World News in Pictures

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A US Forest Service Officer on foot patrol in the Big Springs area of Provo Canyon discovered a rudimentary shelter which was booby trapped with one of two devices.



Former presidential candidate John Edwards, center, arrives outside federal court with his daughter Cate, left, in Greensboro, N.C. Monday



Matthew Stevens of Wales plays a shot during the first round match of the World Championship Snooker tournament.

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ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND - APRIL 23: Michael Forbes stands beside his shed, near to Donald Trump's golf course which is currently under construction on the Menie estate on April 23, 2012 in Aberdeen, Scotland. Mr Trump will appear before the Scottish Parliaments Economy, Energy and Tourism committee on Wednesday to voice his concerns over the Scottish government's policy of promoting wind power. A decision is expected later this year on the government's plans to erect 11 turbines of the coast next to the Menie estate golf course

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Champions League: Barcelona v Chelsea

The best images from Camp Nou as Chelsea look to clinch a place in the Champions League final in Munich. With Roberto Di Matteo's side leading 1-0 from the first leg, the visitors need only a draw in Barcelona to seal their place in the final, but it seems likely to be a backs-to-the-wall effort for the Premier League side.









Twelve minutes in and Chelsea's task is made harder when Gary Cahill goes off injured after pulling a muscle when his leg went from underneath him



Chelsea decide to show Barça that they can also attack as well as park a bus in front of their goal. Petr Cech launches a huge kick over the Barça defence for Didier Drogba to chase. Victor Valdés races off his line to punch the ball away and flattens both Gerard Piqué and Drogba in the process



Finally the inevitable happens and Barcelona score, levelling the tie on aggregate. After a corner is cleared the Chelsea defence fail to push up and Dani Alves pokes a pass to Isaac Cuenca on the left. He draws Cech, slides the ball into the six-yard box and with players queuing up, Sergio Busquets strokes it into the empty net



Two minutes later it goes from bad to worse for the Blues when John Terry is shown the red card. It was a staggering piece of stupidity from the Chelsea captain who, for no apparent reason, kneed Alexis Sánchez in the back just outside the area with play going on elsewhere. The referee didn't see it, but his assistant did






They say bad things come in threes. In the 44th minute Iniesta doubles Barcelona's lead with a lovely finish. Messi finds a crucial pocket of space 30 yards from goal. He starts motoring and then, with all the attention on him, he slips a cute pass to the left for the unmarked Iniesta. He opens up his body, takes a touch and calmly slots it past Cech and into the bottom-right corner. Game over ...



Or so everyone thought. During first half injury time Frank Lampard plays in Ramires and the Chelsea striker, who is in acres of space, lifts a glorious chip over Valdés and into the net ...



He's got every reason to celebrate as it was an exquisite finish. Though the celebrations would be bitter sweet as a minute before scoring Ramires was booked which rules him out of the final, should Chelsea make it through. Half time score 2-1 (2-2 on aggregate - with Chelsea ahead on away goals)

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Barcelona start the second half as they started the first. Cesc Fábregas plays a one-two with Messi and races into the area. Drogba is caught napping and Fábregas goes to ground. The assistant behind the goal seemed to give it. It's Messi who will take it



And Messi still hasn't scored against Chelsea as he hits it high, too high and the ball smacks against the bar. Another big Messi let off for Chelsea



With Barcelona pushing everyone forward, they forget to leave anyone back to mark Fernando Torres. A punt forward sends him racing clear of the non-existent Barcelona defence. He waits for Valdés to commit himself, and once he does he just skips round him and rolls it into the empty net!






It's not long before jubilant team-mates join in on the celebrating action



Barça are unable to offer anything in return and just a couple of minutes later, the final whistle goes. The European champions are out and Chelsea are in the Champions League Final! Cue the celebrations ...






And dejection



Di Matteo thoroughly deserves to be wearing that broad smile, that's a huge performance his 10 charges have put in to knock out the holders. If Chelsea go on to win the trophy on 19 May in Munich then this caretaker manager would have done something no Chelsea boss has done, which would therefore give the club's owner Roman Abramovic a bit of a dilemma when it comes to naming the next 'proper' Chelsea boss

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A member of a catafalque party from 324 City of Randwick Squadron, Australian Air Force Cadets stands with a rifle in front of a cenotaph in eastern Sydney during an Anzac Day dawn service April 25, 2012. ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corp and ANZAC day is marked annually with hundreds of dawn services across the two countries.



A protester reacts after he was injured during clashes with police in front of the Tunisian TV headquarters in Tunis April 24, 2012. The protesters called for the privatisation of national channel "Tunis 7".

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A female supporter of Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh wears pins with his pictures as she demonstrates outside the Cabinet building to demand an investigation into the assassination attempt on Saleh last year, in Sanaa April 24, 2012.



