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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This photo dated Wednesday July 2, 2014, was taken to mark Prince George's first birthday and shows the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Prince during a visit to the Sensational Butterflies exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London. (credit:John Stillwell/PA Wire)
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This photo dated Wednesday July 2, 2014, was taken to mark Prince George's first birthday and shows the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Prince during a visit to the Sensational Butterflies exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London. (credit: John Stillwell/PA Wire)
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Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne speaks during a visit to the Cunard cruise liner Queen Mary 2 at Southampton docks. (credit:Chris Ison/PA Wire)
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BIGGLESWADE, ENGLAND - JULY 21: Shuttleworth Collection Pilot Rob Millinship, poses next to a Sopwith Pup during a photocall at 'The Shuttlesworth Collection' on July 21, 2014 in Biggleswade, England. Of the 55,000 planes that were manufactured by the Royal Army Corps (RAC) during WWI, only around 20 remain in airworthy condition. Six of these belong to The Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden, Bedfordshire, making it the most complete collection of original airworthy WWI aircraft in the world. Amongst the collection is the SE5a. The SE5a is a single seater fighter aircraft. It is an original biplane designed by the Royal Aircraft Factory, with its engine built by Wolseley Motors Ltd, and it was issued to 84 Squadron in November 1918. The National Archive in Kew has recently verified that the plane saw action in France with 84 Squadron the day before Armistice, November 10, 1918. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) (credit:Dan Kitwood via Getty Images)
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Former N-Dubz singer Tulisa Contostavlos gives a statement outside Southwark Crown Court after her trial over drugs allegations has collapsed. (credit:Justin Tallis/PA Wire)
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Prince Harry during a visit to Bethnal Green Academy in London, where he joined a group of 60 students from schools across east London who will be receiving training to become digital media champions for the Invictus Games. (credit:Andrew Cowie/WPA-Rota)
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A student films on her mobile phone as Prince Harry visits Bethnal Green Academy in London, where he joined a group of 60 students from schools across east London who will be receiving training to become digital media champions for the Invictus Games. (credit:Andrew Cowie/PA Wire)
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An Indian artist dressed as Hindu Goddess MahaKali performs while in a trance during the final procession of the eleven-day traditional festival of 'Bonalu', a ritual offering to the goddess MahaKali, at Sri Akkanna Madanna Mahankali Temple in Hyderabad on July, 21 2014. The Goddess is honoured mostly by women during Bonalu festival with offerings of food and dancing. AFP PHOTO / Noah SEELAM (Photo credit should read NOAH SEELAM/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:NOAH SEELAM via Getty Images)
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Flags, shirts, flowers and scarves are placed outside St Jamesâ Park, Newcastle in tribute to the Newcastle United fans Liam Sweeney and John Alder who died when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over the skies of Ukraine. (credit:Tom White/PA Wire)
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Figures of the Royal family on the grounds of a miniature Buckingham Palace feature as part of Legoland Windsor Resort's special first birthday party for Prince George ahead of his first birthday which are on display in their Miniland. (credit:Steve Parsons/PA Wire)
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Monitors from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and members of a forensic team inspect a refrigerator wagon containing the remains of victims from the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, at a railway station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Torez on July 21, 2014. The head of a Dutch forensic team said on Monday a train, carrying the remains of victims from the Malaysian airliner crash, should set off later on Monday to a place where 'we can do our work'. Centre is Alexander Hug, (R) Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine. AFP PHOTO/ BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:BULENT KILIC via Getty Images)
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A picture shows the Costa Concordia cruise ship after being refloated using air tanks attached to its sides on July 21, 2014 at the Giglio Island. The Costa Concordia is due to be dragged away on July 22, 2014 from Giglio Island, where it crashed on the night of January 13, 2012 in a disaster that killed 32 people. The ship's final journey for scrapping in the port of Genoa in northwest Italy is set to take four days. AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABI (Photo credit should read TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:TIZIANA FABI via Getty Images)
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Workers climb on a caisson hooked to the refloated wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship on July 20, 2014 at the Giglio Island. The Costa Concordia is due to be dragged away on July 22, 2014 from Giglio Island, where it crashed on the night of January 13, 2012 in a disaster that killed 32 people. The ship's final journey for scrapping in the port of Genoa in northwest Italy is set to take four days. AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABI (Photo credit should read TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:TIZIANA FABI via Getty Images)
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A picture shows the Costa Concordia cruise ship after being refloated using air tanks attached to its sides on July 21, 2014 at the Giglio Island. The Costa Concordia is due to be dragged away on July 22, 2014 from Giglio Island, where it crashed on the night of January 13, 2012 in a disaster that killed 32 people. The ship's final journey for scrapping in the port of Genoa in northwest Italy is set to take four days. AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABI (Photo credit should read TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:TIZIANA FABI via Getty Images)
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This image shows a lightweight F-16 fighter aircraft in 'Type 1000' storage, having undergone an engine removal, flipped onto another F-16 in high winds at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The steel cable tie-downs used to secure the aircraft to the desert floor snapped as a result of the gusting winds associated to the storm possibly exceeding 65 miles per hour. Winds and heavy rain caused damage to several buildings across the base as well as base housing during a monsoon on 13 July. There were no injuries reported due to this severe weather event and negligible operational aircraft damage. Flying operations commenced as normal Monday afternoon. 'Type 1000' storage is described as the most "ready" storage of a plane at the Davis-Monthan, where planes are kept in good shape and wrapped in latex for easy reactivation in case of an emergency.
