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French bell foundry Cornille Havard in Villedieu-les-Poeles in Normandy was chosen to design and cast eight replacement bronze bells for the north tower of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, set to be finished in time to ring for the 850th anniversary of the cathedral next year.
The new bells will have the same weight and diameter as the ones from the 18th-century that were melted down and turned into cannons during the French Revolution. They will be designed to recreate the centuries old sound by using the same medieval forging methods
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Military amputee Steve Arnold uses a hand bike in the new Help for Heroes' Tedworth House rehabilitation center for wounded servicemen and women during a press preview day on Oct. 18 in Tidworth, England.
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Cyclist Mark Cavendish watches as skier Graham Bell (left) shows amputee Andy Barlow how to ski on the new Skiplex slope that has been installed at the new Help for Heroes' Tedworth House rehabilitation center
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University and high school students attend a demonstration against deep government cuts to education spending in Madrid. Unions are angered over government cuts worth three billion euros ($3.8 billion) to education spending this year, which will lead to larger class sizes and increase average university tuition fees to 1,500 euros from 1,000 euros
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Constructive banking: The new headquarters of the European Central Bank (left) is under construction in Frankfurt, Germany. The ECB will move into the building in 2014
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A status symbol: The "Spirit of Ecstasy" emblem is pictured by a photographer on a Rolls-Royce "Ghost" car at a Rolls-Royce showroom in Sao Paulo. Upmarket carmaker Rolls-Royce inaugurated their first store in Latin America and say they expect to sell between eight to 12 cars a year in Brazil.
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We love you: British rock band The Rolling Stones (L-R) Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger arrive for the world premiere 'Crossfire Hurricane' during the 56th BFI London Film Festival at Leicester Square in London
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Glass ceiling: A Dormouse is sedated in an anaesthetic chamber before being micro-chipped as part of a multi-agency conservation project in North Wales. The Dormice, which are native to the UK, are being marked and monitored in a programme aimed at improving conservation methods in the area
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A troubled looking store greeter dressed as a Chinese historical figure to attract customers sits outside a shop in Beijing. Figures released today have shown a slowdown in the growth of the Chinese economy.
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It's a dog's life: Puppy Wilfred and his three siblings were dumped in a bag when they were just a few weeks old. New figures released today show numbers of unwanted litters are reaching epidemic levels so the Blue Cross pet charity is calling on owners to neuter their pets.
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An angry striking miner brandishes a rock as he marches along with thousands of others to the offices of Anglogold Ashanti in Carletonville, South Africa. Thousands of miners returned to work today, just hours before a deadline to end their strike or face dismissal, but many look set to continue their industrial action
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Striking miners chant slogans at the AngloGold Ashanti mine in Carletonville
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Hamas militants take part in a march through the streets of Gaza City, marking the anniversary of a prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hamas. Last year, Israel freed more than 1,000 jailed Palestinians in a swap for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who was being held in Gaza.
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A visitor takes a closer look at a photographic series called Foxy Mister by Tomislav Gotovac during a preview of an art exhibition titled Nude Men at the Leopold museum in Vienna. The exhibition of around 300 art works is designed to show how the depiction of male nudity has evolved in art history.
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Anti-abortion demonstrators hold placards outside the Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The first abortion clinic has opened in Belfast, sparking protests from both the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.
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German chancellor Angela Merkel is captured in contemplation after delivering a government policy statement during a session of the Bundestag, the German lower house of parliament, in Berlin
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Street artists perform a piece called Blind on Avenida Paulista in São Paulo, Brazil.
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Chief whip Andrew Mitchell arrives rather cheerily at Downing Street this morning despite facing renewed criticism and pressure to resign over an alleged altercation with police officers, during which he was accused of describing them as 'plebs'.
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Officers of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) carry a coffin with the remains of a crew member whose plane crashed in the second world war at a burial ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Eight British airmen have been buried with military honours in Malaysia, nearly 70 years after their plane crashed while on a mission there
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President Obama and his campaign team put on quite a show for supporters at a rally at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio
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Evelyn Krug looks over the smoldering remains of her home in Bucyrus, N.D., on Oct. 18, 2012. Krug, 74, and her husband, Mike, raised their children in the home on the west side of Bucyrus. In the background is Krug's car that was completely burned where it was parked in the fast moving fire.
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A fire sweeps through Bucyrus, N.D. on Oct. 17, 2012.
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The traditional vegetarian festival in Phuket is founded on the local Chinese community's belief that abstinence from meat and various stimulants during the ninth lunar month of their calendar will help them obtain good health and peace of mind, Reuters reports.
According to Phuket.com, one of the rituals at the festival sees participants "puncture their cheeks with various items including knives, skewers and other household items. It is believed that the Chinese gods will protect such persons from harm."
