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After more heavy rain last night, ground staff clear standing water on the 18th green at the beginning of day two of the 2012 Open Championship at the Royal Lytham & St Annes golf club near Blackpool
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Another watery scene as torchbearer David Boyle carries the Olympic Flame on a boat rowed by the Maidstone Rowing Club during his leg in Maidstone this morning
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A man inside a lottery booth where he works for twelve hours to earn one US dollar
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Artyomovsk, Ukraine: Ukrainian policemen display their skills during training
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Algarve, Portugal: A fire engine takes on water as people look at forest fire at Tavira's serra
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Aleppo, Syria: Members of Jihadist group Hamza Abdualmuttalib train
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Kasara, India: Policemen and rescue workers gather in front of the derailed coaches of the Vidarbha Express train
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Taiz, Yemen: A doctor holds a malnourished boy as his mother sits at a therapeutic feeding centre
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Jackie Selebi: South Africa's ex-police chief to be freed
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Selebi is the most senior government official to be convicted of corruption in South Africa
South Africa's former police chief Jackie Selebi is to be freed early from his 15-year sentence for corruption on health grounds, a minister has said.
Selebi, a former Interpol head, needs dialysis for kidney failure, said Correctional Services Minister Sibusiso Ndebele.
He was jailed in 2010 after being found guilty of taking bribes from a drug dealer.
Selebi's successor was also suspended last year on corruption allegations.
Both Selebi are that successor - Gen Bheki Cele - are senior members of the governing African National Congress.
Selebi, 62, started his prison term in December 2011, after his final appeal was rejected.
He collapsed at home while watching on TV as the Supreme Court delivered its verdict, and was taken to hospital.
A medical parole board decided in June this year that Selebi should be released, reports the South African Press Association.
"The department has limited capacity to provide for palliative care," Mr Ndebele said.
'Stranger to the truth'
The BBC's Karen Allen in Johannesburg says that ministers have been at pains to stress that Selebi is not getting preferential treatment and his terminal illness has been well documented.
But she notes that his release on medical parole follows another high-profile case.
In 2009 Schabir Shaik - President Jacob Zuma's former financial advisor who was convicted of fraud and corruption - was also released on medical grounds due to a heart condition.
He served just over two years of his 15-year sentence.
Selebi was convicted of receiving 1.2m rand ($156,000; £103,000) from convicted drug dealer Glenn Agliotti to turn a blind eye to his business.
During the trial the court heard how Selebi had spent thousands of dollars on shopping sprees with the money he was given by Agliotti.
Lawyers for Selebi, a close ally of former President Thabo Mbeki, argued that he was the victim of a political witch-hunt after Mr Zuma, Mr Mbeki's bitter rival, became president in 2009.
But Judge Joffe Meyer dismissed their argument and described Selebi as "an embarrassment" and a "stranger to the truth" in the witness box.
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Mourners at a vigil near theater where 12 people were killed July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colo.
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A graduate student's attack in a sold-out theater near Denver showing the new Batman movie, in which 12 people were killed early Friday, was the culmination of two months of meticulous planning that included a potentially deadly booby trap left in the suspect's home for investigators, authorities said.
Fifty-eight other people were injured, many of them seriously, in the shootings shortly after midnight at the Century 16 Movie Theaters complex in Aurora, Colo.
Earlier reports had said 59 people were injured, but police revised that number at a news conference Friday night. All but a small handful of the injured had been shot, Police Chief Dan Oates said
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As many as 12 people were killed and 50 injured at a shooting at the Century 16 movie theatre in Aurora, Colo. early Friday during the showing of the latest Batman movie.
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U.S. astronaut Buzz Aldrin salutes the American flag on the surface of the Moon after he and fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first men to land on the Moon during the Apollo 11 space mission on July 20, 1969. Today marks the 43rd anniversary of the moon landing.
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Orlando Duque of Colombia dives 95 feet off a rock monolith during the first round of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series at Islet Vila Franca do Campo in Azores, Portugal on July 20, 2012.
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A girl cries as her home and neighboring shanty town is forcefully dismantled after the Honduras government claimed the settlement illegal in Tegucigalpa on July 20, 2012.
