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Bilbao, Spain: the US artist Richard Serra's sculpture The Matter of Time at the Guggenheim Museum
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New Delhi, India: air force soldiers watch Sarang helicopters display their skill during Air Force Day celebrations
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Kurihara, Japan: hikers enjoy the view of autumn leaves at the summit of Mount Kurikoma
Flooding in Thailand
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A Buddhist monk walks through floodwater on a street at a temple in Ayutthaya province October 7, 2011. At least 224 people have died in flooding in Thailand since mid-July and water has inundated the 400-year-old Chai Wattanaram temple in the ancient city of Ayutthaya, a World Heritage Site, officials said on Tuesday.
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Prisoners sit at the flooded Ayutthaya prison as they wait to be evacuated to another jail in Ayutthaya province, nearly 80 km (50 miles) north of Bangkok, October 6, 2011.
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An aerial view of a flooded area in Ayutthaya province October 7, 2011.
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Strange and unusual
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Alfred David, a 79-year-old Belgian man nicknamed "Monsieur Pingouin" (Mr. Penguin), poses dressed in his favourite hooded black and white penguin suit at his home in Brussels September 28, 2011. The ultimate dream of senior Brussels resident Alfred David is to be buried in a coffin decorated with penguins, with his body dressed in a penguin suit, somewhere near Antarctica.
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An anti-government protester puts a snake in his mouth during a rally demanding the ouster of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, at Tagheer square in Sanaa October 4, 2011.
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A devotee with a cheek pierced with a handgun, takes part in a procession in celebration of the vegetarian festival in Phuket October 2, 2011
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A naked rugby player of New Zealand's Nude Blacks runs through a fountain during their match against naked rugby players of Romanian Vampires at Larnach Castle, near Dunedin, September 24, 2011, before the Rugby World Cup Pool B match between England and Romania
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A woman, dressed as a zombie, takes part in a flashmob in Vienna September 27, 2011. The zombie flashmob coincided with the Slash Film Festival which showcases horror, fantasy, animation and science-fiction movies
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Father Gil Florini (R) blesses mobile phones during a mass to honour Saint Gabriel, in Nice, southeastern France, October 1, 2011. Saint Gabriel is the patron saint of telecommunications.
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A model presents a creation by Belarusian designer Evgeny Ivanchik during the Festival of Vanguard Art, Mammoth 2011, in Minsk October 2, 2011.
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Artificial teeth and dentures are displayed by an Indian vendor at a roadside in Srinagar October 5, 2011. Not formally trained in dentistry, such vendors ply their trade on sheets by the road. The vendors charge approximately 100 rupees ($2.03) for work done per tooth.
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A man carries in a shopping bag ducks to be sacrificed at a livestock market in Kathmandu October 3, 2011. The Hindu festival of Navaratri, also known as the Dasain festival, celebrates the triumph of good over evil. Hindus will also offer sacrificial animals during the festival
Michael Jackson tribute concert
Fans flocked to Cardiff's Millennium Stadium to see Jackson family members perform alongside acts such as JLS
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Members of the Jackson family perform with JLS at the concert, which was held at Cardiff's Millennium stadium
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La Toya Jackson performs live in public for the first time in nearly 20 years
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JB Gill – from JLS – and Tito Jackson sing together
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Ortise Williams from JLS and Marlon Jackson perform a duet
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3T – a boyband made up of Tito Jackson's sons – play in Cardiff. They reached No 2 in the UK charts in 1995 with their hit Anything
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Craig David belts out a song
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Leona Lewis at the Michael Forever tribute concert
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Michael Jackson's children (L-R) Blanket, Prince and Paris
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American R&B singer, Gladys Knight performs with Smokey Robinson
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American singer Christina Aguilera
Whitbourne shooting: Two accused of firearms and drugs offences
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Two men have been charged with drugs and firearms offences by police investigating the shooting of a suspected burglar in Worcestershire.
A man was found with gunshot injuries in Leigh Sinton on Wednesday after a burglary had been reported 12 miles away in Whitbourne, Herefordshire.
Detectives said they had found evidence of a cannabis farm at the house.
A 62-year-old Worcestershire man and a 24-year-old from Birmingham are due before Hereford magistrates on Monday.
The older man is accused of producing a controlled class B drug (cannabis) and possession of a firearm without a certificate.
The other man has been charged with three counts of possessing ammunition for a firearm without a certificate, production of a class B controlled drug (cannabis), aggravated burglary of a dwelling with intent and possessing ammunition for a firearm when prohibited to do so for five years.
Both men have been remanded in custody.
A man in his 20s who was arrested in the West Midlands area on Thursday on suspicion of burglary remains in police custody.
A woman in her 50s, who was arrested on suspicion of cultivating controlled drugs, has been released on police bail.
The injured man is in a serious condition in hospital but has not been arrested, West Mercia Police said.
Car-free Sunday for smog-struck Milan
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Milan is one of Europe's most polluted cities
The northern Italian city of Milan is banning all traffic from its streets for 10 hours on Sunday in an attempt to reduce smog.
The measure, first imposed on a trial basis in 2007, is triggered whenever pollution exceeds the statutory limit for 12 consecutive days.
Satellite imagery shows Milan to be one of the most polluted cities in Europe.
An estimated 120,000 vehicles will be affected by the move, according to the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
The most polluting vehicles have been banned from driving through the city centre since Thursday.
