Pictures Of The Day: The Best Images From Around The World On Thursday 15th 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.

Pictures Of The Day 15th October
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The Duke of Cambridge leaves St John's college at the University of Cambridge where he officially opened the School of Pythagoras Archive Centre. (credit:Chris Radburn/PA Wire)
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Police at the scene near to the junction of Scriven Street and Haggerston Road in Hackney east London, after a policeman was shot and wounded during an armed operation. (credit:John Stillwell/PA Wire)
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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 15: Kristen Stewart, Jessie Eisenberg filming Woody Allen's latest Untitled movie on October 15, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Steve Sands/GC Images) (credit:Steve Sands via Getty Images)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, speaks with British Prime Minister David Cameron, center, and French President Francois Hollande as they meet on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. (Yves Herman, Pool Photo via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Members of North Korea's Moranbong band salute during a joint performance with the State Merited Chorus in Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015. The performance was part of the 70th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Madame Tussauds London today revealed wax figures of ALL SIX James Bonds, with five completely new wax 007s joining the existing figure of Daniel Craig. To coincide with the release of SPECTRE, the line-up of Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig will appear at the legendary London attraction for SIX WEEKS ONLY, before embarking on a tour of Madame Tussauds locations worldwide on December 1. Created in close collaboration with EON Productions, the set will give fans an opportunity to stand side-by-side with all six Bonds - in the same place, at the same time. Guests are invited to see how they measure up to each 007, pose with their favourite and take a stand out profile picture.
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GUILDFORD, UNITED KINGDOM - OCTOBER 15: (EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION IN UK NEWSPAPERS UNTIL 48 HOURS AFTER CREATE DATE AND TIME) Queen Elizabeth II arrives to open the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Surrey on October 15, 2015 in Guildford, England. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images) (credit:Max Mumby/Indigo via Getty Images)
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Rasmus Kolind work on the dissection of a lion as zoo visitors look on, October 15, 2015 at the zoo in Odense, Denmark. 'The reason we are dissecting it is that we believe there is a lot of education involved in dissecting a lion,' Michael Wallberg Sorensen, a zookeeper at the Odense Zoo in central Denmark had told AFP before. (credit:CLAUS FISKER via Getty Images)
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Chef James Martin announces his live tour on October 15, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Brian Rasic/WireImage) (credit:Brian Rasic via Getty Images)
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Queen Elizabeth II views War Horse as she visits The School of Veterinary Medicine at University of Surrey on October 15, 2015 in Guildford, England. (credit:Samir Hussein via Getty Images)
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Ahmed Mohamed (C), a 14-year-old Sudanese Muslim teenager from the United States who became an overnight sensation after a Texas teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb, poses for a picture with his sister and two young boys in the capital Khartoum on October 15, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ASHRAF SHAZLY (Photo credit should read ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ASHRAF SHAZLY via Getty Images)
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Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) gives a thumbs up after addressing delegates on the first day of the SNP conference in Aberdeen on October 15, 2015. Boosted by an electoral triumph and a membership boom, the Scottish National Party opened its annual conference today with ambitions simmering to break away from the United Kingdom one day.AFP PHOTO/ANDY BUCHANAN (Photo credit should read Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ANDY BUCHANAN via Getty Images)
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Entrepreneur Michelle Mone is admiited to the House of Lords as Baroness Mone of Mayfair, after being made a Tory peer. (credit:PA/PA Wire)
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, left, greets Finland's Finance Minister Alexander Stubb at 11 Downing Street in London, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. The ministers meeting included further discussion of EU reform, following talks the minister had during the Chancellors trip to Finland in August. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) (credit:Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)
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A woman walks through the forest on the Grosser Feldberg mountain in the Taunus region near Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, as snow falls on October 15, 2015. (credit:FRANK RUMPENHORST via Getty Images)
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Kids Company charity founder Camila Batmanghelidjh arrives for a Select Committee hearing at Portcullis House in central London, on October 15, 2015. Batmanghelidjh and Alan Yentob its chairman of trustees are set to face a Commons Public Administration Committee on how the charity was run after it was closed due to lack of funding. (credit:BEN STANSALL via Getty Images)
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Lawmakers try to move a tear gas canister thrown by opposition lawmakers in Kosovo, disrupting Parliament's session, in the capital Pristina, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. The opposition protested over the government's recent EU-sponsored deal with Serbia giving the country's Serb-majority areas greater powers. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Satirical artist Kaya Mar with his paintings of SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon and SNP MP Alex Salmond outside the SNP National Conference at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre. (credit:Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)
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DC Comics Batman greets patients at Mattel Childrenâs Hospital UCLA for a very special Spirit of Children Halloween party on Wed., Oct. 14, 2015, in Los Angeles. The caped crusader is on a mission to make the hospital less scary and give pediatric patients unable to leave the confines of the hospital environment a chance to celebrate the fall holiday. Spirit of Children hosts parties throughout North America and provides critical funding to Child Life departments at partner hospitals all year round. (credit:AP Images for Spirit of Children)
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Pro-Independence Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) supporters hold torches during a tribute to Former President of Catalonia Lluis Companys on October 15, 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. Lluis Companys was executed by a firing squad on October 15, 1940 during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco being the only democratically elected president in Europe executed. The council of war which sentenced him is still in force seventy-five years later. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images) (credit:David Ramos via Getty Images)
