World News in Pictures

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Getting a Leg Up in Life

A baby flamingo cleans itself at the zoo in Hanover, Germany, on Thursday. In the past three weeks, five flamingo babies have hatched at the zoo; they'll be as pink as their parents in about three to four years.

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A tropical storm coincided with high tide on China's Qianting River, Haining

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An Indian Sikh priest carries the Holy Book during a procession near the Golden Temple in Amritsar

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Anti-Israel protests disrupt BBC Proms concert



Protesters have disrupted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra's BBC Proms concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.

Several demonstrators in the hall shouted as Zubin Mehta stood to conduct Bruch's violin concerto. The rest of the audience booed in response.

BBC Radio 3 said it had to interrupt its live broadcast twice "as a result of sustained audience disturbance".

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign had earlier called on people to boycott the concert and urged the BBC to cancel it.

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Riot sentence 'feeding frenzy' claims anger magistrates




Magistrates have responded angrily to prison governors' accusations they have indulged in a sentencing "feeding frenzy" after the riots in England.

Prison Governors Association president Eoin McLennan Murray said sentences had appealed to a populist mentality.

But Magistrates Association chairman John Thornhill said sentencing had followed guidelines and he was "angry and concerned" by the comments.

Since the riots, the prison population has gone up by more than 1,000.

It reached a record high for the third consecutive week last Friday, standing just 1,500 short of its operational capacity at nearly 87,000

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Mount Kumgang tour - North Korea









The ferry used was a former Japanese cargo ship. Journalists were given mattresses to sleep on during the 21 hour trip

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The Yakuza - Japanese gangs known for their brutality, tattoos and code of honour





















It's not only the men that sport the tattoos

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Colombia court reinstates ex-minister's conviction



Colombia's Supreme Court has reinstated the conviction in a murder case against a former justice minister.

Alberto Santofimio will serve 24 years in jail for his role in the killing of rival politician and presidential candidate, Luis Carlos Galan in 1989.

Mr Santofimio received the same sentence in 2007 but was released on appeal after spending a year in prison.

Relatives of the murdered politician appealed against the decision and the Supreme Court ruled in their favour.

Santofimio was a close associate of the late drug baron Pablo Escobar.

One of Escobar's henchmen who appeared as a witness said Mr Santofimio met the drug baron several times and often urged him to kill Mr Galan.

He said that if Mr Galan ever became president he would intensify the fight against drug trafficking and would extradite Escobar to the United States.

Mr Galan was killed during a campaign rally near the capital, Bogota, in 1989. He was the favourite to win the 1990 presidential election.

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Supporters of a Sons of Confederate Veterans rally wave flags in protest at Hopkins Green in Lexington, Va. , Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011. About 100 people gathered before a City Council hearing and possible vote on the proposal, which would limit flags on city light poles to the American, Virginia and Lexington flags.

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An Apollo lunar module propellant tank sits on display in Dale Cox III's Seattle-area backyard, alongside a more traditional sculpture. The tank might have been sent to the moon if NASA went ahead with Apollo 18, 19 and 20, as originally planned. Instead, it's been turned into an art installation.









Dale Cox III points to sheets of titanium with pieces cut out, cookie-cutter-style. The cut-out pieces were used in hardware construction. The leftovers were assembled into an abstract gate ornament. The half-moon hanging to the right is part of a titanium tank, artistically embellished with additional squares of metal. A blue-colored fuel line, also made of titanium, rises from the ground.

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Zzarr, a 6-year old Dutch Shepherd and K-9 handler US Army Sergeant Nathan Arriaga (partly hidden by Zzarr) of the US Forces Afghanistan K-9 unit, before leaving the Forward Operating Base Walton to patrol with 1st Battalion 67th Armoured Regiment, Task Force Dealers in the Arghandab district. Zzarr who has a rank of Staff Sergeant is a military working dog trained to detect bombs and improvised explosive devices (IED) and currently deployed in southern Afghanistan saving lives of coalition forces in its war against Taliban insurgents. Both Zzarr and K-9 handler Sgt. Arriaga did their first combat duty in Iraq in 2009.

