World News in Pictures

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One person was shot dead as violent protests erupted near Rio's famed Copacabana beach after a dancer was killed allegedly by police, less than two months before the World Cup in Brazil



A woman applies lipstick while her family's concrete house is demolished in the community of Tondo, Manila in the Philippines. Police and local officials said that about 500 shanties and illegal structures are being demolished as the government started clearing the area to widen the road and make way for the construction of a port



A man stands next to a giant statue of Chairman Mao at the demolition site of an old factory in Chongqing



A cyclist passes some street art in Medellin, Colombia on the annual car-free day. Car-free days were first suggested during the 1973 Arab oil embargo. In 2000, Bogota became the first city in the world to restrict the use of private vehicles throughout an entire metropolis for a day

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Drowning Street: campaigners dressed as the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, and the prime minister, David Cameron, pose in front of a mockup of a flooded 10 Downing Street in London, urging them to act on climate change



Satirical sculptures burn during the traditional Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain



Haci Kilic with his 1.5 metre-long moustache in his barbershop in Erzurum, Turkey. Kilic has not cut it for 30 years and wraps his moustache around his head when he works



A newborn weighing in at a whopping 13.8lbs in Changchun, China



Women celebrate at the United Nations mission in Malakal, South Sudan, after the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) claimed it had recaptured the town from rebels



Journalists take shelter behind a tree during clashes between the National Police and anti-government activists as protests continue against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge tried their hand at DJing during a visit to a music studio in Adelaide. Catherine appeared to be the more successful of the two, receiving applause when she managed to seamlessly mix two tracks.



Police train a fire hose on protesters trying to force their way towards the US Embassy in Manila ahead of a visit by President Barack Obama next week.



Tony Blair has warned Western leaders they must put aside their differences with Russia over Ukraine to focus on the threat of Islamic extremism. The former UK prime minister - now a Middle East envoy - said powerful nations must "take sides" and back "open-minded" groups.



King Juan Carlos of Spain greets Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska after the Cervantes Prize award ceremony, at the University of Alcala de Henares.

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Increasing tensions in eastern Ukraine played out on the streets of Donetsk when pro-Russia supporters threw eggs at supporters of Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko outside a regional government building.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told Russia on Tuesday that "time is short" for action on defusing the crisis in eastern Ukraine, but Moscow refused to be rushed, saying it could handle any tougher economic sanctions the West might impose

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The much beloved Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs, celebrates its 100th birthday on April 23, 2014, and one of its most distinctive features is the manual scoreboard. Along with Boston’s Fenway Park, it is one of only two stadiums in the majors with primary manual scoreboards.

In honor of Wrigley's anniversary, Associated Press photographer Kiichiro Sato was allowed to climb the steel ladder through the steel floor for a rare behind-the-scenes visit. Juding from the photos, little has changed in the past 100 years.

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A Native American tribal leader sits on his horse in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday as the Cowboy and Indian Alliance protests the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the U.S. As part of its "Reject and Protect" protest, the alliance is organizing a week-long series of actions by farmers, ranchers and tribes to show their opposition to the pipeline

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A temporary memorial for the 47 students and teachers whose bodies have been identified after being recovered from the Sewol ferry opened Wednesday in Ansan.
Danwon High School's junior class was aboard the ferry heading to the southern tourist island of Jeju. About 250 of the students are dead or missing.





By noon, the line of mourners stretched to the street, many of them in black suits and black dresses.

"This was the only thing I could do for the students," said Lee Ae-ri, who lives in another city about a half-hour drive away. "I can't stay long inside because I feel like tearing up."

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Friends and neighbors of the late Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira prayed before playing soccer in a plaza near the spot where Pereira's body was found in the Pavao Pavaozinho slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Wednesday.

On Tuesday night, angry residents blaming police set fires and showered homemade explosives and glass bottles onto a busy avenue in the city's main tourist zone. Pereira was a well-known figure in the community, and a dancer on a television show featured on Brazil's largest channel

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U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Japanese Emperor Akihito, second left, and Empress Michiko at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Thursday, local time.

