World News in Pictures

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Ironworkers James Brady, left, and Billy Geoghan release the cables from a steel beam after connecting it on the 104th floor of One World Trade Center in New York on Aug. 2, 2012. The beam was signed by President Barack Obama with the words: "We remember," ''We rebuild" and "We come back stronger!" during a ceremony at the construction site June 14. Also adorned with the autographs of workers and police officers at the site, the beam will be sealed into the structure of the tower, which is scheduled for completion in 2014.

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Serbian Patriarch Irinej performs a liturgy during a solemn burial ceremony for the remains of Yugoslavia's last king Peter II Karadjordjevic, in Belgrade, on Jan. 22. The remains of the last Yugoslav king Peter II Karadjordjevic, who fled the country in the onset of Nazi invasion, were repatriated today for a re-burial in Serbia, 43 years after his death in exile in the United States. After being exhumed last week from the Serb Orthodox monastery Saint Sava at Libertyville, US, the coffin with remains of the Peter II, covered with the Serbian flag, was brought to the church at the Royal palace of Karadjordjevic in Belgrade.






Royalist supporters wearing old military uniforms are seen during a solemn ceremony after the remains of Yugoslavia's last king — Peter II Karadjordjevic were flown back to Serbia in Belgrade, Serbia, on Jan. 22.

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Diabaly, Mali: Rocket-propelled grenades believed to belong to Islamist rebels are stockpiled next to a donkey in a courtyard



Star City, Russia: US astronaut Gregory Wiseman takes part in a survival training exercise near the Russian cosmonaut training facility



Singapore: A man photographs a statue entitled Pentateuque by French artist Fabien Merelle at the Art Stage Singapore 2013 exhibition and trade show



Toronto, Canada: Sunrise on the coldest day of the year so far



Barcelona, Spain: Pro-independence supporters wait for the results of a symbolic declaration of sovereignty in front of Catalonia's parliament

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Thirteen-year-old Manjou Cisse, who was wounded by shrapnel during clashes between forces in Diabaly, looks on from his bed at Nianakoro Fomba hospital in Segou, Mali. Diabaly has now been liberated from rebels by French and Mali troops



A beautiful example of haute couture in Paris at its elegant best: A model presents a creation by Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad.



Feeling the heat, Manchester United's Patrice Evra arrives for a training session at the Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence in Doha, Qatar



Sloane Stephens of the US keeps her eye on the ball during her semi-final match against Victoria Azarenka from Belarus at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne

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Water baby: a newborn elephant cools off during the ongoing heatwave in Melbourne zoo, Australia



A woman impressively wrapped up against the cold cycles along a street in the fog in Haozhou in China. Forecasters are predicting the fog will last in the country's central and eastern regions in the meantime

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Miners work in Hungary's last remaining deep-cast coal mine at Markushegy, 70 km west of Budapest, January 23, 2013. Hungary secured EU regulatory approval on Wednesday for a 42.25 billion forint ($191 million, 144 million euro) grant to shut down the uncompetitive coal mine, operated by Vertes Power Plant, in the next two years.



Huskies pant during a training session at Feshiebridge, in Aviemore, Scotland January 23, 2013. The Siberian Husky Club of Great Britain will hold its annual sled dog rally this weekend.



A pistol lies on the street in a neighborhood after a shootout in Saltillo, Mexico January 22, 2013. The shootout between police forces, the military and gunmen took place in several areas of the city killing at least two people and injuring another, according to local media



Georgia's Angelina Telegina and Otar Japaridze perform during the ice dance short dance program at the European Figure Skating Championships in Zagreb January 23, 2013.

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Police markers are seen at a crime scene after an explosion in Zagreb January 23, 2013. At 2.30 a.m. (local time), the explosion took place in Zagreb's main square but no-one was hurt, according to local media. This incident is the third explosion in Zagreb in the last two weeks.



