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A giant school of sweeper fish frantically swim around together in a bid to avoid a hungry lionfish in the Red Sea
Picture: Ilan Ben Tov/Solent News



Boats surrounding the watertaxi carrying actor George Clooney and his wife Amal Alamuddin on the Grand Canal in Venice
Picture: PIERRE TEYSSOT/AFP/Getty Images



The skyscrapers of Dubai rise above the early morning fog
Picture: MARCELO CASTRO / CATERS NEWS



Pro-democracy protesters join others in blocking the main highway through Admiralty, next to the Hong Kong government's headquarters in Hong Kong's downtown district, on the first day of the mass civil disobedience campaign Occupy Central, Hong Kong
Picture: EPA/ALEX HOFFORD



A participant operates a homemade human-powered flying machine during the Red Bull Flugtag (Flight Day) event in the southern Indian city of Bangalore
Picture: REUTERS/Abhishek N. Chinnappa



French adventurer and researcher Stephane Rousson prepares his Aerosail off the coast of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, southeastern France prior to his planned attempt to cross the Mediterranean from Nice to Calvi, on the French Mediterraean island of Corsica. Aerosail is the result of Rousson and his partners' ambition to create an innovative, efficient, and silent maritime vehicle, only using the wind as means of propulsion. Rousson is planning his crossing for the end of October 2014.
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Models present creations by Jean Paul Lespagnard during the 2015 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show in Paris
Picture: FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP/Getty Images



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Miragedriver said:

Feifei, 21, who is a third-year university student and a part-time model, has received a free breast implant operation costing about 300,000 yuan (£30,000) from a hospital in Hefei, Anhui province, in return for advertising the hospital's services. Around 10 days after the operation, she won a prize at a local beauty contest, reported local media.
Picture: Reuters



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Why? Doesn't she understand that nature is beauty. You probably feed her too much Malbec!

SteelBird said:

Why? Doesn't she understand that nature is beauty. You probably feed her too much Malbec!

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I concur my friend! Be as nature intended.
By the way, Limochello is more effective than Malbec. I can forward you the recipe.


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The Dog Farmer: Clever canine, Lemon is helping his owner ex-military animal trainer Aleksandr Matytsin around the farm in a rural part of Omsk, Russia. From pumping water to ploughing a potato field Lemon seems more than happy to earn his keep by lending a paw wherever its needed.
Picture: ALEKSANDR MATYTSIN / CATERS NEWS



Three-year-old Bailey Martin sits on top of a huge pumpkin grown by brothers Ian and Stuart Paton. The twins are on track to set a new UK record with their monster pumpkin, which weighs in at around 1,600 pounds
Picture: Zachary Culpin/Solent News



Visitors look at a blooming titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), one of the world's largest and rare tropical flowering plants, at Basel's Botanical Garden. The flower, which emits a strong odour likened to rotting meat, which gives it's common name 'corpse flower', wilts and dies after two days. Both the 'fragance' and the flower's meat-colouration attract pollinators - carrion flies and beetles.
Picture: REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann



American flamingos add bright colour to the ZSL Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire
Picture: Tony Margiocchi / Barcroft Media



Little dog Lotti, dressed in traditional Bavarian attire, attends the annual Oktoberfest beer festival in Straubing, Germany
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A husband and wife photography team are now so friendly with a family of wild beavers they let them take their portrait. Bettina and Christian Kutschenreiter have spent 10 years making regular visits to the beavers after they interrupted them taking pictures of kingfishers near the city of Rosenheim near Munich, Germany. And now they are able to get up close and personal as the animals recognise their voices when they come to visit.
Picture: Kutschenreiter/Arco/Solent News


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A clouded leopard cub called Nimbus has made its home in a wildlife park curator's bathroom after she was abandoned by her mother shortly after birth at Cotswold Wildlife Park in Oxfordshire
Picture: Cotswold Wildlife Park/PA

Early morning mist floats around the hilltops near San Quirico D'Orcia, in Val d'Orcia, Tuscany, Italy
Picture: Mauro Maione/Solent News

Muslim pilgrims pray around the holy Kaaba at the Grand Mosque, during the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca
Picture: REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

A woman walks past an art installation entitled 'Mars Mission' with the figure of an astronaut during the Durga Puja festival in Calcutta
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Film maker Alison Teal from Hawaii dives under a wave during a visit to the Maldives. Accompanied by Australian photographer Mark Tipple and his colleague Sarah Lee, the group were on the islands to document the shocking amount of plastic that ends up washing onto the island's beaches.
Picture: ALISONS ADVENTURES / CATERS NEWS



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Sorry about that NSFW picture Popeye. I thought of it as more artistic than provocative. I will be more diligent in the future.

