Tuesday, 7 August 2007, 17:48 GMT 18:48 UK

Day in pictures

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A huge Lego toy has mysteriously appeared on Zandvoort beach in Holland. Nobody knows where it comes from.


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Ukrainian synchronised swimmers perform an aquatic ballet in a fish tank at an aquarium in Seoul, South Korea.


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A group of residents play cards at the funeral wake of a pauper, Cristino Parian, in Manila, in the Philippines, to help raise money for the dead man's burial.


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A displaced Sudanese woman carries her baby at a camp in Nyala, in Sudan's Darfur region. More than two million people have been left homeless by conflict since 2003.


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Israeli security forces remove Jewish settlers from an illegally occupied building in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron.


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A Tibetan women sits beside a collection of hundreds of Tibetan flags ahead of a protest rally in Delhi, India.


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A car rests upside down against a wall and a handrail as pedestrians look on in central Moscow. Witnesses say the driver walked away from the accident unharmed.


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Hot air balloons near a statue of King William III in Bristol, UK. The event is part of the Discovery Channel International Balloon Fiesta 2007, the largest of its kind in Europe.


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Colombian Henri Ayala, an acrobat with the Zippo Circus, balances on a chair on a high wire in York, UK.

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