Palestinian women and children watch the funeral of Lubna Hanash in the West Bank town of Bethlehem January 23, 2013. Israeli soldiers shot and killed Hanash, a 21-year-old Palestinian woman, near Hebron on Wednesday and wounded another local youth, Palestinian medics said. Asked about the incident, an Israeli army spokeswoman said Palestinians had thrown petrol bombs at soldiers, who then opened fire

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The Duchess of Cornwall and the future king of England visit a reading scheme in south London



A Daniel Arsham sculpture at the Art Stage Singapore 2013 exhibition

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Ex-IRA woman Dolours Price is found dead in Dublin

Dolours Price sparked a legal battle over secret interviews she gave about her time in the IRA

The convicted IRA bomber, Dolours Price, has been found dead at her home in County Dublin.

Her family have confirmed that she died in Malahide on Wednesday night and they are to release a statement later.

The 62-year-old was jailed for her part in an IRA bomb attack on the Old Bailey in London in 1973, that injured 200.

In recent years she had aligned herself with dissident republicans and was an outspoken critic of the IRA leadership and Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams.

In media interviews before she died she alleged that during her time in the IRA, Mr Adams had been her commanding officer.

She also claimed that she drove Belfast mother-of-10 Jean McConville to the place where she was murdered by the IRA in 1972.

It is not yet known how Dolours Price died but police in Dublin have confirmed they are investigating the death of a woman at a house in St Margaret's Road in Malahide.

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Santa Ana school police Sgt. Kevin Philips locks his rifle in a gun rack mounted in a police vehicle in Santa Ana, Calif., Jan. 24, 2013. The semiautomatic rifles look like they belong in a war zone instead of a suburban public school, but officials in this Los Angeles-area city say the high-powered weapons now in the hands of school police could prevent a massacre.



Santa Ana school police Sgt. Kevin Philips checks out a rifle from the police armory in Santa Ana, Calif., Jan. 24. The officers split their time between 44 schools in the district and keep the rifles in a safe at their assigned school or secured in their patrol car each day before checking the weapon back in to the school police headquarters each night

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Egyptian protesters worked Thursday to tear down a cement wall built to prevent them from reaching parliament and the Cabinet building near Tahrir Square, in Cairo. Ultimately, they toppled the wall. The protests come on the eve of the second anniversary of Egypt’s Jan. 25 uprising, which toppled longtime authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak in 2011.












Protesters flee from tear gas fired by riot police during clashes after protesters removed a concrete barrier near Tahrir Square in Cairo on Jan. 24.

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A group of astronauts set out on a camping trip in a snowbound forest outside Moscow on Wednesday, as they took part in a training exercise to practice survival techniques in case of a crash landing.

The team of three — an American, a Russian and a German — are preparing for a mission to the International Space Station in May 2014

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US Mumbai attacks plotter given 35 years in prison

David Coleman Headley was arrested by FBI agents in Chicago in October 2009

A US man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for his key role in plotting the deadly Mumbai attacks in 2008.

David Coleman Headley, 52, was sentenced on 12 counts, including conspiracy to aid militants from the Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) who carried out the attacks.

Headley pleaded guilty and co-operated to avoid the death penalty and extradition to India.

More than 160 people were killed by gunmen during the assault.

After initially denying the charges, Hadley eventually pleaded guilty and admitted to scouting potential target locations in Mumbai.

He also confessed to helping plan an aborted plot to behead staff at a Danish newspaper that had published a cartoon many Muslims deemed offensive.

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Manchester City's Courtney Meppen-Walter charged over deaths

Courtney Meppen-Walter has yet to play for Manchester City's first team

A Manchester City footballer has been charged with two counts of causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving.

Courtney Meppen-Walter, of Middleton Road, Blackley, was charged following the deaths of Kulwant Singh and Ravel-Kaur Singh on 1 September 2012.

The brother and sister died when their car collided with Mr Meppen-Walter's vehicle on Bury New Road in Manchester.

The 18-year-old is due at Manchester Magistrates' Court on 7 February.

