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Published Aug. 27, 2014, 6:11 p.m. ET
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A white lion cub holds a notebook in his mouth, as three sibling cubs are introduced to the public, at the Johannesburg Zoo, South Africa, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Three playful lion cubs made their public debut Wednesday, pouncing their way into a large enclosure at the Johannesburg Zoo. Their arrival heralds a new generation of lions at the zoo, which hasn't successfully bred the king of the jungle in five years. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
White lion cubs are introduced at a Johannesburg, South Africa, zoo. AP
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Pope Francis waves as he arrives to lead his weekly audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican August 27, 2014. REUTERS/Max Rossi (VATICAN - Tags: RELIGION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Pope Francis waves in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican. Reuters
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Palestinians sit on a couch as they return to the remains of their house, which witnesses said was destroyed in an Israeli offensive, after a ceasefire was declared, in the east of Gaza City August 27, 2014. The open-ended ceasefire in the Gaza war between Israel and the Palestinians held on Wednesday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced strong criticism in his country's newspapers over a campaign in which no clear victor emerged. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Palestinians sit in the remnants of their home after an alleged post-ceasefire Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Reuters
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Russian's Irina Annenkova competes during the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around final match at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, August 27, 2014. REUTERS/Aly Song (CHINA - Tags: SPORT GYMNASTICS OLYMPICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Irina Annekova competes in a rhythmic gymnastics match in Nanjing, China. Reuters
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A group of Russian servicemen, who are detained by Ukrainian authorities, attend a news conference in Kiev August 27, 2014. Ukraine said on Tuesday its forces had captured a group of Russian paratroopers who had crossed into Ukrainian territory on a "special mission" - but Moscow said they had ended up there by mistake. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko (UKRAINE - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Russian soldiers detained by Ukraine speak at a press conference in Kiev. Reuters
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Motorists queue up to fill up their tanks at a gas station in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. State-owned oil and gas company Pertamina lifts its daily subsidized fuel quota after the move that aimed at reducing consumption has caused long lines at filling stations across the country. (AP Photo/Slamet Riyadi)
Cars queue for fuel in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, after daily quotas ceased due to long lines. AP
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Shoko Ideriha, a film process technician in charge of archive, checks the negative of a movie prior to scanning for digitization at Tokyo Laboratory Ltd. in Tokyo, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. At the humble Tokyo laboratory, Godzilla, including the 1954 black-and-white original, is stomping back with a digital makeover that delivers four times the image quality of high definition. Experts say the chemical reactions used to make old movies stored far greater detail than was visible with the limited projection technology of the era, as well as with subsequent digital updates. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A film technician digitally restores clasic “Godzilla” reels in Tokyo. AP
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A man dives into a puddle of squashed tomatoes, during the annual "tomatina" tomato fight fiesta in the village of Bunol, 50 kilometers outside Valencia, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. The streets of an eastern Spanish town are awash with red pulp as thousands of people pelt each other with tomatoes in the annual "Tomatina" battle that has become a major tourist attraction. At the annual fiesta in Bunol on Wednesday, trucks dumped 125 tons of ripe tomatoes for some 22,000 participants, many from abroad to throw during the hour-long morning festivities. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
A man dives into crushed tomatoes at the Bunol, Spain, Tomatina festival. AP
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Honeybees collect nectar in a rose garden in Vienna August 27, 2014. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader (AUSTRIA - Tags: ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT)
Honeybees collect nectar in a rose garden in Vienna, Austria. Reuters
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Peter Theo Curtis, who was released on Sunday from two years in the captivity of insurgents in Syria, talks to reporters near his mother's home in Cambridge, Massachusetts August 27, 2014. Curtis, 45, returned to the United States late Tuesday after being released on Sunday. He was captured in 2012 and held by Nusra Front, al Qaeda's official wing in Syria and rivals to the militant group Islamic State. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST HEADSHOT)
Peter Theo Curtis speaks to reporters aftre his release from captivity. Reuters
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Kurdish Peshmerga forces stand guard at the Bakirta frontline near the town of Makhmur, south of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan August 27, 2014. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Kurdish Peshmerga forces stand guard in Makhmur, Iraq. Reuters
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Empty mortar shell containers collected by the Israeli army are seen after leaving a position near the border with the Gaza Strip August 27, 2014. An open-ended ceasefire in the Gaza war held on Wednesday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced strong criticism in Israel over a costly conflict with Palestinian militants in which no clear victor emerged. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)
Empty shell containers are collected by the Israeli army near the Gaza border. Reuters