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Mayor of London Boris Johnson joins a Street Rugby tournament in a Tokyo street with school children and adults from Nihonbashi, Yaesu & Kyobashi Community Associations, to mark Japan hosting 2019 Rugby World Cup where Mr Johnson is on the final day of his four day trade visit to Japan. (credit:Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)
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A Palestinian hurls a stone during clashes with Israeli troops near Ramallah, West Bank, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. Violence quickly spread across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza Strip after clashes erupted last month over tensions regarding the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City. Clashes continued Wednesday between Israeli troops and Palestinian protesters in West Bank cities. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Rachel Weisz, left, and Colin Farrell pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'The Lobster', as part of the London film festival in London, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP) (credit:Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)
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Youths hang from the rear bumper of a vintage American car as they play in a flooded street, after a heavy rain in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Cate Blanchett poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Carol', as part of the London film festival in London, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. (Photo by Grant Pollard/Invision/AP) (credit:Grant Pollard/Invision/AP)
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Kansas City Royals center fielder Jarrod Dyson does a backflip on the field as he celebrates his team's 7-2 win over the Houston Astros in Game 5 of baseball's American League Division Series, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Dannii Minogue arrives ahead of the InStyle and Audi Man of Style Awards 2015 on October 14, 2015 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Don Arnold/WireImage) (credit:Don Arnold via Getty Images)
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Participants interact with personal robot 'Pepper', a human-like robot on the 2015 Computing Conference on October 14, 2015 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. Pepper is a personal robot that can gauge human emotions for more natural human/robot interaction. It is joint invested by Alibaba Group, SoftBank Group Corp. and Foxconn Technology Group, and developed by SoftBank Robotics Holdings Corp., under SoftBank Group Corp.. (credit:ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
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An All Nippon Airways (ANA) Boeing 787-9 aircraft in the livery of Star Wars droid character R2-D2 (front) is seen on the tarmac at Tokyo's Haneda airport on October 14, 2015, as part of the company's Star Wars project. The Boeing aircraft is scheduled to go into service on international routes after a fan appreciation flight event on October 17. (credit:KAZUHIRO NOGI via Getty Images)
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Javanese people carry an offering of goat as they prepare to throwing into the sea during the rituals labuhan '1st Suro' (Javanese calender) during Islamic New Year celebrations at Goa Cemara beach on October 14, 2015 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Javanese people celebrates the national holiday with ceremonies and rituals marking the 1437th Islamic New Year's or '1st Suro'. They bring offerings in the form of vegetables, rice, fruits, and livestock that will be thrown into the sea. Local people believe that the rituals will bring them a better life. (credit:Ulet Ifansasti via Getty Images)
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People are assisted moments after they arrive with other Syrian and Iraqi refugees on the island of Lesbos from Turkey on October 14, 2015 in Sikaminias , Greece. Dozens of rafts and boats are still making the journey daily as thousands flee conflict in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. More than 500,000 migrants have entered Europe so far this year. Of that number four-fifths of have paid to be smuggled by sea to Greece from Turkey, the main transit route into the EU. Nearly all of those entering Greece on a boat from Turkey are from the war zones of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) (credit:Spencer Platt via Getty Images)
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Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton (C) reacts to questions from members of the media as she leaves after a visit at a localÃInternational Union of Painters and Allied Trades training center during a visit October 14, 2015 in Henderson, Nevada. Clinton continued to campaign in the Las Vegas area one day after the first Democratic presidential debate. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) (credit:Alex Wong via Getty Images)
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Visitors pray over the remains of Saint Maria Goretti, are displayed at Saint Francis Assisi Church on October 14, 2015 in Orland Park, Illinois. Goretti, the youngest canonized saint in the Catholic Church, was murdered during an attempted rape by Alessandro Serenelli in 1902. The nearly complete skeletal remains are encased in a wax statue and displayed in a glass-sided casket. The remains are on their first ever tour of the United States. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) (credit:Scott Olson via Getty Images)
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Republican presidential candidate and front-runner Donald Trump addresses a crowd of more than seven thousand people during a campaign rally at the Richmond International Raceway October 14, 2015 in Richmond, Virginia. A New York real estate mogul and reality television star, Trump is now in a statistical tie with retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson in a Fox News survey of likely Republican voters released Tuesday. (credit:Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
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A fisherman stands on a breakwater along the Beirut coastline as the sun sets over the Mediterranean Sea, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Employees take part in a mock cabin fire exercise at the opening of EasyJet Plc's new European training facility at London Gatwick Airport in London, U.K., on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. EasyJet Plc Chief Executive Officer Carolyn McCall singled out Germany and Switzerland as among markets where it aims to grow most in coming years, saying the expansion of Deutsche Lufthansa AG's discount arm poses little threat. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images (credit:Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Rescuers work at the scene after a collapse occured at construction site of Balikesir University's deparment of morphology on October 14, 2015, Balikesir, Turkey. Rescuers work at the scene to save the two construction workers who were trapped inside. (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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British artist Millie Brown performs 'Rainbow Body', a performance installation where she is surrounded by crystal prisms suspended from the ceiling at Gazelli art House in London on October 14, 2015 on the sidelines of the Frieze art fair. (credit:JUSTIN TALLIS via Getty Images)
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A billboard worker raises his lift next to a billboard for Dressbarn in Midtown Manhattan October14, 2015. The billboards in the city are changed constantly depending on the season. (credit:TIMOTHY A. CLARY via Getty Images)

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