World News in Pictures

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Emily (left) and Stella of Warpaint
What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen?
Stella: We saw a man wearing a tutu walking with his girlfriend who was wearing the same outfit. And a hill of woodchips which had a father and son asleep on it.



Bobby Gillespie (right) with Mani, Primal Scream
What is it about Screamadelica that is so right for Glastonbury?
M: It’s one of those albums that ­captures a certain moment in time, an ideology, and runs with it.
B: The first festival we ever played was Glastonbury. It was ’92, less than a year after Screamadelica came out, and it was the biggest crowd that we had played to at that point, 30,000-40,000 people. So I don’t want to say we’ve come full circle, but it’s appropriate to be back.

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Glastonbury 2011: How was it for the audience?




Alice Crook, 36, Gravesend

What are you wearing?

I’m a morris dancer and this is pretty much my morris outfit, except we normally wear longer skirts and Doc Martens: it’s gothic morris.



Tristan White, 39, London

What have you learned?

This is my 15th [Glastonbury] and some things never change – like the stone circle and the toilets. Glastonbury has made me a more tolerant person the rest of the year. Two days ago, I also learned how to make a silver ring at a workshop and yesterday how to blow glass – I made a glass bauble.

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Richard Baffoe-Djan, 24, London

What are you wearing?

I just put on whatever is in my drawer, but I really like bright clothes like this T-shirt – and it says Super Fly Guy, which I am! My hair’s been like this since my friends shaved the sides when I was asleep two years ago.



Daniel Goodchild, 26, London

What’s the best thing you have seen?

The whole thing is breathtaking. I’m from Adelaide in Australia and this is my first Glastonbury – we don’t have anything like this in Australia.

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Daniel Danger Ferro, 32, London

What have you learned?

Carry a clipboard, because people here always have something noteworthy to say – and collect as many wristbands as possible.



Henry Boast, 23, North Devon – with his camel Humphrey

What are you wearing?

This is my zookeeper’s uniform. I’ve been walking my camel Humphrey around so children can ride on him and pet him.

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Gay pride parades around the world




Revellers pose for a photograph during a gay pride parade in Mexico City



A participant of the parade in Santiago, Chile, gets ready to join the party

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A gay rights activist holds a poster reading 'equality' during a rally in St Petersburg



A dog with dyed-pink fur is escorted by its owner during the annual gay pride parade in Paris

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Gaddafi's female soldiers




Volunteers wave flags and guns and shout slogans in support of Gaddafi during a guided government tour for journalists

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Deadly bombing in north Nigeria




A bomb attack in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Maiduguri has killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens, officials say.

They say they believe the attack, which occurred in a beer garden, was carried out by the Islamic sect Boko Haram.

The group believes Muslims should withdraw from Western society.

It has claimed a number of bombings in north-eastern Nigeria, as well as an attack on police headquarters in the capital Abuja earlier this month.

Two men on motorcycles attacked a packed beer garden late on Sunday, officials said.

"The attackers believed to be Boko Haram members threw bombs and fired indiscriminate gun shots on a packed tavern at Dala Kabompi neighbourhood, killing at least 25 people and seriously injuring around 30 others," a police officer told the AFP news agency.

Eyewitnesses Emmanuel Okon told AFP: "I just heard a loud bang followed by sporadic shootings and plumes of black smoke filled the area with people screaming and running in all directions."

Boko Haram has recently carried out a wave of attacks targeting police, mainly in the north-eastern state of Borno.

Earlier this month, the group said it was behind the bombing of the national police headquarters in the capital, Abuja.

The group's trademark has been the use of gunmen on motorbikes.

Its leader Mohammed Yusuf and several hundred of his supporters were killed by security forces in Maiduguri in 2009 after the group attacked police stations.

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Argentina's River Plate lose historic relegation fight




One of the great clubs of South American football, River Plate, have been relegated from the Argentine first division for the first time in their 110-year history.

River needed to win by two clear goals to escape dropping to the country's "B" league.

But the team managed only a 1-1 draw against Belgrano de Cordoba.
The match, held in River's stadium in Buenos Aires, had to be abandoned in the final minute, amid chaotic scenes.

No-one, absolutely no-one, will be able to forget this day” Clarin Argentine national newspaper

Police fired water cannon up into the stands, following a pitch invasion by furious River fans.

And they had to escort players from both teams from the field, as home supporters hurled a barrage of objects over the perimeter fence.

The violence continued after the game, with clashes outside the stadium between hardcore fans and helmeted riot police, as helicopters hovered overhead.

More than 2,000 police had been deployed before the game in an unparalleled security operation for a club game.