Mr Singh, 32, and Ms Singh, 37, had been in the front seats of a Nissan Micra when it collided with Mr Meppen-Walter's Mercedes.

Police said Ms Singh's two sons, aged 16 and 17, who were in the back of the Micra and were injured in the collision, were "making a good recovery".

Mr Meppen-Walter has yet to play for Manchester City's first team but has represented England at Under-17 level.

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Anonymous hacker group: Two jailed for cyber attacks

Christopher Weatherhead attacked the PayPal website

Two men who carried out cyber attacks for the Anonymous hacking group have been jailed.

Christopher Weatherhead, 22, of Northampton, and Ashley Rhodes, 28, of Camberwell, London, were jailed for 18 months and seven months respectively.

The two men carried out distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks which paralyse computer systems by flooding them with online requests.

The ones they attacked included payment site PayPal, costing it £3.5m.

Co-defendant Peter Gibson, of Hartlepool, was given a six-month sentence, suspended for two years.

Another defendant, Jake Birchall, 18, from Chester, will be sentenced on 1 February.

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Greek crisis: Striking transport workers 'face arrest'

Workers on the underground are fearful their salaries may be cut by up to 25%

Greece has threatened transport workers whose eight-day strike has crippled the Athens underground system with arrest unless they go back to work.

Workers said they would defy the order and could step up strike action.

The order was the first time the conservative-led government had invoked a 2007 emergency law to deal with "peace-time emergencies".

Athens is trying to implement austerity measures that are unpopular with trade unions.

Greece has been kept solvent by huge rescue loans from its EU partners and the IMF since May 2010.

In order to meet its commitments to international creditors, Athens has since introduced a number of unpopular public sector pay cuts and tax rises aimed at boosting revenue.

Development Minister Kostis Hatzidakis said the Greek government had no option but to invoke the emergency legislation as it could not be "held hostage to union mentality".

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said: "The Greek people have made enormous sacrifices and I will not allow exceptions. Transport does not belong to the unions - it belongs to the people and they have the right to use it," he said in a statement.

But a coalition partner criticised the move as extreme.

"At a time when society is under such pressure, every option to reach an agreement must be exhausted first," said the Democratic Left party - one of the three-party governing coalition - in a statement. "Being uncompromising - on both sides - does not help."

Feelings in the capital are mixed about the strike, which has affected some 500,000 commuters.

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Mexico arrests in drug gang dismembering case

President Enrique Pena Nieto says tackling violence is a priority
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The authorities in Mexico have arrested 11 gang members suspected of killing and dismembering up to 16 people in the last 10 days.

Police say they belong to the La Familia Michoacana drug cartel and that most of the victims were reportedly look-outs for rival gangs.

The suspects were detained in the city of Toluca, around 60km west of Mexico City, carrying a number of guns.

The dismembered bodies of the victims were found in plastic bags in Toluca.

On Wednesday, authorities discovered another six bodies, further to the 10 that had been found in the capital of the state of Mexico since 14 January.

Among the suspected killers was a 15-year-old girl, Mexico state's Public Safety Secretary, Salvador Neme, told reporters.

He added that the group was headed by an Army deserter who joined "La Familia" a few years ago.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has said that reducing violence in Mexico is one of his government's top priorities.

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A woman weeps as she speaks on the phone in her burnt-out house after a fire raged through the Nayanagar slum in Mumbai on Jan. 25, 2013.

A fire killed six people when it ripped through a slum in the heart of the Indian city, leaving hundreds homeless, emergency services said

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An anti-Morsi demonstrator tries to escape from a tent -- set on fire by riot police, according to a witness -- at Tahrir Square in Cairo Friday.



Riot police beat an anti-Morsi demonstrator with batons after he emerges from his burning tent Friday.



