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Khan, a three-year-old male Bengali white tiger, plays with a ball during an event organized by zoo employees to predict the result of the upcoming 2014 World Cup Group H soccer match between Russia and Algeria, at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, June 26, 2014. The tiger, which had to choose and play with one of two balls bearing names of the countries, predicted the victory of team Russia. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: ANIMALS SPORT SOCCER SOCIETY WORLD CUP)
Three-year-old white tiger, Khan, predicts a World Cup winner at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Reuters
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A festival goer displays her false eyelashes at Worthy Farm in Somerset, on the second day of the Glastonbury music festival June 26, 2014. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton (BRITAIN - Tags: SOCIETY ENTERTAINMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
A festival goer shows off her lashes in Glastonbury, UK. Reuters
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Polar bear Giovanna plays with her twin polar bear cubs Nela and Nobby outside in their new enclosure at Tierpark Hellabrunn zoo in Munich June 26, 2014. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle (GERMANY - Tags: ANIMALS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
A Polar bear plays with her twin cubs at Tierpark Hellabrunn zoo in Munich. Reuters
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Israeli air force black hawk helicopters fly in formation as they pull banners below them (not pictured) during an exhibition as part of a pilot graduation ceremony at the Hatzerim air base in southern Israel June 26, 2014. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL - Tags: MILITARY)
Black hawks fly in a pilot graduation ceremony in southern Israel. Reuters
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Shi'ite volunteers, who have joined the Iraqi army to fight against the predominantly Sunni militants from the radical Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), march during a military-style training in Kerbala, southwest of Baghdad, June 26, 2014. Iraqi forces launched an airborne assault on rebel-held Tikrit on Thursday with commandos flown into a stadium in helicopters, at least one of which crashed after taking fire from insurgents who have seized northern cities. REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammed (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY)
Army volunteers train in Kerbala, Iraq. Reuters
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Players battle for the ball during their match at the swamp soccer China tournament in Beijing, June 26, 2014. The 32 teams from across the country participated in the soccer event to celebrate the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (CHINA - Tags: SPORT SOCCER SOCIETY WORLD CUP TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Players get dirty at a swamp soccer tournament in Beijing, China. Reuters
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Part-time and temporary arts workers, known as "intermittents", hold coffin-shaped cardboard boxes as they demonstrate over government plans to accept the unemployment insurance agreement in Marseille, June 26, 2014. Performers, technicians and other casual workers in the French arts world are threatening to step up strikes to thwart the country's top summer festivals in protest at cuts to their unemployment insurance arrangements. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier (FRANCE - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY POLITICS)
Arts workers protest in Marseille, France. Reuters
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An adult wood stork lands on a branch during a tour by U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell in Townsend, Ga., Thursday, June 26, 2014. Jewell announced Thursday that the federal government is upgrading the wood stork to a "threatened" species, a step up from endangered that indicates the birds are no longer considered at risk of extinction. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
A wood stork, whose species is now upgraded from “endangered” to “threatened,” flies in Townsend, Ga. AP
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A man walks under a skylight at the Old State House Museum in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, June 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
A man walks under a skylight at the Old State House Museum in Little Rock, Ark. AP
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A Palestinian fisherman stands near to his fishing boat as seawater mixed with wastewater on the beach of the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 26, 2014. Palestinian Environment Quality Authority said in a statement the pollution of the seawater has gone beyond 50 percent. The lack of enough fuel to operate sewage treating facilities forced them to send wastewater into the the Mediterranean sea. The sewage water poured into the sea as they will temporary close the beaches for fishermen and beachgoers unless crisis is eased. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
A Palestinian fisherman stands near his fishing boat in Gaza City. AP
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Meerkats watch as a plane flies over the zoo in Dresden, eastern Germany on June 26, 2014. AFP PHOTO / DPA / MATTHIAS HIEKEL +++ GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read MATTHIAS HIEKEL/AFP/Getty Images)
Meerkats watch a plane fly over their Dresden, Germany zoo. Getty
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Abderrezak Boudif holds his daughter Lizla Boudif, 3, while waiting to take the oath of citizenship to become a U.S. citizen during the first of two naturalization ceremonies on Thursday, June 26, 2014, at the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Corpus Christi, Texas. Nearly 80 individuals from 32 countries took the oath during the ceremonies. (AP Photo/Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Rachel Denny Clow) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; TV OUT