Medical sources report that at least 25 people have been injured.

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Is the US in denial over its $14tn debt?





This is a story of debt, delusion and - potentially - disaster. For America and, if you happen to think that American influence is broadly a good thing, for the world.

The debt and the delusion are both all-American:$14 trillion (£8.75tn) of debt has been amassed and there is no cogent plan to reduce it.

The figure is impossible to comprehend: easier to focus on the fact that it grows at $40,000 (£25,000) a second. Getting out of Afghanistan will help but actually only at the margins. The problem is much bigger than any one area of expenditure.

The economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, is no rabid fiscal conservative but on the debt he is a hawk:

"I'm worried. The debt is large. It should be brought under control. The longer we wait, the longer we suffer this kind of paralysis; the more America boxes itself into a corner and the more America's constructive leadership in the world diminishes."

The author and economist Diane Coyle agrees. And she makes the rather alarming point that the acknowledged deficit is not the whole story.

The current $14tn debt is bad enough, she argues, but the future commitments to the baby boomers, commitments for health care and for pensions, suggest that the debt burden is part of the fabric of society:

"You have promises implicit in the structure of welfare states and aging populations that mean there is an unacknowledged debt that will have to be paid for by future taxpayers, and that could double the published figures."

Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations acknowledges that this structural commitment to future debt is not unique to the United States. All advanced democracies have more or less the same problem, he says, "but in the case of the States the figures are absolutely enormous".

Mr Haass, a former senior US diplomat, is leading an academic push for America's debt to be taken seriously by Americans and noticed as well by the rest of the world.

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BIS warns low rates may create 'financial distortions'



The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has warned that low interest rates across the globe are a threat to world financial stability.

The BIS warned low cost of borrowing had resulted in a credit and property price boom that was fuelling inflation, especially in emerging economies.

Central banks across the globe have cut interest rates in an attempt to boost growth after the 2008 financial crisis.

However, BIS warned that the policy may prove to be counterproductive.

"The prolonged period of very low interest rates entails the risk of creating serious financial distortions, misallocations of resources and delay in the necessary deleveraging in those advanced countries most affected by the crisis," the bank said.

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Libya: Fierce fighting south-west of Tripoli



Libyan rebels have been engaged in fierce firefights with government forces about 80km (50 miles) south-west of Tripoli.

A BBC correspondent who was with the rebels was told by a volunteer medic two of them had died in the battle.

The rebels said government forces suffered far greater casualties, although that cannot be confirmed.

Meanwhile, Col Muammar Gaddafi has agreed to stay out of talks on ending the conflict, African leaders said.

In a communique after talks on Sunday in South Africa, the African Union panel on Libya said it "welcomes Colonel Gaddafi's acceptance of not being part of the negotiations process". The statement did not elaborate

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Ghulam Shabbir, 30, a labourer who has been displaced by heavy floods for a year, works in a brick factory in Karampur, about 43 miles from Sukkur, in Pakistan's Sindh province June 26. Up to five million people in Pakistan are at risk from floods this year, partly due to poor reconstruction and the inadequate rehabilitation of survivors who are still reeling from last year's epic deluge, the United Nations said.



Japanese artist Sasaki paints the individual heartbeats of attendees at the Dwell on Design show in Los Angeles, California June 26. Sasaki is collecting donations for tsunami victims in Japan. After making a donation, the attendee's pulse is electronically monitored and relayed by speaker to the artist, who then interprets the beats onto a canvas using red paint.

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Women dressed as bride and groom march in the annual Gay Pride parade in Greenwich Village, Sunday, June 26, in New York. One of the world's oldest and largest gay pride parades was expected to become a victory celebration Sunday after New York's historic decision to legalize same-sex marriage. The law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday doesn't take effect for 30 days.

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A woman waves as she takes part in a parade as fans and owners of East German-era Trabant cars gather at the 2011 International Trabantfahrer Treffen (International Trabant Drivers Meeting) on June 26, in Zwickau, Germany. The Trabant, also known as the Trabi, was among the main cars produced in communist East Germany and built by VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke in Zwickau for 30 years until 1989. Today the car has cult status for many followers and one company, IndiKar, is even seeking to revive the brand in a modern, electric version.

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A woman looks over the scene of car and bus accident on Interstate 81 in Chambersburg, Pa., Sunday, June 26. Pennsylvania State Police said the bus from Cumberland Valley Christian School in Chambersburg collided with a passenger vehicle on Interstate 81, injuring more than two dozen people and closing the highway for hours.

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Midwest floods

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A drowned carp?

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Rising rivers, threatened homes in Minot, N.D