A confused bird mistakes the hairstyles of a group of surfers for a nest by landing on their heads. After flying above them, the brave bird swooped in to land on their heads - mistaking them for its nest. The group of 15 surfers were enjoying the waves off the coast of Teahupoo on the island of Tahiti, in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean.
Picture: Henrique Pinguim/Solent News




Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all? With well over two-thirds of Britons claiming image insecurity and self-doubt, Ikea have announced the launch of the 'Motivational Mirror' - bestowing personalised compliments to provide the nation with a much needed morale boost. Using next generation Kinect motion sensor technology combined with complex coding, personalised messages are automatically triggered and delivered by a voice recording and text appearing on the mirror. The mirror has been know to wolf whistle at passers-by and cheery statements appearing on the mirror include 'Wow, have you been working out?', 'You look fabulous today' and 'That's a magnificent beard'.
Picture: REX




An employee of Japan's nursing care goods maker Unicare demonstrates an easy chair for congnitively empaired persons 'Yasuragi chair' at the annual International Home care and Rehabilitation exhibition in Tokyo. The chair can hug the user with the long arms with valcro tape.
Picture: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images




Gordey Efremov was travelling home in his Lada Niva in the city of Dnipropetrovsk in south-eastern Ukraine when he suddenly found the ground vanishing underneath him. He said: 'Because of the rain, traffic was going slowly and then when the car in front of me stopped I put on the brakes and slowed down. Then I suddenly got this sinking feeling and before I knew it was disappearing into the road. The car tipped onto its side and muddy waters started to flood in through the air vents and door.' Police said the broken drain had been leaking rainwater into the soil underneath the road, washing away the foundations and causing it to collapse when the car paused above. Police spokesman Leonid Pokrovski said: 'It was an accident waiting to happen. As long as the cars were moving fast over the top it bore the weight, but once a motorist stopped it was too much and it gave way.'
Picture: Europics




Californian photographer Darren Pearson uses sheets of LED lights to create his light paintings set against night-time landscapes across the States. Using a long exposure, Darren moves the LED lights in circles to create the appearance of giant neon animals.
Picture: DARREN PEARSON / CATERS NEWS




The aurora borealis (northern lights) is seen over the Bals-Fiord near the village of Mestervik, north of the Arctic Circle
Picture: REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis



A fisherman casts his fishing net into the waters of Vembanad Lake on the outskirts of the southern Indian city of Kochi
Picture: REUTERS/Sivaram V



The Sunglass Cat poses with Jennifer Zharinova (L) and Sonjia Kitty Smack during the Los Angeles Feline Film Festival at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. The annual event featuring celebrity cats and feline films raises money for local cat sanctuaries and rescue organizations.
Picture: MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images



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The sequence of shots taken by marine tour guide Steven Benjamin who has been documenting over 1000 whales migrating from the coast of South Africa to the warmer waters off Mozambique and Madagascar
Picture: Steven Benjamin / Barcroft Media


A group of baby cheetahs turned a safari Jeep into their very own climbing frame. The energetic cubs - just eight weeks old - climb all over the 4x4 for their morning work out, even hauling themselves up the Jeep's wheels. British solicitor Jim Varley visited the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya just last week to snap the photo on his annual visit.
Picture: Jim Varley/Solent News



A night-time view of Europe made possible by the 'day-night band' of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is seen in a global composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite in 2012 and released by Nasa today.
Picture: REUTERS/NASA



A baby Sunda pangolin and its mother explore their enclosure at the Singapore's Night SafariPicture: Xinhua /Landov / Barcroft Media



Surfers are now finally safe in the water - because this new wearable device emits the sounds of killer whales to scare off deadly sharks. The groundbreaking device, called the 'SharkStopper Personal Shark Repellent', can be attached to the surfer's ankle so they will be protected from predators. It emits a sound which is similar to a killer whale, a creature in the sea which can grow up to 26ft long.
Picture: SharkStopper/Solent News



These spectacular pictures show the incredible moment a rare natural phenomenon happens in the night sky. Red sprite lightning lasts only a millisecond and takes place high above a tunderstorm cloud.The breathtaking flashes of light are caused by huge electrical discharges of lightning in the sky. Marko Korosec, 32, was lucky enough to catch these sprites on camera after months of trying.Mr Korosec, from Sezana in Slovenia, took the shots whilst he was following storms in Vivaro, Italy.
Picture: Marko Korosec/Solent News



A student protester speaks into a microphone in front of a 'democracy wall' filled with notes supporting the pro-democracy protest
Picture: AARON TAM/AFP/GETTY IMAGEs



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Cambodia gets its first gold medal at the Asian Games.

Castellers Colla Vella Xiquets de Valls form a human tower called 'castell' during a biannual competition in Tarragona. The formation of human towers is a tradition in the area of Catalonia.
Picture: Albert Gea/Reuters



Eerie figures have emerged in a series of incredible photographs of clouds of gas surrounding stars. The photographer captured the images from his home in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Using different filters on his five telescopes, he was able to bring out the shapes and patterns created by different gases that have absorbed energy from nearby stars.
Picture: Eric Coles/Caters



A businessman is struggling with his umbrella broken by wind, against heavy rain in Tokyo, Japan. Typhoon Phanfone is hitting through southwestern, western and central Japan with heavy rain and strong winds after lashing western and southern Japan, leaving two dead and three missing. Hundreds of thousands of people were advised to evacuate their homes with the Japan Meteorological Agency warning of mudslides, heavy rains, swollen rivers and strong winds in wide areas of the country.
Picture: Kimimasa Mayama/EPA



Muslims offer Eid al-Adha prayers at the Jama Masjid (Grand Mosque) in the old quarters of Delhi. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha by the sacrificial killing of sheep, goats, cows and camels to commemorate Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail on God's command.
Picture: Ahmad Masood/Reuters



Oktoberfest waitresses celebrate the end of the world's biggest beer festival, the 181st Oktoberfest, in Munich. Millions of beer drinkers from around the world came to the Bavarian capital in the last two weeks for the Oktoberfest.
Picture: Lukas Barth/Reuters



Photographer Hasan Baglar took this photo of two praying mantises strike a pose on a twig
Picture: MEDAVIA.CO.UK



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