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Land disputes are becoming increasingly frequent in Honduras. This trend alarms the nation's business class and sows fear of increased political violence. In a nation where 72 percent of the poorest landowners hold only 11.6 percent of cultivated land, tensions are rising as the poor have few places to go and little opportunities for productive employment.
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A woman is carried after fainting as her home and neighborhood are forcefully dismantled in a shanty town eviction on July 20.
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Relatives and friends attend the funeral of Kochava Shriki, who was killed when a suicide bomber targeted Israeli tourists in Bulgaria this week, at a cemetery in the city of Rishon Letzion, Israel, on July 20, 2012.
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Family and friends attend the funeral of Itzik Kolengi, 28, who was killed and his wife injured in the bombing in Bulgaria, in Petah Tikva, Israel, on July 20, 2012.
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The Associated Press reports — The five Israeli victims of a bombing in Bulgaria were laid to rest in a series of funerals Friday, two days after the bloody attack on a tourist bus at a popular vacation spot set off a new round of charges aimed at Iran.
Childhood friends Itzik Kolengi, 28, and Amir Menashe, 27, were buried in Petah Tikva.
Kolengi's wife, Gilat, was injured in the attack and remains hospitalized. The couple has an infant daughter.
"I promise you that the family and I will watch forever over your wife, Gilat, and your amazing daughter, Noya, who looks exactly like you, and we'll raise her just as you would have wanted," Kolengi's brother David eulogized
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With a week to go to the opening ceremony, a worker mows grass near the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, east London on July 20, 2012.
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Yes, what's the security situation atm?
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Members of the National Youth Theatre of Britain greet arriving athletes and officials at their Olympic Village with welcoming song and dance routines on July 20, 2012.
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The Olympic Rings are projected on the white cliffs of Dover on the south coast of England in May 2012. Photo released on July 19, 2012 to celebrate the Olympic Torch arriving in the region.
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Syrian rebels stand next to their vehicle after seizing control of the Bab al-Hawa border post with Turkey on July 20, 2012. Some 150 armed rebel fighters were in control of the post, which lies opposite Turkey's Cilvegozu border crossing in the southern province of Hatay.
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Carcasses of burnt-out lorries at the Bab al-Hawa border post with Turkey are seen on July 20, 2012 after it was seized by Syrian rebels following a fierce battle with Syrian troops.
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A broken picture of former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad's father, is seen at the Bab Al-Hawa border gate after clashes between Syrian rebels and the Syrian army on July 20, 2012.
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Police examine the car of James Eagen Holmes behind the theater where a gunman opened fire on moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado July 20, 2012. A total of 71 people were shot in Friday's rampage at the Denver-area movie theater that left 12 people dead, according to local police. The suspect also booby-trapped his Aurora apartment with sophisticated explosives, creating a hazard for law-enforcement and bomb squad officers who swarmed to the scene.
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Tom Sullivan holds up a photo of his son Alex Sullivan pleading the media to help find him, outside Gateway High School a few blocks from the scene of the Century 16 Theatre shootings in Aurora, Colorado, July 20, 2012.
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The apartment of the man suspected in the mass shooting at a Denver-area screening of the latest Batman movie is pictured after investigators broke its windows in Aurora, Colorado, July 20, 2012.
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The apartment of James Holmes (top) is shown surrounded by police and firefighters in Aurora, Colorado July 20, 2012, following a shooting an Aurora movie theater.
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A 2006 Westview High School year book picture of James Eagan Holmes is seen in Rancho Penasquitos, California July 20, 2012. Holmes is being held by police in connection with an attack that killed 12 people and wounded at least 59 at a midnight showing of the new Batman movie in a suburb of Denver early on Friday.
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Camera crews and reporters set up in front of the home of Arlene Holmes, mother of the James Holmes, in Rancho Penasquitos, California July 20, 2012.
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Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates announces that a total of 71 people were shot in Friday's rampage at a Denver-area movie theater that has left 12 people dead during a news conference following the Century 16 Theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado July 20, 2012. Oates said the first calls to police came at 12:39 a.m. Mountain Time (0639 GMT) and within a minute police were receiving hundreds of 911 calls. A gunman in a gas mask and body armor killed 12 people at a midnight premiere of the new "Batman" movie in a suburb of Denver early on Friday, sparking pandemonium when he hurled a gas canister into the auditorium and opened fire on moviegoers.
