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Published Aug. 20, 2014, 4:25 p.m. ET

A giant inflatable rubber duck installation by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman floats through the Port of Los Angeles as part of the Tall Ships Festival, in San Pedro, California August 20, 2014. The creation, which is five stories tall and five stories wide, has been seen floating in various cities around the world since 2007. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: MARITIME SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A giant inflatable rubber duck floats in the Tall Ships Festival in San Pedro, Calif. Reuters

ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF INJURY OR DEATH The mother (C) of Palestinian girl Nour Abu Hasera, whom medics said was killed in an Israeli air strike, mourns next to her body during her funeral in Gaza City August 20, 2014. Israeli air strikes killed 11 Palestinians in Gaza, including the wife and infant son of Hamas's military leader, Mohammed Deif, in what the group said on Wednesday was an attempt to assassinate him after a ceasefire collapsed. Israel's military said it had carried out 60 air strikes on the Gaza Strip since hostilities resumed on Tuesday, and that Palestinians launched more than 80 rocket salvoes, some intercepted by the Israeli anti-missile Iron Dome system. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) TEMPLATE OUT

A Palestinian mother mourns her daughter, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. Reuters

A man takes a "selfie" as he stands with a Ukrainian flag on a Soviet-style star re-touched with blue paint so it resembles the yellow-and-blue national colours of Ukraine, atop the spire of a building in Moscow August 20, 2014. Russian police said on Wednesday they had charged four young people with vandalism after they climbed to the top of a Moscow skyscraper and briefly attached a Ukrainian flag to its spire REUTERS/Ilya Varlamov (RUSSIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) MANDATORY CREDIT

A man takes a selfie with a Ukrainian flag on a Soviet-style star in Moscow. Reuters

A man gets his shave done by a roadside barber as another reads a newspaper while waiting for his turn, in New Delhi August 20, 2014. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee (INDIA - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A roadside barber works in New Delhi, India. Reuters

Israeli fire-fighter works to extinguish a fire caused by rockets launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel near the town of Sderot

A firefighter extinguishes flames from Hamas rockets near the Israeli town of Sderot. Reuters

An Israeli soldier rests at an observation post overlooking the Gaza strip near the Israeli-Gaza border August 20, 2014. An Israeli air strike in Gaza killed the wife and infant son of Hamas's military leader, Mohammed Deif, the group said, calling it an attempt to assassinate him after a ceasefire collapsed. Palestinians launched more than 100 rockets, mainly at southern Israel, with some intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system, the military said. No casualties were reported on the Israeli side. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

An Israeli soldier rests at a post overlooking the Gaza Strip. Reuters

Attorney General Eric Holder is pictured during his closed-door meeting with students at St. Louis Community College Florissant Valley in Ferguson, Missouri August 20, 2014. Holder visited Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday, hours after nearly 50 protesters were arrested in the 11th straight night of demonstrations over the August 9 fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by a white police officer. The St. Louis County prosecutor's office will also begin presenting evidence on Wednesday to a regularly seated grand jury investigating the shooting death of Brown. REUTERS/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Pool (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)

Attorney General Eric Holder holds a closed-door talk with students in St. Louis, Mo. Reuters

Ukrainian servicemen stand guard at a military camp in Luhansk region August 20, 2014. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko (UKRAINE - Tags: CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Soldiers stand guard in Luhansk, Ukraine. Reuters

A student looks through the main gate of the Education Ministry building during its occupation in downtown Santiago, August 20, 2014. Around 25 students occupied the building as part of a protest demanding changes in the education system. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado (CHILE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST EDUCATION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A protester looks through a gate of the Education Ministry building in Santiago, Chile.

A Ukrainian serviceman rests at a military camp in Luhansk region August 20, 2014. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko (UKRAINE - Tags: CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST)

A soldier rests at a military camp in Luhansk, Ukraine. Reuters

A chinchilla waits in its new cage after Hollywood mogul and co-creator of The Simpsons, Sam Simon, financed the purchase of a chinchilla farm business in order to rescue over 400 of the animals and shutter the business in Vista, California August 19, 2014. In what all parties described as a "win-win" deal, 90-year-old owner Lurlie Adams was able to offload the farm she did not want any more to Simon for $50,000. And the 425 chinchillas were moved to much larger cages while awaiting adoption. Picture taken on August 19, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES - Tags: ANIMALS ENTERTAINMENT ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY BUSINESS)

A Sam Simon-rescued chinchilla rests in a cage in Hollywood. Reuters

HIROSHIMA, JAPAN - AUGUST 20: Members of police continue the search for missing people among the debris of houses destroyed by a landslide caused by torrential rain at the site of a landslide in a residential area on August 20, 2014 in Hiroshima, Japan. At least 18 people were confirmed dead and several unaccounted people are missing after torrential rain caused flooding and landslides in the city of Hiroshima early today. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)

