World News in Pictures

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A Pakistani man mourns as he waits in the EDHI Morgue to identify his relative who was killed in a garment factory fire in Karachi.








The hand of dead Pakistani garment factory worker is seen at a hospital following a fire in a garment factory in which at least 280 people died in Karachi. More than 310 people have perished in fires that gutted factories in Pakistan's two largest cities, in tragedies that prompted calls for an overhaul of poor industrial safety standards, officials said.



A Pakistani man weeps for his relative who was killed in a garment factory fire in Karachi on September 13, 2012.

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: a policeman secures the area before proceeding to pick up a child crack addict sleeping on the pavement at the entrance of the Jacaré favela during an operation to clean the streets of crack addicts



Kathmandu, Nepal: an artist with his face painted participates in a protest demanding the safety of artist Manish Harijan and his freedom of expression



Port-Saint-Père, France: a six-day-old hippopotamus next to his mother, Kara, aged 21, at the Planet Sauvage zoo



Liverpool, England: a giant screen displays the names of the victims of the Hillsborough disaster during a vigil outside St George's Hall



Narathiwat, Thailand: relatives of a Thai Muslim soldier killed in a recent attack by suspected separatist militants offer prayers over his grave during his funeral ceremony



Santiago, Chile: riot police clash with demonstrators after the commemoration of the 39th anniversary of Salvador Allende's death

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Japanese fashion designer Kazuhiro Watanabe, who holds the world record for the "Tallest Mohawk," poses for a photographer at a media event held by the Guinness World Records to launch their 2013 book edition in New York September 12, 2012. According to the Guinness World Records, Watanabe's hair stands at 3 feet 8.6 inches.



Mineworkers take part in a march outside the Anglo American mine in South Africa's North West Province, September 12, 2012. Labour unrest sweeping through South Africa's mining sector hit top world platinum producer Anglo American Platinum on Wednesday, with stick-waving miners blockading roads leading to shafts and calling for a shut-down of operations.



Mona Renee Johnson becomes emotional as U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign rally in Las Vegas, Nevada September 12, 2012 - Oh dear



An Africa Union military truck drives past the body of a rebel, who was killed by soldiers, at the scene of an explosion in Mogadishu September 12, 2012. The rebel started shooting at civilians and soldiers as he stormed towards the Jazeera Palace hotel following a bomb blast. Somalia's al Shabaab rebels carried out the bomb attack on Wednesday that targeted the hotel where the president and Kenya's visiting foreign minister were holding a news conference, the group said.



A farmer washes himself with water from a police water cannon in front of a barricade, which was set up by the police to block the farmers' march in front of the national assembly in central Seoul September 12, 2012. Police used the water cannon to put out the fire on rice straw caused by farmers. Police said about 4,000 farmers attended the rally. The local beef cattle farmers demanded the government take measures against the fall of local beef cattle price and the soaring price of feed, which they insisted was caused by the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the U.S. and South Korea.



Fashion designer Betsey Johnson smiles after performing a cartwheel at the end of her retrospective fashion show and 70th birthday party during New York Fashion Week September 11, 2012.



The collapsed cupola of Haiti's condemned National Palace crashes to the ground during its demolition in Port-au-Prince September 12, 2012. Two and a half years after a devastating earthquake ravaged Haiti, demolition began last Friday at the National Palace. Plans for the new structure will resemble the former palace - but are designed to withstand earthquakes

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People pull a car by rope and shout slogans during a protest against the price hike in diesel and capping the number of subsidized cooking gas cylinders in Ahmadabad, India, on Sept. 14, 2012. The slogan on a replica cooking gas cylinder on the right reads "Down with price rise."

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Protesters throw stones at riot policemen during clashes along a road leading to the U.S. embassy, near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on September 14, 2012.













A boy who was overcome by the effects of tear gas is carried away in Cairo on September 14, 2012. Over two hundred people have been injured in clashes between protesters and security forces.




Egyptian protesters angry at a film offending the Prophet Muhammad hurled stones at police near the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Friday,as American missions across the Arab world and beyond tightened security in expectation of anti-U.S. demonstrations on the Muslim day of prayer.

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Potato farmers install pipes to drain water from the lake to their farms due to a prolonged drought in Dieng, in Central Java. A long drought has left tens of thousands of Indonesians without water and facing the bleak prospect of massive crop losses,

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Riot police try to arrest a student protester as they release a jet of water during a protest against the government to demand changes in the public state education in Santiago, Sept. 13, 2012. Chilean students have been protesting against what they say is profiteering in the state education system.

