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In this photograph provided by the Volvo Ocean Race, Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, skippered by Ian Walker from the UK, rounds the Fastnet Rock on the final leg of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12, from Lorient, France, to Galway, Ireland, on Monday, July 2, 2012. Picture: AP
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Aziz Taylor, 11, of Washington DC, plays in a water fountain to beat the heat gripping the nation's capital on Monday July 2, 2012. Picture: Reuters
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Peta animal rights activists are covered by a drift-net as they pose as fishes during a protest in Duesseldorf on Monday, July 2, 2012. The protest was aimed against the use of drift-nets for fishing in oceans. Banner reads, "Fishing hurts". Picture: Reuters
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One colorful lorikeet cuddles with another at the Oregon Zoo on Monday, July 2, 2012, in Portland. Picture: AP
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Angry Birds toys are displayed during a news conference in Hong Kong on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. Rovio Entertainment, which created the popular cellphone app with over one billion downloads, has offered its licence to TCC, the global leader in retail marketing programs, to ...
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A heavy tanker drops retardant as crews battle the Shingle Fire east of Cedar City, Utah, on Monday, July 2, 2012. Evacuations were ordered as the 500-acre wildfire that broke out on Sunday threatened about 100 cabins inside Dixie National Forest. In all, 10 wildfires we ...
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A Flamingo chick is framed by adults as it flaps its wings at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachussetts on Monday, July 2, 2012. Picture: AP
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An employee stacks a wheel of cheese on the storage shelves at a diary plant in Litovel, one of the world's biggest producer of traditionally made parmesan cheese2. When two earthquakes shook northern Italy in May, gourmets around the world were worried of damage to the ...
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A boy jumps in to the Arabian Sea during a high tide after monsoon rains in Mumbai, India, on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. The monsoon rains which usually hit India from June to September are crucial for farmers whose crops feed hundreds of millions of people. Picture: AP
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A worker tends to cannabis plants at a plantation near the northern Israeli city of Safed. It is here, at a medical marijuana plantation atop the hills of the Galilee, where researchers say they have developed marijuana that can be used to ease the symptoms of some ailme ...
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Pilots of Air India sit on a hunger strike against Air India's management in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday,July 3, 2012. Agitating Air India pilots said they would consult their lawyers before calling off their almost two-month-long strike, soon after the Delhi High Court ...
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A Libyan woman living in Jordan shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote at a polling station in Amman on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. Libya's first election in more than half a century will take place 18 days later than planned because of the logistical challenges ...
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Belarussian athletes perform during celebrations marking Independence Day in Minsk on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. Picture: Reuters
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In this image taken with a fish eye lens, Belarussian troops march during a parade marking Independence Day in Minsk on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. In November 1996 the holiday was set on July 3, the day when Minsk was liberated by Red Army from the Nazi invaders in 1944. Pic ...
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Newly graduated Afghan border police officers, wearing festive decorations with glitter on their hands, take an oath while placing their hands on the Quran and their weapons during a graduation ceremony at the border police headquarters in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, on Tu ...
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Some of the 250 yearlings that will go under the hammer at the KZN Yearling Sale exercise in the walking ring on Monday.
