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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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