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Dozens saved after second Christmas Island sinking
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At least 125 people have been rescued after a boat sank north of Christmas Island, a week after an asylum-seeker boat sank in the area.
Australian officials said merchant vessels had gathered survivors from the water after the boat sent a distress call early on Wednesday. One body had also been recovered.
Estimates put 150 people on board, including women and children.
Two Australian navy vessels and an aircraft are now in the area.
In a report to parliament, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said that between 123 and 133 people were believed to have been on board.
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Calabar, Nigeria: Efik dancers perform for delegates as they gather for the UN World Tourism conference
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Not looking quite as his usual chipper self, David Cameron leaves the European Union leaders summit in Brussels in the small hours of Friday morning
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Joyful Italian football fans cheer in the Warsaw Fanzone after the Italian team scored during the Euro 2012 semifinal between Italy and Germany. Italy won 2-1
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The white gloves say it all: a driver in the cab during a trip of the first bullet train on the newly built railway linking Longyan and Xiamen in south-east China's Fujian province
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Showing no ill effects from the space flight or the bumpy landing, Chinese female astronaut Liu Yang waves after coming out of the slightly charred re-entry capsule
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks to the media as she arrives for a second day of the EU summit in Brussels. Germany has apparently relented and allowed European banks direct access to sovereign bailout funds
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Euro 2012: Germany v Italy
The second semi-final of Euro 2012 sees three time winners Germany take on Italy who are looking for their second Euro triumph.
History is on the Italian's side as Germany have yet to beat the Azzurri in any of the seven occasions the two teams have met in a competive match
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Nineteen minutes in Italy take the lead with a beautifully worked goal. Cassano twists and turns magnificently down the left, escaping from Boateng and Khedira with one marvellous twiddle, then whipping a cross over the six-yard area, where Balotelli - having beaten Badstuber to the ball - powers home a header
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Ten minutes before half-time Balotelli bags his and Italy's second with a screamer. Montolivo is just inside his own half and sprays a diagonal down the centre for Balotelli who is 40 yards out. He chests the ball down, turns, and a delicate touch takes the ball towards the edge of the German penalty area ...
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Where he thwacks it past Manuel Neuer and into the top corner
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He rips off his shirt
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Before soaking up the adulation. It's thoroughly deserved as it was a fabulous finish. Half-time score Germany 0-2 Italy
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The second half sees some classic Italian and counter attack but they are unable to notch that third which will see off the Germans. Then in the first minute of injury time they get a lifeline from the penalty spot. Mesut Ozil confidently strokes the penalty home. They've got 3 more minutes of injury time in which to equalize
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In the last gasps of injury time Germany throw everything, including goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, forward in a desperate search of the equaliser. They can't however breach the thin blue line that is the Italian defence
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The final whistle goes Italy are through to the final and Germany are still to beat the Italians in a competitive match
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It wouldn't be a proper Italian post match celebration if one of the players didn't strip down to his undies
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Austin Dillon celebrates his win with a burnout after the NASCAR Nationwide Series auto race at Kentucky Speedway, Friday, June 29, 2012, in Sparta, Ky.
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Pole-sitter Austin Dillon, driving the legendary No. 3 car, led most of the final 113 laps to win the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Kentucky Speedway on Friday night. The No. 3, of course, was driven to fame by Dale Earnhardt before his death on the track at the 2001 Daytona 500. Richard Childress was the team owner for Earnhardt, and is also the grandfather and team owner for Dillon.
As Dillon was clinching the win, his grandfather said over the radio, "Dale would have been proud of that." It was the first Nationwide victory for Dillon, a rookie who captured the Truck Series title a year ago.
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Faithful, dressed in colonial era clothing and wearing handkerchiefs representing the colors of the political parties of the time, take part in the annual San Pedro Parranda in Guatire, Venezuela on June 29, 2012. The celebration is believed to have originated in the 19th century by the black slave Maria Ignacia, who believed that San Pedro, or Saint Peter, had answered her prayers and began singing and dancing through the town as she had promised if the saint granted her the miracle of healing her daughter. Today residents carry on the tradition, mostly men, who take to the streets with maracas, singing folk songs dedicated to San Pedro
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Marines salute the hearse carrying the casket of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Steven P. Stevens, who was killed in Afghanistan, at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Harrison Township, Mich. on June 29, 2012.
