World News in Pictures

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In this photo provided by United States Coast Guard, Aviation Survival Technician First Class Obrien Starr-Hollow is lowered to an injured man and a cliff rescue worker 50 feet above the water near North Head Lighthouse near Ilwaco, Wash., on July 7, 2011. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Astoria, Ore., responded to the scene after the Pacific County Fire Department requested assistance with the rescue.

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In this July 7, 2011 image taken from video and provided by MLB.com, Texas Rangers fan Shannon Stone tumbles over a railing after catching a ball tossed to him by Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton during a game between the Rangers and Oakland Athletics in Arlington, Texas. Stone, a 39-year-old firefighter from Brownwood, Texas, plunged 20 feet onto concrete below and died at a hospital a short time later, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office said.



Workers lay out a tarp, Friday, July 8, 2011, on the area where firefighter Shannon Stone fell at the Texas Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas

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Thousands of Egyptian protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square in the evening hours of July 8, 2011. The nationwide demonstrations were called to defend the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak and to show anger at the new military rulers' slow pace of reforms.

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Esperanza Spalding performs on the first day of the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam on July 8, 2011. The festival, which runs until July 10, features performances by some 1300 musicians on some 13 stages.



Paul Simon performs on Friday


The first North Sea Jazz Festival took place in 1976 in the Nederlands Congresgebouw in The Hague. It started with six venues, 300 artists and about 9,000 visitors. Legends of jazz like Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie performed that first year.

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In one of the oldest quarters of Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, there is an ancient bazaar that caters to a very niche market: the sale of birds.
The Ka Farushi bazaar, located near the Pul-e Khishti Mosque, is also known as the Alley of Straw Sellers.



After walking past an old man having a close razor shave, the hum of Kabul's endemic traffic will thankfully begin to fade away. If a small boy thrusts two fat white doves in your face, keep moving. Step past an aromatic bakery, and you've found yourself in Kabul's ancient bird market.
This part of the city is a warren of tiny lanes where no cars can enter. It’s the kind of area that makes you feel like you’ve gone back in time, to a period many centuries ago. The air is thick with deals in the making and the trill chirping of birdsong

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Young men and women cool off in a pool in a ruined warehouse in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on Friday, July 8. The pool has formed from a local spring in the buildings which dates to the 19th century, and are federally preserved monuments of architecture.

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A general views shows Egyptian protesters performing the Friday prayer during a protest aimed at pressuring the country's military rulers into expediting the prosecution of former regime officials, in Tahrir Square Cairo, Egpyt, on Friday. According to local sources, protesters are disappointed at what they say the slow pace of bringing former president Hosny Mubarak, ousted in a popular revolt earlier this year, and tainted officials to justice.



Egyptians surround an ambulance carrying people suffering from the heat during a protest against the former regime in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Friday, July 8. Thousands of Egyptians gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday to demand faster reforms and the swifter prosecution of former officials from Hosni Mubarak's toppled government who face corruption and murder charges.

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Cowboy Jared Keylon, of Uniontown, Kan., hangs onto his horse during the bareback riding competition, at the Spooner Rodeo, in Spooner Wis., on July 7.

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Rajesh, a 38-year-old auto rickshaw driver, plays with his monkey Raju, "the groom," in his house at Banetha village, located in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, July 4, 2011. Indian forest department officials unsuccessfully tried to a stop a unique simian wedding citing it violated the 1972 Wildlife Protection Act. Monkeys play a significant role in Hindu religion where they are worshipped in the form of Lord Hanuman.



Forest department officials try to persuade villagers to call off a wedding between two monkeys at Talwas village, located in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, July 5. Indian forest department officials unsuccessfully tried to a stop a unique simian wedding citing it violated the 1972 Wildlife Protection Act. Monkeys play a significant role in Hindu religion where they are worshipped in the form of Lord Hanuman.



A forest guard stands next to Chinki, "the bride," after it was found tied to a tree outside Talwas village, located in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, July 6.



