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Pictures of the Day including; The Meadows during a photocall for their show 'Infinita' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. A girl walks along former railway tracks in the so-called 'Tunnel of Love' A river bed of the Rhine A woman prays at the "animita" to Astrid Soto. Getty / AFP |
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Hot air balloons, carrying tourists, rise into the sky at sunrise in Cappadocia, central Turkey. Cappadocia has become a favourite site for tourists in hot-air balloons who can slowly drift above the cone-shaped rock formations and then float up over rippled ravines for breathtaking views over the region.
Emrah Gure/(AP Photo
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A cat stands by an entrance to a tavern at the historic Plaka central area of Athens International Cat Day, created in 2002, is celebrated on August 8 every year.
Louisa Gouliamaki /Getty Images
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Keith Nichols, of North Sussex CAMRA considers his pint at the CAMRA Great British Beer Festival at Olympia in London, which allows visitors to sample craft beers and real ales from around the world.
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
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Gilbert Rassart, sits among some of the hundreds of garden gnomes he has collected. Gilbert from the village of Avennes , Belgium started collecting in 2009 and claims one of the Gnomes once spoke to him.
Yves Herman/Reuters
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A model presents a creation of Lithuanian-born designer Domantas Smaizys of the Designers' Nest, a platform for Nordic design graduates, during Copenhagen Fashion Week,
Martin Sylvest via REUTERS
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The MSC Splendida, a Fantasia-class cruise ship operated by MSC Cruises visits Vladivostok Russia as part of a cruise around Japanese port cities of Yokohama, Muroran, Aomori, and Sendai
Dmitry Yefremov/Getty
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ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA Servicemen from Vietnam take part in the military medical relay race as part of the 2018 International Army Games
Sergei Konkov/ Getty
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Yachts race in the Lendy Cowes Week Regatta The annual Cowes Week Regatta has been held on the Solent in early August every year since 1826 The event sees around 7,500 competitors from 14 countries, sailing over 700 boats over eight days.
Jack Taylor/Getty
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Holiday travellers wait by their cars as delays continue for those using the Channel Tunnel. . The cross-Channel transport system has seen a number of problems recently, with extreme heat being blamed for a series of delays
Leon Neal/Getty Images
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A member of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, collects packs of Methamphetamine Hydrochloride also known as "Shabu" which they found hidden inside a steel cylinder in one of the biggest drug hauls in the Philippines. Officials estimate the drug seizure to weigh approx 500 kilos with a street value estimated around US$64m
Aaron Favila/AP Photo
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Workers package socks that will be exported to the US at a factory in Huaibei in China's eastern Anhui province
STR / AFP
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US Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec and his wife Lori hold a lighted candle as they sit amongst survivors and victim's families at a ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of the attacks on US embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam
Tony Karumba/AFP
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Actors Hajo Schuler, Bjorn Leese and Michael Vogel of company Familie Floz pose on a bench at The Meadows, Edinburgh, Scotland during a photocall for their show 'Infinita' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Roberto Ricciuti/Getty
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The riverbed of the Rhine near Duesseldorf is revealed as the heatwave through Europe continues.
Christophe Gateau / AFP
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A woman prays at the shrine to Astrid Soto, a young girl who died in a traffic accident in 1998. Hundreds of people go to ask for miracles and leave stuffed animals in hope in Santiago.
Martin Bernetti/AFP
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People sit underneath a tent at a makeshift evacuation centre set up on the compounds of a mosque in Mataram on West Nusa Tenggara province two days after the area was struck by an earthquake. The 6.9-magnitude quake killed at least 105 people and destroyed thousands of buildings in Lombok
Sonny Tumbelaka /AFP
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A girl walks along former railway tracks in the so-called 'Tunnel of Love', surrounded by arches of intertwined trees, near the Ukrainian village of Klevan. The tunnel of about five kilometres in length is a botanical phenomenon, which became a cult place for tourists and couples in love.
Sergei Supinsky/AFP
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