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Muslim boy Sabir Ali, aged 8, looks across Kathmandu from a balcony during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan at the Jamia school in the Nepali capital on July 27, 2012.

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Mohamad Udin Sekh, aged 12, a Jamia school pupil from Janakpur village in eastern Nepal.

Narendra Shrestha of the European Pressphoto Agency reports — The fasting month of Ramadan is a testing time for the young students of the Jamia Gaushia Ahsanual Barkat Islamic boys' school in Kathmandu, because they have to refrain from consuming food and drinking water from sunrise until sunset. About 30 students from around Nepal as well as neighboring India are accommodated, many of them from poor families. 

Their everyday ritual for the month begins at around 3 a.m. when they wake and freshen up for sehari (or suhoor), their morning meal. At around 4:30 a.m. they attend morning prayer, a process that is repeated at 1, 5, 7 and 8 p.m.

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Schoolboys read textbooks at the Jamia school.

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Boys attend the afternoon prayer.

During the day the students attend their regular classes but according to Mohamad Aslam, a school official, the boys are less interested in studying than usual and the teachers do not force them to attend. Hence, most of the time they play, chat and read the Quran. After sunset, they sit together for aftari (or iftar), the evening meal. 

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A schoolboy sleeps with an Islamic textbook covering his face.

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A group of boys play in a courtyard of the Jamia school.

Each student pays 2,000 to 3,500 Nepalese Rupees ($22 to $39) per month to cover tuition, food and accommodation at the school, which offers education from nursery to eighth grade. Apart from Islamic studies, Urdu and Arabic language classes, the school also provides English and math classes. After completing their education, two students each year get the opportunity to travel to Egypt for higher education.

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The boys pray before eating 'aftari' (or iftar), the evening meal with fruits, vegetables and sweets, which breaks their daily fast.

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The boys prepare to go to bed.

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Rebecca Denton (rebeccasbrain on Twitter) wrote "Boris Johnson stuck on a zip line in Victoria Park. I kid you not." in her Tweet with this photo.

London Mayor Boris Johnson got stuck midair on a zip line Wednesday during a celebration for 2012 Olympic Games.

ITV, the British partner of NBC News, reported that Johnson had to be pulled the remainder of the way by people on the ground.

According to The Telegraph newspaper, Johnson was the first person to use the zip line, in Victoria Park, East London. "Get me a rope, get me a ladder," ITV quoted him as saying. "I think the brakes got stuck.”

Britain's funniest politician taken very seriously

The Telegraph said witnesses reported that Johnson spent the approximately five minutes suspended in the air waving two British flags and leading the audience in cheering the British Olympic team.

The newspaper quoted a spokesman for Johnson as saying the mayor "remained unbowed" by the incident. "The judges will rightly be marking him down for artistic impression,” the spokesman said.

The cause of the incident was not immediately clear.

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A worker pushes a wagon full of salt at the Ston Saltworks site in Ston, south Croatia on July 31.

The Ston Saltworks are the oldest and best preserved salt works from Mediterranean history, with production  techniques dating back to the Republic of Dubrovnik in the Middle Ages. Salt at Ston is gathered by locals and volunteers every summer between July and September.

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A worker collects salt at the Ston Saltworks site in Ston, south Croatia.

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A worker collects salt at the Ston Saltworks site in Ston, south Croatia.

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A wheel of a wagon full of salt is seen at the Ston Saltworks site in Ston, south Croatia.

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Wagons full of salt are seen at the Ston Saltworks site in Ston.

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Residents ride on makeshift rafts during a heavy downpour along a flooded street in Malabon, Metro Manila, the Philippines on August 1, 2012.

The death toll from the weather situation brought on by Typhoon Saola and a southwest monsoon in the Philippines has risen to 12, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. Typhoon Saola (also known as Gener) is likely to stay in Philippine territory until Friday, according to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration.

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Silvestra Baguio, 83, is carried by police to an evacuation center following flash floods in Malabon City, north west of Manila, on August 1, 2012.

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A man looks for reusable material among debris along the breakwater area as waves hit Manila Bay in Manila on August 1, 2012.

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Filipinos on rubber boats go through floodwaters in Malabon City on August 1, 2012.

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Police and wildlife rangers stand next to a dead humpback whale lying in a rock pool at Newport beach in Sydney, Australia on August 1, 2012.

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The 32-foot adult humpback, which appears to have been dead for several days, washed up in the ocean baths overnight as rough seas lashed parts of Australia's east coast.

Reuters reports — A dead 32-foot whale has washed up into an Australian seaside swimming pool.

Rough seas and a high tide washed the 20 to 30 tonne humpback whale over a chain safety fence late on Tuesday and into a public salt water swimming pool at Sydney's Newport beach.

National Parks authorities said they hope the whale carcass might float out of the pool area on the next high tide. Otherwise, workers might have to bring in a crane to remove the whale and then carve up the carcass.

One swimmer told Australian radio he saw the whale when he turned up for his regular morning dip.

"I swim every day and I'm not sharing my lane with that," he said.

Previously on PhotoBlog:

• Fishermen reel in shark the size of a school bus
• Pakistani man fights police over 40-foot shark
• Crowd pay their respects to beached whale in British Columbia
• Whale of a problem in Rio

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Police officers talk to wildlife rangers near the whale carcass at Newport beach.

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Rangers estimate the whale to weigh between 20 and 30 tonnes.