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Blackpool Tower reopens after refurbishment

A 154 metre-high glass skywalk and observation deck is the main attraction at the newly reopened Blackpool Tower, following a multi-million pound refit

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September 11: Remembrance and Reflection exhibition

The Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington DC is to display more than 50 objects recovered from the World Trade Centre, Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania to mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks.






A fragment of one of the two planes that struck the World Trade Centre



Commemorative medallions fused together by heat during attacks on the Pentagon

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Blanka Vlasic of Croatia competes during the women's high jump qualifying event at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, September 1, 2011.



Anti-Gaddafi fighters sit on an SA-5 SAM missile in Burkan air defense military base, which was destroyed by a NATO air strike, September 1, 2011

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An employee at a fuel tank services company checks on records from the business that are being dried in the sun, in Wayne, New Jersey, September 1, 2011



An anti-Gaddafi fighter sits in a vehicle mounted with an anti-aircraft gun as he operates a checkpoint near the airport in Tripoli, September 1, 2011

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A resident pushes his electric scooter along a flooded street amid heavy rain brought by tropical storm Nanmadol in Putian, Fujian province, September 1, 2011



Damar Forbes of Jamaica competes in the men's long jump qualifying event at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, September 1, 2011.

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An anti-government protester wears a tear gas mask during a demonstration in the village of Karrana, west of Manama, September 1, 2011



Riot police use shields to protect themselves as they clash with Pro-Kurdish demonstrators during a peace day rally on the Asian side of Istanbul, September 1, 2011

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A guard collars a Somali refugee after he tried to jump the line at the World Food Program distribution center in the Ifo settlement at Kenya's Dadaab Refugee Camp, situated northeast of the capital Nairobi near the Somali border, September 1, 2011.



A 1957 Chevy is seen suspended in the air from a pillar near a field in West Branch, Iowa, September 1, 2011.

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Tetiana Petlyuk of Ukraine lies on the track with a leg injury during her women's 800 metres heat at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, September 1, 2011

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A Fiery End

A brick of cocaine is thrown into a fire in Villa Hayes, Paraguay, on Thursday. More than 900 pounds of cocaine were seized during an operation in the city.

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A general view of the Salvador Dali exhibition with a lips sofa (foreground) in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow on Friday. The exhibition runs until 13 November 2011. The retrospective of Spanish artist Dali's work contains a hundred pieces including 25 oil paintings, 20 watercolours, 70 drawings, and many photographs

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Couples take part in the World Kiss Marathon for Education at a square in Santiago, Chile, on Sept. 1, 2011. The students are demanding better education opportunities in their country.






A student pastes a poster of killed Chilean student Manuel Gutierrez, reading "When one falls, thousands raise," on a tree in front of Chile's Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina on September 1, 2011. Chilean students demonstrated in demand of free education and in honour to Manuel Gutierrez, killed by the police during clashes in Santiago on August 25.

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Members of the media walk on the deck of the newly constructed eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge during a media tour of the self-anchored suspension span tower on August 29 in Oakland, California. Construction crews have erected twelve foot wide catwalks that connect to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge self-anchored suspension span's tower and crews will begin to lay the nearly one mile of main cable beginning in early 2012. The bridge has been under construction since 2002 with an estimated price tag of $6.3 billion and will have the world's tallest Self-Anchored Suspension (SAS) tower once completed

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The Bavarian cow named 'Yvonne' is caught on a pasture near Stefanskirchen, southern Germany, on September 2, 2011. Yvonne became famous after escaping from a farm in May 2011, going on the run and earning a hefty bounty on her head. Yvonne was found in Eigelsberg in the Bavarian Alps some nearly 4 miles from the farm where she escaped.

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Riot police struggle with protesters during a rally against the construction of a new naval base in Seogwipo on Jeju island September 2, 2011.



Protesters struggle with riot police to keep their positions during a rally against the construction of a new naval base in Seogwipo on Jeju island September 2, 2011. The riot troops launched a surprise raid early morning on Friday to remove some 100 protesters who have been occupying the construction site for about 10 months. South Korean military resumed the construction of the naval base which will be home to about 20 naval vessels and two 150,000-ton cruisers, Yonhap reported