World News in Pictures

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Rock and Roll devotees Lori Barker and Yvette Hillebrandt pose as they attend the 50th Hemsby Rock 'n' Roll Weekender on May 21 in Hemsby, England.

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Rock and Roll pianist and singer Lewis Jordan Brown, 11, entertains devotees at the 50th Hemsby Rock 'n' Roll Weekender.

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Fans of Rock and Roll, Rockabilly, Rockin' Blues and Americana gathered at Seacroft Holiday Camp in Hemsby, England this weekend to dress up in period clothing and re-live the 1940s and 50s.

Every day of the four day Hemsby Rock 'n' Roll Weekender, a line up of top live bands played the music of the era as devotees hit the dance floor to hop, bop, jive and Rock 'n' Roll.

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The detail of a large mosaic excavated in the fields outside of Kibbutz Bet Qama, Israel, is seen on May 12. The mosaic dates from the Byzantine era from the 4th to 6th century and was exposed during a highway building project. The floor was in a large building measuring roughly 40 by 28 feet. The mosaic shows geometric patterns, amphorae used to transport wine, a pair of peacocks and a pair of doves pecking at grapes. Archaeologists are still trying to determine the use for this large building, which included pools of water that could have served as part of an inn for travelers on the main road outside Beersheba.

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Málaga, Spain: Demonstrators march past the town hall on the second anniversary of the 15M movement.

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Beichuan, China: People mourn at a memorial museum dedicated to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake which killed about 90,000 people

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Cannes, France: Workers put a giant poster for the 66th Cannes film festival, featuring a 50-year-old photo of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, on the Palais des Festivals

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Dala township, Burma: People line up to collect water at Yazarthingyan lake, their only source of fresh water.

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Manila, Philippines: A woman looks at a ballot paper during mid-term elections to choose thousands of local leaders and national legislators.

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Madrid, Spain: Rafael Nadal of Spain sprays champagne after winning the final of the Madrid Open tennis tournament against Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland

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Manchester, England: Manchester United fans wave flags before the Premier League match against Swansea City at Old Trafford

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Sofia, Bulgaria: A protester wrapped in the Bulgarian flag confronts police during a demonstration outside the National Palace of Culture

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Mario Balotelli of AC Milan, with hair beautifully matching that gold strip

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Election posters pretty much block out the sky on the streets of Manila, Philippines, as Filipinos go out to vote in the mid-term elections, which have been marred by violence and accusations of corruption

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Reshma Begum, the 19-year-old garment worker who spent 17 days trapped in the rubble of a collapsed factory building prepares to meet the media at a hospital in Savar in Bangladesh. Following her miraculous rescue she has said that she will never again work in a Bangladesh garment factory.

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Our congratulations to Claire Lomas on completing a 400-mile hand cycle journey. Claire, who is paraplegic, finished the London Marathon in 17 days in a bionic suit last year and here she is at the end of a three-week journey from Nottingham Trent University

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Colonel Chris Hadfield handed over command of the International Space Station yesterday, and to mark the occasion posted a remarkable performance of David Bowie’s Space Oddity in which he and his guitar float around the space station in a most peculiar way....and he's quite a talent as you can see here

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Contortionists Pixie Le Knot (great name), below, and her flexible friend Oohla Lowri squeeze themselves into a square locker at Access Self Storage to highlight the variety of storage options available in Fulham, London

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There's something fishy going on in Brussels today … children and members of environmental organisations are taking part in a demonstration in front of the European council building to call for an end to overfishing. The protest is taking place as the EU's fisheries ministers meet to agree on Europe's new common fisheries policy

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It's all change at Tate Britain today as gallery workers are rehanging the permanent collection in order to display the art in chronological order. This is a change in philosophy from the current thematic system

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I know I left it here somewhere … bikers descend on Mexico City to commemorate the 110th anniversary of Harley Davidson motorcycles

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Paul Lamb arrives at the Royal Courts of Justice in London for the first day of a three-day hearing on legalising the right to die with the aid of a doctor. Lamb, who is paralysed from the neck down, is continuing the legal battle started by the late Tony Nicklinson, who suffered from locked in syndrome

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Excited fans celebrated on the Champs Elysee in Paris last night after Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) defeated Lyon to win the French football title. PSG won their first French title since 1994 with a 1-0 success at Lyon

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A search and rescue team member and his dog work on one of the scenes of the twin car bomb attacks in the town of Reyhanli of Hatay province near the Turkish-Syrian border May 12, 2013. Twin car bombs killed 43 people and wounded many more in a Turkish town near the Syrian border on Saturday and the government said it suspected Syrian involvement. The bombing increased fears that Syria's civil war was dragging in neighbouring states despite renewed diplomatic moves towards ending two years of fighting in which more than 70,000 people have been killed. The bombs ripped into crowded streets near Reyhanli's shopping district in the early afternoon, scattering concrete blocks and smashing cars in the town in Turkey's southern Hatay province, home to thousands of Syrian refugees

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AirAsia's Chief Executive Tony Fernandes pretends to kiss British entrepreneur Richard Branson (L), who wears an AirAsia stewardess uniform, during an AirAsia promotional event after Branson arrived at an airport in Sepang, outside Kuala Lumpur May 12, 2013. Branson shaved his legs and dressed up as a stewardess during a flight from Australia to Malaysia after losing a bet to his friend Fernandes, on which of their 2010 Formula One racing car teams would finish ahead of the other

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Paris Saint-Germain's Zlatan Ibrahimovic and David Beckham celebrate at the end of their team's French Ligue 1 match against Olympique Lyon at the Gerland stadium in Lyon May 12, 2013. Paris Saint-Germain secured the French Ligue 1 Championships title after beating Olympique Lyon 0-1 on Sunday in Lyon.

