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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A rainbow is pictured over farm buildings near Hopferau, southern Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/dpa, Karl-Josef Hildenbrand) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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The Savoy's award-winning bartender, Tom walker, leads a predicted trend in the rise of modern classic cocktails. He's just launched the 'DEWAR'S TRUE SCOTCH COLLECTION' - a collaboration re-imagining classic whisky cocktails with a modern twist - at London's famous hotel where the co-founder of Dewar's whisky once lived during the 1800s.
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'Legend' Filmset, London, Britain
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Kosovo women cool off in a cascade of the Mirusha water falls 80 km west of Kosovo capital Pristina, during a heat wave with temperatures reaching 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in many parts of the country on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. (credit:AP)
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NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 13: Times Square pays tribute to Robin Williams as Broadway dims the lights to honor his life and career on August 13, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Walter McBride/Getty Images) (credit:Walter McBride via Getty Images)
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Lava flows from the Mount Etna volcano on the southern Italian island of Sicily near Catania on August 13, 2014. Mount Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world and is in an almost constant state of activity.
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The son of vicious swan Mr Asbo is following in his father's footsteps by terrorising punters on the River Cam in Cambridge during the peak summer season. The feathered fiend, who has been nicknamed Asboy, is targeting terrified tourists as they row and punt on the famous Backs in the university city. His dad, Mr Asbo, was moved to a secret location by the river authorities two years ago and had his wings clipped to stop him returning after he repeatedly attacked and bit rowers. Now he has been replaced by Asboy, who rules the roost on the River Cam by swimming up and down pecking at punters and flying into families on the waterway. The swan attacks any boat which gets too close, including canoes and rowing boats. (credit:REX/Geoff Robinson Photography)
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Students hold a giant representation of a Pakistani flag to celebrate the 68th Independence Day at the mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. Pakistanis commemorated its independence from British colonial rule. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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(Left to right) Halime Bibi, Hana Barzinji, James Candler, Iram Ali, and Calvin Marlor, who are all pupils at Rochdale Sixth Form College, receive their A-Level results, as official figures show that more A-levels were handed the very highest grade this summer, but the overall pass rate fell for the first time in more than 30 years. (credit:Lynne Cameron/PA Wire)
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Star of TV's The 7.39 and the film Never Let Me Go, Izzy Meikle-Small (second row, third right) celebrates gaining three A* grade A-levels at Brighton College in East Sussex. (credit:Gareth Fuller/PA Wire)
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LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS -- Episode 087 -- Pictured: (l-r) Syd Butler and host Seth Meyer dump a bucket of ice on actor Mickey Rourke for the 'Ice Bucket Challenge' on August 123, 2014 -- (Photo by: Lloyd Bishop/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) (credit:NBC via Getty Images)
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Firefighters work at the crash site of a small plane that was carrying Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos and several campaign officials, in Santos, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. Campos died Wednesday when the small plane that was carrying him and several campaign officials plunged into a residential neighborhood in the port city of Santos, a City Hall official there said. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Pope Francis arrives in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. The Pontiff arrived Thursday on the first papal visit to the Asian nation in a quarter century, stepping off a plane onto a red carpet and greeting the president, local Catholics and grieving relatives. During his five-day visit, Francis plans to beatify 124 Korean martyrs and encourage a vibrant and growing local church seen as a model for the future of Catholicism. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Walter Kannemann of Argentina's San Lorenzo, center, lifts the trophy after winning the 2014 Copa Libertadores championship against Paraguay's Nacional during the Copa Libertadores final soccer match in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A member of the St. Louis County Police Department points his weapon in the direction of a group of protesters in Ferguson, Mo. on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. On Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, a white police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in the St. Louis suburb. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A man watches as police walk through a cloud of smoke during a clash with protesters Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Protests in the St. Louis suburb rocked by racial unrest since a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager to death turned violent Wednesday night, with people lobbing Molotov cocktails at police who responded with smoke bombs and tear gas to disperse the crowd. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Star trails above St Govan's Chapel while the surrounding are lit by the full moon. A small Perseid meteor is also captured to the right of the image.
