World News in Pictures

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Pedestrians walk on the corner of Broome and Greene Streets next to a double-decker movie trailer parked in the Soho neighborhood in the Manhattan borough of New York, Wednesday, May 11. The trailer, for Will Smith's movie "Men in Black III," is causing complaints from area residents.

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A supporter of Roger Federer holds a Swiss national flag during his match against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France at the Rome Masters tennis tournament May 11.

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An anti-government protester demanding the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh helps a fellow protester who was wounded during clashes with police in Sanaa on Wednesday, May 11.



A Yemeni army soldier gestures to anti-government protestors attending a rally demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Taiz, Yemen on Wednesday. Yemeni security forces, including snipers, opened fire on thousands of anti-government protesters marching to the Cabinet building.

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A local policewoman tries to console the daughter of a victim at Galicia street in Lorca, Spain, after an earthquake measuring 5.3 hit the town on May 11 causing houses to collapse, damaging historic churches and killing at least 10 people.



First nations natives from British Columbia protest in front of the headquarters of Enbridge before the company's annual general meeting in Calgary, Alberta, May 11, 2011. The natives are protesting an oil pipeline that will go through their land.

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Afghan men smoke 'sheesha' under disco lights at the 'Kabul Fried Chicken' fast food restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 11, 2011.

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A Pakistani man riding a motocycle pulls two others on bicycles loaded with wood along a road in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 11, 2011. The U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden gave Pakistan's weak civilian government a rare chance to wrest some power away from an influential military establishment that suddenly faced unusual public criticism over its failure to detect the al-Qaida leader and prevent the foreign incursion.

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Members of the Vicksburg Fire Department and county crews head out on a boat, past a partially submerged building, as they prepare to sandbag areas on the levee to slow down floodwater from the swollen Mississippi River in Vicksburg, Mississippi May 11. Heavy flooding in the U.S. Midwest shut Ohio River terminals, limited barge movements and threatened to disrupt refinery operations along the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday.

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The chief suspect in last month's bombing of Cafe Argana, Adel al-Othmani (C, wearing hat and sunglasses), takes part in questioning by special forces and a reconstruction of the attack in Marrakesh on Tuesday, May 11. The blasts killed 16 people, including eight French tourists, and was the deadliest such attack in Morocco since 12 suicide bombers killed 33 members of the public in coordinated attacks in Casablanca in 2003.

[Mr Lick]

Political unrest in Yemen



A wounded Yemeni anti-government protester receives treatment at a makeshift field hospital following clashes with Yemeni security forces during a demonstration calling for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen on May 11.





















Army soldiers, who joined anti-government protesters, ride a military vehicle during a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen's President in Sanaa, Yemen on May 6. Tens of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets both for and against President Saleh on May 6, a day after Gulf efforts to revive a plan for him to leave power were stymied by conditions attached by his party.



Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, center, surrounded by guards, walks toward his supporters during a rally in Sanaa, Yemen



Yemenis hold empty jerry cans at a petrol station amid a fuel shortage in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on May 5, as the country undergoes nationwide anti-regime protests.

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Conflict in Libya



Libyan rebels patrol a street near the airport of Misrata on Wednesday, May 11, as they celebrate capturing the city's strategic airport following a fierce battle with Moammar Gadhafi's troops, marking their first significant advance in weeks.



Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski talks on a phone after his arrival in Benghazi, May 11. Sikorski is the first foreign minister of a western state to meet with the insurgents. The trip has been agreed upon with EU's Catherine Ashton and with NATO countries.

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Protests in Athens turn violent

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Cannes 2011: Day one



Robert De Niro shouts 'Action!' on the 64th Cannes film festival










Woody Allen's new film, Midnight in Paris, has its official premiere tonight. Here, Allen attends a photocall with actors Rachel McAdams and Léa Seydoux







Faye Dunaway, who can be seen in younger days on the official Cannes poster, celebrated the Cannes Classics restoration of Puzzle of a Downfall Child



Robert De Niro is this year's president of the jury. The festival runs from 11 to 22 May

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The Hardest Hit march in London

Thousands of Hardest Hit protesters march outside parliament to demonstrate against government cuts to benefits and services



Sally Bercow (centre) and Jane Asher (left) carry a banner with other protesters at the head off the march












Morris dancers take a break outside parliament

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Uganda Clamps Down

A Ugandan security officer swings his baton at members of a crowd gathered to welcome back the opposition leader Kizza Besigye from Kenya. Besigye has been barred from returning to his country.

