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Pictures of the day
(01 of18)
An aerial view shows houses cut-off by monsoon floods in Kendrapara district of eastern Orissa state, India, Wednesday, Aug.6, 2014.The annual monsoon season, which runs from June through September, is vital for the largely agrarian economies of South Asia but every year also brings floods and landslides that kill thousands and submerge hundreds of villages. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(02 of18)
WILL.I.AM has teamed-up with Brazilian musician, Sérgio Mendes, for his latest track entitled 'Dreaming About the Future'. The track forms part of will.i.am's collaboration with Lexus as part of its new NX Striking Angles campaign, championing innovative and provocative design.
(03 of18)
Volunteers walk down through the rubble of collapsed houses after spending the day searching for earthquake victims at Longtoushan, in China's southwest Yunnan province on August 6, 2014. The death toll from an earthquake that devastated a remote region of China jumped to nearly 600 people, authorities said, as volunteer rescuers were warned away. AFP PHOTO/Greg BAKER (Photo credit should read GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:GREG BAKER via Getty Images)
(04 of18)
Alistair Darling during a visit to Fife Fabrications in Glenrothes, the day after the Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and the leader of the pro-UK Better Together campaign took part in their first televised debate of the campaign. (credit:Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)
(05 of18)
Workers look on at Alistair Darling during a visit to Fife Fabrications in Glenrothes, the day after the Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and the leader of the pro-UK Better Together campaign took part in their first televised debate of the campaign. (credit:Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)
(06 of18)
Mayor of London Boris Johnson delivers a speech in Bloomberg's European headquarters on Britain's involvement in the EU on August 6, 2014 in London, England. Mr Johnson also announced his intention to become an MP again at the 2015 general election, whilst serving out the remainder of his term as mayor. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images) (credit:Oli Scarff via Getty Images)
(07 of18)
Jessie J films a sexy shoot for new music video in New York. (credit:FameFlynet)
(08 of18)
Fans take selfies with the wax figures of One Direction following a makeover at Madame Tussauds, central London.
(09 of18)
Fans take selfies with the wax figures of One Direction following a makeover at Madame Tussauds, central London.
(10 of18)
Fans take selfies with the wax figures of One Direction following a makeover at Madame Tussauds, central London.
(11 of18)
Beyonce and JAY Z perform during the Beyonce and Jay Z - On the Run tour at AT&T Park on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, in San Francisco.
(12 of18)
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond, broadcast journalist Bernard Ponsonby, and former chancellor, the leader of the pro-UK Better Together campaign Alistair Darling at a TV debate of the independence referendum campaign in Glasgow. (credit:PA)
(13 of18)
J.P. Soares, left, and Ben Servin, of the Los Banos, Calif., Fire Dept., put down hot spots along highway 89 on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, near Hat Creek, Calif. Light rain and higher humidity are helping crews make progress in their fight against two wildfires in the Northern California forest that are just miles apart. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(14 of18)
Remington Jones, of the Point Reyes National Seashore, Calif., Engine 1130 looks for hot spots left behind by the Eiler Fire on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, near Burney, Calif. The fire is threatening more than 700 homes, some of which have been evacuated. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(15 of18)
A man looks at a home destroyed by a landslide in a hillside community of North Salt Lake, Utah, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. One home was destroyed and 27 others were evacuated after a landslide early Tuesday struck an upscale suburban Salt Lake City community, where officials had worried for nearly a year about cracked soil on the hillside above the houses. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(16 of18)
Palestinians in a car with their belongings drive past a destroyed house in Rafah's district of Shawkah in the southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. The attack at the Shawkah district east of the Gaza town of Rafah drew what was by far the heaviest shelling by the Israeli military in the Gaza war, killing nearly 100 people that day alone and instantly unraveling a three-day ceasefire shortly after it came into force. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(17 of18)
LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 05: (L to R) Joe Thomas, Simon Bird, James Buckley and Blake Harrison attens the World Premiere of 'The Inbetweeners 2' at Vue West End on August 5, 2014 in London, England. (Photo by Anthony Harvey/Getty Images) (credit:Anthony Harvey via Getty Images)
(18 of18)
Experts watch their screens at the control center of the European Space Agency, ESA, in Darmstadt, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. A mission to land the first space probe on a comet reaches a major milestone when the unmanned Rosetta spacecraft finally catches up with its quarry on Wednesday. It's a hotly anticipated rendezvous: Rosetta flew into space more than a decade ago and had to perform a series of complex maneuvers to gain enough speed to chase down comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on its orbit around the sun. (AP Photo/dpa, Boris Roessler) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)