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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Kimberley Walsh gets in the swing of things as she unveiled a secret garden made entirely of clothes in Covent Garden today to launch the new Comfort Intense range
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A policeman (R) and firemen (lower L) run from the scene after an explosion at a chemical plant in Rizhao, east China's Shandong province on July 16, 2015. State media reported the fire at the petrochemical plant which broke out after tanks containing liquefied hydrocarbon leaked at the plant has been brought under control and no casualties were reported. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:STR via Getty Images)
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Formula One Group Chief Executive Bernie Ecclestone stands next to a man in a Yeti costume as he attends a photocall to launch the 'Lost Yeti Hunters' Mongol rally team in London on16 July, 2015. The team will race the 10,000 miles from London to Ulan Bator, Mongolia with the hope of raising money for the Cool Earth, Rett Syndrome Foundation UK and SOS Children charities. (credit:Daniel Deme/WENN.com)
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Rebecca Iveson 31, from Bristol inspects plastic bottle tops as they hang from the tail of a whale, which forms part of a sculpture of two life size whales, made from Somerset willow and 70,000 upcycled plastic bottles, which has been unveiled in Bristol's Millennium Square to mark the city's status as the UK's first European Green Capital. (credit:Ben Birchall/PA Wire)
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Mayor of London Boris Johnson paints part of a mural during a visit to Marcus Garvey Park, in Hammersmith, west London, to launch the Capital Clean-Up campaign aimed at improving the appearance of neglected areas of the city. (credit:Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)
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MCC members queue outside Lord's Cricket Ground ahead of the start of the Second Investec Ashes Test at Lord's, London. (credit:Anthony Devlin/PA Wire)
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The queue builds up as people wait to enter Lord's Cricket Ground ahead of the start of Day 1 for the second Ashes cricket Test match with England versus Australia, in London, Thursday, July 16, 2015. Australia went on to win the toss and selected to bat first in this Test. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Former Australian cricket team captain Ricky Ponting rings the bell to signify five minutes to the start of play on the first day of the second Ashes Test match between England and Australia, at Lord's cricket ground in London, Thursday, July 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A car makes its way from Vittoria towards the New South Wales central west town of Orange during heavy early morning snowfall on July 16, 2015. This is the second time in a week the parts of New South Wales and other Central Tablelands towns received snowfall caused by a big drop in the temperature. AFP PHOTO / Saeed Khan (Photo credit should read SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:SAEED KHAN via Getty Images)
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SEATTLE, WA - JULY 15: Louis Tomlinson of One Direction performs at CenturyLink Field on July 15, 2015 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Suzi Pratt/WireImage) (credit:Suzi Pratt via Getty Images)
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A Gentoo penguin chick on Penguin Rock at Edinburgh Zoo after a successful breeding season which saw sixteen penguin chicks being born, with the first born on May 4. (credit:Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)
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Ben Affleck, left, presents former professional baseball player Derek Jeter the icon award at the ESPY Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Wednesday, July 15, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) (credit:Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
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Caitlyn Jenner accepts the Arthur Ashe award for courage at the ESPY Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Wednesday, July 15, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) (credit:Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
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Twin giant panda sisters Mei Huan, rear, and Mei Lun, play with their presents filled with biscuits as they celebrate their second birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Wednesday, July 15, 2015, in Atlanta. The sisters are the only surviving pair of giant panda twins ever born in the U.S. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Kendall Jenner arrives at the ESPY Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Wednesday, July 15, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Paul A. Hebert/Invision/AP) (credit:Paul A. Hebert/Invision/AP)
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Lance Armstrong answers to journalists as he joins former England footballer Geoff Thomas and his team of ten amateur riders for two stages of the "Le Tour-One Day Ahead" Thursday, July 16, 2015, in Le Muret, southeastern France. While the Tour de France is going on, Armstrong, who was stripped of seven consecutive Tour titles, takes part in a charity ride called "Le tour-One Day Ahead" Thursday and Friday with the goal of raising money to fight leukemia, taking the same route that Tour riders will cover a day later. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters performs at Citi Field on Wednesday, July 15, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP) (credit:Greg Allen/Invision/AP)
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New Horizons team members and guests watch a live feed of the Mission Operations Center (MOC) as the team waits to receive confirmation from the spacecraft that it has completed the flyby of Pluto, Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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SINGAPORE - JULY 16: (L-R) Calum Chambers, Jon Toral, Hector Bellerin, Mikel Arteta, Olivier Giroud and Gabriel of Arsenal visit Gardens By The Bay on July 16, 2015 in Singapore. (Photo by David Price/Arsenal FC via Getty Images) (credit:David Price via Getty Images)
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This Tuesday, July 14, 2015 image provided by NASA on Wednesday shows a region near Pluto's equator with a range of mountains captured by the New Horizons spacecraft. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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This Tuesday, July 14, 2015 image provided by NASA on Wednesday shows Pluto's largest moon, Charon, made by the New Horizons spacecraft. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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This Tuesday, July 14, 2015 image provided by NASA on Wednesday shows one of Pluto's five moons, Hydra, about 27 miles (43 kilometers) by 20 miles (33 kilometers) wide, made by the New Horizons spacecraft. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal, left, listens as Bastian Schweinsteiger talks to reporters after being introduced as a new singing with the club, during a news conference, Wednesday, July 15, 2015, in Bellevue, Wash. Manchester United is in the Seattle area for an international friendly soccer match against Mexico's Club America to be played Friday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Green algae fills Paddington Basin in London. (credit:Anthony Devlin/PA Wire)
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Green algae fills Paddington Basin in London. (credit:Anthony Devlin/PA Wire)
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Katielee Arrowsmith photographs a Lemur at Edinburgh Zoo's new walkway enclosure, Scotland (credit:Alan Simpson/REX)
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IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR CUNARD - Cunard's flagship Queen Mary 2 departs from New York with a theatrical light and music show after completing her 175th Anniversary tour, Tuesday, July 14, 2015. This month marks the 175th Anniversary of Cunard, and Queen Mary 2 has recreated the historic Transatlantic Crossing from Liverpool to Halifax and Boston made by the RMS Britannia in July 1840. Although not a port of call in the original crossing made by Britannia, New York has been Cunard's North American home port for over a century. (Diane Bondareff/AP Images for Cunard) (credit:AP Images for Cunard)
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HANGZHOU, CHINA - JULY 15: (CHINA OUT) Participants wearing bikinis play with milk to raise people's awareness of breastfeeding at Langlanglang Water Park on July 15, 2015 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. The milk was provided by a dairy farmer. Breastmilk offers benefits for both mother and baby. It may decrease risk of diabetes and celiac disease. Benefits for the mother include better uterine shrinkage, decreased risk of breast cancer and postpartum depression. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images) (credit:ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
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Britney Spears, left, and NFL player J.J. Watt, of the Houston Texans, present the best female athlete award at the ESPY Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Wednesday, July 15, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) (credit:Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
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Riot police officers run through fire as anti-austerity protesters throw petrol bombs, during clashes in Athens, Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Greece's prime minister was fighting to keep his government intact in the face of outrage over an austerity bill that parliament must pass Wednesday night if the country is to start negotiations on a new bailout and avoid financial collapse. The raft of consumer tax increases and pension reforms will condemn Greeks to years of more economic hardship and has fueled anger among the governing left-wing Syriza party. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)