Facing fresh questions about his commitment to Asia, Obama will seek to convince Japan's leaders Thursday that he can deliver on his security and economic pledges, even as the crisis in Ukraine demands U.S. attention and resources elsewhere

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A lucky bidder could be shaken but not stirred if they win this 1964 Aston Martin DB5 when it goes under the hammer at Bonham's Newport Pagnal next month. The rusty James Bond icon is expected to fetch £10,000



Erm, fairly sure they didn't have those in 1920's Britain... Downton Abbey star Allen Leech (Tom Branson) takes a picture of photographers on his iPhone as Michelle Dockery (Lady Mary) looks on as filming for the fifth series of the popular ITV period drama gets underway in Oxfordshire



A tawny owlet is recovering at the Scottish SPCA's National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Fishcross, Clackmannanshire, after falling from its nest in Bearsden, Glasgow

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These fluffy ducklings had a lucky escape when quack-thinking staff at the Knowsley Safari Park, Merseyside, spotted them in the lion enclosure. A keeper distracted the big cats so the babies - nicknamed Ant and Dec - could be moved to safety



The Phoenix Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Artemis being recovered onto Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield after completing a mission in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean. Searchers for missing Flight MH370 face tough choices on how to proceed after almost seven fruitless weeks, with only a fraction of a deep-sea zone still left to be scanned

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Ukrainian special forces take up positions in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk as they prepare to launch an assault on the flashpoint rebel-held town



A colourful hoopoe collects a tasty treat for its chicks in southern Spain

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Anzac soldiers march during the commemoration of the Battle of Gallipoli in front of the Turkish Mehmetcik Monument in Gallipoli, Turkey



This photo made available by the North Korean news agency shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un surrounded by soldiers of a women's artillery unit in North Korea's southeastern province of Kangwon



U.S. President Barack Obama walks next to Asimo the robot while visiting Miraikan, or the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, in Tokyo

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A diver jumps into the sea near an area where the capsized passenger ship Sewol sank efforts continue to recover the sunken ferry. 150 people have so far been confirmed as dead, with teams still looking for 152 passengers who remain missing, presumed drowned



Bangladeshi garment worker Reshma Akter, who was rescued after 17 days from the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza garment factory, poses for a photograph during a interview on the outskirts of Dhaka. April 24 2014 marks the one year anniversary of the disaster that left 1,138 dead and more than 2,000 injured

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A bug makes its way across the face of a Brazillian turtle in a small stream in East Java, Indonesia



The B-31 Iceberg is seen after separating from a rift in Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier in this NASA Earth Observatory handout from November 2013. Scientists are monitoring the unusually large iceberg - roughly six times the size of Manhattan - that broke off from an Antarctic glacier and is heading into the open ocean, although not in an area heavily navigated by ships



Crowd participants dance at the IIFA Stomp event, the opening act for the 15th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards at Curtis Hixon Park in Tampa, Florida



A local walks in the street of the Cantagalo favela, next to Copacabana, Rio De Janeiro, where a young dancer was killed last weekend. Just 50 days before Brazil hosts the World Cup, authorities beefed up security in the city after a violent clash between residents and police in the slum

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David Horsey of England playing a shot during the first round of the Volvo China Open at the Genzon Golf Club in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen



Pro-Muslim Brotherhood students block a road with burning tires and chant slogan against the police and army, outside the main campus of Cairo University, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. The interior ministry blamed the Muslim Brotherhood, the group from which ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi hails and which the government has declared a terrorist group, for two deadly attacks on policemen on Wednesday

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Relatives mourn senior Egyptian police officer Brig. Gen. Ahmed Zaki, who was killed after an explosive device placed under his car went off in a western Cairo suburb, during his funeral at the police academy in central, Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, April 23, 2014.



Forensic experts inspect a mass grave site in the village of Rudnica, 280 kilometers (170 miles) south of Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, April 23, 2014, wehre at least 250 bodies of ethnic Albanian victims of the 1998 - 99 Kosovo war are believed to be buried. Some 10,000 people were killed during the conflict between Serbian security troops and Kosovo separatists, and The Serbian government official dealing with the wartime missing, Veljko Odalovic, said Wednesday that the exhumation in the village of Rudnica, will take about 60 days

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In this picture taken on early Sunday April 20, 2014, Saleh Zawaraa, 28, center, arrives on horseback after being severely injured by a tank shell as he tried to bring bread into the Syrian village of Beit Jinn, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. He and other Syrians refugees came over 2,814-meter (9,232-foot) Mount Hermon (Jabal el-Sheikh), into the town of Chebaa in southeast Lebanon. The village of Beit Jinn has been under siege by Syrian troops for months, and no food and medicine has been allowed to reach thousands of trapped civilians inside