Police search for survivors of a landslide in Hiroshima, Japan. Getty

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 20: In this photo illustration, pound coins are placed on a Union Jack flag on August 20, 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland. First Minister Alex Salmond's, chief economic adviser has insisted Scotland has viable options for its currency if there is a yes vote in the independence referendum on September the18th. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Glasgow, Scotland, prepares for a vote on independence. Getty

CLAYTON, MO - AUGUST 20: Protesters lay on the ground to draw lines around their bodies as they and other demonstrators protest outside of the Buzz Westfall Justice Center where a grand jury will begin looking at the circumstances surrounding the fatal police shooting of an unarmed teenager Michael Brown on August 20, 2014 in Clayton, Missouri. Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer on August 9. Despite the Brown family's continued call for peaceful demonstrations, violent protests have erupted nearly every night in Ferguson since his death (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Protesters lie in chalk outlines in Clayton, Mo. Getty

EDGARTOWN, MA - AUGUST 20: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Barack Obama arrives to make a statement about the execution of American journalist James Foley by ISIS terrorist in Iraq during a press briefing at the press filing center at the Edgartown School August 20, 2014 in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. In a video released shows an ISIS militant beheading Foley in what is believed to be retaliation for U.S. airstrikes in Iraq. The militant then threatens the life of another American hostage, Steven Sotloff, who is also missing. (Photo by Rick Friedman-Pool/Getty Images)

President Obama speaks in Edgartown, Mass., about James Foley’s execution. Getty

Iraqis who fled violence in the northern city of Tal Afar stand next to a tent at the Bahrka camp, 10 km west of Arbil in the autonomous Kurdistan region, on August 20, 2014. The UN refugee agency said it had launched a huge operation to bring desperately needed aid to half a million Iraqis driven from their homes by jihadist rebels. AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMEDSAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images

Iraqi refugees stand near a tent at a camp in Bahrka, Kurdistan. Getty

UConn students from Storrs, Conn., Gary Tu, Danny Wang and Victor Zheng, fish at Shenipsit Lake in Tolland, Conn. during sunset on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Journal Inquirer, Jim Michaud)

UConn students fish in Shenipsit Lake in Tolland, Conn. AP

A model displays a creation by a Gen Next designer during the first day of the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

A model catwalks in Mumbai, India. AP

After speaking with U.S. President Barack Obama by phone, John and Diane Foley talk to reporters, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, outside their home in Rochester, N.H. Their son James Foley was abducted in November 2012 while covering the Syrian conflict. Islamic militants posted a video showing his murder on Tuesday and said they killed him because the U.S. had launched airstrikes in northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

John and Diane Foley speak about their son, slain journalist James Foley, in Rochester, NH. AP

Major League Baseball Commissioner-elect Rob Manfred participates in the ALS Ice-Bucket Challenge outside the organization's headquarters in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. Manfred participated with more than 160 other MLB employees to raise more than $16,000 for the ALS Association. (AP Photo/Vanessa A. Alvarez)

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred takes the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in New York. AP

Police arrest a man as they disperse a protest in Ferguson, Mo., early Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. On Saturday, Aug. 9, a white police officer fatally shot unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was black, in the St. Louis suburb. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Police arrest a protester in Ferguson, Mo. AP

In this photo provided by the Oklahoma City Zoo, a a female Western lowland baby gorilla who was born in the early hours of Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014, inside a Great EscApe day room to mother Ndjole (pronounced In-jolee) and father Togo (pronounced Toe-go), is pictured at the zoo August 17, 2014, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Oklahoma City Zoo, Dr. Jennifer DAgostino

A gorilla is born at the Oklahoma City Zoo. AP

Pic shows: This hedgehog got it's nose stuck in a yoghurt pot. Returning to the police station after a night dealing with burglaries, car crashes and a punch up in a betting shop, the last thing two German police officers expected was this prickly customer in the headlights of their patrol car. The hedgehog had apparently raided the dustbin of a nearby house and had got it's nose stuck in a tasty yoghurt pot as it attempted to scoop the remains out from the bottom. Unable to see or smell, it had wandered around blindly and ended up in the middle of the road just as the police patrol car turned up at the road in the city of Offenburg in south-western Germany's Baden-Wuerttemberg state. Police officer Juergen Tomas said: "We were going slowly anyway as we were looking out for the neighbourhood. If it had been any other car the hedgehog might not have been as lucky. "It was well and truly trapped in the pot. We took a couple of snaps and then released the hedgehog that very quickly made itself scarce. "After such a busy night with little good news it was nice to be able to end it on a positive note by helping out the hedgehog. I expect he will steer clear of yoghurt pots from now on." (ends)

A hedgehog gets its face stuck in a yogurt cup in Offenburg, Germany. Europics

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