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Illegal squatters throw a tear gas canister back at riot police during clashes at a shanty town in Ventanilla, in the outskirts of Callao, July 20, 2012. More than 2,500 squatters were evicted by police officers from a 7,000-square-metre property illegally occupied since Wednesday, local media said.
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Women members of a self-defense militia calling itself the FLN (Front for the Liberation of the North) train in Sevare, about 600 kms (400 miles) northeast of the capital Bamako, July 11, 2012. The United States has called on Mali's authorities to accept offers by African states to send a military force to stabilise the country and help retake control of its vast northern desert, now in the hands of al Qaeda-linked Islamists. The U.N. Security Council has been reluctant to back military intervention without a clearer plan for the force. Meanwhile, regional criticism of Mali's army for a March coup has left soldiers there hesitant about the idea of foreign troops being dispatched.
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Security forces and firefighters work at the scene of a car bomb attack in southern Thailand's Narathiwat province July 20, 2012. A bomb exploded outside a four-story commercial building in southern Thailand on Friday morning, injuring three people. Authorities said the explosives were hidden in a pick-up truck outside a computer company in Sungai Kolok, a major border town with Malaysia. Three of the company's owners were injured escaping from the top floor of the building, authorities said. Another vehicle and two motorcycles were also destroyed in the blast that spread to nearby buildings. At least 5,000 people have been killed in southern Thailand since 2004 in violence attributed to Muslim separatists
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A man walks past replicas of dinosaur skeletons at the Dinokingdom exhibition at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, east of Tokyo, July 20, 2012. The dinosaur exhibition goes on until September 23, 2012.
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Mary, daughter of the late Syrian Defense Minister Daoud Rajha, puts medals and decorations on the coffin of her father, during his funeral at Cross Church, in Damascus July 20,2012. Rajha was killed by a bomb which exploded during a meeting of ministers and security officials at a national security building in Damascus on July 18, 2012, state television said.
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John Daly of the U.S. plays a shot on the 15th hole during the second round of the British Open golf championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes, northern England July 20, 2012.
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A lap-dancing club
Photographer Linda Brownlee and reporter Amelia Gentleman were granted unprecedented access to the Windmill in Soho, one of the oldest lap-dancing clubs in the country
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Windmill owner Oscar Owide believes lap-dancing is harmless fun, 'a respectable business… Most girls, I think they would like to get up on the stage and dance like this once in a lifetime.'
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In the heart of Soho, the Windmill club has staged striptease shows since 1932, and describes itself as the only club in London that stayed open throughout the war
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The women keep arriving until around 11pm, when the club's owner likes the place to be packed. 'We need 40-45 girls, so that he and his mates can have a choice, can have dances with different types of girls, whatever their fancies are.'
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The club enforces a strict dress code for the women and dancers can be fined if they fail to adhere to it.
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Women have to invest in clothes to fit the club's different nights, themed according to underwear colour. If they forget to wear the right colour, the 'house mother' will sell them underwear she keeps in a big red Family Circle biscuit tin.
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Customers can buy nude dances for £20, and are taken upstairs to private booths by the dancers. In each booth there's a man in a suit pressed into the back of his chair, bolt upright; in each there's a naked woman, writhing and shaking her flesh in his face.
