World News in Pictures

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Twin attacks shock Norway - more pics

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Train crash in China

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The Norway killer

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An excerpt taken from a book downloaded from a link posted on the Norwegian discussion website, Norsk Freakforum, and entitled "2083 - A European Declaration of Independence", is seen in this screen grab made July 23, 2011.

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Inside a Siberian prison




An inmate and the winner of the competition, who lifted two 24-kilo weights for 67 times, performs inside an open-air enclosure at a strict-security camp in Ariysk village outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, July 23, 2011. Teams representing nine prison camps participated in six sports categories popular among inmates, which bore the status of the final of a 3-month-long regional penitentiary tournament named "Spartakiada Games".






Inmates sort and load potatoes into a truck, which transports agrarian crops, inside a warehouse of a penal colony settlement some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, May 24, 2011.

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Inmates hold their babies at female prison number 22 in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk

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Amy Winehouse: 1983 - 2011







Father Mitch Winehouse (L-R), brother Alex, former boyfriend Reg Traviss and mother Janis look at look at memorabilia left by fans of Amy Winehouse outside her house in London, July 25, 2011.

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One Moment in Oslo
Tens of thousands gathered in central Oslo on Monday in memory of the 76 victims of last week's terror attacks in Norway. Police have a lone suspect in the killings, a 32-year-old anti-Islam "Crusader," in custody.



Empty Hands in Dadaab
Somali Farhiya Abdi, 3, sits in her makeshift hut on the edge of the giant Dadaab refugee settlement in Kenya. The camp at Dadaab has swollen to nearly 400,000 fleeing the ongoing civil war and drought in Somalia.

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A doctor examines Mihag Gedi Farah, a seven-month-old child with a weight of 7.5lbs (3.4kg), in a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee, IRC, in the town of Dadaab, Kenya, Tuesday, July 26, 2011. The U.N. will airlift emergency rations this week to parts of drought-ravaged Somalia to keep hungry refugees from dying along what an official calls the "roads of death." Tens of thousands already have trekked to neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia, hoping to get aid in refugee camps.






Used food tins are stacked at a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee in the town of Dadaab, Kenya, on July 26.

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An artist gets made up before a performance during a procession of the Bonalu festival in Hyderabad, India, on July 25. Bonalu is a Hindu folk festival of the Telangana region.

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León, Nicaragua: A man launches fireworks in the square of the Basilica de la Asunción, during celebrations of the cathedral's inclusion on the Unesco list of world heritage sites



Wuhan, China: Locals cool off in the Yangtze river, as temperatures soar to over 36C

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Kandahar, Afghanistan: Khan Mohammed comforts his son Jaali Mohammed, who lost his leg to a roadside bomb, on board a US Medevac helicopter



Shanghai, China: A man rides a bicycle carrying polystyrene boxes

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Sheffield beach, South Africa: A wave crashes into a ship which broke free from a tow line and ran aground



Srinagar, India: Stuntmen perform on the 'wall of death' at a fair

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Tonalá, Mexico: Masked revellers take part in dances known as tastoanes which commemorate battles between native warriors and the Spanish conquistadores