World News in Pictures

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Prisoners in costumes celebrate the festival of the Virgin of Mercy, in El Buen Pastor jail, Bogota, Colombia. Prisoners at the jail celebrate the festival every year with a beauty contest and dancing.



This creepy-looking bug bears a striking resemblance to the murderous creatures from the film Alien. It was photographed with specialist equipment by Woe Hendrick

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A view of a 1: 8 scale model of Chang'e 3 moon rover at a public naming campaign for it at Beijing Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. On the research basis of the probes of Chang'e-1 in 2007 and Chang'e-2 in 2010, the Chang'e-3 moon rover, scheduled to be launched by the end of 2013, is a part of the second phase of the lunar probe program, marking the first time a Chinese spacecraft will land on the surface of an extraterrestrial body



Baltimore Orioles' Jonathan Schoop reacts after teammate Adam Jones covered his face with shaving cream after a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Baltimore. Schoop hit a solo home run in his big league debut and Baltimore won 9-5.

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A remote controlled robot, right, draws a part of the artwork 'Long Distance Art' by Viennese artist Alex Kiessling, left, in Berlin, Germany. Kiessling drew a picture in the Vienna Museums Quarter while a robot completed the picture at the same time in Berlin and London. All of the his movements were recorded and sent to the robot via satellite



A massive blaze from a fertiliser plant burns in Sao Francisco do Sul, southern Brazil. The raging fire sparked evacuations and panic as residents feared the thick, heavy smoke billowing high into the sky was hazardous. Authorities assured locals that the smoke is not toxic

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A Russian T-90MS tank fires during the Russia Arms Expo 2013, the 9th international exhibition of arms, military equipment and ammunition in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil



A grape harvester walks through a steep field crossed by a monorail in the village of Manarola in the Cinque Terre area of Italy . The steep land is almost 50 degrees in some areas

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A Sri Lankan Muslim woman walks on the beach in Colombo



The artwork 'Wretched War' by British artist Damien Hirst is on display during a preview of the exhibition 'The Anatomy Lesson' at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, The Netherlands. Seventeenth-century 'anatomy lesson' paintings will be shown alongside works on similar themes by international classic modern and contemporary artists in the exhibit that will run from 28 September 2013 to 01 May 2014.

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Topless Femen activists protest at the entrance to the Nina Ricci show during Paris Fashion Week



Models present creations by Kenje Couture during a special guest show in the National Contest of Young Designers OPEN WAY in Almaty, Kazakhstan

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Russian space agency rescue team members carry U.S. astronaut Cady Coleman away from the landing site after the landing of the Soyuz capsule about 150 km (80 miles) south-east of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan



The destruction at the Westgate Shopping Centre in Nairobi, following a string of explosions during a stand-off between Kenyan security forces and gunmen inside the building . Experts from U.S., British, Israeli and other agencies have joined Kenyan officers investigating the Westgate mall where militants from the al Qaeda-aligned Somali group al Shabaab launched a well-planned assault on Saturday.

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Relatives and friends carry the coffin of Ruhila Adatia Sood, A Radio Africa television and radio presenter, during her funeral ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya. The country is observing three days of national mourning as security forces begin the task of clearing and securing the Westgate shopping mall following a four-day siege by militants



Base jumper Jean-Philippe Marie Teffaud, left, and his team mate Frederic Yves Fugen of France leap from the 300-metre Open Deck of the Malaysia's landmark Kuala Lumpur Tower during the International Tower Jump in Malaysia. About 103 professional base jumpers from 20 countries took part in the annual event.

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A member of the Special Warfare Command breaks slabs of marble during a rehearsal for the upcoming October 1 Armed Forces Day anniversary at a military airport in Seongnam, Korea



Rescue workers use a stretcher to carry a woman who was rescued from the rubble at the site of a collapsed residential building in Mumbai, India. One person was killed and six injured when the five-storey building came crashing down in south Mumbai on Friday morning, local media quoted officials as saying.



A hunt saboteur and a policeman face-off, both videoing each other, after an incident in Ledbury



Employees of the French chemical firm Kem One demonstrate in the streets of Lyon as Lyon's commercial court examines their situation. The 1,300 employees of Kem One, placed into receivership since March 27, were due to be informed about potential buyers and their restructuring projects but the court delayed its final decision to December 12.



The star formation region NGC 6334, one of the first scientific images from the ArTeMiS instrument on APEX. The picture shows the glow detected at a wavelength of 0.35 millimetres coming from dense clouds of interstellar dust grains. The new observations from ArTeMiS show up in orange and have been superimposed on a view of the same region taken in near-infrared light by ESO's VISTA telescope at Paranal

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Alfa Romeo 4C



The 4C was designed and engineered by Alfa Romeo and is built by Maserati in Modena, progressing from concept to reality in only 28 months.



