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Argentinians protest against corruption and inflation

Up to 500,000 people have taken to the streets of Buenos Aires to protest against Argentina's president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. They are angered by rising inflation, violent crime, high-profile corruption, and suggestions that Fernández may be planning to amend the constitution so she can serve a third term






A woman holds an umbrella which reads 'stop insecurity'















People march with a flag which reads 'respect to the constitution'

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Superboat Extreme offshore raceboats make the turn in Key West Harbor,during the second of three race days



Marystelle Polanco outside a court building in Milan, Italy during a trial in which associates of Silvio Berlusconi stand accused of abetting prostitution. Reports state that three showgirls testifying in a trial.

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Syrians walk through the rubble of buildings, including a mosque, that were destroyed in an air strike by regime forces on the northern Syrian town of Taftanaz, in the Idlib province



The festive season is almost upon us. Richard Lowry lifts a Christmas tree at Garrocher Tree Farm in Creetown, Scotland. The tree grower, won the coveted title of Champion Christmas Tree Grower 2012 at the 14th Annual British Christmas Tree Growers' Association and will now deliver a sixteen foot six inch tree to take up residence outside 10 Downing Street.



Ecologist Dmitry Shamovich plays with his tamed wolf at his house in the remote village of Sosnovy Bor, Belarus. He doesn't look that tame!

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The pallbearers prepare to take the leopard skin style coffin containing Karina Menzies from the horse drawn carriage hearse at the Church of Ressurection, Ely, near Cardiff. Menzies was killed by a hit and run driver in October



Russia's Tatiana Volosozhar performs during the pairs short program at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Rostelecom Cup in Moscow



U.S. Marines of Police Advisory Team Now Zad, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines Regiment patrol a village near a police station in Now Zad district in Helmand province, southwestern Afghanistan November 8, 2012.



An servicewoman looks at crosses in the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey in London November 8, 2012

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CIA director David Petraeus resigns over affair






CIA director David Petraeus has resigned from his post, admitting he had an extra-marital affair.

In a statement, Mr Petraeus said he had submitted his resignation to President Barack Obama, and that he had shown "extremely poor judgement".

He described his behaviour as "unacceptable" for the leader of the nation's main intelligence agency.

Mr Petraeus became CIA boss in 2011 after heading international forces in Iraq and later in Afghanistan.

He was the highest-profile military officer of the post-9/11 years, winning plaudits for his role running the "surge" in Iraq and implementing a counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan.

He left his command role in Afghanistan in mid-2011, resigning from the US Army to head the CIA after Leon Panetta became defence secretary.
























David Petraeus: Career highlights

• Graduated from West Point in 1974
• Commander of Multinational Force Iraq, Feb 2007 to Sept 2008
• Commander of International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in Afghanistan, July 2010 to July 2011
• Became CIA director in Sept 2011 after being confirmed by the senate 94-0

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EU budget talks for 2013 collapse

British Conservative MEPs clashed with Martin Schulz over a 9bn euro request for 2012

Talks to agree the EU's 2013 budget have collapsed, after negotiators from the EU and member states were unable to agree on extra funding for 2012.

The EU Commission and European Parliament had asked for a budget rise of 6.8% in 2013.

But most governments wanted to limit the rise to just 2.8%.

The failure of the talks will dent hopes of agreement on the 2014-2020 budget, which is up for discussion later this month, correspondents say.

Friday's dispute was over an extra 9bn euros (£7bn; $12bn) in "emergency funding" for 2012, to cover budgets for education, infrastructure and research projects.

But Germany, France and other governments questioned the funding, and eight hours of talks produced no agreement.

"Under these conditions, we felt that negotiations which hadn't really begun by six o'clock in the evening couldn't reasonably be expected to finish during the night," said the parliament's lead negotiator, Alain Lamassoure.

At the European parliament, UK Conservative MEPs clashed with Parliament President Martin Schulz, a German Social Democrat, over the extra 9bn euros shortfall for 2012.

