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  A reveller wears a T-shirt featuring a likeness of the young Queen Elizabeth II in Hyde Park in London. (John Macdougall, AFP)
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  A Hindu devotee blows a conch shell during the holy occasion of the bathing ritual of Hindu god Jagannath in Kolkata, India. (Bikas Das, AP)
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  An Israeli man digs a hole in the sand at Tel Aviv's beach, Israel. (Oded Balilty, AP)
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  An Iranian man has stitched up his mouth to protest against his possible extradition from Germany, in Wuerzburg, southwestern Germany. (David Ebener, AFP)
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  A partial lunar eclipse is seen through the Sapporo TV Tower in Sapporo, northern Japan. (AP, Kyodo News)
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  An Egyptian protester chant slogans during a demonstration in Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egypt's uprising, to protest against the verdicts on ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his co-defendants in Cairo. (Amr Nabil, AP)
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  Rescue workers carry bodies at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria. A passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria's largest city. (Sunday Alamba, AP)
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  Candles, baby shoes and toys placed by relatives of victims who died in a day care centre fire in Mexico City are displayed at the steps of the Angel of Independence monument during an observance of the fire's anniversary. (Marco Ugarte, AP)
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  Onlookers stand on the still-smouldering landing gear of a plane which crashed in Lagos, Nigeria, killing more than 150 people. (Jon Gambrell, AP)
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  Members of the Black Hebrews community dance during festivities marking the Shavuot harvest festival in the southern Israeli town of Dimona. (Oded Balilty, AP)
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  Novak Djokovic celebrates after beating Andreas Seppi in a French Open match at Roland Garros. Djokovic won 4-6, 6-7, 6-3, 7-5, 6-3. (Michel Euler, AP)
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  Thousands of women have protested in Istanbul against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after he said he considered abortion as murder. (Bulent Kilic, AFP)
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  A nearly full moon rises above Mount Rigi in Switzerland. (Alessandro Della Bella, AP)
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  Sue Ridley waits on Westminster Bridge for the Royal Barge to pass during the Thames Diamond Jubilee River Pageant in London. (Tim Hales, AP)
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  A Marine carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of a soldier who died in Afghanistan. (Steve Ruark, AP)
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  An Israeli protester wears a mask a symbol of Occupy Wall Street movement as she joins a march to protest the cost of living in Israel, in central Tel Aviv. (Ariel Schalit, AP)
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  Queen Elizabeth II arrives for the Epsom Derby at Epsom race course, at the start of her four-day Diamond Jubilee celebration. (Sang Tan, AP)
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  A US marine removes a bandolier of ammunition from his neck during a shooting lesson for Afghanistan police, at Camp Leatherneck, in Helmand province. (Adek Berry, AFP)
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  An image grab taken from Egyptian state TV shows ousted Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, sitting inside a cage in a courtroom in Cairo where he was sentenced to life in prison. (Egyptian TV, AFP)
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  Egyptian riot police stand guard outside a Cairo court as a protester holds up a placard against former president Hosni Mubarak. (Mohammed Abed, AFP)
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  A Palestinian protester throws back a tear gas canister at Israeli soldiers, during a demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land, in Kafr Qaddum, near the West Bank city of Nablus. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh, AFP)
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  An Egyptian woman chants slogans against Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq at a protest in Tahrir Square in Cairo decrying the result of the first round of voting. (Fredrik Persson, AP)
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  US President Barack Obama signs his autograph for a boy after speaking to employees and guests at a facility in Minneapolis. (Yuri Gripas, AFP)
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  Pope Benedict XVI speaks next to the archbishop of Milan Cardinal Angelo Scola during a meeting with pilgrims in front of Milan's cathedral, the Duomo. (Olivier Morin, AFP)
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  Policemen fire teargas at a protesting student at the Lagos University, following the renaming of the institution by the president. (Sunday Alamba, AP)
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  An Indian Railway worker repairs the damaged tracks near the wreckage of an express passenger train in Jaunpur after five people died and about 50 injured when it derailed. (Rajesh Kumar Singh, AP)
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  Kenyan soldiers are seen during a march past at the Nyayo National Stadium, in Nairobi, during the 49th Madaraka Day celebrations, which marks the Independence from former British rule. (Sayyid Azim, AP)
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  The iconic ‘Napalm girl’ photo which has communicated the horrors of the Vietnam War through the decades turns 40 this month. (Nick Ut, AP)
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  A People's Alliance for Democracy demonstrator fans herself in front of police officers during a rally on a street leading to parliament house. (Apichart Weerawong, AP)
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  Protesters trample on the national flag, after it was set alight, outside the Delmas Magistrate’s Court in Mpumalanga where the suspects in the murder of a day mother and a baby appeared. (Deaan Vivier, Beeld)
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  In Ramallah, security force members arrange Palestinian flags on coffins containing the remains of 91 militants transferred from Israel to the Palestinian Authority. (Mohammed Ballas, AP)
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  US singer actress Tina Turner arrives for the Giorgio Armani fashion show held in Beijing, China. (Ng Han Guan, AP)
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  A painting representing Jesus on the cross hangs from a wall of a damaged house following an earthquake in Concordia sulla Secchia, Italy. (Lorenzo Moscia, AP)
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  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in Denmark for talks about the Syrian crisis, attends a lunch meeting in Copenhagen. (Saul Loeb, AP)
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  Rafael Nadal watches as the ball tips over the net during his French Open match against Denis Istomin at Roland Garros. (Bernat Armangue, AP)
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  A shoe is seen on a road in Katmandu, Nepal, after a supreme court judge was shot and killed. The judge was under investigation for allegedly taking bribes. (Niranjan Shrestha, AP)
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  Members of the People's Alliance for Democracy or locally known as "the Yellow shirts," gather behind the locked main gate of the parliament during a rally in Bangkok, Thailand. (Apichart Weerawong, AP)
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  A girl cries as she joins a rally in Phnom Penh to ask for the release of villagers who were arrested when they tried to rebuild homes demolished by developers. The headband reads: "Good people are in prison and thieves are free." (Heng Sinith, AP)
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  Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi walks during the 21st World Economic Forum on East Asia in Bangkok. Suu Kyi visits Thailand for her first trip abroad in more than two decades. (Pornchai Kittiwongsakul, AFP)
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  30 pupils from several schools in Pretoria have visited the Police Academy to learn more about jobs in the SAPS. (Franco Megannon, Beeld)
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  US President Barack Obama speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP)
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  Lebanese anti-Syrian regime supporters chant slogans during a protest against the massacre of Houla, in which about 110 people were killed. (Hussein Malla, AP)
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  A supporter of jailed ex-Ukrainian premier Yulia Tymoshenko holds a picture of her during a rally in Kiev to mark 300 days since her imprisonment for corruption. (Sergei Supinsky, AFP)
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  Former president Nelson Mandela looks on during a ceremony where he received a symbolic flame to mark ANC’s centenary at his home in Qunu. (Lulamile Feni, Nelson Mandela Foundation, AFP)
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  Horacio Zeballos plays a return to SA’s Kevin Anderson during their French Open clash at Roland Garros. Anderson won 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-0. (David Vincent, AP)
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  Kayla Sheffield, 13, waits to spell her word during the National Spelling Bee, in Oxon Hill. (Jacquelyn Martin, AP)
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  Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years' imprisonment, in Leidschendam, near The Hague, Netherlands. (Toussaint Kluiters, AP)
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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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  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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  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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