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The Chicago Teachers Union said on Thursday a deal was near to end a four-day strike in the nation's third-largest school district over education reforms sought by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, but a deal will not be reached in time to reopen schools on Friday

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It's hard to look at these images of street battles in Cairo and not be reminded of last year's uprising in Tahrir Square. It's a bitter irony that to many Americans, those images, though sometimes violent, were hopeful, as a country tried to throw off a decades-old dictatorship. Now, of course, the U.S. is the target of the demonstrators' rage.

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Demonstrators form a human pyramid in the waters of the Bay of Bengal near the Kudankulam nuclear power project in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Sept. 13.



Protesters at the Kudankulam nuclear plant fear the same kind of accident that occurred at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant could happen in southern India, a region that was hard hit by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The Kudankulam plant is due to open within weeks and will provide 2 gigawatts of electricity -- enough to power millions of Indian homes and relieve a power crisis in the state of Tamil Nadu. More nuclear plants are planned

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Katmandu, Nepal: A protest in support of an artist who allegedly received death threats for depicting Hindu deities combined with western superheroes



Tactic, Guatemala: The mother of a man who was lynched after he allegedly killed two children leaves flowers at his grave



Xinjiang, China: A worker at an open-air plant where rocks are crushed to produce construction materials, in the Gobi desert



Manila, Philippines: A plane takes off over the city. Some domestic flights were cancelled due to bad weather brought by typhoon Karen

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Volcán de Fuego eruption

Guatemala's 'Volcano of Fire' has erupted, spewing lava and ash down its flanks. Authorities have ordered more than 33,000 people in nearby communities to leave their homes

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A man, who was accused of theft, is tied up and beaten by villagers of Tactic, in Alta Verapaz region, about 189km (117 miles) from Guatemala City, September 13, 2012. The local community tied up and beat four men who were accused of theft in the aftermath of a school killing, which had occurred on Wednesday. The man, who had entered a classroom and killed two children, ages 8 and 13, with a machete, was lynched and burnt alive by a mob, local media reported



A woman hits a man with a stick after he is accused of theft along with three other men at Tactic, in the Alta Verapaz region, about 189 km (117 miles) from Guatemala City, September 13, 2012.




A man comforts a member of the Free Syrian Army mourning the death of his fellow comrade during his funeral in Azaz's cemetery September 13, 2012.



A relative of a taxi driver who was killed in an attack reacts at a crime scene in Monterrey September 13, 2012. Unknown assailants gunned down three taxi drivers in a drive-by shooting at a working class neighbourhood, local media reported. A woman walking near the site of the attack was killed by a stray bullet.



A boy sits at his parents' house, damaged by shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Talbiseh, near Homs August 31, 2012



Green Bay Packers tight end Tom Crabtree (C) celebrates his special teams touchdown against the Chicago Bears in the first half during their NFL game in Green Bay, Wisconsin September 13, 2012.

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Aftermath of deadly Karachi blaze
























Many people in Karachi are stunned by the sheer scale of the disaster

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Lady Gaga arrives at the Guggenheim Museum in New York



Workers clean toxic chemicals believed to have been released from a facility in New Orleans as a result of Hurricane Issac



Monsoon rains in India were 31% above average for the time of year

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Woman arrested after body found in burning car in Somerset

Catherine Wells-Burr worked as a business analyst

A 32-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a university graduate was found dead inside a burning car in Somerset.

Catherine Wells-Burr, 23, was discovered in her red Ford Focus in a field in Ashill, near Ilminster, on Wednesday morning by fire crews.

Police said they did not know if Miss Wells-Burr was alive when the car was set on fire.

A post-mortem examination is due to be carried out later.

The 32-year-old woman was arrested on Thursday night, Avon and Somerset Police said.

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UBS trader Kweku Adoboli 'gambled away' £1.4bn

Kweku Adoboli denies charges of false accounting and fraud

A City trader "gambled away" £1.4bn ($2.3bn) of his firm's money and caused "chaos and disaster", a jury has heard.

Kweku Adoboli, 32, of Whitechapel, east London, exceeded his trading limits at UBS in a bid to get a bigger bonus and boost his ego, the court was told.

He denies two charges each of false accounting and fraud.

Prosecutor Sasha Wass QC told Southwark Crown Court Mr Adoboli thought he had the "magic touch" but his actions saw the Swiss bank's share price fall 10%.

Ms Wass said the trader "did all of this by exceeding his trading limits, by inventing fictitious deals to conceal this, and then he lied to his bosses".

She added: "This colossal loss arose purely as a result of Mr Adoboli's fraudulent deal making, which amounted, as you will see, to nothing more than gambling."

Mr Adoboli had been working as a senior trader at UBS's global synthetic equities branch, buying and selling exchange traded funds, which track different types of stocks, bonds or commodities such as metals.He faked bookings, he created false accounts and conducted himself as a master fraudster” - Sasha Wass Prosecution barrister

His dollar trades took place between October 2008 and September 2011, the court was told.