Women dance in the village temple during a pre-wedding function at Talwas village, located in the northwestern state of Rajasthan,



Visitors travel on the rooftop of a bus as they come to watch a wedding between two monkeys at Talwas village, located in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, July 6.

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Tour de France 2011: Stage seven



The seventh stage of the Tour de France covers 218km (135.5 miles) from Le Mans to Chateauroux in central France

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More creative use of straw, here. It's meant to look like a bicycle, in case you're wondering

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Thor Hushovd, in the yellow jersey, is well placed within the pack as they pass through the village of Lavardin



A French cameraman performs a delicate balancing act. Imagine the carnage there'll be if he falls off



Speaking of carnage, Bradley Wiggins has just hit the deck as part of major crash in the main pack. No no, it wasn't the cameraman's fault. Just too many riders and too little tarmac

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Wiggins, who was placed sixth in the overall standings, holds his left shoulder and makes no effort to clamber back onto his bike - it must be something serious



Indeed it is. The Sky rider is taken to hospital with what is suspected to be a broken collar bone. That's the end of his Tour

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Those who escaped the crash are now bearing down on the finish line ... Needless to say Britain's Mark Cavendish, right, is in the hunt



The HTC rider beats Italy's Alessandro Petacchi to the finish line



Cavendish looks overwhelmed. It has doubtless brought back memories of his first ever stage win, which he achieved here in 2008



Cavendish and his team-mates celebrate another successful sprint finish. The Manxman is now in the top 10 on the all-time list for stage victories

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Sonisphere 2011 at Knebworth House

The big four play the UK for the first time - Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer and headliners Metallica




Kerry King and Tom Araya of Slayer perform on stage













Rob Caggiano and Joey Belladonna of Anthrax perform on stage






Dave Mustaine of Megadeth



Dave Ellefson Megadeth's bass player



James Hetfield of headliners Metallica

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Arles photography festival 2011

From historical shots of army generals to superhero immigrants, the Arles photography festival 2011 presents a vision of Mexico from the revolution to the present day – alongside shots of cramped commuters on the Paris metro, abandoned dog kennels and much more




Metinides is a modern-day Weegee, one of the first to reach scenes of tragedy and disaster moments after they have happened. This image captures the Regis hotel following the Mexico City earthquake of 19 September 1985



Enrique Metinides, Untitled Torreo Stadium, Mexico City (1971)

"I wanted to know what death was like," admitted 45-year-old Antonio N after two rescue workers coaxed him out of jumping. Metinides made it in time to snap one of the rescue workers, arm outstretched, talking the man down



Manuel Ramos (1874-1945), Pancho Villa on the presidential chair, on his left Emiliano Zapata (December 1914)



Maya Goded, from the series Welcome to Lipstick (December 2009)

For her Welcome to Lipstick project Goded spent time photographing a well-known zone of prostitution on the border of Mexico and the US



Dulce Pinzón, from The Real Story of the Superheroes

Pinzón shows Mexican immigrant workers in New York, who work long hours for low wages, as superheroes. Here, Maria Luisa Romero becomes Wonder Woman. Romero works in a Brooklyn laundrette and sends $150 home every week

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Dulce Pinzón, from The Real Story of the Superheroes

José Rosendo de Jesús, from the state of Guerrero, works as a union organiser in New York. He sends home $700 a month



Chris Marker, from the series Passengers (2008-2010)

This project saw Chris Marker capture the actions and expressions of commuters on the Paris metro



Yann Gross, Martin Rohrer, Illarsaz (2005)

Travel photographer Yann Gross took this image as part of his series Horizonville, which in large part draws attention to a community of German country folk who pay tribute to American culture among the vast European landscape

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Featured photojournalist: Damir Sagolj

Award-winning photographer Damir Sagolj was born in Sarajevo in 1971. He joined Reuters as a staff photographer in 1997 and is currently chief photographer in Thailand. His recent work covers the runup to the Thai general elections taking place on Sunday




