World News in Pictures

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Prince William and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, cover up their ears from the engine blast created by a Canadian Cormorant helicopter after landing in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, July 4, 2011.



U.S. singer Lady Gaga listens to a question during a news conference in Taipei July 4, 2011

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Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) and her son Kim Aris (not pictured) visit the ancient Bagan Pagodas in Bagan July 5, 2011. Suu Kyi ventured outside her home city on Monday for the first time since her release from house arrest in November, making a low-key visit to the ancient city of Bagan amid tight security.



Mohammed Arami, a 17-year-old who lost his leg during the recent clashes in Abyan, practices during treatment at the Artificial Limbs Centre in Sanaa July 4, 2011.

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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (2nd R) and the Chief of the General Staff David Richards (R) look at a map of Helmand province during a visit to the Afghan National Army training camp at Camp Bastion, outside Lashkar Gahh, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan July 4, 2011.



Residents of the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi scavenge through a massive rubbish heap in the centre of the eastern city of Benghazi July 4, 2011.

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Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic appears in court at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague July 4, 2011.



People jump on the trampoline before the 2011 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York July 4, 2011.

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Prime Minister-elect Yingluck Shinawatra of the Puea Thai Party arrives at her party's headquarters in Bangkok July 5, 2011



Fireworks light up the sky over the United States Capitol dome and the Washington Monument as the U.S. celebrates its 235th Independence Day in Washington July 4, 2011

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Students go through physical training at an Er Ren Zhuan training school in Qianyingzi village of Xinmin, Liaoning July 4, 2011. Er Ren Zhuan, is a popular folk art performance practised in Northeast China, which usually involves a boy and a girl pairing up to sing and dance



Reptile and amphibian shop owner Stefan Broghammer holds a Royal python which was born with two heads, at his shop in Weigheim near Stuttgart July 4, 2011.

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Britain's Prince William the Duke of Cambridge (C) competes in a dragon boat race across a lake in Dalvay-by-the Sea, Prince Edward Island July 4, 2011.



Noora (R) and Shahrzad Naraghi practice on a motorcross track in the mountains overlooking Tehran July 3, 2011.

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After 1st Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines make a routine patrol in the upper Gereshk Valley, a Marine's helmet has a picture of his daughter, Angelina, inside on June 26 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Foreign troop numbers in Afghanistan will be significantly reduced over coming months and politicians are now urging Taliban leaders to engage in dialogue.



As 1st Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines make a routine patrol in the upper Gereshk Valley, Alfred Grossklaus is treated for his injury on June 26 in Helmand Province

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A Pakistani man wheels a child, Jamshid, 8, who suffers from polio on the outskirts of the capital Islamabad on July 6, 2011. According to the World Health organization (WHO) Pakistan tops the list of four countries where the polio disease still exists despite the global campaign to get rid of it. The other three countries are Nigeria, India and Afghanistan. Pakistan has been declared "polio endemic state" as 57 more polio cases were reported between January 2011 to June 2011.

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Workers from the Israel Electric Corp. stand next to containers filled with jellyfish at Orot Rabin coal-fired power station on the Mediterranean coast near the central town of Hadera July 5, 2011. The power station uses seawater for cooling off purposes and has to filter out and dispose of tonnes of jellyfish that are sucked into its system daily

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President Obama doing the first presidential Tweet didn't exactly make exciting television. And I wonder why they felt the need to cover up the computer logo with a Presidential seal.






President Barack Obama answers a tweet from House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio during a "Twitter Town Hall" in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 6.

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South Koreans celebrate after obtaining a first-round majority in the vote for Pyeongchang to host the 2018 Winter Olympics, during a night rally to support the bid in Pyeongchang on July Wednesday, July 6.



South Korean supporters and soldiers gather to watch the live TV announcement for the 2018 Winter Olympics bid taking place in Durban, South Africa, at a ski jumping hill in Pyeongchang on Thursday. The South Korean city of Pyeongchang was awarded the 2018 Winter Olympics on Wednesday, taking the games to a new territory in Asia after failing in two previous attempts.






Former figure skater and Olympic champion Katarina Witt, Chair of the Munich 2018 Bid Committee, reacts with Thomas Bach, President of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) and Olympic champion, after the announcing of the host city for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games during the 123rd IOC session on Wednesday

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Rahul Gandhi, the 41-year-old great-grandson of India's first ever prime minister, set out on a march through western Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, seemingly determined to align himself with the country's rural poor.