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Ahmad Otak jailed for 34 years for murdering two teenagers

Otak was told he acted out of "childish jealousy"

A man who forced his ex-girlfriend to watch him murder her sister and her friend after she refused to take him back has been jailed for life.

Ahmad Otak, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, stabbed 17-year-old Kimberley Frank and Samantha Sykes, 18, in March in West Yorkshire.

He then abducted his ex partner, 19-year-old Elisa Frank, and drove to Dover in a bid to flee the country.

Otak was jailed for a minimum of 34 years at Leeds Crown Court.

Otak, who repeatedly lied about his age but is thought to be at least 22, pleaded guilty to two counts of murder at a hearing in October.

Judge Justice Coulson told the double killer he "behaved like an animal" and was "incapable of behaving like a human being".You forced Elisa Frank to take part and then abducted her, and your treatment of her sister's body demonstrates at least a degree of sadism” Mr Justice Coulson

He said he was a "practised liar" who repaid the generosity the UK had shown to him by murdering two teenage girls with a "significant degree of premeditation".

Otak, of Linton Road, Wakefield, arrived in the UK in 2007 and was granted humanitarian protection to stay in Britain.

The court heard he lied about his age to get preferred treatment by social services.

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Bus and car crash in Wakefield leaves 15 people injured






The single-decker bus and a VW Golf crashed on Doncaster Road in Wakefield just after lunchtime.


Two men suffered life-threatening injuries and four other people were seriously injured when a bus and car collided in West Yorkshire.

The single-decker bus and a blue VW Golf crashed on Doncaster Road, Wakefield, at about 14:10 GMT.

The driver of the bus was one of those seriously injured.

The Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) said the most seriously hurt people had been taken to the Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) by air ambulance.

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Bradley Wiggins crash: Woman reported for summons

Bradley Wiggins suffered a bruised hand and ribs

A woman has been reported for summons for driving without due care and attention after cyclist Bradley Wiggins was knocked off his bike.

The Tour de France winner, 32, was in a collision with a van pulling out of a garage forecourt in Wrightington, Lancashire, on Wednesday evening.

Lancashire Police said the 44-year-old woman had voluntarily attended an interview.

Olympic gold medallist Wiggins suffered a dislocated finger and fractured rib.

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Burma train crash and fire kills 25

Dozens of people were injured in the accident

A train carrying petrol has derailed and burst into flames in northern Burma, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens more.

The information ministry said many of the dead and injured were villagers trying to collect spilled fuel.

The train was travelling from Mandalay to Myitkyina in the north, near the border with China.

No explanation has been given for the accident, but Burma's railways are in poor condition after years of neglect.

Officials told the BBC Burmese service that three wagons overturned and burst into flames.

There were seven wagons carrying petrol and two more of diesel, officials said.

The ministry posted images on its website of burnt-out wagons and what appeared to be charred bodies.

The train came off the rails near Kantbalu, a town some 500 miles (800km) north of the main city, Rangoon.

The number of people killed in the accident was unclear. The government said 25 people died and 62 people were injured.

But emergency officials told the BBC that more than 80 were wounded, and that 27 had been killed.

Two people died after being transferred to hospital, emergency officials said.

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Brazil: 13 new deaths in Sao Paulo's gang battle

More than 90 police officers have been killed this year in the city

At least 13 people have died in fresh violence between police and a gang in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo.

More than 130 people have died in the last two weeks as part of a conflict between the police and the gang, known as First Command of the Capital (PCC).

Many attacks on officers are believed to be arranged from inside prison by jailed gang members.

BBC Brasil has seen a document by a group of prosecutors calling for PCC leaders to be moved to other jails.

They say Sao Paulo's prison system does not have the capacity to isolate such dangerous inmates and they should be transferred to federal prisons.

But the issue is a sensitive one, correspondents say.

The last time they tried to move jailed gang leaders, in 2006, the PCC unleashed a wave of violence and riots that led to the deaths of almost 500 people.

