World News in Pictures

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Participants play handball in a mud flat in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province, China, on July 7

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FC Twente's collapsed roof



The stadium's roof crumpled at around noon today. There was no match was in progress at the time



Dutch media reported that construction work was under way at the time of the collapse. The work was being carried out as part of the club's plan to turn their stadium into a 32,000-seat arena






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Here's how the stadium, on the outskirts of Enschede, looked before the collapse

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Pamplona, Spain: runners and bulls in the bullring following the first running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival



La Línea de la Concepción, Spain: A wildfire burns on the Sierra Carbonera

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Dakar, Senegal: A model uses her mobile phone backstage before at during Fashion Week



Turov, Belarus: Boys shoot flaming arrows during celebrations for Ivan Kupala, the feast of St John the Baptist

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Benghazi, Libya: Marchers wave as a helicopter flies over a mass rally in the rebel stronghold

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Students vs. the state



Students are hit by a jet of water from a riot police vehicle during a rally in Santiago city July 5, 2011

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Running of the bulls - more pics

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News of the World to close amid hacking scandal



This Sunday's issue of the News of the World will be the last edition of the paper, News International chairman James Murdoch has said.

In the past few days, claims have been made that the paper authorised hacking into the mobile phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and the families of 7/7 bombing victims.

Mr Murdoch said proceeds from the last edition would go to good causes.

Downing Street said it had no role or involvement in the decision.

The News of the World is the UK's biggest selling newspaper and has been in circulation for 168 years.

No advertisements will run in this weekend's paper - instead any advertising space will be donated to charities and good causes.

News International has refused to comment on rumours that The Sun could now become a seven-day-a-week operation.

"What happens to The Sun is a matter for the future", a spokeswoman for News International said. The Sun, another News International tabloid, is currently published from Monday to Saturday.

The spokeswoman also refused to say whether the 200 or so employees at the paper would be made redundant, saying: "They will be invited to apply for other jobs in the company."

The News of the World's political editor, David Wooding, who joined 18 months ago, said it was a fantastic paper.

"They cleared out all the bad people. They bought in a great new editor, Colin Myler, and his deputy, Victoria Newton, who had not been sullied by any of the things that had gone on in the past.

"And there's nobody there, there's hardly anybody there who was there in the old regime.

"The people are very clean, great, talented professional journalists and we pull out a great paper every week. And we're all paying the price for what happened six years ago by a previous regime."

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Canadian troops in Afghanistan formally end their mission in the country

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On the anniversary of 7th July, 2005, of the bombings in London, former Olympic Minister Tessa Jowell and former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone pay their respects at the memorial to the 52 people who lost their lives

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Casey Anthony sentenced to four years in prison



US single mother Casey Anthony has been sentenced to four years in prison for lying to police investigating the 2008 death of her two-year-old daughter.

Anthony was cleared this week of murder and other charges in the disappearance and death of Caylee Anthony.

The case in Orlando, Florida, has gripped the US since Caylee vanished.

Anthony would be given credit for time already served before the trial, and for good behaviour while incarcerated, the judge ruled.

Anthony, 25, is unlikely to serve more than a year in prison, legal analysts say.

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Juan Carlos: Basque arrested over Spain 'murder plot'



A Spanish man has been arrested in the UK in connection with the attempted assassination of the king of Spain.

Eneko Gogeaskoetxea Arronategui - believed to be a member of the Basque separatist group Eta - was captured by police in Cambridge.

The 44-year-old was later remanded in custody following an extradition hearing held before City of Westminster magistrates.

Spain believes he fled after trying to kill King Juan Carlos in October 1997.