A girl waits outside a polling station as soldiers stand in line before casting their ballots in advance voting before the general election at the university campus in Udon Thani in north-eastern Thailand



Chuwit Kamolvisit, a former massage parlour tycoon turned politician and a candidate for his Rak Prathetthai (Love Thailand) party, campaigns in Bangkok's notorious Patpong district



Supporters react as Thailand's prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva campaigns for his ruling Democrat party in Bangkok. The general election might be a step on the road to stability after five years of political turbulence

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A Buddhist monk passes by an armed guard securing the train station in the troubled Pattani province in southern Thailand. More than 4,500 people have been killed in violence since January 2004 in Thailand's three southern-most provinces, a region of dense jungles and rubber plantations a few hours' drive from world-class beach resorts



A girl wearing a traditional costume holds a placard displaying a picture of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra during a religious ceremony at a temple in the village of Suan Mon near Udon Thani in north-eastern Thailand. The red shirts, supporters of Thaksin, have been branding hundreds of villages as red to rally behind Thaksin's sister, Yingluck, who is leading the opposition in advance of the general elections



Anti-government ''red shirt'' protesters insult a picture of Thailand's prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, of the ruling Democrat party as they gather at Ratchaprasong intersection in Bangkok's shopping district. A group of anti-government activists held a religious ceremony recently to curse their arch-rivals from the Democrat party at the same shopping district they occupied during the 2010 unrest that killed 91 people and wounded at least 1,800

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An anti-government "red shirt" protester with a fake wound on his head, sings during a gathering to commemorate killed comrades in Bangkok's shopping district



People react as supporters of Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of toppled premier Thaksin Shinawatra and the prime ministerial candidate for the country's biggest opposition Pheu Thai party, campaign in Bangkok's notorious Klong Toey slum. The mostly low-income red shirts broadly support ousted populist premier Thaksin Shinawatra



Supporters of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra attend a religious ceremony at a temple in the village of Suan Mon near Udon Thani in north-eastern Thailand



Supporters try to touch the hand of Thailand's prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, as he campaigns for his ruling Democrat party in Bangkok

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A police officer tries to arrest Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief whip and MP Jainul Abdin Farroque after the police charged on a procession by the opposition MP with batons in front of the national parliamentary building in Dhaka July 6, 2011.



Rebel fighters evacuate their injured comrades from the outskirts of Zlitan, near Misrata's western frontline, July 8, 2011.

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A woman splashes water with a container as she performs the Shuigu dance during a cultural festival in Jianhe county, Guizhou province July 6, 2011. The dance, which is also known as the water drum dance, has a history of over 500 years in local Miao villages.



A woman rides a moped with a dog at a busy street corner in Shanghai July 8, 2011

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A Tibetan woman is being pulled by the hair during a clash with Nepalese police officers after she was stopped from entering a Tibetan school to celebrate the Dalai Lama's birthday, in Kathmandu July 6, 2011. The government prevented the Tibetan community in Kathmandu from celebrating the 76th birthday of exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, over fears of anti-Chinese protests.



A man smiles as he carries a goat on his shoulders to sell in a market in Juba July 2, 2011.

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A student runs after a police officer to beg for his college fee during a protest against what students say is a fee hike of 182 colleges affiliated with the state Punjab University, in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh July 8, 2011.



A boy, displaced by heavy floods for almost a year, rides as he leads his family camels on an embankment near Khairpur Nathan Shah in Pakistan's Sindh province July 7, 2011. 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.



A woman climbs a ladder to reach a grave at the La Verbena cemetery in Guatemala City July 7, 2011. More than 10,000 unidentified bodies have been exhumed from a mass grave found in the cemetery, which is thought to have began operations in 1987 during the Guatemalan Civil War, according to forensic anthropologists working on the mass grave



A model presents a creation by Iris van Herpen at the Berlin Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2012, July 8, 2011