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Family members react as the casket of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Steven P. Stevens is transferred at Selfridge Air National Guard Base
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Jeff Bitting, right, from St Augustine, Florida, speaks back stage with fellow full-body tattoo contestants before judging at the National Tattoo Association Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 13, 2012. In his 33 years of getting tattoos, Bitting says he has had about 500 hours of work and will complete his other leg in his bid to win more full-body contests.
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British-Australian swimmer Penny Palfrey swims from 'La Marina Hemingway', Cuba, on June 29, with destination Florida, USA. Palfrey, 49, tries to swim across the Strait of Florida, without being protected by a shark cage in 40 to 50 hours.
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Marathon swimmer Penny Palfrey, a 49-year-old grandmother, dove into the clear waters of the Florida Straits on Friday to try to break her own world record by swimming 103 miles from Cuba to the United States without a shark cage.
With the just-risen sun casting an orange glow in the eastern sky, Palfrey dove into the calm sea from a rocky point at Havana's Hemingway Marina, then stroked methodically away as a handful of spectators looked on.
"Beautiful sea, beautiful sunrise, it's a lovely morning in Cuba," the compact, muscular Palfrey told reporters just before entering the water.
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The wedding of two frogs, arranged by farmers seeking rainfall, is performed in Nagpur on June 29, in order to please the Rain Gods and in the hope that their region would soon receive monsoon showers. People blew trumpets and sang songs, as the priest solemnized the marriage with the usual Hindu marriage rituals to the chanting of Hindu hymns and by putting streaks of vermilion on the female frog's head. The frogs were picked up from different ponds, following the local belief among the farmers in this part of India that a frog marriage pleases the Rain Gods and ensures a good harvest with rain.
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A mahout moves an elephant to higher ground as villagers paddle with their belongings through flood waters in the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, some 55 km from Guwahati, the capital city of Assam, India on June 28, 2012.
Raging floodwaters fed by monsoon rains have inundated more than 2,000 villages in northeast India, sweeping away homes and forcing more than 850,000 people to flee their homes.
Floodwaters have submerged 90 per cent of a wildlife sanctuary in Assam, forcing rhinos and other wild animals to shelter in the woodland of the park which is located at a higher altitude.
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Indian policemen chase the People's Political Party Chairman Hilal Ahmed War, in black, as he tried to defy curfew orders to reach the Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelan shrine in Srinagar on June 29, 2012.
Normal life across Indian-controlled Kashmir was disrupted for the fifth straight day on Friday as the government imposed strict restrictions on movement of people to prevent protests after a fire at the Sufi shrine
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Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker reacts as he arrives for a second day of the European Union summit in Brussels on June 29, 2012. Leaders from the 17 countries sharing the euro sealed a dramatic deal Friday to direct emergency measures at crisis-hit Italy and Spain and boost the embattled economy, sending markets sharply upwards.
We can only speculate as to the cause of Jean-Claude Juncker's melodramatic reaction as he got out of his car this morning. Perhaps, like many people around Europe, he was shocked that the continent's leaders appear to have finally come up with a set of measures that show they are serious about solving their crippling debt crisis
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Haifa, Israel: Israeli Holocaust survivor Chava Hershkovitz, 78, wins the Holocaust survivors beauty pageant
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Barcelona, Spain: NGO workers occupy a government office overnight as part of a protest
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Brussels, Belgium: Angela Merkel speaks to media as she arrives for a second day of the European Union leaders summit
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more hardware goes into space: a Delta IV-Heavy rocket lifts off from Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The rocket is carrying a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office
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Police passing out parade: one of the 567 graduates is taken ill during the passing out ceremony for the newly graduated police officers at the Hendon police academy, London, in the biggest ever passing out parade for trainee police officers
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Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, speaks with Vera Smolnikova as they meet in the Kremlin in Moscow. The 4-year-old girl received a heart transplant from Italian doctors in 2011
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Her Wimbledon hopes dashed, a dejected Heather Watson of Great Britain walks off court after being defeated by Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland
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A crane removes the carcass of a 40-year-old elephant called Chanchal after it was hit by a truck and killed at the Noida expressway on the outskirts of New Delhi June 29, 2012. Chanchal was a pet kept by a resident.
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An A-10 aircraft on static display is silhouetted against a smoke cloud from the Waldo Canyon Fire at the USAF Academy's airfield in Colorado Springs, Colorado in this U.S. Air Force handout photo dated June 26, 2012
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Sayeed Zabiuddin Ansari, with his face covered, leaves from a hospital in New Delhi June 29, 2012.