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Banyuls-sur-Mer, France: A woman hangs bras over a street as part of a protest against a private marina project
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London, UK: A Beefeater holds the Olympic flame in a lantern after its arrival by helicopter at the Tower of London
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Gauhati, India: A girl rows a boat near her submerged house in Burhaburhi village, after continuous rainfall caused floods
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Aurora, Colorado: Myia Young, four, places a candle by an American flag during a vigil for victims of a deadly shooting
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London, UK: Visitors play on an inflatable Stonehenge on the Greenwich peninsula. The work by the Turner prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller will tour the capital as part of Olympic celebrations
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Callao, Peru: Riot police face illegal squatters at a shanty town in Ventanilla
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Tegucigalpa, Honduras: A man is arrested for fighting in a neighbourhood with heavy gang violence
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London 2012 Olympic torch relay: day 64
Day 64 was the first chance for Londoners to see the Olympic flame in their home city. Many more famous faces were involved and the sun shone
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Ella Statham carries the Olympic flame through Greenwich Naval College
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British around-the-world sailor Sir Robin Knox-Johnson carries the Olympic torch around the restored Cutty Sark
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Observer writer Owen Gibson carries Olympic torch up Well Hall Road in Eltham, south-east London
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Jaco-Albert Van Gass passing the Olympic flame to Sarah Smit in Greenwich
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John Amaechi and Nadia Comaneci posing with the Olympic torch on the viewing platform of the North Greenwich Arena
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Phillips Idowu carries the Olympic flame into Westfield Stratford City shopping centre in London
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Jasiek Mela, a Polish explorer and double amputee, carries the Olympic torch along the Mile End Road
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Family members of the victims of the Century 16 theater shooting remember their loved ones during a vigil at the Aurora Municipal Center campus in Aurora, Colo., July 22. Twelve people were killed and 58 were injured in a shooting during an early Friday premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises."
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Among the 12 who died early Friday at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. were fathers, mothers, a little girl – even heroes. NBC's Kristen Dahlgren reports.
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One of the "first light" images from the Discovery Channel Telescope's 16-million-pixel camera shows the spiral barred galaxy M109.
If the Lowell Observatory's Discovery Channel Telescope were a Discovery Channel documentary, it'd be a blockbuster: an extravaganza that was a decade in the making, at a cost of $53 million. That's twice as much as it cost to produce the "Planet Earth" TV series.
Now the Discovery Channel Telescope has finally made its star-studded debut with the unveiling of "first light" images at a Saturday night gala in Arizona. Among the guests of honor: first moonwalker Neil Armstrong.
For any big telescope, first light is the equivalent of a premiere party, and the three images released this weekend are certainly worthy of the star treatment.
My colleague at Discovery News, Ian O'Neill, provides the big pictures for M109, a barred spiral galaxy that's 84 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major; the Sombrero Galaxy, also known as M104, which is 30 million light-years away in Virgo; and the Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, 23 million light-years away in Canes Venatici
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French 'Rollerman' Jean-Yves Blondeau slides down a corner on Tianmen Mountain, one of the famous tourist destinations, in Zhangjiajie, China on July 22. Jean-Yves Blondeau, inventor of the 31-wheel roller suit, also known as the wheel suit, succeeded in his challenge of descending the 10.77 kilometer road boasting of 99 U-turns in 19 minutes, 34 seconds.
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Workers handle the statue of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno before removing the statue Sunday, July 22, in State College, Pa. The famed statue of Paterno was taken down from outside the Penn State football stadium Sunday, eliminating a key piece of the iconography surrounding the once-sainted football coach accused of burying child sex abuse allegations against a retired assistant.
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A sign rests at the site in which the statue of former Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno stood sits empty after it was removed by workers outside Beaver Stadium on July 22, in State College, Pa. Penn State's president Rodney Erickson made the decision Sunday to remove the statue in the wake of the child sex scandal of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
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Rescuers and residents stand next to a stranded car being pulled up from a flooded street under the Guangqumen overpass amid heavy rainfall in Beijing, July 21. According to local media, a driver of another submerged car was confirmed dead at the hospital. The heaviest rain in 61 years that lashed Beijing Saturday has left at least four people dead and six others injured, cutting off traffic and also severely disrupting air travel, Xinhua News Agency reported
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Patient Tim Gordon, who lives in Wise, Va., and who is patient number 1117 out of 1,500 for the day, catches a nap in the trunk of his car as he waits to get into the non-profit Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic held at the county fairgrounds, July 20, in Wise, Va. Over 3000 patients will be seen on the multi-day event by the largest free health clinic in the United States for dental, vision, wellness, women's health, lab testing, and health education, by volunteers from medical schools, hospitals, and civic organizations. Patients come from thousands of miles away and camp out in the muddy parking lot for a chance at the free health care.