Gandhi offered his support to villagers involved in land disputes with the state government, according to a breathless report in The Times of India that described him "effortlessly jumping over mud pools" in his trek from village to village








Gandhi has long been tipped as a future leader of the world's biggest democracy. "The son of Congress party president Sonia Gandhi and heir to a dynasty that has ruled independent India for almost four decades of its 64-year history, the premiership isn't just Rahul's for the taking, it's almost his birthright

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Striking taxi drivers blocked rush-hour traffic in protest at government market reforms, as the Prime Minister George Papandreou promised to see the unpopular changes through and take a tougher line against violent demonstrations

The protests brought commuter traffic to a standstill. Later, dozens of cab drivers held a noisy drive-by protest outside Parliament, blaring their horns as they passed the building in a convoy in central Athens before heading to the transport ministry, where about 400 held a protest rally

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Protesters and military police tussle over trying to overturn a police car after protesters broke the windows in front of the court complex in Suez on Wednesday, July 6. Angry families are protesting against the rejection of an appeal against police officers accused of killing protesters in Suez during the revolution, local media reported

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Revelers hold up traditional red neckties as tens of thousands of people packed Pamplona's main square in Pamplona, Spain, Wednesday, July 6, 2011, to celebrate the start of Spain's most famous bull-running festival with the annual launch of the "chupinazo" rocket. Perhaps best glorified by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises," the San Fermin festival is known around the world for the daily running of the bulls.



Revelers react as water is thrown from a balcony during the 'Chupinazo', the official opening of the San Fermin fiestas in Pamplona, July 6, 2011. The fiestas 'Los San Fermines' held since 1591, attracts tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights.

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Palestinians bury the body of militant Kamal Abu Moamar at a cemetery in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 6, 2011. Israeli forces fired into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing two gunmen from an al-Qaida affiliated Palestinian faction, one of them Abu Moamar, who approached the boundary fence, medical officials and militant sources said.



Palestinian women hold pictures of relatives jailed in Israel, during a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners, outside the International Red Cross building in east Jerusalem, Wednesday, July 6, 2011.

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A man looks at the cretion of Valery Bulgakov, right, a former pilot, during the Autoexotics motor show in Moscow on July 6, 2011. Bulgakov converted a standard, Soviet-made Tavria car into a plane, which could be used to train for takeoff and landing, as it reaches a maximum speed of 95 kms (60 miles) per hour it can fly up to three meters (9 feet) from the ground.

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Swiss Davis Cup tennis players Roger Federer, left and Stephane Bohli, right, practice in the Postfinance Arena in Bern, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 6, 2011. Switzerland faces Portugal in the BNP Paribas Europe/Africa Zone Group I second round on July 8-10.



An exiled Tibetan dances during an event celebrating the Dalai Lama's 76th birthday at the Namgyal School in Kathmandu, Nepal, on July 6.

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Elizabeth Charlton puts on her uniform as a Civil War soldier at a Memorial Day event at Bellevue Cemetery in Lawrence, Mass

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Onlookers watch as Rishi Dev Yadav digs a well for a water source in Kathmandu, Nepal,



Rishi Dev Yadav, 28, looks up while digging a well for a water source at a depth of around 35 feet in Kathmandu

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Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi poses for a photograph during her visit to Mt. Popa in Kyauk Padaung Township, near Mandalay, Myanmar, on July 6. Suu Kyi attracted a large crowd as she continued her visit to an ancient temple city in central Myanmar, proving her enduring popularity after years of house arrest.



Aung San Suu Kyi and her son Kim Aris visit the Mount Popa Botanical Garden and Museum on July 6.

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Mexican navy personnel search for survivors in Punta Bufeo, Mexico on July 6. Seven U.S. tourists are still missing three days after the fishing vessel they were on capsized off Mexico's coast. The Mexican navy and the U.S. Coast Guard expanded their search in the Gulf of California, holding out hope that the missing were able to survive in the Gulf's balmy waters.

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Steve Walthart brings hay to his cows at his farm just down the road from Independence in the bordering town of Winthrop, Iowa on July 6. Walthart farms corn, soybeans and hay on 560 acres outside Independence. With farmland prices in Iowa now fetching $8,000 or more an acre, he is sitting on a gold mine if ever he decided to sell out, but Walthart dismisses the idea of cashing out and retiring.



A classic car is parked in the driveway at Steve Walthart's home. "Think of it, think of it," he said, "what would I do with the money? There's no better place to have it than where I've got it --in the farmland." He says he expects he will die doing his daily chores

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An Indonesian man prays during a visit at the site of Megalithic Gunung Padang on July 6 in Cianjur, West Java. The site of Megalithic Gunung Padang is the largest megalithic site in South-Eastern Asia, consist of five terraces, located on a hill of about 2,900 feet above sea level, in Karyamukti village about 30 miles from Cianjur city