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A 22-meter-tall and 34-meter in diameter infltable frog is seen at Yuyuantan Park in Beijing, China. The frog is based on the golden frog which symbolises luck and is thought to bring wealth and fortune in Chinese traditional culture.
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A picture of Steven Noreilde from Brasschaat, Belgium, a victim of flight MH17, lays next to a soccer shirt surrounded by flowers, at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, Sunday, July 20, 2014. An attack on a Malaysian jetliner shot down over Ukraine on Thursday killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations, more than half being Dutch. Worshippers at church services across the Netherlands prayed Sunday for the victims of the Ukraine air disaster and their next of kin, as anger built over the separatist rebels' hindering of the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. (AP Photo/Patrick Post) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A picture of Bryce Fredriksz, right, and his girlfriend Daisy Oehlers, left, who died on flight MH17, is surrounded by flowers at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, Sunday, July 20, 2014. An attack on a Malaysian jetliner shot down over Ukraine on Thursday killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations, more than half being Dutch. Worshippers at church services across the Netherlands prayed Sunday for the victims of the Ukraine air disaster and their next of kin, as anger built over the separatist rebels' hindering of the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. (AP Photo/Patrick Post) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Benedict Cumberbatch measures up for a Madame Tussauds waxwork figure
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Armed pro-Russian separatists stand guard in front of the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, near the village of Grabove, in the region of Donetsk on July 20, 2014. The missile system used to shoot down a Malaysian airliner was handed to pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine by Moscow, the top US diplomat said Sunday. Outraged world leaders have demanded Russia's immediate cooperation in a prompt and independent probe into the shooting down on July 17 of flight MH17 with 298 people on board. AFP PHOTO/ BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:BULENT KILIC via Getty Images)
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Models walk the runway at Lolli/Acacia Swim 2015 Collection at Soho Beach House on July 20, 2014 in Miami Beach, Florida. (credit:Neilson Barnard via Getty Images)
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A group of frogmen, a unit from Taiwan's elite Marines, stand before foreign journalists visiting the naval Tsouying base on July 21, 2014. Taiwan has kept moderning its armed forces despite the fast warming ties between Taiwan and its former rival China. AFP PHOTO / Mandy CHENG (Photo credit should read Mandy Cheng/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MANDY CHENG via Getty Images)
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Hindu devotees bathe in the Bagmati River on their way to the Pashupatinath Temple to offer prayers to Lord Shiva, Hindu god of destruction during Shravan festivities in Sundarijal, on the outskirts of Kathmandu on July 21, 2014. According to the Nepali calendar, Shravan is considered the holiest month of the year with each Monday of the month known as Shravan Somvar when worshippers offer prayers for a happy and prosperous life. AFP PHOTO/ Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:PRAKASH MATHEMA via Getty Images)
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Toys are pictured amongst the wreckage at the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 near the village of Grabove, in the region of Donetsk on July 20, 2014. The missile system used to shoot down a Malaysian airliner was handed to pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine by Moscow, the top US diplomat said Sunday. Outraged world leaders have demanded Russia's immediate cooperation in a prompt and independent probe into the shooting down on July 17 of flight MH17 with 298 people on board. AFP PHOTO/ BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:BULENT KILIC via Getty Images)
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Armed pro-Russian separatists stand guard in front of the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, near the village of Grabove, in the region of Donetsk on July 20, 2014. The missile system used to shoot down a Malaysian airliner was handed to pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine by Moscow, the top US diplomat said Sunday. Outraged world leaders have demanded Russia's immediate cooperation in a prompt and independent probe into the shooting down on July 17 of flight MH17 with 298 people on board. AFP PHOTO/ BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:BULENT KILIC via Getty Images)
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GRABOVO, UKRAINE - JULY 20: Luggage and personal belongings from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 lie in a field on July 20, 2014 in Grabovo, Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack. (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images) (credit:Rob Stothard via Getty Images)
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GRABOVO, UKRAINE - JULY 20: An oxygen mask system lies in a field amongst wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July 20, 2014 in Grabovo, Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack. (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images) (credit:Rob Stothard via Getty Images)