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Atmospheric optics turn sunlight into a celestial display as seen from Summit Station in Greenland on Oct. 14. Ed Stockard, one of the workers at the federally funded research station, says the display includes a halo, sun dogs, an upper tangent arc and more. "My eyelashes froze together, and my cheeks were getting nipped pretty good," Stockard writes.
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President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at the 67th Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner in New York on October 18, 2012.
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President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took a break from their often rancorous campaigns to poke fun at each other and themselves at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner in New York, Thursday night.
Romney told the formal white tie and gown crowd that, "it's nice to finally relax and wear what Anne and I wear around the house."
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addresses the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York City.
Through much of the evening, the two candidates sat just one chair down from each other. Only host Cardinal Timothy Dolan separated them, the Associated Press reported.
Romney told the crowd, "I was actually hoping the president would bring Joe Biden along this evening, because he'll laugh at anything
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St Louis, US: San Francisco Giants player Pablo Sandoval sits on the ground after making a diving stop during a Major League baseball game with St Louis Cardinals
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London, UK: Corporal Sid Gibbons, 92, a veteran of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers joins a demonstration in Westminster, protesting against the government's decision to disband the 2nd Battalion of his former regiment
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Athens, Greece: A molotov cocktail burns in front of riot police during clashes with demonstrators during a 24-hour strike
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Rome, Italy: Members of Animalisti Italiani protest in front of a Dolce & Gabbana store in Piazza di Spagna. The group started an international campaign against the sale of jeans made by sandblasting, which can cause illness or death among garment workers
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Sydney, Australia: A man sunbathes near an artwork that is part of the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition on Tamarama beach
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Hang on a minute lads, I've got a great idea... A bus hangs over an underpass near Piraja station in Salvador, Brazil. Apparently a bus driver in a moment of madness tried to drive his vehicle over the bridge which straddles a busy main road
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No animals were harmed at the annual vegetarian festival, as devotees take part in a procession in Phuket.
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A demonstrator wears badges symbolizing no cuts during a protest by civil servants against government austerity measures in Madrid
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It's Captain Kirk, Jim but not as we remember him. Canadian actor William Shatner arrives at the opening of Destination Star Trek London, the first official Star Trek event in the UK in a decade, at the ExCel centre in east London
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More pandas in the news: Giant pandas 'play' at the Chengdu research base of Giant Panda breeding in Sichuan province, China
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All decked out: A model presents a creation by Japanese designer Yasutaka Funakoshi for his label Alice Auaa during the 'Alice in Wonderland in Me' at Fashion Week in Tokyo
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And here a wounded Syrian boy receives medical attention at a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo, following an attack by government forces
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The Rohingyas stand outside a school sheltering them in the village
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Firefighters hose down burning cars at the scene of an explosion in Ashafriyeh, central Beirut. A huge car bomb exploded in a street during the rush hour, killing at least eight people and wounding about 80, witnesses and officials said
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Malala Yousafzai who was shot by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan, in her hospital bed at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. The Taliban bullet grazed Pakistani girl's brain but doctors say she is writing, has memory and has expressed gratitude for support.
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French riot gendarmes run along a road as they evacuate anti-airport protesters from land that will become the new airport complex in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, western France, October 18, 2012. The new airport, some 30kms (19 miles) from Nantes, is scheduled to be constructed for 2017
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A Kashmiri government employee shouts slogans after being detained by the police during protest in Srinagar October 18, 2012. Indian police detained dozens of employees on Thursday during their rally to demand long pending arrears and permanent jobs and release salaries of last six months, union leaders said.
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Striking miners gesture in front of the mine security vehicle at the AngloGold Ashanti mine in Carletonville, northwest of Johannesburg October 18, 2012. Striking miners at one of Gold Fields' South African operations returned to work on Thursday, but there was no end in sight to the country's worst wildcat walkouts since the end of apartheid due to renewed unrest at Lonmin's Marikana mine. More than 80,000 miners have downed tools since August in often violent strikes that are hitting growth and investor confidence in Africa's biggest economy, and raising questions about President Jacob Zuma's leadership
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Quazi Mohammad Ahsanullah, father of Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, holds a photograph of his son inside his residence at Uttar Jatrabari in Dhaka October 18, 2012. The FBI on Wednesday arrested Nafis, a Bangladeshi, in a sting operation on charges he attempted to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank with what he believed was a 1,000-pound (450-kg) bomb, federal authorities said. Nafis, 21, faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to al Qaeda, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. If convicted, he faces life in prison.
