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Skidmark the mouse rides a wave on a custom surf board at Surfers Paradise in Queensland, Australia. Shane Willmot has been surfing mice for so long his current surfing stars are the grandchildren of his original surfing mouse troupe...
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A flash of lightning illuminates the sky over the Parthenon on the Acropolis during a thunderstorm in Athens, Greece
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This shot of a smiley sunset was taken with a camera-phone in the town of Sandestin, Florida, and uploaded anonymously to a picture website
Picture: CHRIS MURPHY
Fireworks from a school's Carnival light up the night sky, backdropped by a full moon, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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A road sign reading 'BUS SOTP' on Wellington Street, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
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Wimbledon has gone to tennis fan Kai Ward's head. The taxi driver from in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, has had a vivid yellow tennis ball shaved into his hair
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An expressway road sign is submerged in the floods near Malong county of Qujing, Yunnan province, China
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Angelito Araneta Jr, a chef at a restaurant in Manila, shows sushi garnished with .20-carat diamonds and wrapped with 24-carat gold leaves. The five pieces of sushi, worth 91,800 pesos (ï؟½1,315), were created by the chef, to be used as gifts in marriage proposals or during courtship
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A picture from the Lockheed Martin Corporation shows an aircraft design concept for supersonic flight. The design would dramatically lower the level of sonic booms through the use of an 'inverted-V' engine-under wing configuration. Other revolutionary technologies help achieve range, payload and environmental goals. This supersonic cruise concept is among the designs presented to the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate for its studies into advanced aircraft that could enter service in the 2030-2035 time frame
Picture: AFP / NASA