World News in Pictures

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ANC supporters dance near the party's headquarters in Johannesburg, ahead of the Democratic Alliance supporters' march to raise concerns over the 6 million jobs promised by the president in the party's election manifesto



A Kenyan protester mocks riot police during a march in Nairobi against corruption, insecurity, unemployment and poverty

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Northern lights over Vermilion Lakes, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada



A painter packs away his art near the frontline of anti-government protests in Kiev, Ukraine



Dangerous bling: a model with bejewelled nails poses backstage at CND for the Blonds during New York fashion week

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Groom Praem Pam Srichamnan and bride Suriya Utai run on pads over a pond while being chased by men dressed as pirates during their wedding ceremony in Prachin Buri province, Thailand



Several thousand students march in Caracas, Venezuela, to demand the release of 30 young detainees. The march began peacefully but ended in violence, with several wounded and an undetermined number of deaths

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Sochi 2014: day five of the Winter Olympics

After a historic shared gold medal in the women’s downhill skiing, the action continued apace on a big day in Sochi



Tina Maze set the time of 1:41.57 in the women's downhill, which put her in the gold medal position



Dominique Gisin came down the hill later, but set the exact same time



The pair share the top step of the podium

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After the ski jumping, Frenzel started with a 6 second lead going into the cross country. Watabe narrowed the deficit, but was unable to make it up, finishing a total of 4.5 seconds behind the German



The gold and silver medallists, Eric Frenzel (left) and Akito Watabe collapse in exhaustion at the finish line

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The Netherlands continues to dominate the speed skating events, with Stefan Grootius taking gold in the men's 1000m



A bad day for the US women's ice hockey team saw them lose 3-2 to Canada



A bad day at the curling centre for Eve Muirhead and the Great Britain team saw them lose 9-6 to Canada



The men's team fared much better with a 2-4 victory against Switzerland

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In the men's luge doubles, Andreas Linger (right) and Wolfgang Linger of Austria were over the moon to find they'd won the silver medal at the end of their run



Gold, however, went to the German duo of Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt, with a combined time of 1:38.933

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Australia's Torah Bright won the silver medal in the day's marquee event: women's halfpipe. Coming in just a quarter of a point below gold medal position, some believed the gold should have been hers



Gold wen to the Katie Farrington of the US, who took gold with a best run score of 91.75

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Sochi 2014: British joy and despair on day six

On a huge day for the British team at the Winter Olympics, we take a look at the winners and losers. We've got the best of James Woods' bid for freestyle skiing gold, the men and women's curling teams, Lizzy Yarnold and Shelley Rudman in the skeleton and Elise Christie in the speed skating



Elise Christie is competing in two speed skating events at this year's Olympics – the 500m and the 1000m. She qualified for the final of the 500m, giving her a one in four chance of gold ...



But the final was a disastrous affair as she attempted to cut inside her rivals early in the race and instead skittled two of them, Seung-Hi Park of South Korea (left) and Arianna Fontana of Italy (right)



Christie hit the padding hard, while China's Li Jianrou, who avoided the carnage, cruised to the gold medal. Christie got to her feet quicker than her other stricken rivals and crossed the finish-line in second place ...



But, somewhat inevitably, she was disqualifed for her part in the collision and denied a silver medal. Christie's preferred discipline, the 1000m, takes place next week

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Great Britain's men's curling team faced the USA in the group stages. David Murdock, Scott Andrews, Greg Drummond and Michael Goodfellow (pictured) had already won three of their four matches going into this one



Skip David Murdoch leads them to a 5-3 win which puts them joint-second in the group stages



Britain's women won 8-7, their second win in four matches

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Lizzy Yarnold made a great start to the women's skeleton, setting a course record with her first run



Yarnold was top of the standings after two runs and is primed to win gold tomorrow

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Storm wreaks havoc along west coast of UK

High winds, strong seas and heavy rain batter the west of Britain with winds reaching up to 100mph in places









A steward walks past a fallen programme booth in Manchester before the Premier League football match between Manchester City and Sunderland. In the end it was postponed due to the bad weather

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Shanghai tower climb

China’s new tallest building has received unexpected publicity thanks to Russian free climbers Vadim Makhorov and Vitaly Raskalov. The pair took two hours to climb 650 metres up the unfinished Shanghai Tower. They did not use safety equipment on their ascent to the top of a crane attached to the tower, from where they took these extraordinary pictures of Shanghai






The climbers look down on Jin Mao Tower in cloud. Until 2007, Jin Mao, which has 88 floors, was the tallest building in China












The Shanghai Tower will dominate the skyline when completed

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U.S. President Barack Obama returns a "shaka" hand sign from a member of the audience as he arrives to sign an executive order to raise the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $10.10 an hour starting next year during an event at the White House in Washington, February 12, 2014. The order will affect workers starting on January 1, 2015, and applies to new contracts and replacements for expiring contracts.



A demonstrator jumps on shield wall formed by riot police during a protest against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas, February 12, 2014. One person was killed during standoffs at the end of the anti-government rally in Caracas, witnesses said, escalating the worst bout of unrest in Venezuela since protests against Maduro's April 2013 election



Military policemen take cover during a clash with members of the Landless Workers Movement at a demonstration in Brasilia, Brazil, February 12 , 2014

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Australia's David Warner is bowled out by South Africa's Dale Steyn delivery during the first day of their cricket test match in Centurion, February 12, 2014



A priest speaks through a megaphone to riot police and anti-government protesters at the site of recent clashes in Kiev, Ukraine, February 12, 2014.



Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin leaves the courthouse after being found guilty on graft charges in New Orleans, Louisiana, February 12, 2014. Nagin, 57, was standing trial on 21 counts of corruption, including bribery, conspiracy, money laundering and tax evasion during the city's recovery from Hurricane Katrina in 2005



A dead protester is carried away after gun shots were heard during an anti-government rally in Caracas, Venezuela, February 12, 2014. A Reuters cameraman and a photographer heard shots and saw the protester had fallen to the ground. The man was then carried away dead, the witnesses said, apparently shot in the head. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said two student protesters were killed during the demonstration in Caracas against President Nicolas Maduro's government. A government official has confirmed only one death, and said the victim was one of its supporters.

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Deadly protests in Venezuela




An opposition demonstrator aims a slingshot at police during a protest against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas February 12, 2014. A demonstrator (not pictured) was killed during the anti-government rally in Caracas, Reuters witnesses said

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A demonstrator is detained by plainclothes policemen during an anti-government protest in Caracas February 12, 2014.

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River Thames bursts its banks

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