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Ghana shopping complex collapse



The collapse took place on Wednesday morning killing at least 4 people

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Natives living in the old indigenous museum, Aldea Maracana, take part in a demo against the governmet decision to throw them out and pull down the building, to construct 10,500 parking lots for the upcoming Brazil 2014 World Cup



Saramacca District, Suriname: One of the 35 three-toed sloths (Bradypus tridactylus) rescued by Green Heritage Fund Suriname, crawls away after being released into the jungle



Bangkok, Thailand: A navy oarsman sits at the back of a barge during a procession held on the Chao Phraya river. Over 2,000 rowers in 52 barges took part in the procession, held for the first time in five years and presided over by Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, and marking the upcoming 85th birthday of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulayadej

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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip: Palestinians carry the body of 11 year-old Ahmed Abu Dagah during his funeral. Reports state that Abu Dagah was killed by Israeli forces in al-Farahen during clashes between the Israeli military and Palestinian militants on the border



Antioquia, Colombia: The coffins of slain farm workers stand in a row during a funeral ceremony in Santa Rosa de Osos. On Wednesday, a drug-trafficking paramilitary group killed 10 peasants on a farm in northern Colombia



Bora Bora, French Polynesia: Competitors take part in the 21st edition of the Hawaiki Nui outrigger canoe race. The race takes place over three days connecting the islands of Huahine, Raiatea, Taha'a and Bora Bora

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Syrians jump over barbed wire as they flee from the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain to the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar, Sanliurfa province, November 9, 2012. Around 9,000 Syrian refugees fled into Turkey in the past 24 hours, the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday, and Turkish state media said 26 defecting Syrian army officers had also arrived. More than 120,000 registered Syrian refugees are now sheltering in Turkish camps. Tens of thousands of unregistered Syrians are also living in Turkish border towns and villages



A police officer patrols a street as a resident looks on during a security operation in the Brasilandia favela in Sao Paulo November 9, 2012. Some 90 police murders have occurred this year in greater Sao Paulo. The root cause is an escalating, eye-for-an-eye battle between police and a notorious organized crime group known as the First Capital Command. The violence appears to have been triggered by a drug bust months ago, and then spiraled out of control due to campaign politics and alleged police brutality, among other factors, security officials told Reuters



A hotel in Kapoeta, South Sudan - 5 star?

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Anti-government protesters run from tear gas fired by riot police, as they attempt to get to the village of Diraz, west of Manama November 9, 2012. Bahraini police fired tear gas and blocked roads to stop thousands of Shi'ite Muslims joining prayers led by one of their spiritual leaders on Friday, witnesses said, amid worsening strife. Shi'ite leaders had called for people to turn out to support Sheikh Issa Qassim in his village of Diraz, west of the capital Manama, after the government warned clerics not to criticise the government or incite violence. Police had blocked all access to Diraz.



East Orthodox priests carry a coffin bearing the body of Patriarch Maxim during a funeral ceremony in Troyan Monastery, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north-east of Sofia November 9, 2012. Patriarch Maxim, who led Bulgaria's Orthodox Christians for 41 years, has died at the age of 98 on Tuesday following heart failure.

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A Palestinian demonstrator throws a rock at Israeli security forces from the roof of a house, during clashes at a weekly protest against a nearby Jewish settlement, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, November 9, 2012.



Kfir and Boeing military planes fly during a ceremony to mark the 93rd anniversary of the Colombian Air Force at the military base in Bogota, November 9, 2012



Demonstrators hold placards at damaged buildings during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, after Friday prayers in Erbeen near Damascus November 9, 2012

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A woman inspects bags and other leather accessories that are made from saltwater crocodile skin and sold at a price range of 700 pesos to 200,000 pesos (around $17 to $4,956), as a live crocodile is seen on a table at a stall inside a crocodile farm in Pasay City Metro Manila November 9, 2012.



