Pictures Of The Day: The Best Images From Around The World On Monday 19h October 2015

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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 and Tahira Mirza.

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A morning rainbow is seen in the sky as the sun rises over Lakewood, October 19, 2015. Cooler temperatures are in the forecast for later this week. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images) (credit:RJ Sangosti via Getty Images)
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Firefighter rescue teams search for victims after an explosion swept two restaurants and a pharmacy in a suburban neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, on October 19, 2015. A powerful explosion suspected to be caused by illegally stockpiled gas canisters ripped through a Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood Monday, injuring at least seven people and destroying homes and businesses. Footage on Globo television from the Sao Cristovao area of northern Rio, in a neighborhood near the giant Maracana stadium, showed firefighters dousing flames and clawing through piles of twisted metal and rubble searching for survivors. AFP PHOTO / VANDERLEI ALMEIDA (Photo credit should read VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:VANDERLEI ALMEIDA via Getty Images)
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'Where the Tides Ebb and Flow' installation of 35 blue clone sculptures by Argentine artist Pedro Marzorati at the Park Montsouris on October 19, 2015 in Paris, France. This artwork illustrates the theme of rising sea levels due to the global warming as part of the COP21 Paris conference next in December in Paris. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images) (credit:Chesnot via Getty Images)
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Noel Gallagher, winner of the Best Album Award for 'Chasing Yesterday' by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, and Chris Martin pose at The Q Awards at The Grosvenor House Hotel on October 19, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images) (credit:David M. Benett via Getty Images)
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Community leaders, cleaners and civil servants join Government cleaners as they protest outside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London. (credit:Anthony Devlin/PA Wire)
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Horses ride down The Mall which is lined with The British Union Jack flag and the Chinese Wu Xing Hong Qi flag ahead of the Chinese State Visit on October 19, 2015 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh will host the State Visit of The President of The People's Republic of China and Madame Peng Liyuan at Buckingham Palace from October 20 - 22, 2015. (Photo by Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images) (credit:Ben Pruchnie via Getty Images)
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Students perform Tai Chi in the smog at a high-school during a world wide Tai Chi activity on October 18, 2015 in Jiaozuo, Henan Province of China. A world wide Tai Chi activity called up by Jiaozuo City planted to gather about one million people in over fifty world wide cities to perform Tai Chi on Sunday for the Guinness World Records. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images) (credit:ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
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The South Korean Air Force Black Eagles aerobatic team perform during a media preview day of the Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition at a military air base in Seongnam, south of Seoul, on October 19, 2015. The exhibition will run from October 20 to 25 with 386 companies from 32 countries involved. (credit:JUNG YEON-JE via Getty Images)
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A devotee of the Chinese Jui Tui Shrine has his cheeks pierced with guns as he attends a street procession during the annual Vegetarian Festival in the southern Thai town of Phuket on October 19, 2015. During the festival, which begins on the first evening of the ninth lunar month and lasts nine days, religious devotees slash themselves with swords, pierce their cheeks with sharp objects and commit other painful acts to purify themselves, taking on the sins of the community. (credit:NICOLAS ASFOURI via Getty Images)
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A devotee of the Chinese Jui Tui Shrine has his face pierced with metal rods during a street procession during the annual Vegetarian Festival in the southern Thai town of Phuket on October 19, 2015. During the festival, which begins on the first evening of the ninth lunar month and lasts nine days, religious devotees slash themselves with swords, pierce their cheeks with sharp objects and commit other painful acts to purify themselves, taking on the sins of the community. AFP PHOTO / Nicolas ASFOURI (Photo credit should read NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:NICOLAS ASFOURI via Getty Images)
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ROME, ITALY - OCTOBER 18: Ellen Page attends the red carpet for 'Freeheld' during the 10th Rome Film Fest on October 18, 2015 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images) (credit:Franco Origlia via Getty Images)
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Migrants clash with Croatian police officers near a border line between Serbia and Croatia, near the village of Babska, Croatia, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. Tension was building among thousands of migrants as they remained stranded in fog and cold weather in the Balkans on Sunday in their quest to reach a better life in Western Europe, two days after Hungary closed its border with Croatia and the flow of people was redirected to a much slower route via Slovenia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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This still frame from video provided by KABC-TV shows vehicles stuck in a muddy road in the mountainous community of Lake Hughes, Calif., about 65 miles north of downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. Flash flooding in northern Los Angeles County has filled several roads with mud, stranding vehicles and blocking traffic on one of the stateâs main highways. (KABC-TV via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT; TV OUT (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Miley Cyrus attends Hilarity for Charity's Annual Variety Show: James Franco's Bar Mitzvah held at The Hollywood Palladium on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2105, in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Salangsang/Invision/AP) (credit:John Salangsang/Invision/AP)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 18: Kate Winslet attends a screening of 'Steve Jobs' on the closing night of the BFI London Film Festival at Odeon Leicester Square on October 18, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage) (credit:Karwai Tang via Getty Images)
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The remains of a mid-16th century church known as the Temple of Santiago, as well as the Temple of Quechula, is visible from the surface of the Grijalva River, which feeds the Nezahualcoyotl reservoir, due to the lack of rain near the town of Nueva Quechula, in Chiapas state, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 16, 2015. âThe church was abandoned due the big plagues of 1773-1776,â said architect Carlos Navarette, who worked with Mexican authorities on a report about the structure that would be flooded in 1966 when the dam was completed. (AP Photo/David von Blohn) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Security guards stand near burning warehouse in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015. A huge warehouse of car spare parts burned to the ground in the north of St.Petersburg. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Holly Burt posing on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City.Holly Burt has inched into the record books with the longest legs in the US - measuring a whopping 49.5 inches.
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A South Korean navy helicopter LYNX fires a rocket during a media day for a naval fleet review off South Korea's southeastern coast near Busan, South Korea, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015. South Korea held its naval fleet review in a decade Saturday, putting state-of-art destroyers on display in a show of force amid heightened tension on the divided peninsula over North Korea's nuclear ambitions. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A bishop adjusts his hat during a a canonization ceremony celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015. Pope Francis canonized the Catholic Church's first married couple in modern times on Sunday, declaring the parents of the beloved St. Therese of Lisieux saints in their own right. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A group of migrants collect nuts for food near the border line between Serbia and Croatia, near the village of Berkasovo, about 100 km west from Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015. Croatian police said more than 5,000 migrants have entered the country since Hungary closed its border, illustrating a possible backlog of those whom Slovenia would not admit. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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The GAMF Hungary car from Hungary competes during the first day of the 2015 World Solar Challenge near Katherine, Australia, on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015. 45 Solar cars from 25 different countries participate in a 3,000 km race from Darwin to Adelaide. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Eddie Murphy is honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015, in Washington. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP) (credit:Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP)
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The life-sized mosasaurus from #JurassicWorld was today unveiled on London's South Bank in a literally ground-breaking stunt to mark today's DVD release of the monster hit film.

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