getty Images)
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David Beckham is questioned by Michael Palin about his new TV show 'David Beckham, Into The Unknown', at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London. (credit:Ian West/PA Wire)
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A Miley Cyrus wax figure is presented by Madame Tussauds on June 2, 2014 in Berlin, Germany.
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Participants compete in a dragon boat race in Hong Kong Monday, June 2, 2014, as part of celebrations marking the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, held throughout Hong Kong. (credit:AP)
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Spain's David Ferrer gets ready to serve during his French tennis Open round of sixteen match against South Africa's Kevin Anderson at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris on June 2, 2014. (credit:Getty Images)
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Cameroon's forward Samuel Eto'o (R) celebrates next to teammate Cameroon's forward Eric Choupo-Moting scoring during the friendly football match Germany vs Cameroon in preparation for the FIFA World Cup 2014
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Alibino lion cubs take it easy in their room at Hangzhou Zoo. The three cubs, born in late April, were abandoned by their mother and are now breast-fed by a surrogate dog mother together with a Siberian tiger cub.
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The Mayor of London Boris Johnson speaks to the conference Policing Global Cities: Gangs Summit at City Hall in London, which has been set up to bring together city leaders from around the word to discuss how to tackle the problem of gangs. (credit:PA)
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Sri Lankan residents wade through floodwaters in Welipanna on June 2, 2014. Mudslides cause by heavy monsoon rains in the west and south of the island have killed at least 13 people and left two more missing. (credit:Getty Images)
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Spanish Prime minister Mariano Rajoy announces the abdication of Spain's King Juan Carlos on June 2, 2014 in Madrid. Spanish King Juan Carlos will abdicate in favour of his son Prince Felipe, the nation announced on Monday, ending a 39-year reign that ushered in democracy but was later battered by royal scandals. (credit:Getty Images)
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Portuguese police search scrubland for missing British girl Madeleine McCann, in Praia da Luz, Algarve, southern Portugal, 02 June 2014. Police continue to investigate the 2007 disappearance of Madeleine McCann, then aged 3, after she vanished from her family's holiday apartment in the Algarve village of Praia da Luz while her parents were having dinner at a nearby restaurant. (credit:EPA/LUIS FORRA)
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Veteran entertainer Rolf Harris (second left) arrives at Southwark Crown Court, London, with daughter Bindi (left), wife Alwen and niece Jenny (right), where he denies 12 counts of indecent assault between 1968 and 1986. (credit:PA)
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German test pilot Markus Scherdel steers the solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft for its maiden flight at a in Payerne, Switzerland, on June 2, 2014. The aircraft, which was unveiled on April 9, 2014, weighs 2.4 tons with a wingspan of 72 meter and more than 17,000 solar cells. The attempt to fly around the world in stages using only solar energy will be made in 2015. (credit:Getty Images)
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David and Victoria Beckham were spotted leaving LA with their boys, Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and daughter Harper.
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Long Beach Comic Expo is an annual event held at the Long Beach Convention Center in California, United States on June 2, 2014. It's a celebration of comic books and pop culture that showcases the exceptional works of talented writers, artists, illustrators and creators of all types of pop culture. Many exhibitors promoting and selling all types of related products, as well as entertaining and educational programs, guest signings and meet & greet sessions with celebrities at Long Beach Comic Expo.
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Cheryl Cole arrives at the BBC Radio 1 Studios on June 2, 2014 in London, England.
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A family of three walk with their piglet in Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon on Monday, June 2, 2014. They say they bought the animal in the country’s southern delta, where they were able to fetch a lower price, and will take it by public bus to their home in the city’s northern outskirts where they will spend the next five months fattening it up for the kill.(AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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A left-wing militant holds a gun as he and others shout slogans at a barricade in a street in the Gezi district of Istanbul, on June 1, 2014. Turkey's combative prime minister warned protesters that police would do 'whatever is necessary' to clamp down on demonstrations in Istanbul's Taksim Square to mark the anniversary of last year's turmoil. Last year, what started as a small campaign to save the nearby Gezi Park from the bulldozers eventually drew an estimated three million protesters in an outpouring of anger at the perceived authoritarian tendencies of Erdogan's Islamic-rooted government. Eight people died and thousands were injured in the ensuing violence as police launched a brutal crackdown, frequently employing tear gas and water cannons. (credit:Getty Images)
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Emergency services at the scene in a suspected gas explosion on Sullivan Street, near Infirmary Road north inner city Dublin.
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A left-wing militant holds a gun as he and others shout slogans at a barricade in a street in the Gezi district of Istanbul, on June 1, 2014. Some 25,000 members of the security forces surrounded and blocked Istanbul's Taksim Square, the epicentre of the 2013 demonstrations. Clashes broke out after protesters marched on the despite a government ban on gatherings in force there.
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A student cries before women as she goes to a government school for the first time in Manila on June 2, 2014. The 2014-15 school year officially opened on June 2 with up to 20 million students trooping to public elementary and high schools. (credit:Getty Images)
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England's Wayne Rooney (second left) and Luke Shaw (right) arrive at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Miami, USA. (credit:PA)
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In this handout image provided by The FA, President of the Football Association Prince William, Duke of Cambridge speaks to England captain Steven Gerrard after the International Friendly match between England and Peru at Wembley Stadium on May 30, 2014 in London, England. (Photo by Michael Regan - The FA/The FA via Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Runners take part in The Dulux Color Run in Wembley, London, a 5k run where at each kilometre, colour explosions of powder made from cornstarch cover the runners. (credit:PA)
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England's Comedian Lee Nelson is taken away by security at Luton Airport, Luton. (credit:PA)