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At least eight people were killed and 78 wounded by a huge blast that exploded in a street in central Beirut on Friday, a security official told NBC News, raising fears that sectarian violence raging in neighboring Syria had spread to the Lebanese capital.
It was not immediately clear whether the blast had been caused by a car bomb, although all evidence pointed to that, the country's top military judge Hatem Madi told NBC News in Beirut. It was also not clear if the explosion targeted any political figure in Lebanon's divided community but it occurred at a time of heightened tension between Lebanese factions on opposite sides of the Syria conflict.
Ambulances rushed to the scene in the Ashafriyeh district, a mostly Christian area, as smoke rose from the area. Several cars were set on fire by the explosion and the front of a multi-story building was badly damaged.
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Ronnie Barker's son Adam Barker jailed for child porn
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Comedian Ronnie Barker's son has been jailed for 12 months for making indecent images of children.
Adam Barker, 44, of no fixed address, appeared at Isleworth Crown Court last month and admitted 20 counts.
Barker, the youngest son of the television comic, was first arrested in June 2003 as part of a police operation targeting people accessing indecent images of children on the internet.
A computer seized from his home in Ealing contained thousands of images.
Barker went on the run for eight years, living in Hungary.
During that time he missed the funeral of his father, who died in 2005 aged 76.
As an actor, Adam Barker had small parts in films including Shakespeare in Love and Tomorrow Never Dies.
He has also appeared in TV shows such as Casualty, Monarch of the Glen and Wycliffe.
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An Indian Muslim prays while pilgrims walk around the holy Kaaba located in the center of the Haram Sharif Great Mosque, during the Muslim Hajj 2012 pilgrimage, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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Mexican soldiers help the emergency services after a gas pipeline exploded in Zapotlanejo, Mexico, forcing the evacuation of 2,000 people, and injuring at least three
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Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco takes a call on his mobile phone as he leaves the Synod of Bishops in Vatican City, Vatican. The Synod of Bishops was established by Pope Paul Vl in 1965 after The Second Vatican Council to advise the Pope in growing the faith throughout the world
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Russian president Vladimir Putin sits in a train before a meeting with officials on the development of railways and railway service in Moscow. Putin inspected a ring railway developed to improve transportation in Moscow
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A riot policeman runs across a street in front of coconuts, thrown by protesters, during a riot in Zanzibar
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Crown Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg and Belgian Countess Stephanie de Lannoy wave upon their arrival at the Luxembourg city hall for their wedding
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U.S. Army soldier Spc. Katie Luna of 572nd Military Intelligence Company, 8th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, cries while paying respects during a memorial service for platoon member, late Spc. Brittany Gordon at Camp Nathan Smith in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Oct. 19, 2012. Gordon was killed last Saturday along with a U.S. civilian and two others, after an Afghan police officer detonated a suicide vest he was wearing, a military officer said
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A riot policeman fires tear gas during a protest against a new legislation, which allows for the sale of land in Panama's free trade zone of Colon, in Colon City, Panama, Oct. 19, 2012. According to local media, hundreds of demonstrators protested against draft law No. 529, blocking roads and burning tires in the city, claiming that selling the land will affect their jobs and revenue which the Colon free trade zone, one of the largest free ports in the Americas.
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A family runs for shelter after tear gas was shot by riots police during a massive protest in Colon City, Panama, Oct. 19.
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An officer plays a saxophone beside commonwealth war graves during a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Battle of El-Alamein in El-Alamein, Egypt, Oct. 19, 2012.
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Dr. David Mathis, a board certified physician, was the highest paid prison doctor last year, earning a base salary of $239,572 and an additional $169,548 for working overnight shifts, weekends and holidays. Prison doctors say they are worth higher pay because they face constant threat of assault from inmates.
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Dr. David Mathis, center, accompanied by physician's assistant Rob Johnson, left, examines a sore on the foot of an inmate at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, Calif., Sept. 12
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Andrew Mitchell resigns over police comments row
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Andrew Mitchell has quit as government chief whip after weeks of pressure over an argument with police officers in Downing Street.
The Tory MP has admitted swearing at officers in the incident but again denied calling police "plebs".
He told David Cameron - who has stood by him - that "damaging publicity" meant he could no longer do his job.
Former Commons leader Sir George Young will be the new chief whip, Downing Street said.
Mr Mitchell's resignation is a victory for the Police Federation and Labour who have led calls for him to go.
But it spells the end of a 25-year political career for the Sutton Coldfield MP, who was promoted from international development secretary to chief whip in September's cabinet reshuffle.
BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson said Mr Mitchell told the prime minister about his decision in person, at Mr Cameron's country residence Chequers.
The prime minister has accepted his resignation
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Syrian rebels have turned to making their own weapons to fill the shortage in their armouries