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Egypt's Islamist President-elect Mohamed Mursi waves to his supporters while surrounded by his members of the presidential guard in Cairo's Tahrir Square, June 29, 2012.
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Toronto Blue Jays Colby Rasmus slams into an outfield wall banner while catching a fly ball off the bat of Los Angeles Angels Erick Aybar in the fourth inning of their American League MLB baseball game in Toronto June 29, 2012.
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A woman holds a portrait of Chinese dissident Li Wangyang as she protests in front of the Central Government Offices in Hong Kong June 29, 2012, two days before the 15th anniversary of the territory's handover to China.
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Lightnings strike over buildings during a thunderstorm in Berlin, June 29, 2012.
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Luis Felipe Meliz of Spain competes during the men's long jump qualifying event at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki June 29, 2012
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Kim Conley reacts to placing third in the women's 5,000 meters final at the U.S. Olympic athletics trials in Eugene, Oregon June 28, 2012.
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Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) visits the Louvre Museum in Paris June 29, 2012
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Religious leaders lay on the ground and pray over a bible and a copy of the verdict on President Barack Obama's signature healthcare overhaul law outside the Supreme Court in Washington June 28, 2012.
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Victim #6 sobs in the courtroom in this courtroom sketch as the verdict is read during the child sex abuse trial of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky in Bellefonte, PA June 22, 2012. A jury found Sandusky guilty on 45 of 48 child sex abuse charges, ending a trial that rocked U.S. college football and renewed attention on pedophilia in America. Sandusky, 68, faces potentially hundreds of years in prison for molesting 10 boys over 15 years.
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Supporters of Muslim Brotherhood's president-elect Mohamed Mursi clash with a youth (C) who shouted slogans against the army at Tahrir square in Cairo June 29, 2012. Mursi took an informal oath of office on Friday before tens of thousands of supporters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, in a slap at the generals trying to limit his power
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10 Years Since The Uberlingen Mid-air Collision That Killed 71 People
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A picture taken 04 July 2002 shows victims' relatives gathering at the place where lies the wreckage of the crashed Russian Tupolev 154 passenger plane near Ueberlingen, after a commemorative service at the accident site. A German court on 11 May 2006 began hearing a damages claim against the German government over the mid-air collision of the Russian aircraft and a cargo plane in 2002 in which 71 people died.
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Relatives of victims of the 01 July 2002 airplane-crash near Ueberlingen gather 03 May 2004 in the southern town of Brachenreuthe at the memorial ceremony for the 71 people, mostly children, who died one year ago in the plane crash. Eight steel bowls symbolize a broken pearl necklet and remind of the victims. In the crash of a Russian Tupolev and a DHL cargo plane near the Lake Constance died 45 Russian pupils on their way to a school trip
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Peter Madoff Pleads Guilty Conspiracy And Falsifying Records
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Peter Madoff, brother of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, leaves Manhattan Federal Court on June 29, 2012 in New York City. Madoff plead guilty in Federal Court to various criminal charges and is expected to serve ten years in prison and surrender numerous assets
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Activists Protest ESM And Fiscal Pact
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BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 29: Die Linke left-wing leading politicians Sahra Wagenknecht (L), Gregor Gysi and Katja Kipping lead a protest against the European Union fiscal pact outside the Reichstag, seat of the Bundestag, on June 29, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. Bundestag members are scheduled to vote on ratification of the fiscal pact and the ESM (European Stability Mechanism) later in the day.
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Ministers to order Libor bank rate review
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An independent review of the workings of the Libor inter-bank lending rate has been announced by the government in the wake of the Barclays fine.
Labour leader Ed Miliband has called for a public inquiry into the customs and practices of the banking industry.
Barclays was fined £290m ($450m) for attempting to manipulate the Libor and other banks are being investigated.
Barclays boss Bob Diamond has been summoned to appear before the Treasury Select committee on Wednesday.
Its chairman, Marcus Agius, will appear on Thursday.
Andrew Tyrie MP, the committee's chairman, said the Mr Diamond's hearing would focus on the Libor scandal, which he described as "the most damaging I can recall".
"The public's trust in banks has been even further eroded. Restoring the reputational damage must begin immediately," Mr Tyrie added.