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One of two as yet unnamed 10-week-old Carpathian Lynx kittens explores their enclosure at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park near Ashford, Kent. (credit:Gareth Fuller/PA Wire)
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One of two as yet unnamed 10-week-old Carpathian Lynx kittens explores their enclosure with mum Klementyna at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park near Ashford, Kent. (credit:Gareth Fuller/PA Wire)
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With Christine Ohuruogu and Jodie Williams heading to Zurich with Commonwealth Games medals to their names and Desiree Henry making her senior team debut there was plenty of excitement amongst the three when they spoke to adidas ahead of the European Athletic Championships. The trio have been trialling and modelling the new adidas Energy BOOST running shoe for women,
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With Christine Ohuruogu and Jodie Williams heading to Zurich with Commonwealth Games medals to their names and Desiree Henry making her senior team debut there was plenty of excitement amongst the three when they spoke to adidas ahead of the European Athletic Championships. The trio have been trialling and modelling the new adidas Energy BOOST running shoe for women,
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Actors Olga Kurylenko and Pierce Brosnan arrive to the World Premiere of Relativity Media's 'The November Man' at the TCL Chinese Theatre on August 13, 2014 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images) (credit:Alberto E. Rodriguez via Getty Images)
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Britain's Mo Farah dances as he celebrates winning the gold medal in the men's 10,000m final during the European Athletics Championships in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Ambam, a Western Lowland Gorilla, stands in his enclosure at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park near Ashford, Kent, he became an online sensation when footage of him aping humans with his unusual habit of walking upright was captured and has been viewed nearly six million times since 2011. (credit:Gareth Fuller/PA Wire)
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Cargo from UK Aid is loaded on to an Antonov An-12B aircraft at East Midlands Airport as part of the UK Government's humanitarian response to the crisis in Iraq. (credit:Simon Cooper/PA Wire)
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Feras Abu Inil, 13, walks past an apartment block that was all but destroyed during over a four week fight between Isreael and Hamas in the northern Gaza strip on August 13, 2014. Feras who lives with his mom and sisters in another tower of the same complex that fared slightly better suffered a broken arm after he was hurt in a bombing after he and his family moved elsewhere in search of refuge. The UN estimates that about 10,000 homes were destroyed in the fighting that began on July 8. Indirect negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis for a truce in Gaza resumed on Wednesday, a Palestinian official said, as the clock ticked towards the midnight expiry of a three-day halt to hostilities. AFP PHOTO/ROBERTO SCHMIDT (Photo credit should read ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ROBERTO SCHMIDT via Getty Images)
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Spain's Ona Carbonell and Paula Klamburg perform their duet technical routine in the synchronised swimming event of the 32nd LEN European Swimming Championships on August 13, 2014 in Berlin. Spain ranked 2nd. AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:JOHN MACDOUGALL via Getty Images)
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Tourists walk on the newly opened footbridge as they arrive at the Mont Saint-Michel on August 13, 2014. AFP PHOTO/MIGUEL MEDINA (Photo credit should read MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MIGUEL MEDINA via Getty Images)
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Two boys walk past destroyed homes in the northern Gaza strip a few miles away from the border with Israel on August 13, 2014. The UN estimates that about 10,000 homes were destroyed in the fighting that began on July 8. Indirect negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis for a truce in Gaza resumed on Wednesday, a Palestinian official said, as the clock ticked towards the midnight expiry of a three-day halt to hostilities. AFP PHOTO/ROBERTO SCHMIDT (Photo credit should read ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ROBERTO SCHMIDT via Getty Images)
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City employees set stickers urging tourists to stop setting padlocks on the railings of the pont de l'archeveche, on August 13, 2014 in Paris. Started by tourists in Paris in 2008, the love locks ritual, which also spread in the early 2000s to cities including New York, Seoul and London, has resulted in the transformation of several bridges : every inch of their railings is now covered with clunky brass padlocks.AFP PHOTO/DOMINIQUE FAGET (Photo credit should read DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:DOMINIQUE FAGET via Getty Images)
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Nepalese men in different attire take part in 'Ropain' Festival or Rice Plantation procession at Handi Gaun in Kathmandu on August 13, 2014. Nepalese people and children wore unusual clothes to pray to Lord Indra, a God of Rain, for a good harvest in the upcoming years. AFP PHOTO/Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:PRAKASH MATHEMA via Getty Images)