World News in Pictures

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The children of the Amor Divino family, (L-R) Dhones, Izabely and Samille, sit on their couch after their parents dressed them for a weekly physical therapy session, in the Brasilandia favela of Sao Paulo, before sunrise on March 23. All three children suffer from a disease called Pelizaeus-Merzbacher, a rare genetic nervous disorder which affects coordination and intellect. Brazil's social security system INSS granted the family monetary assistance only for one of the three children, leaving the others to depend on the income from their father's job in a bakery.

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Rugby hopeful, Shaun Pule, makes off with a ball during a team exercise at a rugby clinic, at the Emthomjeni Community Center in Zandspruit, South Africa. The team are topless to differentiate between the other as no kits are affordable in the poverty stricken township.



Rugby coaches Karl Vorwerk, left, and Troy van Es, third from left, perform a war cry after a rugby clinic, at the Emthomjeni Community Center in Zandspruit, South Africa



White rugby fans in the Johannesburg area are trying to close the divide that endures 18 years after apartheid's end. Panorama sports club members have been working with community development organizations in some of the townships set aside for blacks under apartheid, neighborhoods that remain predominantly black and poor.

Sixteen black players are now on Panorama's junior rugby team.

Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid icon, made a dramatic gesture of reconciliation when he attended the 1995 World Cup rugby final wearing a South Africa jersey. Mandela said without words that sport could be for all South Africans. The Panorama Cobras are trying to make that vision real

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A tourist has her photograph taken with a cardboard cut out of Queen Elizabeth II in The Mall on June 1, in London, England. With two days to go before the start of Diamond Jubilee celebrations final preparations are taking place in the capital.

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London 2012 Olympic torch relay: day 14

Torchbearers carry the flame from Bolton to Liverpool




Craig Lundberg, a blind Iraq war veteran, carries the Olympic torch on a ferry as it crosses the River Mersey in Liverpool



Melanie Chisholm carries the flame on the leg between Birkenhead and Liverpool









Peter King carries the flame on the leg between Huyton and Liverpool





Jane Campbell feeds Calgary on the leg through Knowsley safari park



Jessica Wade holds the flame in front of the Another Place sculptures by Antony Gormley on the beach at Crosby






Antony Evitts holds the flame outside Bolton town hall












Edward Birchall carries the flame on the leg between Bolton and Horwich



Samuel Pitts carries the flame on the leg between Chorley and Croston

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China copies an Austrian village




A family walks in the Chinese replica of Austria's UNESCO heritage site, Hallstatt village, in China's southern city of Huizhou in Guangdong province, June 1, 2012.































Bill or Ben?

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Former soldiers of the Sandinista Popular Army (EPS) lie injured after clashes with riot police in Managua, Nicaragua, May 31, 2012. Dozens of former soldiers blocked the Panamerican Highway to demand the government of Daniel Ortega to provide them social benefits as veterans of wars



The dead carcass of a donkey is buried in the sand in the village of Taboit, Gorgol region, in Mauritania May 29, 2012. A full third of the country's population, amounting to around a million people, are at risk of severe malnutrition if rain doesn't fall by July, according to estimates from Spanish Non-Governmental Organization Accion contra el Hambre (Action Against Hunger), which has been warning about food crisis since the beginning of the year after poor rains in 2011.

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PARIS, FRANCE - JUNE 01: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France celebrates victory in his men's singles third round match against Fabio Fognini of Italy during day six of the French Open at Roland Garros on June 1, 2012 in Paris, France



LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 31: Actresses Noomi Rapace and Charlize Theron attend the world premiere of 'Prometheus' at the Empire Leicester Square on May 31, 2012 in London, England

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Investec Ladies Day At The Investec Derby Festival



Winner of the 'What Best To Wear' Best Dressed award Lisa Tan attends Investec Ladies Day at the Investec Derby Festival celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee weekend held at Epsom Downs Racecourse on June 1, 2012 in Epsom, England.



Matt Dawson (L) and Phil Tufnell attend Investec Ladies Day at the Investec Derby Festival celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee weekend held at Epsom Downs Racecourse












Jockey Seamie Heffernan rides winner of the Investec Oaks race 'WAS' during Investec Ladies Day at the Investec Derby Festival celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee weekend held at Epsom Downs Racecourse on June 1, 2012 in Epsom, England.



Shouldn't that be a donkey?

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Employees of the stricken Schlecker drugstore chain protest outside the Chancellery on June 1, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. The Verdi union is demanding an extension of the deadline for finding an investor for Schlecker to stave off bankruptcy and layoffs of up to 14,000 employees. Thus far, Karstadt investor Nicolas Berggruen and the U.S. investment fund Cerberus have expressed interest, though Bsirske says the demand of a 15% wage reduction is too much



Frank Bsirske (L), head of the Verdi, the German services industry labour union, speaks to employees of the stricken Schlecker drugstore chain wears a slogan button during protests outside the Chancellery on June 1, 2012 in Berlin, Germany.

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LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - JUNE 1. Brendan Rodgers the new Liverpool FC manager (L) and Ian Ayre, the managing director with a cake baked to celebrate the 120th Birthday of the club at Anfield on June 1, 2012 in Liverpool,England. On June 3rd 2012, LFC will be 120 years old, a date recognised as being that when Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds Co Ltd was given a certificate from the Board of Trade allowing it to trade



Roger Hunt OBE (L), Ian Ayre, LFC Managing Director (C) and Ian Callaghan OBE pose with a replica 1892 blue and white quartered jersey and the brand new Warrior Home Kit at Anfield on June 1, 2012 in Liverpool, England

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US boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr goes to jail



US world champion boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr has begun a three-month jail term for domestic violence.