Abderrezak Boudif holds daughter Lizla in a naturalization ceremony in Corpus Christi, Texas. AP
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People sit in their cars waiting in line to leave Ukraine at the Ukrainian-Russian border checkpoint in Izvaryne, Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine Thursday, June 26, 2014. Thousands of Ukrainians in cars stuffed with belongings lined up Thursday at the eastern border to cross into Russia, with some saying they felt betrayed by their government and vowing never to return. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
People sit in cars waiting leave Ukraine at the Russian border checkpoint in Luhansk. AP
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Internally displaced South Sudanese wait under a shelter for the food to be distributed in Minkaman, South Sudan , Thursday, June 26, 2014. Once a month the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) distribute to over 100,000 internally displace people in Minkaman, the largest such camp in South Sudan. Averaging 8-10 thousand people a day it is a slow process, made more difficult by poor quality ration cards distributed by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that have in some cases been destroyed. Depending on the size of the family they are distributed portions of Sorghum, Lentils, Oil and Salt. (AP Photo/Matthew Abbott)
Internally displaced refugees wait for food in Minkaman, South Sudan. AP
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Students reflected in a memorial plaque attend the official unveiling of the memorial for the deported and killed children of Baruch Auerbach's Orphanage for Jewish Girls and Boys at Schoenhauser Allee 162 in Berlin, Thursday, June 26, 2014. The children were deported from the orphanage to Riga in 1942 where they were murdered by the nazis. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A memorial for Baruch Auerbach’s Orphanage for Jewish Girls and Boys is unveiled at Schoenhauser Allee 162 in Berlin. AP
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Adam Shoffner, right, shouts his joy after he married Daniel Tolliver, left, as Marion County Clerk Beth White looks on as same sex couple continued to be married for the second day in Indianapolis, Thursday, June 26, 2014. A federal judge struck down Indiana's ban on same-sex marriage Wednesday in a ruling that immediately allowed gay couples to wed. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
A newlywed couple shouts for joy in Indianapolis. AP
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A U.S. soccer fan pretends that Uruguay's soccer striker Luis Suarez is biting him as he takes a selfie next to an Adidas advertisement featuring Suarez near Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 26, 2014. FIFA banned Suarez from all football activities for four months on Thursday for biting an opponent at the World Cup, a punishment that rules him out of the rest of the tournament. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
A US fan takes a bitingly funny selfie in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. AP
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YPRES, BELGIUM - JUNE 26: In this handout photo provided by the German Government Press Office (BPA), British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and leaders attend a commemoration ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I at the Menin Gates in Ypres, Belgium. (Photo by Guido Bergmann/Bundesregierung via Getty Images)
European leaders commemorate World War I in Ypres, Belgium. Getty
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A newly born giraffe stays close to her mother in their enclosure at the zoo in Brono, Czech Republic on June 26, 2014. The female calf was born on June 19, 2014 and currently stays with his mother Janette in a separate enclosure until she'll join her 3 siblings and will be presented to the public in July 2014. Visitors of the zoo can participate in choosing a name for the newborn giraffe during the summer holidays. AFP PHOTO/ RADEK MICA (Photo credit should read RADEK MICA/AFP/Getty Images)
A baby giraffe cuddles with her mother at a Brono, Czech Republic zoo. Getty
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (R) puts his forehead together with Israel's President Shimon Peres (L) as they embrace after Peres received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honor the U.S. legislature can confer, during a ceremony in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington June 26, 2014. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Vice President Biden bonds with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Washington. Reuters
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A newly born camel rests in his enclosure at the zoo in Brno, Czech Republic on June 26, 2014. The female camel was born on June 16, 2014 and is in good health. AFP PHOTO/ RADEK MICA (Photo credit should read RADEK MICA/AFP/Getty Images)
A newborn camel rests in his enclosure at a Brono, Czech Republic zoo. Getty
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US President Barack Obama walks to Marine One prior to departure from the South Lawn in Washington, DC, June 26, 2014. Obama is traveling to Minnesota to speak about the economy and attend a Democratic fundraiser. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
President Obama walks to Marine One in Washington. Getty
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An anti-abortion protestor with a group celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling striking down a Massachusetts law that mandated a protective buffer zone around abortion clinics, holds up a sign reading "Courageously Abolishing Abortion," outside the Court in Washington June 26, 2014. On a 9-0 vote, the court said the 2007 law violated the freedom of speech rights of anti-abortion protesters under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in preventing them from standing on the sidewalk and speaking to people entering the clinics. REUTERS/Jim Bourg (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW HEALTH CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
An anti-abortion protester holds up a sign in Washington. Reuters