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RASSIPNOYE, UKRAINE - JULY 20: Members of a local militia guard access to the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 during a visit by monitors from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on July 20, 2014 in Rassipnoye, Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack. (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images) (credit:Rob Stothard via Getty Images)
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A man writes a message on a banner during a candle-light vigil for the victims of the crash of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Kuala Lumpur on July 20, 2014. The Malaysia airliner flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was blown out of the sky by what is believed to be a surface-to-air missile, killing at 298 passengers and crew and dramatically raising the stakes in Ukraine's bloody three-month conflict. AFP PHOTO/ Nicolas ASFOURI (Photo credit should read NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:NICOLAS ASFOURI via Getty Images)
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GRABOVO, UKRAINE - JULY 20: The bodies of victims of the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 await collection by the side of the road near the crash site on July 20, 2014 in Grabovo, Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack. (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images) (credit:Brendan Hoffman via Getty Images)
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Children in military uniforms eat their snacks as the watch a military parade march by, during the marking Colombia's 204 anniversary of independence from Spain, in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Ukrainian emergency workers carry a victim's body in a bag, at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Rebels in eastern Ukraine took control Sunday of the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and the U.S. and European leaders demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin make sure rebels give international investigators full access to the crash site.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Israeli soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade mourn over the grave of Sgt. Bnaya Rubel during his funeral at the military cemetery in Holon, Israel, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Rubel was killed while fighting Palestinian militants in Gaza on Saturday. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Relatives of Maj. Amotz Greenberg, 45, mourn during his funeral in the Israeli city of Hod Hasharon, Sunday, July 20, 2014. According to reports, Greenberg was killed fighting a group of militants who infiltrated Israel through a tunnel from the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Smoke and flare of an explosion rise after an Israeli missile hit the Shijaiyah neighborhood in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, July 20, 2014. The neighborhood came under heavy tank fire Sunday as Israel widened its ground offensive against Hamas, causing hundreds of panicked residents to flee. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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The pack passes a bridge spanning Durance river in Sisteron during the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 222 kilometers (137.9 miles) with start in Tallard and finish in Nimes, France, Sunday, July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Atlanta Braves right fielder Jason Heyward (22) goes up for a ball hit for a two-run home run by Philadelphia Phillies' Jimmy Rollins in the seventh inning of a baseball game in Atlanta, Saturday, July 19, 2014.(AP Photo/John Bazemore) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Williams driver Felipe Massa of Brazil crashes in the first curve of the German Formula One Grand Prix in Hockenheim, Germany, Sunday, July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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An Ukrainian paramedic walks amongst charred debris at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Armed rebels forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines crash site and had them loaded Sunday onto refrigerated train cars bound for a rebel-held city, Ukrainian officials and monitors said. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A supporter of the Palestinian Communist group attends a protest against the Israeli offensive in Gaza wearing a mask and the American flag, as Lebanese riots policemen black a road that links to the US embassy in Aukar, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, July 20, 2014. A Gaza City neighborhood came under heavy tank fire Sunday as Israel widened its ground offensive against Hamas, causing hundreds of panicked residents to flee. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Toys and flowers are placed on the charred fuselage at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Armed rebels forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines crash site and had them loaded Sunday onto refrigerated train cars bound for a rebel-held city, Ukrainian officials and monitors said.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland holds up the Claret Jug trophy after winning the British Open Golf championship at the Royal Liverpool golf club, Hoylake, England, Sunday July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A cyclists with his dog in a backpack climbs the race route towards the finish line in Risoul prior to the arrival of the riders in the fourteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 177 kilometers (110 miles) with start in Grenoble and finish in Risoul, France, Saturday, July 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)