A tiger jumps at the Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi province, west of Bangkok, April 24, 2012.

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A homeless family sleeps under an overpass in New Delhi, India, on April 25, 2012. Already the second most populous country on the planet with 1.2 billion people, India is expected to overtake China around 2030 when its population soars to an estimated 1.6 billion even as hundreds of millions of people remain trapped in abject poverty



An image provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows a meteor over Reno, Nevada on April 22, 2012.

NASA has released a photograph of a flaming meteor that unleashed a powerful sonic boom Sunday morning, rattling houses in California and Nevada when its disintegration released energy equivalent to a 5-kiloton explosion

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Bo the dog is anesthetized for his radiation treatment in the TomoTherapy unit at Texas A&M's Veterinary Medicine College in College Station, Texas.


Texas A & M's Vetinary Medicine College is home to one of the country's two animal TomoTherapy units, a $3 million machine that combines radiation therapy and CT scanning technology to treat tumors once considered untreatable.




Karan Crooks, of Willis, holds her dog Nutmeg, who received radiation treatment for cancer last year, as she talks about the experience at Texas A&M's Veterinary Medicine College in College Station, Texas

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A forest fire burns in Guadalajara, Mexico, in the early hours of April 24. The fire, which began on April 21, has affected 3500 acres of forest is now threatening Guadalajara's urban area.

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Medical students run from tear gas fired by police as they protest in solidarity with striking public doctors in La Paz, Bolivia on April 24. Public doctors are on their 28th day of an indefinite national strike in response to a decree by President Evo Morales that extends professional working hours from six to eight hours per day.

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In this May 1, 2011 file photo, rocker and gun rights advocate Ted Nugent addresses a seminar at the National Rifle Association's 140th convention in Pittsburgh. Nugent was expected to plead guilty Tuesday, April 24, 2012 to transporting a black bear he illegally killed in Alaska






Rocker Ted Nugent performs at a concert at the House of Blues at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada in this August 11, 2007 file photograph. Nugent has agreed to plead guilty to a federal wildlife violation for killing one black bear too many during a hunting expedition at a national forest in Alaska, according to court documents filed on April 20, 2012. This week the "Cat Scratch Fever" singer and gun enthusiast met with some other federal officials - the Secret Service - after he made some heated remarks about President Barack Obama.

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The body of Brazilian journalist Decio Sa, center, lies on the ground after being shot at a restaurant and bar in Sao Luis, Maranhao state, Brazil. Sa, a political reporter for the O Estado do Maranhao newspaper in northeastern Brazil, is at least the fourth journalist slain this year in the South American nation, one of the deadliest for reporters to work in, according to watchdog groups.



Thousands of demonstrators march to mark the death of 1.5 million Armenians in the former Ottoman empire, in Los Angeles. The demonstration is an annual remembrance of the killings of Armenians in the Turkish territories during World War I. Armenians refer to the killings as genocide, while Turkey contends there was no organized slaughter

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Fighters from Islamist group Ansar Dine stand guard as they prepare to hand over a Swiss female hostage for transport by helicopter to neighboring Burkina Faso, at a designated rendezvous point in the desert outside Timbuktu, Mali.



Riot police firing tear gas chase anti-government protesters during clashes in Sanabis, Bahrain, following a march through several villages on the outskirts of the capital of Manama. Witnesses said police in Bahrain have used tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of protesters participating in a march calling for the release of a jailed hunger striker.

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Fort Worth police investigate the collision of a police car, allegedly driven by a fugitive, and a Toyota SUV, at E. 7th and Calhoun in Fort Worth, Texas

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon lashed out at Israel for "illegal" settlement activities in the occupied West Bank, and called on Tel Aviv to avoid provocative moves. "All settlement activity is illegal under international law," Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday.

He stated that he was "deeply troubled" by Tel Aviv's unlawful move.

Ban noted that the regime has an international obligation to refrain from "provocations" like constructing new illegal settlements in the occupied lands.

The remarks by UN Chief came Israel announced the legalization of the outposts of Bruchin and Rechelim in northern West Bank and Sansana in the southern part of the occupied Palestinian territory.

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The occupation authorities demolished on Monday morning, water wells in the Halhoul town north of Al-Khalil in the West Bank under the pretext they were built without a permit.

The Land Research Center, said in a press release that the forces of the Occupation Army and its Civil Administration raided this morning regions in south of Halhoul town and started the demolition of the wells which were built six months ago in the regions to irrigate crops in the citizens' lands.

The Center indicated that these wells that belong to Bassam Gehchen and Ali Hamdan al-Atrash, "were funded by the French Consulate and implemented by the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC). The volume of each well reaches (100) cubic meters and each one irrigates ten acres of grapes' plantations.

