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A woman runs for cover from tear gas fired by riot police during clashes with protesters, who tried to reach Salmaniya hospital to get the dead body of Mahmud al-Jaziri, on Feb. 25, 2013 in the village of Zinj, a suburb of Manama, Bahrain.
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Bahraini boys look at an anti-government protester, unseen, as he adds fuel to old furniture being set on fire in a street in Malkiya on Feb. 26, 2013
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Saair, West Bank: Palestinians mourn the death of Arafat Jaradat, who died in Israeli police custody on Saturday
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Rangoon, Burma: Daw San Nu, 78, who has eyelid cancer, lies on her bed at U Hla Tun Cancer Hospice
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Barcelona, Spain: Visitors take pictures of a new Nokia smartphone during the first day of the Mobile World Congress
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Copenhagen, Denmark: A newborn elephant calf drinks milk from its mother
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Jerusalem: Two men celebrate the Jewish festival of Purim
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Delhi, India: A man travels in a hammock in a crowded train carriage
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Milan, Italy: Italian fashion journalist Anna Dello Russo shows off a Marc Jacobs hat and coat during Milan fashion week
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Jerusalem: Young men and boys in costumes revel in a synagogue in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood of the city
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A man pushes his motorcycle out of his flooded garage in the town of Sveti Nikole, about 45 miles north east of Skopje, Macedonia. Torrential rains in the last three days caused floods affecting many villages and towns
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Afghan villagers attend a protest against U.S. special forces, who they accuse of overseeing torture and killings in Wardak province. More than five hundred men marched through the capital of the Afghan province, Maidan Shar
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Members of the Free Syrian Army take cover during clashes against forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in a street in Aleppo today.
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Prisoners are taken out of a jail at the gendarmerie in the northern Malian city of Gao on to be transferred on a military flight to Bamako, where they are to be judged on charges of belonging to the main Islamist armed group, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO).
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A heavy police presence: Disgraced IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn leaves a Paris courthouse after attending a hearing regarding his seizure request of the new book by Argentinian-born Marcela Lacub detailing their liaison
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South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi after the Nobel laureates met at her residence in Rangoon.
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A photograph taken on Monday and received on Tuesday morning shows the Sea Shepherd ship Bob Barker sandwiched between the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru, left, and the whaling fleet's fuel tanker, the San Laurel, right, as Japanese whalers and militant conservationists clashed in waters off Antarctica. Both sides accused the other of ramming their vessels
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A Palestinian protester throws stones during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron February 25, 2013 following the funeral of Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat. Jaradat's death in an Israeli jail on Saturday and a hunger strike by four other Palestinian inmates have raised tension in the occupied territory after repeated clashes between stone-throwers and Israeli soldiers in recent days
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Relatives and friends of young mother Hadeey Paul and her daughters Ruthie and Shakira react after they set fire to tyres and debris on the Beetham Highway at Sea Lots, east Port-of-Spain February 25, 2013. A protest staged by residents heightened a day after Paul and her daughters were killed by a car driven by an off-duty policeman. A total of six people were hit by the driver, who lost control of his vehicle, according to local media
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A Soviet-made T34 tank is seen in front of pictures of the victims of communist dictatorship during the memorial day of the communist victims at the House of Terror Museum in Budapest, February 25, 2013.
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An Israeli border policeman fires a tear gas canister during clashes with stone-throwing Palestinian protesters outside Israel's Ofer military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah February 25, 2013. The death of Palestinian Arafat Jaradat on Saturday in an Israeli jail and a hunger strike by four other Palestinian inmates have raised tension in the occupied territory after repeated clashes between stone-throwers and Israeli soldiers in recent days.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel waves as a hot air balloon is reflected in her bus window during her visit to Goreme National Park in Cappadocia in Turkey's central Anatolian province of Nevsehir February 25, 2013.
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A protester pushes a stroller past riot police as hundreds marched to protest the Summit of Higher Education in Montreal, February 25, 2013.
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Actor Gerard Depardieu (R) poses for a picture with Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov during a meeting at the presidential residence as he visits the capital of the Chechen Republic Grozny February 25, 2013.
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Matt Gone, also known as "The Checkered Man", poses during the sixth Tattoo Expo in Saltillo February 24, 2013.
