Amazing PHOTOS of the month: July

Some of the best photographs clicked across the globe in the month of July.

Opening photo: A model poses during the annual World Bodypainting Festival in Poertschach, Austria. The event took place from July 4 to 6 at lake Worthersee in Austria's southern Carinthia province.

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A young girl runs through a sprinkler at a playground in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on July 7.  

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A Dolores Aguirre fighting bull falls at the Estafeta corner, during the second running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain, on July 8. Two runners were hospitalised following a run that lasted two minutes and twenty seconds, according to local media.

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A boy sits on a plinth before the Iftar (breaking of fast) meal, during the holy fasting month of Ramzan at the Jama Masjid in the old quarters of Delhi.

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Students receive a group punishment during a military-style close-order drill class at the Qide Education Center in Beijing, China.

The Qide Education Center is a military-style boot camp which offers treatment for internet addiction. As growing numbers of young people in China immerse themselves in the cyber world, spending hours playing games online, worried parents are increasingly turning to boot camps to crush addiction. Military-style boot camps, designed to wean young people off their addiction to the internet, number as many as 250 in China alone.

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Muslim youths pray atop motorcycle taxis during the fasting month of Ramzan in front of Al-Satie Mosque in Baseco, Tondo city, Manila in Philippines.

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Children in gowns and mortarboards pose for pictures during their kindergarten graduation ceremony, in Wenxian county, Henan province, China.

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Lightning strikes One World Trade Center in Manhattan as the sun sets behind the city after a summer storm in New York on July 2.

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A reveller tries to hold on to a wild horse during the "Rapa Das Bestas" traditional event in the Spanish northwestern village of Sabucedo. On the first weekend of July, hundreds of wild horses are rounded up, trimmed and groomed in different villages in the Spanish northwestern region of Galicia.

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Smoke and flames are seen following an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 8.

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Interior designer Zahra Afridi (R) kicks a punching bag during a kickboxing training session at her home in Islamabad, Pakistan. Afridi runs her own interior design company. Her most recent project was a Classic Rock Coffee cafe in Islamabad.

Though instability continues to plague Pakistan and many areas are dominated by social conservatism, some of the country's more affluent residents have worked to fashion a very different kind of lifestyle for themselves. Pictures of men and women taking part in all sorts of activities and professions -- from being a pilates instructor, to a textile retail entrepreneur, to a member of a rock band -- offer a different view of Pakistan to images of conflict that often make the news.

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A Bosnian Muslim woman and child cry near the coffin of their relative, which is one of the 175 coffins of newly identified victims from the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in the Potocari Memorial Center, near Srebrenica, on July 10.

Family members, foreign dignitaries and guests attended a ceremony in Srebrenica on July 11 marking the 19th anniversary of the massacre in which Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic killed up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys. The remains of 175 identified victims were buried at a memorial cemetery during the ceremony. Their bodies were found in some 60 mass graves around the town.

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The Supermoon rises over houses in Olvera, in the southern Spanish province of Cadiz, on July 12.

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A flamingo and flamingo chicks are seen in a corral before being tagged at dawn at the Fuente de Piedra natural reserve, near Malaga, southern Spain, on July 19. Around 600 flamingos were tagged and measured before being placed in the lagoon, one of the largest colonies of flamingos in Europe, according to authorities of the natural reserve.

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The son (L) of one of the Palestinian members of Tayseer Al-Batsh's family, who hospital officials said were killed in an Israeli air strike, mourns during their funeral in Gaza City on July 13.

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A man sits with an umbrella during a rainstorm at Times Square in New York on July 15.

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A new volunteer of Ukrainian self-defence battalion "Azov" embraces his girlfriend after a ceremony where he took an oath of allegiance to the country, in Kiev on July 16. The volunteer was to head to eastern Ukraine.

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Fishing boats are pictured amid heavy winds and rain brought by Typhoon Rammasun (locally named Glenda) as it hit the town of Imus, Cavite southwest of Manila, Philippines, on July 16. Philippine authorities evacuated almost 150,000 people from their homes and shuttered financial markets, government offices, businesses and schools as typhoon Rammasun gathered strength and hit the capital, Manila.

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A Free Syrian Army fighter stands amidst smoke and dust after he fired towards forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Wadi Al-Dayf in the southern Idlib countryside, on July 16.

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An Afghan resident points his weapon at the dead body of an unidentified militant, as a way of showing his hatred for insurgents, at a building where three other militants were located at, after an attack in Kabul on July 17.

Militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked Kabul International Airport in one of the most audacious assaults on the facility, used by both civilians and the military, in a year. The attack lasted about four hours after four unidentified militants armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades opened fire on the airport from the roof of the building just to its north. Residents walked into the building, after the insurgents were all killed.

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A Palestinian holds the body of her daughter Razel, 1, who medics said died from injuries sustained in an Israeli air strike, at her funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 18.
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Liu Ling, whose husband was onboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 which disappeared on March 8, cries during an interview with Reuters in Beijing July 18.

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An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires towards the Gaza Strip on July 21.

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Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, carries her son Prince George alongside her husband Prince William as they visit the Sensational Butterflies exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London, on July 2. Prince George celebrated his first birthday on July 22.

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Palestinians sleep at a United Nations school, where people who fled heavy Israeli shelling in the Shejaia neighbourhood sought refuge during fighting, in Gaza City, on July 21, 2014.

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An explosion during an Israeli strike in the northern Gaza Strip is pictured from the Israeli border with Gaza, early morning on July 26, 2014, before a cease-fire takes effect.

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An employee pours water over a doll's head before brushing its hair inside the toy factory owned by Norberto Garcia in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on July 28. Garcia was poised to launch a series of new toys this year after grafting hard for the past decade to rebuild his business following Argentina's 2001-2002 economic crash and debt default. Instead, he's hunkering down for a possible second default, cutting investment plans and scaling back his targets.

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A Palestinian girl reacts at the scene of an explosion that medics said killed eight children and two adults, and wounded 40 others at a public garden in Gaza City, on July 28, 2014. Locals blamed the blast on an Israeli air strike, but Israel denied responsibility, saying it was a misfire by a rocket launched by Hamas militants.

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The cruise liner Costa Concordia is seen during the refloat operation at Giglio harbour at Giglio Island, on July 21. Technicians on July 14 began a complex operation to refloat and tow away the wreck of the Costa Concordia, two and a half years after the luxury liner capsized off the Italian coast, killing 32 people.