When developing the 4C, Alfa Romeo focused on key targets: uncompromising driving pleasure, a kerb weight of no more than 900kg and supercar performance at an affordable price








Purists will cherish the fact that the 4C is rear-wheel drive, something Alfa hasn't offered since the 75 saloon, which was made until 1992 and was its last independently designed car before the company was acquired by Fiat.

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The 4C is built around a carbon-fibre tub, which accounts for only 65kg of the 895kg total weight.
The rest of the structure is aluminium, while the engine also plays its part. It's a development of the 1,742cc unit used in the Giulietta Quadrofoglio Verde hatchback, but 22kg lighter thanks to being cast entirely in aluminium







The 4C's mid-engined layout means that there's a space for luggage at the rear of the car



The 1,742cc turbocharged four-cylinder engine provides strong acceleration. Peak torque of 258lb ft is available between 2,100 and 4,000rpm, and 80 per cent of that from only 1,800rpm



The interior features plenty of the bare carbon-fibre tub. The steering wheel is a chunky, leather-clad item with integrated paddle gear-shifters, while the remaining controls are grouped together on the tunnel console

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A sheet covers a damaged road from snipers in Sheikh Maksoud, Aleppo, Syria, September 26, 2013.



Iran's President Hassan Rohani laughs as he speaks during an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Asia Society in New York, September 26, 2013.



U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) prays with Rev. Rob Schenck (L) of the Christian Defense Coalition in front of the White House in Washington September 26, 2013. The event marked the one year anniversary of Saeed Abedini, an Iranian American pastor who is serving eight years in an Iranian prison.

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas waits to address the 68th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York September 26, 2013.



An employee takes a nap in a shutdown electrolysis plant in Montenegro's Kombinat Aluminijuma Podgorica (KAP) aluminium factory in Podgorica September 9, 2013. In its heyday in the late 1970s, KAP supported the families of 5,000 workers. Now, with its workforce cut to a fifth, huge parts of the complex resemble a ghost town, blanketed in dust and suffocated by debts of more than 380 million euros ($513 million). Montenegro is now torn between a pressing need for economic stability and the political and social cost of closing down KAP. It's a choice faced by others in the Balkans: giving up a cherished, but ultimately unprofitable business model, spurred by financial necessity and hope of renewed prosperity within the European Union. The former Yugoslavia is littered with such industrial dinosaurs, deprived of the largesse of the late socialist leader Josip Broz Tito but kept on life-support by governments too scared to pull the plug.



A newly wed couple sits in front of the "House Boat", a vintage camping caravan that was converted into a hotel room at the Base Camp Bonn Young Hostel, the world's first camping trailer and Pullman coach hostel, in Bonn September 20, 2013. The hostel was opened in August this year in a former storage facility, consists of 15 various camping caravans in vintage style, two former railway Pullman coaches and four U.S. Airstream trailers all with shared washrooms. The prices of the 120 beds in the 1600 square meter indoor complex range from 22 to 69 euros per night. Each trailer was individually designed by film and TV outfitter Marion Seul. Picture taken September 20, 2013.

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A member of the Muslim rebels of Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) helps a fellow rebel drink water after they surrendered to the government soldiers, as they wait to be fingerprinted at a police station in Zamboanga city, in southern Philippines, September 26, 2013. The death toll from more than two weeks of fighting between the government soldiers and the rebels reached 173 people and the fighting displaced more than 109,000 people, according to the police.



Jay Grey (L), 21, and his sister Vicky, 22, wait outside their roadside double-decker cafe, the Red Bus Cafe, along the A64 near Thorner, northern England August 23, 2013. Snack vans can be found in lay-bys along main roads across Britain, offering motorists and other passers-by a cheap, independent alternative to conventional service stations. They can take the form of trailers, little vans, caravans or even converted buses, which tempt customers with hearty food including traditional "Full English" breakfasts, burgers and cups of tea.



Free Syrian Army fighters run away from an explosion from what activists say was an airstrike from warplanes loyal to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad in Tabaka, Raqqa countryside September 26, 2013.



Malala Yousafzai (R) waves as she receives the "Leadership in Civil Society" award from Rania Al Abdullah, the Queen of Jordan at the Clinton Global Initiative 2013 in New York, September 25, 2013.