The fighter was sentenced last December after pleading guilty to attacking his ex-girlfriend, Josie Harris.

The judge delayed his jail time to allow him to fight Miguel Cotto on 5 May. He won the fight, for which he reportedly received $32m.

Rapper 50 Cent was at the Las Vegas courtroom with Mayweather, and said the boxer would be "all right".

At the time of sentencing, the judge had told the court she was particularly concerned that Mayweather had attacked and threatened Ms Harris while two of their children were present.

The assault took place in 2010.

Mayweather has been involved in a string of criminal cases for violence since 2002.

He is widely regarded as one of the world's best boxers, and has won all 43 of his professional fights.

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Mubarak jailed for protest deaths




Jubilation set in when the verdict was read out



















Not everyone was happy

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The Queen at Epsom







For god's sake get up man!







Kathy Jenkins sang the queens anthem before ko.



A few wannabe's



Blindingly bad taste in jackets

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Four kidnapped aid workers freed in Afghanistan



Four aid workers kidnapped in northern Afghanistan last month have been freed by coalition forces, officials say.

British nutritionist Helen Johnston, Kenyan medic Moragwa Oirere and two Afghans were rescued in Badakhshan province on Friday after being captured on 22 May, the Nato-led Isaf said.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron called it an "extraordinarily brave, breathtaking" operation.

Five hostage takers were killed during the rescue, Nato said

The group - all employees of Switzerland-based aid group Medair - were making their way on horseback to the remote, mountainous province of Badakhshan, in north-eastern Afghanistan, when they were captured.

A fifth member - another Afghan national - was released soon afterwards

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Gauhati, India: baby egrets sit on a nest as it rains. The arrival of egrets indicates the beginning of the monsoon season in this region



New Delhi, India: Sikh Nihangs walk in the street near the Sheesh Ganj Gurudwara Sikh temple. The Nihang Order, an armed group, has played a crucial role in Sikh history

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Chaotic scenes at Mubarak trial - more pics



The defendants' cage with 84-year-old Mubarak, his sons and other figures as a judge reads the verdict












Fight!



A Mubarak supporter reacts after hearing the verdict






Mubarak supporters react to his sentence



Bye, Bye!!



More fighting



More celebrating



More despair!



Over acting!



The usual stone throwers

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Apartment of horror




The apartment in Montreal where Luke Rocco Magnotta is suspected of filming a murder, dismembering the body and then mailing the body parts.

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Neo-Nazis March In Hamburg



Leftist protesters clash with riot police as they break up a barricade during a march by neo-Nazis on June 2, 2012 in Hamburg, Germany. Thousands of protesters took to the streets to demonstrate against approximately 1,000 neo-Nazis who came from across Germany to march in the Hamburg district of Wandsbek for what they termed 'the day of German future' ('Tag der deutschen Zukunft')

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IND: Independent MLA Bharat Singh Shot By Unknown Attackers



NEW DELHI, INDIA - JUNE 2: Delhi Police on alert at Chanan Devi Hospital on June 2, 2012 in New Delhi, India. Independent MLA Bharat Singh was shot by unknown attackers with police suspecting it to be a case of personal rivalry. A passerby Dharampal was also injured in the incident which took place near the MLA's office in Najafgarh's Sarangpur village

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"(Reuters) - At the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, pharmacists are using old-fashioned paper spreadsheets to track their stock of drugs in short supply - a task that takes several hours each day.

A few hundred medicines make the list of drugs in short supply: anesthetics, drugs for nausea and nutrition, infection treatments and diarrhea pills. A separate list has scarce cancer drugs for leukemia or breast cancer.

Health officials blame the shortages on industry consolidation that has left only a handful of generic manufacturers of these drugs, even as the number of drugs going off patent is growing. Some drugmakers have been plagued by manufacturing problems that have shut down multiple plants or production lines, while others have stopped producing a treatment when profit margins erode too far."

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The Queen's diamond jubilee: day one

Four days of celebrations kick off with a day at the races and events up and down the country




















































The Queens barge, Gloriana, on the Thames

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MAELA CAMP, THAILAND - JUNE 2: Burmese refugees watch as Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at the Mae La refugee camp June 2, 2012 in the western province of Tak, Thailand. The camp is situated along the Burma-Thailand border and is home to around 45,000 mainly ethnic Karen people. The visit to Thailand is her first trip outside of Burma in 24 years where she also attended the World Economic Forum on East Asia. She was under house arrest for 15 years before being released in November 2010

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Protest At Bankia



MADRID, SPAIN - JUNE 02: A vampire puppet holding money is held by protesters outside Bankia's building Kio Tower in Plaza Castilla, on June 2, 2012 in Madrid, Spain. People gathered to demonstrate against the Spanish Bank after the Spanish government agreed a 23.5 Billion Euros rescue plan for the stricken lender, following the government's recent austerity measures targeting education and health

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IND: Violence Erupts During Ranvir Sena Chief Ranvir Brahmeshwar Singh's Funeral



PATNA, INDIA - JUNE 2: Violence erupts as thousands during at the funeral procession of Ranvir Sena chief Brahmeshwar Singh 'Mukhiya', on June 2, 2012 in Patna, India. He was killed a day earlier at Ara in Bihar and voilent peoples also attacked state Bharatiya Janata Party President C.P. Thakur and damaged his vehicle, a police official said

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ZAF: Protests Held For Right To Access Basic Water Supplies



CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - JUNE 2012: A fireman douses a burning tyre after protesters forced police to close down parts of Vanguard and Highlands drive today in Mitchells Plain on June 2, 2012 in Cape Town, South Africa. The protesters were demonstrating for the right to access to basic water supplies