World News in Pictures

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New Delhi, India: A girl plays on a makeshift swing tied on a door frame in a slum



Managua, Nicaragua: A transvestite splashes on some make-up during the Gay Pride Parade

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Chongqing, China: A performer dressed in traditional party garb salutes at a celebration for the upcoming 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist party



Lalitpur, Nepal: The Nepalese army chief, Chhatra Man Singh Gurung, awaits dignitaries for the Bhotojatra festival

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Lalitpur, Nepal: The feet of Living Goddess Kumari on a silver plate at the Bhotojatra festival



Beijing, China: Dancers at a gala show in the Great Hall of the People

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Cairo, Egypt: Egyptians carry away a young injured during clashes between protesters and police in Tahrir square



Alta Verapaz, Guatemala: Police at a site where weapons were seized during a farm raid in Coban

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Protesters clash with riot police in Tahrir Square, Cairo

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A protester wearing a gas mask walks beside a burning van during violent protests against austerity measures in Athens, June 28, 2011. With Greece teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, parliament is due to vote this week on a package of spending cuts, tax increases and privatisations agreed as part of a massive bailout aimed at averting the euro zone's first default.



An anti-government protester with his face painted in the colours of Yemen's flag shouts as others chew qat during a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa June 28, 2011. The words painted on the protester's chest read as "Uncover chests".

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish children hold their family's four legged chicken in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood June 28, 2011. The rare chicken has sparked a religious debate regarding its kosher label, which can only be determined once it is slaughtered, according to local media.




Kosovo Serbs hold pictures of former Bosnian Serb wartime military commander Ratko Mladic during an event to mark the anniversary of the 1389 Battle of Kosovo at Gazimestan, near the capital Pristina June 28, 2011. The battle, which the Serbs lost to the Ottoman empire in an epic defeat in 1389, remains a pivotal event in Serb history and is central to the Serbs' claim of Kosovo.

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U.S. Marines carry out martial arts training at Camp Dwyer in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, June 28, 2011.



People pass the ransacked office of state electrical company Senelec in the capital Dakar, June 28, 2011. Protests erupted across Senegal's capital late on Monday over lengthy power cuts, with demonstrators burning tires and ransacking the offices of the state electricity company Senelec, witnesses said. The protests followed a riot last week over an attempt by President Abdoulaye Wade to alter the constitution in a way his rivals said would make it easier for him to get reelected in February polls and eventually hand power to his son.

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Students shout during a protest against the government entitled "Mass suicide by education" in Valparaiso city, about 121 km (75 miles) northwest of Santiago, June 28, 2011. Students lay down in protest in the streets of the city, demanding changes be made to the public state education system.



A protester taunts riot police during violent protests against austerity measures in Athens' Syntagma (Constitution) square, June 28, 2011. With Greece teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, parliament is due to vote this week on a package of spending cuts, tax increases and privatisations agreed as part of a massive bailout aimed at averting the euro zone's first default.

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The Face of Dissent
Blood runs down the head of an Egyptian protester injured during clashes with riot police in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Wednesday.



Militants Stage Deadly Assault on Kabul Hotel
Taliban gunmen and suicide bombers stormed Kabul's Inter-Continental hotel in a Tuesday night attack that left 21 people dead -- including all of the nine assailants. Here: Smoke and flames rise up from the besieged building.

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Violent Protests in Greece
Demonstrators opposed to sweeping new austerity measures clash with riot police in front of the Greek Parliament during a 48-hour general strike in Athens on Tuesday night.



Festivities in China
Dancers perform during a gala event celebrating the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China in Beijing on Tuesday.

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Greece passes key austerity vote

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Wimbledon 2011: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beats Roger Federer in quarters




Roger Federer's hopes of a seventh Wimbledon title are over after Jo-Wilfried Tsonga's superb comeback ended the third seed's campaign in five sets.

The Swiss had never lost from two sets adrift at a Grand Slam, but succumbed to Tsonga 3-6 6-7 (3-7) 6-4 6-4 6-4 in one of the tournament's biggest upsets.

Federer took a second-set tie-break in some style, but Tsonga secured two solitary breaks to force a decider.

