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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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, attends celebrations marking the 700th anniversary of St. Sergius of Radonezh in the Trinity St. Sergius monastery in Sergiyev Posad, northeast of Moscow, Friday, July 18, 2014. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Wounded servicemen Jaco van Gass and Luke Darlington undergo a minus 40 degrees Celsius cryotherapy recovery session following a training ride for the Invictus Games on July 18, 2014 in Gaydon, England. Jaco van Gass and Luke Darlington are aiming to qualify for the British Armed Forces cycling team and were given access to Jaguar Land Rover's temperature testing facility usually reserved for testing cars in the most extreme temperatures. Jaguar Land Rover is an Official Partner of the 2014 Invictus Games. (Photo by Paul Thomas/Getty Images for Jaguar Land Rover) (credit:Paul Thomas via Getty Images)
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An Indian boy plays in a waterlogged street in Allahabad in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Friday, July 18, 2014. Several areas of the state have been receiving rainfall since Thursday evening, coming as a relief to farmers. (AP Photo/ Rajesh Kumar Singh) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Flowers and football shirts around the Sir Bobby Robson statue outside Newcastle football ground after two fans died on board flight MH17 which was shot down over the Ukraine. (credit:Tom White/PA Wire)
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A giraffe at ZSL London Zoo cools off with a fruit and bush ice block as temperatures across many southern parts of England are expected to top 30C (86F) today - ousting yesterday's 29.2C (84.5F) in London as the hottest of the year - with some parts of the South East reaching at least 32C, perhaps higher. (credit:Nick Ansell/PA Wire)
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Lightning as seen from the Isle of Wight during last night's storm (credit:JamieRussell / BNPS)
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An unidentified man lays a stuffed bear among flowers outside the Dutch embassy in Moscow, Russia, Friday, July 18, 2014. Rescue workers, policemen and even off-duty coal miners were combing a sprawling area in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border where the Malaysian plane ended up in burning pieces Thursday, killing all 298 aboard. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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The pack with Italy's Vincenzo Nibali, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, observes a minute of silence for the victims of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane crash in the Ukraine prior to the start of the thirteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 197.5 kilometers (122.7 miles) with start in Saint-Etienne and finish in Chamrousse, France, Friday, July 18, 2014. Most of the victims, at least 173, were Dutch. The flight set off from Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport in the country's school summer vacation period and was heading for the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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The Dutch flag flies at half-staff over the Dutch embassy in Moscow, Russia, Friday, July 18, 2014. Rescue workers, policemen and even off-duty coal miners were combing a sprawling area in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border where the Malaysian plane ended up in burning pieces Thursday, killing all 298 aboard. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Ukrainian coal miners search the site of a crashed Malaysia Airlines passenger plane near the village of Rozsypne, Ukraine, eastern Ukraine Friday, July 18, 2014. Rescue workers, policemen and even off-duty coal miners were combing a sprawling area in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border where the Malaysian plane ended up in burning pieces Thursday, killing all 298 aboard. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A relative of Hendry, an Indonesian passenger of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, cries as he speaks to journalists in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, July 18, 2014. The Malaysian jetliner that went down in war-torn Ukraine did not make any distress call, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Friday, adding that its flight route had been declared safe by the global civil aviation body. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Local citizens, background, look at the site of a crashed Malaysia Airlines passenger plane near the village of Rozsypne, Ukraine, eastern Ukraine Friday, July 18, 2014. Rescue workers, policemen and even off-duty coal miners were combing a sprawling area in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border where the Malaysian plane ended up in burning pieces Thursday, killing all 298 aboard. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Zumba co-founder Beto, who is in town to host the UK Zumba Instructor Academy, treated pupils at The Cathedral Primary School, Southwark, to an exclusive Zumba® Kids class
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A man pours mud water on the head of his girl friend during the Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon Beach in Boryeong, South Korea, Friday, July 18, 2014. The annual mud festival features mud wrestling and mud sliding.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Palestinian medics treat a wounded girl at the emergency room of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, early Friday, July 18, 2014. The heavy thud of tank shells, often just seconds apart, echoed across the Gaza Strip early Friday as thousands of Israeli soldiers launched a ground invasion, escalating a 10-day campaign of heavy air bombardments to try to destroy Hamas' rocket-firing abilities and the tunnels militants use to infiltrate Israel. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Cassidy Stay, center, is comforted as she watches the caskets of her family be loaded into waiting hearses outside The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after a funeral service for her family in Houston. Slaying victims Stephen Stay, 39, his 34-year-old wife, Katie, and their four youngest children were shot to death last week in their suburban Houston home. The oldest child Cassidy, 15, survived the attack by playing dead, called police and identified her uncle, 33-year-old Ronald Lee Haskell, as the gunman. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A Palestinian girl walks with a toy that she salvaged from debris of the el-Yazje apartment building which was destroyed following an overnight Israeli missile strike in Gaza City. The Israeli military says it has struck 37 targets in Gaza ahead of a five-hour humanitarian cease-fire meant to allow civilians to stock up after 10 days of fighting. The Gaza Interior Ministry says four people were killed and that a 75-year-old woman died of wounds from the day before. The Israeli army says Hamas fired 11 rockets at Israel early Thursday. Palestinian health officials say that in total, at least 225 Palestinians have been killed. On the Israeli side, one man was killed since July 8. