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The Geneva Festival has concluded with a spectacular musical fireworks display lasting nearly an hour.

It is one of the largest and most iconic in the world, attracting around half a million visitors every year. The show, which uses around 25,000 individual fireworks, takes months to prepare.

"This year my challenge is to aim higher, to organise a show that is more beautiful than the last, more original, to always take pyrotechnics a step further. I learn more every year, which allows the show to evolve year by year."

 

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Allie, a 26-year-old bottlenose dolphin at the Chicago area's Brookfield Zoo, has given birth to a 40-pound, 3-foot long, healthy and strong calf.

Allie's labor took several hours with full-on labor about two hours prior to the baby's arrival.

The new dolphin is taking to her new surroundings swimmingly, hitting key milestones like swimming in mom's wake and nursing successfully.

Zoo officials say the first 30 days is the most critical time frame of a new calf's life.

 

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Australian Feliks Zemdegs has won the Rubik's Cube World Challenge 2013. He completed his fastest single solve in a rubiculous 7.36 seconds.

After three straight days of cubing at the event in Las Vegas, Zemdegs beat his fellow competitors with the fastest average time for solving a cube in 8.18 seconds.

Scooping the top prize in the classic 3X3 Rubik's Cube challenge, he won $3,000 in prize money, a championship trophy, and, of course, a selection of Rubik's Cube goodies.

The event took place at the Riviera Hotel and Casino where some of the world's best Rubik's Cube solvers competed in more than 15 classic and non-traditional official cubing events.
 

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Thousands of people squeezed into this swimming pool in southwest China on Tuesday to take a dip in what's being called the country's hottest Julys in 140 years.

But as temperatures soared outside inside local residents were cool if not somewhat squashed.

State media reported that more than 15,000 people visited the indoor pool at a Daying County amusement park in Sichuan Province on Saturday. That's more than triple the number envisaged by its designers.

Temperatures in Sichuan and other parts of China are expected to climb to 41 degrees Celsius, prompting an emergency level-two heat alert for the first time.

At least two people in the eastern city of Shanghai have died from heat stroke.
 

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One fan's dedication gets him to where he wants to be among his heroes. The Arsenal football team and manager post photos with the youngster who has just this in Hanoi, Vietnam for five miles.

As players watched from the windows, he kept up drawing cheers from the coach bigger ones when he managed to hitch a ride.

And then the moment of reward. Arsenal are in Vietnam on a pre-season tour and this will be a boost we just wonder if he'll follow them back to the Emirates.

"He looked delighted. And it should be a message for all of you guys that if you really want to pursue your dreams, it can happen and that’s what happened to him today."
 

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Record-breaking scenes in the skies above Russia, as 101 skydivers leapt from planes to form a flower pattern in mid-air.

Jumping over the town of Kolomna, the all-women Pearls of the Sky team dedicated the stunt to their former captain Irina Sinitsina, who died last year while skydiving in California. Irina had led the team last year to breaking the previous Russian record of an 88-person flower pattern free fall and this time the team left one space open in the centre of the formation to represent their "missing petal".

Meticulous planning went into the stunt with the team practising in groups of forty and sixty before successfully completing the jump with all 101 members.
 

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Seven works of art including some by Picasso and Monet were stolen from this Netherlands art museum last October.

Now some media reports say a Romanian woman, though to be the mother of one of the suspected thieves, has incinerated them.

The local media reports say she's admitted burning the masterpieces, worth tens of millions of dollars, to destroy the evidence.

The stolen works included Monet's 'Waterloo Bridge, London…

De Haan's Autoportrait…

And Gaugin's Femme devant une fenetre ouverte.

Romanian authorities arrested three men in January on suspicion of stealing the paintings. The Romanain girlfriend of one of them was arrested by Dutch police.

In March a man trying to sell the paintings back to the gallery was arrested in Germany.

It wasn't clear if he was part of the gang or whether he really had access to the stolen works.

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