Ms Wass said Mr Adoboli had been "sucked into the gambler's mindset" and "started throwing good money after bad".

The prosecutor said the trading loss was enough to pay a year's salary for nearly 70,000 new nurses, or two Wembley stadiums or six new hospitals.

Ms Wass said Mr Adoboli had "fraudulently side-stepped" the bank's rules that banned high risk and unauthorised investments.

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China's surveillance ship "Haijian 50" arrives at waters around the Diaoyu Islands, Sept. 14, 2012. Two Chinese surveillance ship fleets have arrived at waters around the Diaoyu Islands and its affiliated islets Friday morning and started patrol and law enforcement there. It is the first time for Chinese surveillance ships to patrol there after the Chinese government announced on Monday the base points and baselines of the territorial waters of the Diaoyu Islands and their affiliated islets, as well as the names and coordinates of 17 base points.

These law enforcement and patrol activities are aimed to demonstrate China's jurisdiction over the Diaoyu Islands and its affiliated islets and ensure the country's maritime interests, according to a government statement.

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A vendor covers shelves filled with hard alocohol at a shop in Prague, Czech Republic, on Friday. The Czech government banned the sale of hard alcohol in the wake of a series of deaths linked to such drinks. Health Minister Leos Heger made the announcement in a television broadcast. The ban would apply for the foreseeable future to all liquor with an alcohol content of more than 20 per cent. The announcement comes after at least 19 deaths linked to people who drank vodka or rum drinks spiked with methanol, which can cause illness in small quantities and blindness or death in larger doses.






A bartender covers bottles of hard liquor with towels in a bar in Prague .



A policeman leads a man accused in the case of illegal alcohol to the court in Zlin, Czech Republic, 150 miles east of Prague on Friday. His arrest is in connection with the latest police discovery. Around 500 bottles and several barrels of illicit booze were found in a garage in the eastern city of Zlin on Thursday. Eighteen people have recently died after drinking liquor tainted with methanol (methyl alcohol) in the Czech Republic.

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U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Paul Nagy and Carol Armstrong, wife of Neil Armstrong, commit the cremated remains of the Apollo 11 astronaut to sea during a service held onboard the USS Philippine Sea today in the Atlantic Ocean.









U.S. Navy Capt. Steve Shinego, commanding officer of the USS Philippine Sea, presents the U.S. flag to Carol Armstrong following the burial-at-sea service on Friday. One of Neil Armstrong's sons, Rick, is sitting next to Carol, with other family members nearby. Among the attendees were the astronaut's other son, Mark; and his brother and sister, Dean Armstrong and June Hoffman.

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An employee makes plastic Christmas trees at the Zhongsheng Christmas Crafts factory in Yiwu, Zhejiang province on Sept. 13. Christmas comes but once a year, but for Christmas decoration factories and retailers in China, it starts as early as July and ends in late September, when massive orders from around the world arrive in Yiwu, located 185 miles south of Shanghai in the prosperous Zhejiang province. Yiwu is considered a bellwether for China's low-cost exports, especially exports destined for emerging markets. Orders come from places as far away as Europe, the United States and South America. This year, European demand for Christmas goods has dropped sharply, local vendors said. One estimated European orders were down 20 percent from last year, while another said his European orders had fallen by 40 percent.






Shoppers the world over are stressed and forcing retail executives to be both more aggressive and more conservative heading into the year-end holiday period and new year.

U.S. retail executives are not reading too much into a recent uptick in consumer spending growth, while their European counterparts are dealing with shoppers afraid that the region is slipping into recession.

In the face of such prospects, the trick for retailers and consumer brands will be to figure out how to coax shoppers into stores and onto websites without shrinking profit margins through discounting, opening too many new stores or loading up on inventory that could go unsold at Christmas

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Lebanese men ransack American fast food chains Hardee's and KFC as they protest against the controversial film "Innocence of Muslims" in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Sept. 14.



Lebanese security forces fire shots to disperse men ransacking American fast food chains Hardee's and KFC as they protest against the controversial film "Innocence of Muslims" in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Sept. 14.

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Weightlifter Jonathan Walker from Harrogate poses as he lifts a marrow weighing 119lbs 12oz which won the Giant Marrow Class in the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show on Sept. 14, in Harrogate, England. The giant marrow was grown by Peter Glazebrook, from Newark, who won all six classes in the giant vegetable competition during the show at The Great Yorkshire Showground.



Vegetable gardener Peter Glazebrook wheels his giant cabbage, which weighs 81lbs and 6ozs, through the annual Harrogate Autumn Flower Show on Sept. 14, in Harrogate, England. Peter Glazebrook, from Newark, won all six classes in the giant vegetable competition during the show at The Great Yorkshire Showground.