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Earthquake in Spain



A residents walk past a cracked wall of a building in Lorca, after a rare earthquake rocked the town in southeastern Spain causing houses to collapse, damaging historic churches and public buildings early May 12, 2011. Some reports said the magnitude 5.3 earthquake sent tremors through the region of Murcia and had affected a nursing home and the tower of a church.

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Bizarre bras



A model clad in lingerie maker Triumph International's "Support Japan Bra", featuring handwritten messages from around the world, poses during an unveiling in Tokyo May 11, 2011. Words of encouragement from 54 individuals in 36 countries and regions are printed along with corresponding flags on the bra corset and skirt, to encourage and bring hope to the victims of the devastating earthquake and tsunami and lift the spirits of the Japanese people, according to Triumph International.

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Build it and they will come - or perhaps not!



A crack runs across a deserted street as two men walk in front of the unopened Ordos Museum in the Kangbashi district of the town of Ordos in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on May 11.

Ordos was first dubbed China's "empty city

the Kangbashi district of Ordos is filled with thousands of residential apartments and duplex-style homes built to house workers for the nearby coal mines. There are also many large office towers, administrative centres, government buildings, museums, theatres, school playing fields and exhibition centres. However, the estimated one million people that were expected to move into or visit the district's now decaying buildings have yet to appear.






A policemen stands in front of a traffic light at a main intersection in the Kangbashi district of Ordos.

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Markings bearing numbers are prepared for burials at a temporary cemetery in Ishinomaki, a fishing port town devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in northeastern Japan on May 12.

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A German court found John Demjanjuk guilty on Thursday of helping to kill 27,900 Jews at the Nazi death camp Sobibor during the Holocaust. The Munich court sentenced the 91-year-old to five years in prison as an accessory to mass murder as a guard at the Polish camp during World War Two. Defense attorneys had said during the 18-month trial they would appeal any guilty verdict



Defendant John Demjanjuk arrives at the courthouse compound on a stretcher for another session of his trial on May 11 in Munich, southern Germany. John Demjanjuk is accused of helping to murder 27,900 Jews and others during his alleged time as a Nazi death camp guard at Sobibor, one of a network of camps erected by Hitler's Germany in Eastern Europe during World War II with the sole purpose of mass extermination.

[Mr Lick]

Thousands of people spent the night outdoors in a southeastern Spanish city in fear of further tremors Thursday after the country's worst earthquakes in 50 years killed eight people and injured dozens.

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Pedreña, Spain: Mourners congregate at a giant screen outside the San Pedro parish church to watch the funeral service for golf legend Seve Ballesteros



Madrid, Spain: Musicians play next to a giant puppet during San Isidro festival celebrations, held in honour of Madrid's patron saint

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Sana'a, Yemen: Anti-government protesters shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of the Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh



Lorca, Spain: Survivors comfort a woman in shock as a man tries to help a victim of the 5.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the southern Spanish town

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Helmand province, Afghanistan: A boy who was shot in the stomach lies on a stretcher as he is taken to hospital in a US army medevac helicopter



Vicksburg, USA: A boat, transporting city workers and a load of sandbags to be used to reinforce a levee, passes the flooded Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Station



Abbottabad, Pakistan: A supporter of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz opposition party yawns as he prays during a protest rally against the US raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad

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Spanish earthquake



A man gestures next to a body covered with a blanket at the San Diego neighbourhood in Lorca

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Celtic manager Neil Lennon attack suspect in court



A man has appeared in court in connection with an alleged attack on Celtic's Neil Lennon during his team's match against Hearts.

John Clark Wilson, 26, has been charged with breach of the peace and assault, both aggravated by religious prejudice.

He made no plea or declaration and was remanded in custody during the private hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

The Celtic football club manager was attacked on the touchline after his club's second goal at Tynecastle.

A fan clambered from the Hearts section of the main stand and made for Lennon.

He connected with Lennon before being bundled to the ground and arrested.

Lennon looked stunned after the attack but was uninjured.

In a separate development, two men have been detained by police investigating parcel bombs sent to Lennon.