But on Sunday, there will be no traffic at all permitted between 0800 and 1800 local time (07:00-17:00 GMT).
The ban is imposed when pollution exceeds 50mg micrograms of particulates per cubic metre of air over 12 days. The last time the full ban was in force was in February.
Yemen's Ali Abdullah 'to step down within days'
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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has said that he will step down from power within the "coming days".
Mr Saleh has appeared to be ready to resign several times, but pulled out of deals to stand down at the last moment.
He returned to Yemen unexpectedly last month from Saudi Arabia where he had been receiving treatment after his office was shelled in June.
He is faced with protests and an insurrection by renegade army units.
He has also repeatedly refused to sign a transition deal brokered by Gulf states, and first presented in March, whereby he would hand over power to his vice-president in return for immunity from prosecution.
But Yemen's deputy information minister told the BBC that Mr Saleh was no longer clinging to power
PM demands Liam Fox MoD inquiry answers on Monday
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Prime Minister David Cameron wants the initial findings of a Ministry of Defence inquiry into Defence Secretary Liam Fox on his desk on Monday.
Mr Fox has come under fire over claims about his working relationship with his best man, Adam Werritty, who has no official role in government.
On Friday, Mr Fox ordered a MoD inquiry into whether their relationship had breached the ministerial code.
Mr Cameron has now asked the cabinet secretary to examine the report.
The ministerial code requires ministers to ensure there is no conflict between their public duties and private interests.
Questions followed claims that the defence secretary gave Mr Werritty, 34, a former flatmate and best man at Mr Fox's 2005 wedding, access to the MoD and allowed him to go on foreign trips with him.
Mexico arrests over Veracruz mass killings
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The Mexican navy has arrested eight suspects in the murder of 32 people whose bodies were found in the eastern city of Veracruz on Thursday.
They are also accused of the murder of 35 others whose corpses were dumped on a main road near the city last month.
The navy blamed the killings on a drugs gang known as the New Generation, which is involved in a battle for territory with the rival Zetas cartel.
At least 12 suspected members of the Zetas have also been arrested.
New Generation gang members also call themselves the "Matazetas" or "Zetas-killers" because of their feud with the rival group.
Videos posted on the internet in recent months showed masked gunmen promising to free Veracruz from kidnapping, murder and extortion by the Zetas.
Outgoing Jamaica PM says 'Dudus Coke' case took toll
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Mr Golding is due to stand down officially in November after his successor is chosen
Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding says questions over his handling of a US extradition request for a drug kingpin were a key factor in his decision to step down.
The saga over Christopher "Dudus" Coke affected him deeply, Mr Golding said.
The Jamaican government resisted US requests for Coke for nine months before launching an operation to capture him in which scores died.
Coke was extradited in June 2010 and pleaded guilty to racketeering charges.
Mr Golding's surprise decision to resign was announced last week.
Speaking in a nationally televised address on Sunday, the prime minister made it clear that events in 2009 and 2010 over Coke had been a key factor.
"The entire episode has affected me deeply and the perceptions that are held by some people have not been dispelled," Mr Golding said
Syria security forces 'open fire at Kurd's funeral'
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Mr Tammo, as pictured on a Facebook page set up by supporters
At least 14 people have been killed in Syria after security forces opened fire on mourners as they attended funerals of people who died on Friday.
Six were killed in the north as they attended the funeral of a prominent Syrian Kurdish opposition figure.
Mishaal al-Tammo was shot dead by masked gunmen in a targeted killing.
About 50,000 people attended the funeral in his home town of Qamishli, which turned into a protest against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
The BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut says that it was probably the biggest demonstration the Kurdish areas of the north have witnessed since the uprising broke out nearly seven months ago.
"All of Qamishli is out today, the funeral is turning into a massive protest," Kurdish activist and lawyer Mustafa Osso told the Associated Press.
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Students at the University of Tripoli, formerly Al-Fateh University, gather at a volunteer's meeting on October 9. The academic year started a little late this year, after the ouster of former leader Moammar Gadhafi, but the University of Tripoli is full of enthusiastic students with new found freedoms now only missing their comrades still on the front.
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Indonesian police clash with striking workers of US gold and copper mining giant company Freeport McMoran in Timika, Papua province on October 10. Police shot and killed one protester and wounded another. Papua police spokesman Wachyono said that police officers fired warning shots into the air after the striking workers, who are protesting over wages, pelted them with stones, injuring seven policemen
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A girl sits in a bucket as her sister pushes it through floodwaters on a street in Kandal province, Cambodia, on October 10. Floods have killed 207 people in Cambodia and more than 100,000 hectares of rice paddies have been damaged, the Cambodian National Disaster Management Committee (CNDMC) announced on Monday
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Schoolboys on a flooded street in Kandal province, Cambodia, on October 10. The floods have displaced more than 300,000 families, according to the CNDMC.
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An aerial view of a flooded area in Ayutthaya province, Thailand, on October 10. Thai rescue workers scrambled on Monday to prevent a humanitarian disaster as the worst flooding in half a century swamped large sections of the country, shut factories and stranded thousands of people
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A policeman directs traffic in a flooded area of Ayutthaya province, Thailand, on October 10. About 261 people have died since late July in flood-related incidents, the Thai Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said.
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Mexico's Luis Sosa Abarca on the parallel bars during the Men's Qualifications of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, on October 10.
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Fabian Gonzalez of Spain falls from the pommel horse in the men's team event of the qualification round at the World Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo on October 10