A column of smoke is seen rising from the burning tents of the demonstrators Friday

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New Delhi, India: activists in an auto-rickshaw hold a mask of the Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh. They had tried to stage a protest outside the district court where the men accused of the gang rape and murder of a student are undergoing trial



Kiev, Ukraine: poodles of the Ukrainian national circus perform a dance



Los Angeles, USA: people fire at targets at a Los Angeles gun club



San Cristóbal Verapaz, Guatemala: relatives cry during the funeral of Roberto Enrique Cac Suc, who disappeared in 1982. During the 1960-1996 civil war, people were forcibly taken away and vanished into army camps. Cac Suc's skeleton was found during archaeological investigations at the regional army HQ in Coban



Athens, Greece: riot police blockade the street near the subway train depot, where striking workers had barricaded themselves



Buenos Aires, Argentina: members of a murga (musical theatre) group perform in the runup to carnival celebrations

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Supporters of three detained opposition MPs protest in front of a court in the Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek, during their trial. The head of nationalist opposition Ata-Zhurt party Kamchybek Tashiev was arrested last year along with two other MPs over their role in a protest on the previous day demanding the nationalisation of the Canadian-owned Kumtor mine.



Photographers take shelter as protesters throw stones towards riot police along Sheikh Rihan street near Tahrir Square in Cairo.



An angry steelworker from a threatened ArcelorMittal plant in Liege, Belgium, runs away as police use a water cannon during a protest outside the prime minister's office in Brussels

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Looking pretty exhausted, Andy Murray is congratulated by Roger Federer after their men's singles semi-final match at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne



There's no letup for the people of Durham as the snow continues. Two women battle their way through the snow in Tanfield



Chinese Girl, the most famous work of Vladimir Tretchikoff, the Russian emigre who settled in South Africa, which will be sold for an estimated £300,000 at Bonham's London in March

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Cold protest: Greenpeace activists install banners on the roof of a petrol station to protest against global oil giant Shell in Davos, where the 2013 World Economic Forum is taking place



Egyptians carry a wounded protester as clashes erupt with riot police in Tahrir Square, Cairo. Crowds gathered in the square to demonstrate on the second anniversary of the revolution that ousted Hosni Mubarak



Double take: Carlos Caldera dresses as Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, while selling chickens and eggs at his stall at the Oriental market in Managua, Nicaragua



Even his tongue?! A tattooed man poses before the opening of the Expotattoo Venezuela 2013 in Caracas



Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema at the king's ceremonial reception in the forecourt of India's presidential palace Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. Bhutan's royal couple are on a week-long state visit to India



Free Syrian Army fighters walk in the rubble of buildings destroyed by Assad regime air strikes in the Arabeen neighbourhood of Damascus.

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An aerial view shows a Japan Coast Guard patrol ship (R) spraying water at a fishing boat (L) that is carrying Taiwanese activists on board about 32 km (20 miles) west-southwest of one of the disputed islands in the East China Sea, known as Senkaku in Japan, Diaoyu in China and Tiaoyutai in Taiwan, in the East China Sea, in this picture released by the Japan Coast Guard's 11th Regional Coast Guard headquarters January 24, 2013. A group of Taiwanese activists departed at around midnight on Thursday and headed towards the disputed islands, Taiwan coast guards said. Mandatory Credit



Protesters flee from tear gas fired by riot police during clashes after protesters removed a concrete barrier at Qasr al-Aini Street near Tahrir Square in Cairo January 24, 2013. Egypt is due to mark the second anniversary of the uprising that swept Hosni Mubarak from power on Friday, but the deeply divided nation facing an economic crisis is bracing for more protests, this time against a freely elected leader.



Stone-throwing Palestinian protesters cover themselves from tear gas fired by Israeli security forces during clashes at Aida refugee camp in the West Bank town of Bethlehem January 24, 2013. Minor clashes erupted as Palestinians protested against the killing of Hanash, a 21-year-old Palestinian woman, near Hebron on Wednesday and the fatal wounding of another local youth, al-Amareen, 16, who died of his wounds in an Israeli hospital after being shot in the head during clashes with Israeli soldiers on Friday.