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Hamas militants display weapons as they celebrate what they say was a victory over Israel, in front of a destroyed house in the Shejaia neighborhood east of Gaza City August 27, 2014. An open-ended ceasefire in the Gaza war held on Wednesday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced strong criticism in Israel over a costly conflict with Palestinian militants in which no clear victor emerged. REUTERS/Majdi Fathi (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Hamas militants celebrate what they believe is victory over Israel in Gaza City. Reuters
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A high school student wears a mask as they attend a demonstration against the government to demand changes in the education system in Santiago, August 27, 2014. Chilean students have demanded changes and an end to profiteering in the education system. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado (CHILE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST EDUCATION)
A student wears a mask in an anti-government protest in Santiago, Chile. Reuters
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Israeli beach-goers are seen on the shore of the Mediterranean sea at the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon August 27, 2014. An open-ended ceasefire in the Gaza war held on Wednesday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced strong criticism in Israel over a costly conflict with Palestinian militants in which no clear victor emerged. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Beach-goers enjoy the sand and surf at sunset in Ashkelon, Israel. Reuters
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NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 26: A man drives an electric wheel chair down the boardwalk on the evening of August 26, 2014 in the Coney Island neighborhood in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City. As August comes to a close, Coney Island's busiest season, summer, is beginning to wrap up. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
A man drives an electric wheelchair down the Coney Island boardwalk late Tuesday. Getty
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WESTON-SUPER-MARE, ENGLAND - AUGUST 27: People sit in front of the 50ft (15m) inflatable whale that has been erected on the beach by the Bible Society on August 27, 2014 in Weston-Super-Mare, England. The Bible Society is using the whale to allow the Circo Rum Ba Ba circus troupe to perform the Biblical story of Jonah and the Whale. The whale was brought to Weston after it was banned from London's Hyde Park for being too 'religious'. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
A Weston-Super-Mare, England, beach is graced with a 50-foot inflatable whale. Getty
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NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 27: Two water tanks, reimagined and wrapped as artistic canvases by artists Laurie Simmons (L) and Odili Donald Odita (R) for The Water Tank Project, are seen on August 27, 2014 in the Chelsea neighorhood of New York City. The Water Tank Project will wrap over 100 water tanks around New York City with art by both new and established artists through the end of October 2014. The goal of the project is to raise awareness about water usage and the environment. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
The Water Tank Project presents art from Laurie Simmons and Odili Donald Odita in Chelsea. Getty
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Liberian soldiers patrol the seaside of West Point by boat, an area that has been hit hard by the Ebola virus, with local residents not allowed to leave the West Point area, as government forces clamp down on movement to prevent the spread of Ebola, in Monrovia, Liberia, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Health officials in Liberia said the other two recipients of ZMapp in Liberia, a Congolese doctor and a Liberian physician's assistant, have recovered. Both are expected to be discharged from an Ebola treatment center on Friday, said Dr. Moses Massaquoi, a Liberian doctor with the treatment team. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)
Soldiers patrol the seaside of West Point, Monrovia, Liberia, by boat. AP
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A search helicopter lands close to the scene where an Air Force F-15C fighter jet based in Massachusetts crashed near Deerfield, Va., on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. The jet was on a standard training exercise to receive a system upgrade and had no munition onboard, said Maj. Matthew Mutti, from Barnes Air National Guard Base. Officials said the pilot's status was unknown. (AP Photo/The Staunton News Leader, Griffin Moores)
A search helicopter lands near where an Air Force F-15C fighter jet crashed near Deerfield, Va. AP
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A bogieboarder rides a wave at the wedge in Newport Beach, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Southern California beachgoers experienced much higher than normal surf, brought on by Hurricane Marie spinning off the coast of Mexico. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
A boogie-boarder rides a wave in Newport Beach, Calif. AP
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Pic shows: Tourist Lu chen is attacked by two geese when he strayed too close to their nest. A hapless tourist nearly drowned in a vicious attack by two geese when he strayed too close to their river nest in southern China. Stunned Lu Chen had been paddling in the stream to cool down in Gaowen Village in China's Guizhou province, when the two large birds flew at him. "I didn't know what was happening at first. There was a tremendous hissing and then they came straight at me," he said later. "I tried to scare them off, but they just kept coming. They managed to knock me down in the river and I am sure they were trying to drown me. I just couldn't get them away. "They were pecking my legs, my hands, anything they could get their bills on. They're big, powerful birds and it hurt. I really began to panic," added Lu. Laughing locals in the village - who are used to the birds' aggressive behaviour - helped to pull struggling Lu to safety. One local said: "They won't allow anyone to walk in their stream. They are very territorial. This is where they raise their chicks, where they feed, and they do not tolerate intruders of any kind in their home. "Anyone who lives here knows that and we never let our children play there. "We should put up a sign to warn off tourists, but it's quite fun to watch." (ends)
Angry geese attack a tourist in southern China for getting too close to their nest. Europics
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