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Relatives of Javed Ahmed Wani, a Sarpanch or village council chief, mourn during his funeral in Kalantra village, north of Srinagar, February 25, 2013. Wani, the village council chief of Kalantra village, was shot dead by suspected militants on Sunday evening outside his home, police said on Monday
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Five Star Movement leader and comedian Beppe Grillo and his wife Parvin Tadjik arrive to cast their votes at the polling station in Genoa February 25, 2013. Italians began voting on Sunday in one of the most closely watched elections in years, with markets nervous about whether it can produce a strong government to pull Italy out of recession and help resolve the euro zone debt crisis
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Members of the Hamas security forces prepare to destroy the remains of ordnance from an eight-day conflict between Israel and the Palestinians in 2012, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip February 25, 2013
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Giant fish weighing more than 67lbs reeled in off Shetland
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A Shetland fisherman is celebrating after reeling in a giant fish weighing more than 67lbs (30kg).
James Isbister caught the 6ft-long ling while fishing off Muckle Flugga on Saturday.
Mr Isbister is awaiting confirmation from the relevant authorities of its possible record-breaking status.
The fish is currently being kept in his mother's freezer. "It was a very big fight," he said.
He said he would keep trying to catch an even larger fish.
He told BBC Scotland: "Muckle Flugga is renowned for big fish.
"It took about 20 or 30 minutes.
"I knew it was a big fish but I didn't realise it was that size - I am 6ft 5in and it's as big as me."
Mr Isbister added: "It's in my mum's freezer. We had to make room for it, it fills the whole freezer.
"I am a local celebrity at the moment."
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Supporters hold a candlelight vigil at the exact moment when teenager Trayvon Martin was shot one year ago by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida Feb. 26, 2013. The fatal encounter between Martin and Zimmerman has thrown the spotlight on gun control and Florida's much criticized "Stand Your Ground" statute, also known as a "shoot first" law, which was signed into law by former Governor Jeb Bush in 2005. The attendees symbolically wore hooded sweatshirts as Martin was wearing one at the time of his death
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Lloyd Anderson, 88, uses a snowblower with a canopy to clear his driveway on Lover's Lane in St. Joseph, Mo., on Feb. 26. A major winter storm paralyzed parts of the nation's midsection Tuesday, dumping a fresh layer of heavy, wet snow atop cities still choked with piles from the previous system and making travel perilous from the Oklahoma Panhandle to the Great Lakes.
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A moment of silence was observed at 12:18 p.m., the time when a truck bomb was detonated below the north tower on Feb. 26, 1993. The victims' names were read by family members before bagpipers played "Amazing Grace."
More than 1,000 people were injured in the 1993 blast in an underground garage below one of the towers. It was the first dramatic demonstration that "terrorism is theater and New York is the biggest stage," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said last week.
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Kate Hopkins didn't know the man in the casket, never met him or his family. Yet, Hopkins stood watch over 48-year-old Francisco Carmona's funeral on a gray, cold day at a county-owned cemetery in south Louisville.
Hopkins joined a group of high school students, a few county employees and a deputy coroner on Feb. 6 to ensure that Carmona, who died in January in a Louisville hospital with no family or friends, had a service — the 91st service for the poor in Louisville since Nov. 1.
Counties across Kentucky, like much of the country, are seeing more cases of unclaimed bodies and families who can't afford to bury or cremate a loved one.
Every situation is unique, but coroners and local government officials tell a similar story: The economic downturn has left many people without the money to pay for funeral services that can cost thousands of dollars, and it's falling on cities and states to cover the bills.
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Marina Litvinenko, the widow of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, speaks to the media outside the Royal Courts of Justice, in central London, where she is attending a pre-inquest review into the poisoning of her husband in 2006
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Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell leaves Manchester magistrates mourt where he made his first court appearance accused of child sex offences
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It's tough at the top! Engineers with a head for heights are seen carrying out safety checks on the rides at Thorpe Park in Surrey.
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People look through the blown-out windows of a bakery at the scene of a suicide attack against a bus carrying Afghan army personnel in Kabul. Six people were wounded in the attack highlighting a growing trend of strikes on Afghan rather than Nato military targets
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Prince Harry looks to be in for a bit of a bashing on a visit to the Kannanel Centre for the Deaf in Maseru District, Lesotho
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Students confront police during a demonstration in Caracas. The students believe that the government is not telling the truth about the health of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. His inauguration has been delayed during his treatment for cancer
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An employee dressed in a panda costume poses for a photo during the soft opening of a panda-themed hotel at the foot of Emei Mountain, Southwest China's Sichuan province, February 25, 2013. According to local media, the hotel is the first panda-themed hotel in the world and will officially open in May with room rates from 300 to 500 yuan ($48 to $80) per night.
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Members of the Free Syrian Army chant and dance near Nairab military airport in Aleppo February 26, 2013.
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Anti-Mursi protester Mohamed Atyan, 68, who said one of his sons was killed during the Egyptian uprising, speaks with schoolboys outside his tent while writing signs against Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood at Tahrir Square in Cairo February 26, 2013.
