World News in Pictures

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Kvitova eventually wins the set 6-2 when Azarenka double faults ... that's put her through to the final where she'll face either Maria Sharapova or Sabine Lisicki



Who was she expecting to see?

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Back on centre court, Germany's Sabine Lisicki is beginning her match with Russia's Maria Sharapova. Lisicki wins the first three games



But Sharapova comes back and claims the opening set 6-4. She then goes on to make an early break in the second set ...

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Lisicki then concedes a second break. Her Wimbledon challenge is fading fast



Sharapova finishes her wildcard opponent off, winning the set 6-3. It's seven years since her last Wimbledon final, and now she can look forward to another

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Bangkok, Thailand: A Thaksin Shinawatra supporter flashes a hand signal out a window as his arch rival prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva campaigns in the area



Los Alamos, USA: The sun shines through the smoke from the Las Conchas wildfire in New Mexico

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Toronto, Canada: A baseball fan with a beard drawn on his face in honour of Toronto Blue Jays player Jose Bautista watches his team take on the Pittsburgh Pirates



Mumbai, India: A taxi driver, sleeps with a fluorescent light on inside his cab. The practise of keeping the light on is an indication to customers that even though the driver is resting, the cab is available for hire

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Cairo, Egypt: Protesters run to avoid teargas during clashes with security forces in Tahrir Square



Minsk, Belarus: Protestors are taken away by police after taking part in a flash mob demonstration



Yan'an, China: Singers rest their feet before a group performance at a patriotic song contest

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Public sector strikes: taking it to the streets




London



Liverpool



Bristol



London again



Manchester - Utd



A northern lass



Margaret Thatcher



That's ok mate, get yourself a proper job instead

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Cor! Look at the size of that black guys horn



Members of Parliament

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His pocket money has been seriously affected



David, the nation have decided.

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Worth keeping hold of them madam, i'm sure they'll come back into fashion one day



There's always one

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Henley Royal Regatta






Members of the Radley College rowing club warm up before competing






Christine Clarke, a member of the York City rowing club, stands outside the stewards' enclosure

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Rioting Over Debt Crisis in Greece
Protesters attack a policeman during bloody demonstrations in Athens on Wednesday. The clashes came as lawmakers passed the first of two austerity bills demanded by international lenders to stave off default.



His First Tweet!
In his first tweet ever, Pope Benedict XVI announced on Tuesday the launch of the Vatican's new website, a news information portal meant to be a one-stop shop for all things papal. Here: The pope checks out the site on an iPad.

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Pilgrimage Turns Violent
Indian policemen beat Kashmiri Muslim laborers as they try to get permission cards from the authorities to work for Hindu pilgrims on their way to the cave shrine of Amarnath on Wednesday near the city of Baltal.



Wait, Where'd the Ball Go?
Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Nyjer Morgan crashes into the wall while trying to catch a ball during a game against the Yankees in New York on Wednesday.

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Ring Leader
President Obama shows off a ring he got as a gift while hosting Seattle Storm players, who won the WNBA championship last year, at the White House on Wednesday. Here: Teammates Sue Bird, left, and Swin Cash are seen.



Snooze Break
An Egyptian man sleeps on the ground while people gather at Cairo's Tahrir Square on Wednesday after bloody clashes between protesters and anti-riot police

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A Bloody End in Kabul
Foreign soldiers are seen on Wednesday after taking part in a military operation against Taliban militants who staged a deadly assault on the Intercontinental Hotel in the Afghan capital.



Rolling Out the Red Carpet (and the Guns)
A soldier picks up a rifle before the arrival of Peruvian President-elect Ollanta Humala in Bogota on Wednesday. Humala is on an official visit to Colombia as part of a tour across South America.



A Communist Party!
Soldiers in Qingdao, Shandong Province, perform at a Wednesday ceremony marking the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.

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From Russia With Love
Russian player Maria Sharapova blows a kiss after beating Germany's Sabine Lisicki 6-4, 6-3, during a semifinal match at the Wimbledon tennis tournament in London on Thursday



Drama in the Courtroom
At her murder trial in Florida on Wednesday, Casey Anthony reacts during testimony by her father George Anthony, who broke down in tears while on the stand. The 25-year-old woman is accused of killing her young daughter Caylee.

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Animals around the world




Pierre (L) and Eliane (R) Thivillon, owners of the zoo in Saint-Martin-la-Plaine, pose with a female gorilla named Digit at their bedroom window, in Saint-Martin-la-Plaine, southeastern France, June 28, 2011.



Croatian Dog handler Sinisa Erkman plays with 5-year-old Eggy, an explosives sniffing dog in Seprwan Ghar forward fire base Panjwai district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan, June 26, 2011.

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Antonida Azarova, a copyright and patent specialist and a volunteer of the "Drug" (Friend) non-commercial organization to help homeless animals, holds a stray dog at a self-made shelter in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, June 29, 2011.



Giant panda cubs play at the Bifengxia panda breeding centre in Ya'an, Sichuan province, China, June 27, 2011

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A otorongo or jaguar (Panthera onca) named Daniela plays with her six week old baby at the Parque de Las Leyendas zoo in Lima, Peru, June 24, 2011.



Italian Tourism Minister Michela Vittoria Brambilla plays with a tiger in this undated picture made available by Minister's press office. Brambilla is making the rounds on Italian social networks this week for pictures of her playing with a full grown tiger. The apparent home video has sparked some allegations that the touching pictures have been made available at a time when Brambilla needs to show a softer side of her nature, and that maybe the animal was doped. But the minister denies such allegations. "This tiger was saved from a terrible fate. It is an animal that I love greatly, as I think everyone can see in the video," she said

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A cinnamon black bear, a subspecies of the American black bear, runs between cars near Madison in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, June 19, 2011.



A military dog attacks a simulated opponent in a car during a combat skills demonstration by graduating soldiers from the Saudi special forces at a base near Riyadh June 27, 2011.

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A dog called "Shura" licks an orphaned roe deer it has befriended in the Simferopol zoo in Crimea, Ukraine, June 2011. The deer was found close to its dead mother in a local forest.



Qannik, a 5-month-old polar bear cub found as an orphan on Alaska's North Slope in April, is seen in this handout released to Reuters on June 24, 2011

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A Koala joey named 'Boonda' clings to his mother 'Elle' as they sit in their enclosure at Wildlife World in Sydney June 28, 2011



Children bottle-feed young lambs with milk during an interaction session at Caversham Wildlife Park in Perth June 27, 2011.

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Pigeon hawk chicks sit in an artificial nest made from an old bucket in a marsh near the remote village of Rasolai, some 260 km (162 miles) northeast of Minsk, Belarus, June 25, 2011.



A truck carrying dogs can be seen travelling along a road on the outskirts of Beijing June 28, 2011. The first draft of a law against animal abuse, aiming to protect animals from being hurt or killed in a cruel manner, was completed by a group of experts and was due to be raised for legislation in April, local media reported earlier this year. The proposal included jailing people who eat dog meat for up 15 days. While many Chinese enjoy rich dog meat, especially during cold winters, some object to the practice in some regions of beating dogs to death to release the blood into the meat

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Strange and unusual



A Hindu devotee applies kohl on his eyes with a knife held between his legs as he performs a stunt during a rehearsal for the 134th annual Rath Yatra, or chariot procession in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad June 28, 2011. The annual religious procession, which will be held on July 3, commemorates a journey by Hindu god Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra, in specially made chariots.



Chris Lashua,creative director of Cirque Mechanics Birdhouse Factory from Las Vegas, performs with a gym wheel during a promotional event for his upcoming show in Hong Kong June 21, 2011.