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10 new supermodels have joined the 'Victoria's Secret' Angels; (top row)Kate Grigorieva, Taylor Hill, Romee Strijd, Jac Jagaciak, Lais Ribeiro, (bottom row) Elsa Hosk, Martha Hunt, Sara Sampaio, Jasmine Tookes and Stella Maxwell
Picture: REX


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A swimmer practises during the 8th Apnea Indoor World Championship in Mulhouse, France
Picture: SEBASTIEN BOZONSEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP



A migrant and child walk on rails to reach a train heading for Serbia at the train station in Gevgelija, on the Macedonian-Greek border
Picture: DIMITAR DILKOFFDIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP



Team Mexico performs during the Synchronized Swimming Women's Team Free Preliminary Free Routine at the FINA Swimming World Championships at Kazan in Russia
Picture: Patrick B. Kramer/EPA



A lightning bolt lights up the night sky during a thunderstorm in Moscow, Russia
Picture: TASS / Barcroft Media



Fire burns in the Sierra National Forest in the background as a boat sits on a still Bass Lake, Oakhurst, California, USA
Picture: REX


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Castle Farm Lavender in the beautiful Darenth Valley, part of the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Beauty. Its 85 acres of lavender make it the biggest lavender farm in the UK.
Picture: Jet Nepomuceno /Caters



A diver performs at the Coex Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea. The aquarium houses 40,000 sea creatures from over 600 different species.
Picture: Ahn Young-joon/AP



The full moon rises over the illuminated Kazan Kremlin with the Qol Sharif mosque in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan
Picture: Denis Tyrin/AP



A mountain is mirrored in a small lake surrounded by sea grass near the Aletsch Glacier, in Fiesch, Switzerland
Picture: EPA/DOMINIC STEINMANN



Portuguese photographer João P Santos, 21, produced this image by combining several photographs of the starlit sky taken around the Alqueva Reserve in the Alentejo region in south Portugal. The Alqueva Reserve is known for its very low light pollution and visitors can enjoy unique and unparalleled opportunities to view the night sky.
Picture: Rex


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Miragedriver said:

For my amigo Equation

10 new supermodels have joined the 'Victoria's Secret' Angels; (top row)Kate Grigorieva, Taylor Hill, Romee Strijd, Jac Jagaciak, Lais Ribeiro, (bottom row) Elsa Hosk, Martha Hunt, Sara Sampaio, Jasmine Tookes and Stella Maxwell
Picture: REX


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Muchos gracias mi amigo! You are too kind.

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Muchos gracias mi amigo! You are too kind.

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Around 1:30 AM in the morning of June 27th there was a collision between a tanker, the Marshall Islands-flagged MT STI Pamlico, and a Cruise ship, the Maltese flagged MV Celestyal Crystal, in the Dardanelles strait near Gallipoli, Turkey.

The tanker, which is double hulled, has a dead weight of over 38,000 tons and said to be caring 30,000 tons of flamable naphtha at the time.

The crusie ship, which has about a 3,000 ton dead weight, but a full displacemetn of almost 15,000 tons, had 852 passengers and 382 crew aboard at the time.

Despit significant damage to the bow of the cruise ship, there were no injureies aboard. The cargo ship suffered significant damage directly amidships, and took on a fifteen degree list,. There were also no injuries on the cargo ship. Both vessels were taken to port for repairs.

here are pictures of the two vessels, and pictures of the damage.

A model presents a creation by Indian designer Sabyasachi during the India Couture week 2015 in New Delhi
Picture: AFP



A downhill mountain biker hurtles down the 'Rinne' track on 'Frankenstein' mountain near Darmstadt, Germany
Picture: Thomas Lohnes/Getty



France's diver Matthieu Rosset competes in the team event final at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan
Picture: AFP/ROMAN KRUCHININ



An Indian tribal dancer dressed and painted as a tiger prepares to perform a traditional 'tiger dance' to celebrate International Tiger Day (July 29)
Picture: Barcroft India



Windermere in the Lake District
Picture: Jeremy Walker


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Photographer Brent Stapelkamp was attempting to photograph a Marabou stork (centre of frame) in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. When he developed the photo, he found he also had a spooky image of a wolf howling at the moon.
Picture: Brent Stapelkamp/Caters



People sunbathe at Barra da Tijuca beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Picture: Ricardo Moraes/Reuters



Lauren Oiye and Chuck Inman take part in the Tandem Surfing competitions in Waikiki, Hawaii. Unlike the average surfing competition, Lauren and Chuck combine the balance needed to even stand up on a surfboard with the strength needed to hold up various gymnastic poses.
Picture: Jim Walsh/Caters



A tableau of flowers representing the face of famous Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh is revealed at Museumplein, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Van Gogh died in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, 125 years ago.
Picture: Remko de Waal/EPA



This smiling sunflower is one of 20,000 in a field in Tokyo, Japan
Picture: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images


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British climber Leo Houlding on his way to completing a climb of the the Mirror Wall in Greenland (1,200m). The rock face is four times the height of the Shard building in London
Picture: NASA



Stuffed chipmunks 'play' an American football game in Nick Saade's taxidermy shop in Lansing, Michigan. Saade said these were 'nuisance chipmunks' that were trapped in cabins. He said he doesn't like to see anything go to waste, so he decided to make the football display out of them.
Picture: Dave Wasinger/Lansing State Journal via AP



A woman views the inside of a shipping container to be converted into a living space at a warehouse in Oakland, California
Picture: Bloomberg Finance LP



The first Humboldt penguin born in the Philippines, named 'Kaya', stands next to a three-tiered frozen 'fish cake' placed in the penguin habitat at Manila Ocean Park to celebrate its first birthday in Manila, Philippines. Armi Cortes, the marine park's communications chief, said that Kaya was born last year.
Picture: Bullit Marquez/AP


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Miragedriver said:

Photographer Brent Stapelkamp was attempting to photograph a Marabou stork (centre of frame) in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. When he developed the photo, he found he also had a spooky image of a wolf howling at the moon.
Picture: Brent Stapelkamp/Caters

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I read from the internet that the full moon this Friday was a blue moon because there were two full moons in the same month; however, we didn't even see a moon due to bad weather, let alone a blue one.