In this picture taken early Sunday, April 20, 2014, Samira Asrawi 45, right, and her daughter Marwa, 19, left, sit on the ground weeping next to their belongings as they wait to be vetted by Lebanese soldiers at an army check point after descending from 2,814-meter (9,232-foot) high Mount Hermon (Jabal el-Sheikh) and reached the town of Chebaa in southeast Lebanon. They were part of a group of around a dozen Syrians desperate to flee their countryâs bloody civil war who fled their home in the village of Beit Jinn, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. They took part in a treacherous nighttime trek across the rugged frontier into neighboring Lebanon

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A woman weeps as she carries a flower wreath while attending the funeral of Win Tin, a senior leader of the National League for Democracy, in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Win Tin, a prominent journalist and a giant of Myanmar's democracy movement who became Myanmar's longest-serving political prisoner after challenging military rule by co-founding the NLD died on Monday, April 21, 2014



An elderly woman walks in the center of Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Pro-Russian gunmen in eastern Ukraine admitted on Wednesday that they are holding American journalist Simon Ostrovsky, saying he was suspected of unspecified "bad activities.

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An anti-riot policeman reaches to grab a protester as they are hit with a water cannon during a protest against the upcoming visit of U.S. President Barack Obama next week, in front of the U.S. embassy in Manila April 23, 2014.



Flowers and toys are seen outside a house where the bodies of three children were found, in New Malden, southwest London April 23, 2014. A 43-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion on murder after the bodies of three children were found at a house in southwest London, police said on Wednesday. Police said a four-year-old girl and two boys, both aged three, were found dead at a residential address in New Malden on Tuesday evening

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A large TVS (tornadic vortex signature) thunderstorm supercell passes over storm chaser Brad Mack in Graham, Texas late April 23, 2014. The thunderstorms were a precursor of what's forecast for this coming weekend, which could be the most significant multi-day tornado outbreak in the U.S. since 2011



Head of the Hamas government Ismail Haniyeh and Senior Fatah official Azzam Al-Ahmed (L) attend a news conference as they announce a reconciliation agreement in Gaza City April 23, 2014. The Gaza-based Islamist group Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) agreed to implement a unity pact, both sides announced in a joint news conference

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Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s Rolls Royce limousine is seen outside the Mayweather Boxing Club in Las Vegas, Nevada April 22, 2014. The World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion is preparing for his fight against World Boxing Association (WBA) champion Marcos Maidana of Argentina at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 3



A slum dweller's pets, including puppies and a cat, look on from a plastic container next to religious statues and other belongings, after a squatter colony was demolished in Tondo, Manila, Philippines, April 23, 2014. Police and local officials said that about 500 shanties and illegal structures are being demolished as the government started clearing the area to widen the road and make way for the construction of a modernized port.



The skull and crown of Swedish 12th century king Erik Jedvardsson, called Erik the Saint, are displayed when his relic shrine was opened in Uppsala Cathedral April 23, 2014. Erik, after leading the first Swedish Crusade to evangelize Finland, was beheaded by rebel noblemen outside the church in Uppsala in 1160.



Ukrainian heavyweight boxing world champion Vladimir Klitschko attends a public training session at a shopping mall in Oberhausen April 23, 2014. Klitschko will be facing Axel Leapai of Australia in a title match on April 26 in Oberhausen

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A pack of riders climbs the "Wall of Huy" during the Fleche Wallonne Classic cycling race in Huy, Belgium, April 23, 2014.



A flaming depiction of William Shakespeare is seen during a firework display at the Royal Shakespeare Company marking the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in Stratford-upon-Avon, southern England April 23, 2014.

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Ukrainian special forces take position at an abandoned roadblock in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk. Ukraine's military launched an assault on the flashpoint rebel-held town of Slavyansk, sending in armoured vehicles and a helicopter.



Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone stands with his lawyers as he arrives in court in Munich, Germany. Ecclestone went on trial for bribery

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BJP leader Narendra Modi waves to supporters from an open truck on his way to filing his nomination papers in Varanasi, India. India is in the midst of a nine phase election that began on April 7 and ends May 12



Bad hair day? Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William attend a reception at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia