Pictures Of The Day: Photos From Friday 12th September 2014

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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, Tahira Mirza and Michael Cripps.

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Actors Pierce Brosnan, right, and Olga Kurylenko pose during a photocall for the film "The November Man " during the 40th Deauville US Film Festival on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. in Deauville, Normandy, western France. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Jacintha Saldhana's husband Benedict Barboza (left, behind Mr Vaz) and their two teenage children Lisha (centre) and Junal (right) join MP Keith Vaz (centre) to make a statement at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, after the second day of the inquest into her death. (credit:Steve Parsons/PA Wire)
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Prince Harry rides on a fold-up bicycle between venues in the Olympic Park during the Invictus Games on September 12, 2014 in London, England. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images) (credit:Max Mumby/Indigo via Getty Images)
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A large American flag held during the National Anthem before the start of an NCAA college football game between Houston and Brigham Young Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014, in Provo, Utah.(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi, of Italy, crashes during a first free practice session for Sunday's San Marino Moto GP grand prix at the Misano circuit, in Misano Adriatico, Italy, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Australian radio DJ Mel Greig leaves the Royal Courts of Justice in London, after the second day of an inquest into the death of Jacintha Saldhana. (credit:Steve Parsons/PA Wire)
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Australian radio DJ Mel Greig leaves the Royal Courts of Justice in London, after the second day of an inquest into the death of Jacintha Saldhana. (credit:Steve Parsons/PA Wire)
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Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt looks at her reflection in the side of a car, which has been custom wrapped to look like a mirror by minicab company Addison Lee, outside Somerset House in London to celebrate the launch of London Fashion Week which kicks off tomorrow. (credit:David Parry/PA Wire)
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Catholic faithfuls pose in front of a cardboard stand-up photograph of Pope Francis at the Catholic radio station in suburban Manila on September 12, 2014. Pope Francis will visit the Philippines, Asia's Catholic stronghold in January, 2015. AFP PHOTO / Jay DIRECTO (Photo credit should read JAY DIRECTO/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:JAY DIRECTO via Getty Images)
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A woman is reunited with her cat from a house next to Manchester Dogs' Home, Manchester, after a blaze killed more than 50 dogs. (credit:Lynne Cameron/PA Wire)
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Emergency services at the scene at Manchester Dogs Home, Manchester, after a blaze killed more than 50 dogs. (credit:Lynne Cameron/PA Wire)
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PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA - SEPTEMBER 12 (SOUTH AFRICA OUT): Oscar Pistorius arrives at the Pretoria High Court on September 12, 2014, in Pretoria, South Africa. Oscar Pistorius, stands accused of the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on February 14, 2013. This is Pistorius' official trial, the result of which will determine the paralympian athlete's fate. Judge Masipa continues to deliver her verdict. (Photo by Alon Skuy/The Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images) (credit:The Times via Getty Images)
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BY COURT ORDER, THIS IMAGE IS FREE TO USE. PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA - SEPTEMBER 12: (SOUTH AFRICA OUT) Oscar Pistorius at the Pretoria High Court on September 12, 2014, in Pretoria, South Africa. Pistorius, stands accused of the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on February 14, 2013. This is his' official trial, the result of which will determine the paralympian athlete's fate. Judge Masipa continues to deliver her verdict. (Photo by Alon Skuy/The Times/Gallo Image/Getty Images) (credit:The Times via Getty Images)
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Oscar Pistorius, left, passes family members of the late Reeva Steenkamp on his arrival in court in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Cleared of murder, Pistorius on Friday awaited a possible conviction for negligent killing as the South African judge presiding over his murder trial resumed her lengthy explanation of her upcoming verdicts in the killing of his girlfriend. (AP Photo/Alon Skuy, Pool) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Father of the late Reeva Steenkamp, Barry Steenkamp, sits in court at the Oscar Pistorius trial in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Cleared of murder, Oscar Pistorius on Friday awaited a possible conviction for negligent killing as the South African judge presiding over his murder trial resumed her lengthy explanation of her upcoming verdicts in the killing of his girlfriend. (AP Photo/Siphiwe Sibeko, Pool) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Oscar Pistorius, left, stands with his uncle Arnold Pistorius in court in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. The South African judge in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius has resumed explaining her reasoning behind her upcoming verdicts in the case against the double-amputee Olympian. (AP Photo/Siphiwe Sibeko,Pool) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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ZANDVOORT, NETHERLANDS - SEPTEMBER 12: Shiv Kapur of India hits a shot on the driving range during Day 2 of the KLM Open held at De Kennemer Golf and Country Club on September 12, 2014 in Zandvoort, Netherlands. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images) (credit:Dean Mouhtaropoulos via Getty Images)