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An Indian police officer crouches next to the body of a man killed in a militant attack against a police station in Hiranagar, Kathua district September 26, 2013. Militants dressed in Indian army uniforms killed at least eight people in attacks on an Indian police station and army camp near the Pakistan border on Thursday, triggering calls to cancel talks between the rival nations' leaders.



The signature reading "Napoleon" written by the aide of late French Emperor Napoleon weeks before his death is seen on documents coming from a private collection of eight codicils dictated by the incapacitated Emperor and displayed in Paris, September 26, 2013. Following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was exiled to the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena where he lived out his days and died on May 5, 1821. The documents to be auctioned come from a private collection and are two of eight codicils to the emperor's will, most of which are kept at the French national archives. The documents themselves are currently being housed in a book shop in central Paris but will go under the hammer on November 6th and are expected to fetch between 80,000 and 120,000 euros.



A boy plays in a Chinese traditional pavilion next to an inflated Rubber Duck by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman at the Summer Palace in Beijing September 26, 2013. The 18-metre-high (59 ft.) inflatable sculpture will be displayed at the historic tourist attraction for a month, local media reported.

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BASE jumpers from around the world leaped from the 300-meter (984 feet) high deck of Malaysia's landmark Kuala Lumpur Tower on Friday, Sept. 27. Some 103 professional BASE jumpers from 20 countries are taking part in the annual event

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In his final appearance at Yankee Stadium, Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees waves to the crowd after leaving the game against the Tampa Bay Rays in the ninth inning Thursday night. Read full story

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This shed would be ideal for those base jumpers as it is above a 7,000ft drop in the Alps at Morgins, Switzerland. The building was built to house the operator of a chairlift in the Portes du Soleil resort in and with unabated views across the stunning mountain ranges, there are worse places to call your office



Cute picture of the day alert! Taronga Zoo in Australia are celebrating following the birth of these adorable baby feather-tailed gliders. They are the smallest gliding possums in the world and are able to glide up to 20m thanks to a special membrane which stretches from their front to rear feet.

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White spotted puffer-fish inflated



Here's the statue. Worth the money?

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A Cambodian man uses a makeshift raft next to his flooded house at a village along the Mekong river in Kandal province, Cambodia. According to an official of the Cambodian National Committee on Disaster Management, flooding has killed at least 20 people including 11 children, around 4765 families have been evacuated to higher ground and 33642 families have been affected



Calm before the storm, Roger Hill in front of a tornado near Campo, Colorado, US



Abdullah Hamisi winces as he drops an octopus into a boiling cauldron in Dar es Salaam. Crammed with fishermen, auctioneers and buyers, the Kivukoni fish market in downtown Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, operates at a furious pace

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Size does matter: Tim Saint arrives at the Malvern Autumn show at the Three Counties Showground with his 32 kilo marrow, Malvern, UK.



A relative carries a portrait of Rosemary Wahito, the fiancee of Mbugua Maina, the nephew of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, after a church service in Nairobi. Both Wahito and Maina died in the Westgate Mall shopping mall attack, in which at least 72 people were killed over the weekend

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You don't want to wake Wolverine: Australian actor Hugh Jackman poses with fans after the screening of his film Prisoners during the 61st San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain



Israeli border policemen detain a Palestinian protester during clashes following Friday prayers at Shuafat refugee camp in the West Bank, near Jerusalem



The man who changed our lives. Martin Cooper, the inventor of the mobile phone poses with a smartphone while receiving an honorary degree from Hasselt Univeristy, Belgium

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Members of the 'Kindness Offensive', an organisation that performs both small and large-scale random acts of kindness, outside the former pub 'Latin Quarter' on Camden Road, London, that they have turned into a free book shop



Familiar scenes on the streets of Hebron in the West Bank as Palestinian youths clash with Israeli troops on the 13th anniversary of the second Palestinian Intifada



A pink elephant balloon, one of the entries in the Canadian Hot Air Balloon Championships, lands in a field in High River.



An historic moment is captured by WHite House photographer Pete Souza, as President Barack Obama talks to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a phone call in the Oval Office, Washington, in the first such communication between a US and Iranian president since 1979. The conversation was part of diplomatic efforts to resolve concerns about Iran's nuclear programme



A young Bahraini girl decked out with her country's national flag and a pair of trendy sunglasses attends an anti-government protest in the village of Jannusan, west of the capital Manama. Thousands of Bahrainis took to the streets to condemn the arrest of ex-MP Marzooq

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London tattoo convention

More than 300 tattoo artists from around the world are to showcase their body art in 26 halls at the convention, which also features live music and tattoo competitions

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