An armoured vehicle of U.S. Marines, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines Regiment is enveloped with smoke and dust after it was hit by an IED roadside bomb attack as a marines convoy is on patrol in the outskirts of Now Zad district in Helmand province, southwestern Afghanistan November 9, 2012. The vehicle was just damaged slightly in the attack.



Children carry the coffin of Dilver Dinervi Vasquez Gomez on their way to the cemetery after ten members of the Vasquez Gomez family died from the earthquake that struck on Wednesday, in the cemetery of San Cristobal Cucho, about 250 km (155 miles) from Guatemala City, November 9, 2012. Rescue workers on Thursday carted out dead bodies found under rubble in the aftermath of Guatemala's most powerful earthquake in decades, while others cleared wrecked cars and collapsed buildings as they searched for survivors



Chris John of Indonesia (R) lands a right hand on Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo of Thailand during their WBA super world featherweight title fight at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore November 9, 2012.

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Firefighters and local farmers pull with ropes to rescue a buffalo which fell into a dried-up well in Cangnan county of Wenzhou, Jiangsu province November 8, 2012.



Victor Ocasio pauses to catch his breath as he walks up a darkened stairwell to his 15th floor apartment in New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) housing that remains without power in the Queens borough neighborhood of Edgemere in New York, November 8, 2012. New York City and much of the U.S. Northeast on Thursday dug out from a snowstorm that hammered a region struggling to recover from the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, as local governments expanded gasoline rationing in the face of shortages that may last for weeks

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Seabright, New Jersey, which was damaged by Hurricane Sandy



Wladimir Klitscho and Polish challenger to his world heavyweight title Mariusz Wach at the official weigh in ahead of their fight in Hamburg

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Joseph Manning, right, of Raynham, Mass., and his son Joey, 6, a Cub Scout, place U.S. flags at the graves of deceased veterans at the National Cemetery in Bourne, Mass., Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012. Thousands of flags were placed in the cemetery in advance of Veterans Day.

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Shopkeepers search for their belongings in the debris of their firecracker shops after a fire broke out in the western Indian city of Vadodara, Nov. 10. At least two people were injured and over 50 shops were gutted in a fire that broke out in the city's biggest firecracker market. The cause of the fire was unknown.

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In Aleppo, a rebel fighter looks up towards the sky awaiting an attack by loyalists to President Bashar al-Assad



A woman tries to stop a bulldozer from destroying her house in Lenesia, south-west of Johannesburg. Protesters have burned tyres and blocked roads, after the government tore down houses built on plots that were illegally sold



A girl prepares lunch for her family on the beach in Kao Seng. Kao Seng is a traditional Muslim fishing village on the Gulf of Siam near the town of Songkhla



Li Rong sits on a bed in her cramped apartment on the fifth floor of an old industrial building in Hong Kong. Li lives in some of the priciest real estate per square foot in the world



Red deer hinds graze as the rutting season draws to a close in Glen Etive, Scotland. The rutting season sees the large red deer stags compete against each other for mating rights

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England v Fiji

All the action from Twickenham as England eased their way to a win over Fiji in their first match of the autumn internationals






Joe Marler's new haircut



Fiji perform their version of a haka









Sharples celebrates his and England's first try of the match






Sharples scores his second try of the game












Manu Tuilagi sprints clear to score his second try of the match

Final score - England 54 Fiji 12

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People stand on the remains of the infrastructure of the Rockaway Beach boardwalk, which was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy on October 29, in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood of Queens, New York, November 10, 2012. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the day would be a day of service, with volunteers being bused to various neighborhoods affected by Hurricane Sandy to help continue the clean up process



A woman walks past a card, candles and flowers laid where Amaia Egana, a 53-year-old woman, threw herself out of her fourth-storey apartment window in Basque Country as court officials came up the stairs to evict her on Friday, in Barakaldo November 10, 2012. The card reads "La Caixa (bank) extorts and causes the death of Amaia". Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Friday that the government would introduce measures to protect families from eviction for non-payment of mortgages