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Escorted by police and security, Oscar Pistorius, center, makes his way through media to enter the court in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Pistorius has been dramatically cleared of the most serious charges against him over the shooting of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp."There are not enough facts to prove such a finding," Judge Thokozile Masipa said as she found him not guilty of premeditated murder. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Bavarian herdsmen drive their beasts through the landscape during the return of the cattle from the summer pastures in the mountains in Bad Hindelang, southern Germany, 2014. At the end of the summer season, farmers move their herds down from the Alps to the valley into winter pastures. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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The Ralph Lauren Spring 2015 collection is modeled during Fashion Week, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Actress Keira Knightley arrives in a wind storm to the premiere of "Laggies" at Roy Thomson Hall during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) (credit:Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Swans are silhouetted by the setting sun in the Black Sea town of Mangalia, Romania. Romania is enjoying warmer than usual weather for this time of the year with temperatures reaching 30 degrees Centigrade (86 Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A detainee rests, handcuffed to a slide, at a childrenâs playground in a public park in Bogota, Colombia. Due to overcrowding at a detention center located across the street, the park has been converted into makeshift holding area, where detainees, most accused of petty crimes, are kept for days waiting for a prosecutor's decision. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Soldiers stand at attention in front of an image of the Virgin of Guadelupe, made up of hundreds of boards held by men in the grandstand, during a review of Mexico's military in preparation for Independence Day celebrations, at a military camp in Mexico City, Mexico will celebrate its independence day on Tuesday, Sept. 16. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A woman lights a candle in a sculpture of acrylic shoes and a person representing the victims of 1973 military coup, in front of the National Stadium during a candlelight vigil marking the 41st anniversary of the coup, in Santiago, Chile, 2014. The stadium served as a detention center in the early years of the military dictatorship led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet who ousted the late President Salvador Allende in 1973. (AP Photo / Luis Hidalgo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Thai soldiers inspect a railway track after a bomb planted by suspected separatist militants went off in the Rangea district of Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat on September 12, 2014. A brutal decade-long rebellion has rocked Thailand's Muslim-majority deep south, bordering Malaysia, leaving more than 6,100 dead and thousands more wounded. AFP PHOTO/Madaree TOHLALA (Photo credit should read MADAREE TOHLALA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MADAREE TOHLALA via Getty Images)
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Customers sit under umbrellas as they wait in line outside Apple Inc.'s Ginza store ahead of the launch of the company's new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Apple's redesigned iPhones with bigger screens goes on sale in Japan on Sept. 19. Photographer: Yuriko Nakao/Bloomberg via Getty Images (credit:Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Cherie Blair, founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, speaks during a special talk on 'Toward a society where women shine', also attended by Akie Abe, wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and moderator Akiko Yamanaka, during a three-day international forum on women's participation in the workforce, dubbed the World Assembly for Women (WAW) in Tokyo on September 12, 2014. Economists say Japan's sluggish economy, with a rapidly-greying workforce, could get a shot in the arm from increasing the number of women with jobs. AFP PHOTO / TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA (Photo credit should read TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA via Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 11: Albert Biatta, of Queens, New York, prays while standing front of the inscribed name of his uncle Antoine Biatta at the edge of the North Pool Memorial site during observances at the site of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2014 in New York City. This year marks the 13th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and on Flight 93. (Photo by Justin Lane-Pool/Getty Images) (credit:Pool via Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 11: Kelly Koopmann (C), an EMS worker, plays with her daughter, Kiera Koopmann, age 15 months, during the memorial observances held at the site of the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2014. Koopmann's father, Kevin Canham (background) served in Ladder 120 of the New York Fire Department and lost many coworkers during the September 11 attacks. This year marks the 13th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and on Flight 93. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images) (credit:Andrew Burton via Getty Images)
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Manchester United's new players Radamel Falcao, left, and Daley Blind pose for photographs at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Thursday Sept. 11, 2014. The Colombian striker Falcao joined on a season-long loan deal from Ligue 1 side Monaco and Blind signed from Ajax as Louis van Gaal looks to bolster his attacking options. (AP Photo/Jon Super) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 11: Actress Pamela Anderson attends Annual Charity Day Hosted by Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC at BGC Partners, INC on September 11, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images for Cantor Fitzgerald) (credit:Gary Gershoff via Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 11: Actress Pamela Anderson attends Annual Charity Day Hosted By Cantor Fitzgerald And BGC at BGC Partners, INC on September 11, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Paul Zimmerman/Getty Images for Cantor Fitzgerald) (credit:Paul Zimmerman via Getty Images)
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The Tribute in Light illuminates the sky down in the Wall Street area of lower Manhattan in New York on September 10, 2014 on the night before the 13th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The tribute, an art installation of the Municipal Art Society, consists of 88 searchlights placed next to the site of the World Trade Center creating two vertical columns of light in remembrance of the 2001 attacks. AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:TIMOTHY A. CLARY via Getty Images)