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A horse is bathed after morning workouts at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The Saratoga horse racing meet opens on Friday. (AP Photo/Mike Groll) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Voodoo pilgrims bathe in a waterfall believed to have purifying powers during the annual celebration in Saut d' Eau, Haiti. An annual pilgrimage is made in honor of Haiti's most celebrated patron saint, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, who is supposed to have appeared on a palm tree in 1847 in the Palm Grove in Saut d'Eau and was integrated into Haiti's voodoo culture as the goddess of love. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A plane drops fire retardant on the Chiwaukum Creek Fire near Leavenworth, Wash.The blaze closed a section of U.S. Highway 2, and resulted in the evacuation of nearly 900 homes. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Smoke and flames are seen from the air at the Chiwaukum Creek Fire near Leavenworth. The blaze closed a section of U.S. Highway 2, and resulted in the evacuation of nearly 900 homes. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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NEW YORK, NY - JULY 17: Actors Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield attend the 'Magic In The Moonlight' premiere at the Paris Theater on July 17, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) (credit:Dimitrios Kambouris via Getty Images)
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Virgin Trains has come to the rescue of hundreds of families travelling during the summer holidays by being the first travel operator to introduce a novel teddy tracker to make sure kids don’t lose their best friends by leaving them behind on a train.
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Circus performers Trio Bingo, Kateryna Rudenko, Alina Reutska and Alona Stekolnikova, perform during a press preview to promote the circus show Empire presented by Spiegelworld in Tokyo on July 18, 2014. The show will be held here until September 15
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The UK saw its hottest day of the year yesterday on Thursday 17th July with temperatures set to increase today. A heat-wave warning has been put in place for some areas on Friday, with temperatures tipped to reach as high as 32C.
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People lay flowers and light candles in front of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Kiev on July 17, 2014, to commemorate passengers of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 carrying 295 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur which crashed in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on July 17 that the Malaysia Airlines jet that crashed over rebel-held eastern Ukraine may have been shot down.' Ukraine's government and pro-Russian insurgents traded blame for the disaster, with comments attributed to a rebel commander suggesting his men may have downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 by mistake, believing it was a Ukrainian army transport plane. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY (Photo credit should read SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:SERGEI SUPINSKY via Getty Images)
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LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 17: Soccer player David Beckham (C) with Cruz Beckham (L) and Romeo Beckham (R) get slimed onstage during Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Sports Awards 2014 at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion on July 17, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) (credit:Kevin Winter via Getty Images)
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LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 17: Soccer player David Beckham (C) with Cruz Beckham (L) and Romeo Beckham (R) get slimed onstage during Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Sports Awards 2014 at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion on July 17, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) (credit:Kevin Winter via Getty Images)
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A picture taken on July 17, 2014 shows an explosion following an Israeli strike in Gaza City. Israel launched a ground operation in Gaza late Thursday on the 10th day of an offensive to stamp out rocket attacks from the Palestinian enclave, the army said. At least 240 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes since July 8, many of them children, medics in Gaza said, with a NGO based in the coastal enclave saying 80 percent of the deaths are civilians. AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX (Photo credit should read THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:THOMAS COEX via Getty Images)
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A U.S. helicopter flies during clashes between Taliban fighters and Afghan government forces in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, July 17, 2014. Gunmen launched a pre-dawn attack on the Kabul International Airport in the Afghan capital on Thursday, raining down rockets, setting off a gunbattle with security forces and forcing the airport to close for hours, officials said. The militants occupied two buildings which were under construction some 700 meters (yards) north of the facility, and were using them as a base to direct rockets and gunfire toward the airport and international jet fighters flying over Kabul, said Afghan army Gen. Afzal Aman. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Smoke rises up at a crash site of a passenger plane, near the village of Hrabove, Ukraine, Thursday, July 17, 2014. A Ukrainian official said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday as it flew over the country and plumes of black smoke rose up near a rebel-held village in eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines tweeted that it lost contact with one of its flights as it was traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over Ukrainian airspace. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A woman reacts to news regarding a Malaysia Airlines plane that crashed in eastern Ukraine at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Friday, July 18, 2014. Ukraine said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday as it flew over the country, and both the government and the pro-Russia separatists fighting in the region denied any responsibility for downing the plane. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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White lion cubs sit next to each other during an event to welcome the cubs to Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat, Thursday, July 17, 2014, in Las Vegas. Three white lion cubs, born in South Africa, are scheduled to be available for public viewing Friday. (credit:AP Photo/John Locher)