World News in Pictures

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A worker carries a toilet bowl inside Romania's new National Stadium, the Lia Manoliu Arena, which is under construction in Bucharest, August 5, 2011. The new 55,000-seater stadium will be the biggest in Romania and will host the 2012 Europa League final.

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Stocks Around the World Take a Hit
Despite efforts by European officials to help Italy and Spain avoid defaults, continued fears over the recent U.S. credit downgrade caused global markets to fall on Monday. Here: A display at the Australian Stock Exchange in Sydney



More Bloodshed in Syrian Crackdown
A government assault on the city of Deir el-Zour resumed on Monday -- a day after at least 42 people were killed there during an ongoing crackdown on protesters. Here: A demonstration outside Syria's embassy in Cairo on Friday.

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Rocket Man
Sheikh Hussein Amr holds a rocket, which he says was launched at his house's water supply. Government attacks on villages in the Arhab district in Yemen have left many there to abandon their homes, taking refuge in caves.



Independence Party
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara, top left, rides in a car during the country's 51st independence celebration in Abidjan Sunday. Ouattara came to power after his forces ousted former strongman Laurent Gbagbo in April.

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Israelis Take to the Streets in Protest
Thousands march during a protest against the rising cost of living in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The rally came after a Knesset vote approving a law that places the authority for building projects in the hands of regional committees.



Silver Smoochers
Men kiss during a gay pride parade on Saturday in central Stockholm.

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Jewish settlers pray from the biblical Book of Lamentation at the ancient mountain fortress of Herodium near the West Bank town of Bethlehem during the 9th of Av day of mourning on August 8. Jews around the world mark the destruction of the First and Second holy temples. The Tisha Be'Av ceremony, literally the ninth day of the month of Av in the Hebraic calendar, is the darkest day of the year for Jews, marking the destruction of both the temples, by the Babylonians in 587 BC and later by the Romans in 70 AD.

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Superintendent of waste and water management for the water department Eddie Ray Roberts shows photos of Lake E.V. Spence as the main town strip in Robert Lee, Texas, is seen at rear. In the small rural farming community of about 1,000 in the middle of West Texas, people are worried that Lake could dry up by winter and leave the town without any water.



Eddie Ray Roberts, superintendent of the city's waste and water department is shown walking on the dried bed of Lake E.V. Spence in Robert Lee, Texas. Roberts makes the trek toward the water line near the spillway daily to check on the pump that is feeding Mt. Creek Reservoir nearly 1.3 million gallons of water daily. Every few days, Roberts or members of his small department must relocate the pump because of the receding water line.



Superintendent of the waste and water department for the city, Eddie Ray Roberts, shuts off the running water on a hydrant in Robert Lee, Texas. Roberts said that it makes him sick to open up the hydrants and release so much of the valuable source that his small town is in much need of. But a nearby water main break required him to do so. Relieving the pressure in the system allows Roberts to make the repair.

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A masked rioter is seen in front of a burning car in Hackney, North London, Britain, August 8, during the third day of violence in London in which police have clashed with rioters in Hackney and vehicles have been set on fire in Peckham and Lewisham. This follows two nights of violence over the weekend after the police shooting of a man in Tottenham. More than 200 people have been arrested and 35 police officers injured. Violence erupted in reaction to a fatal shooting incident in Tottenham, in which a policeman was injured on August 4 and a local 29-year-old man named as Mark Duggan killed by armed officers.

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Riot police detain supporters of Ukraine's former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko during a rally in Tymoshenko's support outside a court building in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 8. A Ukrainian court on Monday rejected lawyers' requests to free Tymoshenko from jail during her abuse of office trial, a case the West has condemned as selective justice.


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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (C) attends a court hearing at the Pecherskiy District Court in Kiev August 8. A judge on Monday refused to release former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from police detention, increasing political tension around her trial on a charge of abuse of office.

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A Mens RS:X Class race gets underway during day seven of the Weymouth and Portland International Regatta at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy on August 8 in Weymouth, England.

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Transitional federal government soldiers try to keep the crowds calm just before a stampede erupted at the gates of a makeshift hospital in the Hawlwadag district, Mogadishu, Somalia, on Monday, Aug. 8. The United Nations airlifted humanitarian aid on Monday to Mogadishu, for the first time since Islamist fighters withdrew from the city over the weekend, but a funding shortfall continued to cast a shadow over future operations. This was the first time in five years that UNHCR brought in aid via an air delivery.

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Commuters leave after days work as monsoon clouds gathered over New Delhi, India, on Monday, Aug. 8.



Russian President Dmitry Medvedev holds a special forces sniper rifle during a visit to the 10th Detached Special Purpose Brigade of the Russian Defence Ministry on Monday, Aug. 8, 2011.

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with Taimuraz Mamsurov, head of North Ossetia during their meeting in the Riviera state residence in Sochi on August 8.

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London riots, day three









A woman jumps from a burning building in Croydon

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Police in riot gear stand near a burning car as it explodes in Hackney

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Local residents flee Clarence Road in Hackney

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Looters rampage through a convenience store in Hackney

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Kathmandu, Nepal: Former Maoist fighters chant anti-government slogans from a police vehicle after being arrested at a protest



Bir Ghanam, Libya: Rebels celebrate after taking the town

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Moscow, Russia: A dog catches a frisbee during the Russian dog frisbee championship

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Big Chill Festival 2011



One festival goer enjoying the hot weather

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Marcina Arnold and the Love Rats play The Enchanted Garden Stage



Janelle Monae performs on The Deer Park Stage

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Emily Kokal Of Warpaint As They Play The Main Stage

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Zee Zee with his crow 'Rameses' in the Enchanted Garden






Kanye West headlines the Main Stage

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Mayhem in London - more pics




Looters run from a clothing store in Peckham, London August 8, 2011

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People stand near a burning car in a street in Hackney, east London August 8, 2011.