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  Two beluga whales play with a football at the Beijing Aquarium. The aquarium, which is the largest in China, was named as a "Beijing civilized Tourist Scenic Spot". (Mark Ralston, AFP)
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  Goodman Gallery director Liza Essers appears at a media briefing at the gallery in Rosebank, Johannesburg. (Stephane de Sakutin, AFP)
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  A picture shows a portrait of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is taped to a Union Flag outside the Supreme Court in central London. (Leon Neal, AFP)
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  The entrance to the Syrian embassy in the Australian capital Canberra. (Mark Graham, AFP)
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  Refugees from northern Mali wait for treatment at the Imbaidou refugee camp near Ayoru, 200km northwest of Niamey in Niger. (Issouf Sanogo, AFP)
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  A scientist works in an above-ground version of a dark-matter detector to be opened nearly 1.5km beneath the earth in Lead, South Dakota. (Amber Hunt, AP)
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  Elderly people walk in a temporary emergency camp after an earthquake rocked northeastern Italy, killing at least 15 people. (Olivier Morin, AFP)
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  Former president Thabo Mbeki, the lead negotiator for the African Union-led negotiations between Sudan and South Sudan, is seen during talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Jenny Vaughan, AFP)
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  Guards at the Industrial Development Corporation office in Sandton remove bags dumped by Greenpeace activists during a protest. (Cornel van Heerden, Beeld)
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  A man takes a mattress from his house as he prepares to sleep outside for the night after an earthquake in Mirandola, Italy, which killed 17 people. (Olivier Morin, AFP)
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  A woman writes a message during a memorial service in Doha, Qatar, for 19 people killed in a fire at the Villaggio mall. There were 13 toddlers among the dead. (Osama Faisal, AP)
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  A promoter holds a Aaeon tablet during a pre-show press conference for the 2012 Computex Taipei. Computex is Asia's biggest annual IT trade fair which opens on June 5, 2012. (Mandy Cheng, AFP)
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  An African Union tank escorts Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed near Elasha Biyaha outside Mogadishu Somalia. A convoy with the Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed was attacked as he returned from a visit to town outside the capital Mogadishu. (Farah Abdi Warsameh, AP)
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  Afghan schoolgirls wearing burqas walk past the artisan's village of Istalif, near Kabul. Although free to attend school, they still face various obstacles in obtaining education. (Shah Marai, AFP)
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  A young boy looks on at a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Craig, Colorado. (AFP)
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  Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar arrives with her Chinese counterpart, Yang Jiechi, for a meeting in Islamabad. (Aamir Qureshi, AFP)
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  Defending champion Rafael Nadal returns the ball to Simone Bolelli during their French Open clash at Roland Garros. (Christophe Ena, AP)
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  ANC members have marched to the Goodman Gallery in Rosebank to defend President Jacob Zuma’s dignity. (Leon Sadiki, City Press)
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  Members of the public and celebrities attend a birthday sing-a-long for former president Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg. (Denis Farrell, AP)
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  Riot police with shields line up to keep protesters away from the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg. (Werner Beukes, Sapa)
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  A man dressed as a banana takes part in a protest in Quebec City in Canada. Quebec police arrested 84 protesters after student organisers and officials held their latest round of talks aimed at ending three months of protests against a proposed tuition hike. (Francis Vachon, AFP)
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  Protestors make their way to the Goodman Gallery in Rosebank. They gathered in protest against Brett Murray's The Spear, which, until it was defaced last week, was on display there. (Maryke Vermaak, Sapa)
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  The ANC march stops just short of the Goodman Gallery in Rosebank, Johannesburg. (Sipho Hlongwane, @comradesipho via Twitter)
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  ANC supporters march along Jan Smuts Avenue towards the Goodman Gallery in Rosebank, Johannesburg. (Michael Appel, @TheMikeAppel via Twitter)
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  ANC supporters show their support for President Jacob Zuma in Johannesburg. Supporters have started gathering at Zoo Lake to march to the Goodman Gallery. (Eyewitness News, via Twitter)
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  An Egyptian supporter collects scattered electoral flyers with pictures of presidential runoff candidate Ahmed Shafiq in front of his ransacked campaign headquarters, in Cairo, Egypt. (Nasser Nasser, AP)
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  The father of a child killed after a fire took hold of the Villaggio Mall in Doha's west end is comforted in the Qatari capital. (Osama Faisal, AP)

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