The 12th seed broke in the first game in the final set before serving out.

Tsonga will play Novak Djokovic in his first Wimbledon semi-final, while Federer was left to reflect on another quarter-final defeat after last year's loss to Tomas Berdych.

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Prince Harry 'dating underwear model' - News, People - The Independent



"Prince Harry has a new girlfriend.

The third in line to the British throne reportedly started dating underwear model Florence Brudenell-Bruce - a former girlfriend of Formula 1 ace Jenson Button - after making it clear his on/off relationship with former love Chelsy Davy is over.

A source told The Sun newspaper: "It's very early days but Harry and Florence are an item.

"She is a lot of fun, blonde and very good-looking. Harry really likes her."

The couple have been meeting up at the £2.5 million home of Florence - who is a descendant of the seventh Earl of Cardigan - in Notting Hill, West London.

While St James's Palace refuses to comment on Harry's personal life, Florence would only say: "There's not much to say."

The model - who has fronted campaigns for Adidas and British high street store John Lewis - and Harry have been casual friends for years with a number of mutual pals on the society party circuit.

Florence could have some competition as Victoria's Secret model Rosie Huntington Whiteley has revealed her obsession with the flame haired prince.

She joked: "I'm waiting for my proposal. I keep writing.

"I think he knows how obsessed I am. Well, he does now. He's so handsome."

However, Prince Harry, 26 - whose older brother Prince William married Duchess Catherine in April - has recently claimed he has no time for love as he is too busy with his work as an Apache helicopter pilot.

Asked about rumours he had been dating Catherine's sister Pippa Middleton, he replied: "Pippa? Ha! No, I am not seeing anyone at the moment. I'm 100 per cent single.

"I'm working a lot at the moment, so dating and watching TV are the last things I have time for.""

Obviously in Libya at the present time - " he is too busy with his work as an Apache helicopter pilot"

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Wimbledon 2011: Photos from day nine of the Championships



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Tsonga becomes the first man to come from 2 sets down in a Grand Slam event against Roger Federer and win.



Novak takes the first set 6-2 against Bernard Tomic



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Tomic breaks the Serb in the first game of the third set.



However, he fails to capitalise and Novak takes the set to go 2-1 up



The young Aussie done good despite being defeated by Novak, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. One for the future no doubt.

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Aerial view of the Jiaozhou Bay bridge on June 29. Linking China's eastern port city of Qingdao to an offshore island, Huangdao, it is the world's longest cross-sea bridge at over 26 miles.






Construction work on the Jiaozhou Bay bridge on June 1. The bridge opened on June 30 after more than four years of building work

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A fisherman prepares his net before fishing at Pucusana's port in Lima, Peru on June 29. Fishermen and devotees of Saint Peter, the patron saint of fishermen, took part in celebrations on Wednesday to mark Saint Peter's Day in the hope of good catches for the rest of the year.

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This aerial photograph taken near the Iowa/Missouri state line shows floodwaters mixed with sediment water on Wednesday, June 29, 2011. The Missouri River has been rising for weeks because of heavy rains and snow melt along the river's headwaters, forcing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to open flood gates, sending massive amounts of water downstream along the Missouri River system.

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A handicapped Hindu makes his pilgrimage to the sacred Amarnath Caves, one of the most revered of Hindu shrines on June 29 near Baltal, India. More than 5,000 Hindu devotees, braving sub-zero temperatures, began the hike over glaciers and along paths overhanging gorges to reach the sacred Amarnath cave housing an ice stalagmite, a stylized phallus worshiped by Hindus as a symbol of the god Shiva

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Yingluck Shinawatra grabs roses as she shakes hands with supporters at a rally during her election campaign on June 29, 2011 in Burirum, Thailand. Thais go to the polls on July 3 to vote in a tight race between Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's Democrats and the red shirt followers of fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup.

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A row of homes near Tekamah, Neb. are surrounded by floodwaters on June 29, 2011. Missouri River floodwaters lapped at a nuclear power plant north of Omaha and have cracked more defenses downstream after weeks of sustained pressure on levees running hundreds of miles.

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New Libyan rebel recruits take part in a three-week course at a facility for new fighters in Benghazi on June 29, 2011.