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Iran claims to have unlocked the data secrets of the CIA stealth drone captured during a spy mission over Iran in December, signaling to Washington that the data was not destroyed and that Iran can crack the encryption codes.

Panetta on Monday dismissed Tehran's claims that it has recovered data from a US spy drone that went down in Iran late last year. Without providing details, Panetta said that 'based on my experience that I would seriously question their ability to do what they say they have done.'

The bat-wing RQ-170 Sentinel drone "had many different codes and passwords and other obstacles but by the help of God it became possible," the aerospace chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, told state TV on April 22. "All of this has been decoded by us and we have unlimited intelligence right now regarding this plane and its activities," he said, giving specific examples, including the use of the drone to spy on Osama bin Laden's hideout two weeks before the US raid that killed him.

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Anti-narcotics police agents incinerate seized cocaine on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia

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Landlady found dead MI6 spy Gareth Williams 'tied to bed'

Gareth Williams was on secondment from GCHQ

The inquest into the death of MI6 officer Gareth Williams, whose body was found in a locked bag in his London flat on 20 August 2010, has been told he was once found tied to his bed.

His former landlady said the spy, dressed in boxer shorts, called for help when he could not untie himself.

Earlier, Det Supt Michael Broster told the coroner he did not think the spy's death was linked to his MI6 work.

Ex-colleagues gave evidence from behind a screen, to protect their identities.

His line manager at MI6 - witness G - told the coroner Mr Williams' had performed some operational duties for the agency, and had never missed a day's work.

When asked why he did not report Mr Williams' disappearance sooner, witness G said: "Should I have taken action more quickly? Absolutely."

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Egyptian court upholds actor Adel Imam's sentence




A court in Egypt has upheld the three-month prison sentence given to leading comic actor Adel Imam for insulting Islam in his films and plays.

Imam was also fined $170 (£105) by the court in the capital, Cairo.

The 71-year-old was initially found guilty in absentia in February in a case brought by an Islamist lawyer, but was given a retrial. He may appeal.

Imam's is the latest case concerning freedom of expression against a high-profile figure in Egypt.

Two separate lawsuits accusing the Coptic Christian Telecoms tycoon Naguib Sawiris of blasphemy were dismissed earlier this year.

Mr Sawiris angered conservative Muslims last year when he tweeted cartoons of Mickey Mouse in a beard and Minnie Mouse wearing a veil

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Rain hasn't quite stopped play as the Queen, accompanied by Prince Philip, visits the Gloriana, the royal barge in which she and other members of the royal family will travel during the diamond jubilee river pageant in June



Volunteers help to set up Antony Gormley's installation Field for the British Isles, consisting of 40,000 clay figures in three rooms at Barrington Court in Somerset. They must be wondering why they didn't finish near the door



During his questioning at the inquiry Murdoch said: 'If you want to know what I think, read the Sun.'

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An extraordinary age-progression image of Madeleine McCann has been released showing her as the nine-year-old child she would be today. Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, who is leading the British review into the disappearance of Madeleine, has spoken of now having the 'best opportunity' to at last solve the mystery of what happened to her



Looking every bit the American tycoon, Donald Trump arrives with his son at the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh where they will appear before the economy, energy and tourism committee. Trump is locked in a battle over wind turbines with Alex Salmond, who says he refuses to let Trump dictate energy policy



Pedestrians brave heavy rain and strong wind along Oxford Street in London. Their reasons to be cheerful would appear … almost none judging by the report from our economics editor on the UK economy and double-dip recession. Unless, perhaps, you're in the umbrella business

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Manila, Philippines: protesters hold onto each other as they are hit by water cannon from anti-riot police who tried to prevent them from entering the gates leading to the Malacañang presidential palace. The violence erupted during a recent demolition of a flea market in Parañaque city where at least one person died and several others were injured as authorities tried to break the barricade of illegal settlers in the area

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Anzac Day

Anzac Day commemorations are held each year on 25 April to mark the anniversary of the ill-fated landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac) at Gallipoli, Turkey, in the first world war




A man clad in a first world war uniform walks among the graves at the Australian National Memorial during wreath-laying ceremonies in Villers-Bretonneux, northern France












Australians walk along Hellfire Pass, a railway cutting on the Burma-Siam Death Railway built during the Japanese occupation, after an Anzac Day memorial ceremony for soldiers who died during the second world war in Kanchanaburi province, Thailand






The annual dawn service in Anzac Cove, Gallipolli in commemoration of the ill-fated campaign on Turkey's Gallipoli peninsula. Thousands of New Zealanders and Australians travel to Turkey each year for dawn services on 25 April