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Everton's Phil Neville controls the ball during their FA Cup fifth round replay match against Oldham Athletic at Goodison Park in Liverpool, northern England, February 26, 2013.
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A protester is arrested during a demonstration following the Summit of Higher Education in Montreal, February 26, 2013
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Meet the Titanic II
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An undated artist's rendering of the proposed cruise ship Titanic II, provided by the Blue Star Line as Australian billionaire Clive Palmer unveiled plans for his dream ship during a news conference in New York February 26, 2013. The cruise ship will be built by the CSC Jingling Shipyard in China, and will sail from Southhampton, England to New York on her maiden voyage in late 2016 according to Palmer.
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'Three dead' in Swiss shooting
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Three people have been killed and seven injured during a shooting at a factory near the Swiss city of Lucerne, local media quote officials as saying.
The killer is among the dead, police and prosecutors are reported as saying.
Shooting broke out in the canteen at the Kronospan wood processing plant in the town of Menznau at around 09:00 (08:00 GMT).
Police and rescue services are at the scene and the entire area is currently sealed off.
"The workers were eating a snack in the cafeteria during the morning, and there was a massacre," said a man quoted by the Swiss news website 20minutes, who had phoned the factory to check on the welfare of his father.
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An emergency telephone line had been set up for families of the factory's employees.
"There were three dead and seven injured, some of them seriously injured," prosecutors' spokesman Simon Kopp told Swiss newspaper Blick.
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Maldives girl to get 100 lashes for pre-marital sex
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A 15-year-old rape victim has been sentenced to 100 lashes for engaging in premarital sex, court officials said.
The charges against the girl were brought against her last year after police investigated accusations that her stepfather had raped her and killed their baby.
He is still to face trial.
Prosecutors said her conviction did not relate to the rape case.
Amnesty International condemned the punishment as "cruel, degrading and inhumane".
The government said it did not agree with the punishment and that it would look into changing the law
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Man killed in New Zealand shark attack
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A shark has killed a man off a beach near the New Zealand city of Auckland.
The attack took place around 13:30 (00:30 GMT) on Wednesday at Muriwai Beach, to the west of the country's largest city.
The 47-year-old man was swimming when he was attacked. Police shot at the shark before it disappeared, they said in a statement.
Shark attacks are rare in New Zealand. Only 11 fatal attacks had taken place since records began in 1847, TVNZ said.
The last confirmed shark fatality was in 1976 in the Bay of Plenty, south-east of Auckland, it said.
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The beach where the man was attacked has been closed
A police statement said that the man suffered fatal injuries in the attack.
"Police and surf life savers went out in two IRBs (inflatable rescue boats) and fired on the shark. It rolled over and disappeared," Inspector Shawn Rutene said.
The statement said the shark was thought to be about 12-14 feet (3.6-4.2m) long.
Fisherman Pio Mose told Stuff news website: "All of a sudden... we saw the shark fin and next minute, boom, attack him, then blood everywhere on the water."
Mr Mose said the man was still alive when "we saw another attack pull him in the water". Other local reports also said more than one shark may have been involved.
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Venezuelan police beat students as they demonstrate in Caracus. The students believe the government isn't telling the truth about President Hugo Chavez's health
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9 Islamic suspects captured in Mali
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Graves discovered in Peru dating back to AD200
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Rebecca Leighton: Nurse suspended for stealing drugs
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Rebecca Leighton admitted removing medication
A nurse cleared of poisoning patients at a hospital has been suspended for three months after admitting taking drugs from the site.
The decision came after a three-day disciplinary hearing for Rebecca Leighton, 29, who worked at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport.
She has been suspended from nursing by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Ms Leighton spent six weeks in jail but was freed as there was not enough evidence against her.
She was questioned in 2011 by police investigating the poisoning of 22 patients, eight of whom died.
The charges were later dropped but she admitted stealing drugs and medicines from the hospital.
She is currently working at a care home in Stockport
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Thank You Mr Lick! You do always good work.
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One million views coming up!! :1st:
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Wow, the milestone has now been passed. Great for TD and congrats and a big thank you to all who popped in to view the pics and make the 1 Million possible. Onward!
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A bear chews the bars of a cage at the estate of Ion Balint, known to Romanians as Nutzu the Pawnbroker, a notorious gangster, in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Authorities along with specialists of the animal welfare charity Vier Pfoten removed four lions and two bears that were illegally kept on the estate of one of Romania’s most notorious underworld figures who reportedly used them to threaten his victims. Balint was arrested on Feb. 22, with dozens of others on charges of attempted murder, depriving people of their freedom, blackmail and illegally holding arms
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