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Muslim Palestinians wait to receive their iftar meals donated by a charity in the courtyard of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest shrine. Iftar is the evening meal with which observant Muslims break their dawn-to-dusk fast during the holy month of Ramadan.
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A passerby watches an electronic stock indicator in Tokyo. Asian stock markets tumbled amid fears the US may be heading back into recession and Europe's debt crisis is worsening. The sell-off follows the biggest one-day points decline on Wall Street since the 2008 financial crisis.
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A spherical observation drone designed by Advanced Defense Technology Centre Engineer Fumiyuki Sato is displayed in Tokyo. The Japanese defence researcher has invented a spherical observation drone that can fly down narrow alleys, hover on the spot, take off vertically and bounce along the ground.
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A group of women are served a dish made of pork fat called 'Casanova's Penis' at 'Salo', a restaurant and museum in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. Ukraine's national dish of pork fat is a dense, white, chewy treat that can be an acquired taste. But a new restaurant transforms the traditional dish, moulding it into kitsch edible sculptures and even "sushi."
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Mimi Daw knits a blanket during the annual 'Knit In' for the 'Wrap With Love' charity in Sydney. Since its inception in 1992, Wrap With Love has knitted and distributed over 250,000 handmade blankets (or wraps) to needy people in Somalia and 70 other countries.
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A "Red Shirt" demonstrator with painted face gathers in support of the country's new prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra (pictured L), after she was endorsed into office at Parliament in Bangkok. Yingluck Shinawatra became politically turbulent Thailand's first female Prime Minister after the Parliament endorsed her crushing election victory.
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British singer Ozzy Osbourne sprays fans at the music festival in Wacken, northern Germany. More than 75,000 visitors are expected to attend the world's largest heavy metal festival from August 4 to 6 in the small village of Wacken.
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The carcass of a cow lays in the sand near the Eastern Kenyan town of Dadaab, Kenya, 100 kms from the Somali border. The drought and famine in the horn of Africa has killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5 in the last 90 days in southern Somalia alone, according to US estimates.
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A wooden sculpture of a raised arm with the "W.O.A" (Wacken Open Air) logo is pictured during the annual heavy metal music open-air festival in the northern German village of Wacken, near Hamburg. The festival was established in 1990 and attracts more than 75,000 participants.
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