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A protester shouts slogans near others holding torches during a demonstration outside the National Palace of Culture, where the political parties in the elections will be holding news conferences, in Sofia May 12, 2013. The rightist GERB party held the lead in Bulgaria's election on Sunday but its prospects of forming another government, after the last one was ousted by protests, looked uncertain after its potential partner ruled out a deal. About 200 people gathered in Sofia as polls closed, waving Bulgarian flags and banners criticising GERB and the political elite, briefly scuffling with police.

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Britain's Prince Harry (2nd L) kneels down at the bottom of a pyramid of cheerleaders, U.S. and British military officials and near the U.S. Air Force Academy mascot "The Bird" at the academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado May 12, 2013. The Warrior Games, which takes place at the academy, is a Paralympic-style competition featuring injured servicemen and women from the U.S., United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.

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A member of the youth wing of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shouts slogans as policemen try to detain him during a protest outside the residence of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi May 12, 2013. Hundreds of BJP members on Sunday demanded Singh's resignation for the so-called Coalgate mining rights scandal that has become one of the biggest headaches for Singh, who was coal minister when some of the blocks were awarded

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Rescue workers rest outside, during rescue operations, after a coal mine blast in Luxian county, Sichuan province, May 12, 2013. The Saturday afternoon accident so far has killed 28 people of the 108 mine labourers who were working in the pit, Xinhua News Agency reported

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A woman cries during the funerals of victims of twin car bombings in the town of Reyhanli of Hatay province near the Turkish-Syrian border May 12, 2013. Turkey said on Sunday it believed fighters loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were behind twin car bombings that killed 46 people in a Turkish border town. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said those involved in the bombings in Reyhanli on Saturday were thought also to have carried out an attack on the Syrian coastal town of Banias a week ago, in which fighters backing Assad were reported to have killed at least 62 people. Syria denied Turkish accusations on Sunday that it had a hand in twin car bombings

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Plastic surgeon Oskar Assmann, center rear, stands next to his patient, Hungarian worker Tibor A., in Vienna's AKH hospital on May 13. The 37-year-old man drove just over nine miles to the nearest hospital on May 11 after he accidentally sawed off his right arm below the elbow while cleaning a machine that processes construction rubble. He was able to retrieve the cut-off arm from the machine, then drive himself from Purbach, eastern Austria, to a hospital in Eisenstadt. He was then flown to Vienna, where doctors successfully reattached the arm.

Syrian troops retake villages in Homs

Syrian government troops loyal to Bashar al-Assad captured three villages in the strategic Qusayr area of Homs province, allowing them to cut supply lines of the Free Syrian Army from the Jordanian border to inside Qusayr town, military sources said

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A fiery perspective: Indian labourers stand on top of a grain transport truck that caught fire after an oil leak leakage in Allahabad. Bad roads, speeding vehicles and poor driving are among the contributing factors to road accidents

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O.J. Simpson looks around the courtroom during a break in his evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nevada. Simpson appeared in a Las Vegas court seeking a new trial on his conviction on a Nevada armed robbery charge

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Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) supporters shout slogans before clashing with French riot police during a ceremony at Trocadero to celebrate PSG winning the French League 1 soccer title in Paris, France

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A PSG supporter throws a projectile at riot police as clashes brake out during the championship celebrations

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And a fan is detained by a riot police in front of the Eiffel Tower after the clashes between PSG fans and police

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American singer Iggy Pop grimaces while participating in "El Hormiguero" Tv show at Vertice Studio in Madrid, Spain

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A couple rides a Harley Davidson motorcycle during the annual Harley Davidson National Rally in Qian Dao Lake, in Zhejiang Province, May 11, 2013

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Blasts shake Turkey

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A man checks an apartment on a damaged building at the site of a blast in the town of Reyhanli in Hatay province, near the Turkish-Syrian border, May 13, 2013.

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Relatives of Ahmet Uyan, 45, and Ahmet Ceyhan, 23, who were killed in yesterday's car bombings mourn in the town of Reyhanli of Hatay province near the Turkish-Syrian border, May 12, 2013.

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The body of a victim of one of the twin car bombings is pulled out of a manhole on a road in the town of Reyhanli in Hatay province, near the Turkish-Syrian border, May 13, 2013

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Kenyan demonstrators released two dozen piglets and poured blood on the pavement at the gates of parliament in Nairobi on Tuesday to protest lawmakers' demands for a wage hike, Agence France-Presse reports.

"We will not allow members of parliament to increase their salaries at will," shouted Okiya Omtatah, one of the protest organizers. "They are greedy just like the pigs we have brought here."

Lawmakers' pay is currently $6,300 per month, Reuters reports, but they have demanded a raise to about $10,100 per month, which is 130 times the legal minimum wage in Kenya

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One of the world's most remarkable railway lines celebrated its centenary on Monday. The 273-mile track traverses desert and mountain landscapes as it rises from sea-level in the Chilean port of Arica to a height of 13,800 feet en route to the Bolivian city of La Paz.

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Inaugurated on May 13, 1913, the line has a colorful history and remains a source of controversy, according to a report by BBC News:

The railway was built by Chile to compensate Bolivia for its loss of land during the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific.

Chile won the war and annexed a swathe of Bolivian land roughly the size of Greece, leaving Bolivia landlocked.

The idea behind the railway was to give Bolivia access to the sea for its exports. It cost Chile £2.75m to build - around £195m ($300m) in today's money.

The Bolivians still demand sovereignty over at least a part of their former Pacific coastline, and last month took their case to the International Court in The Hague.

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Young locusts hop across the desert sand in the Negev Desert in Israel on May 12, 2013.

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Damaged grapes in a vineyard, with a volunteer working to protect the remaining crop.

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Golan Cohen, owner of an organic herb farm in the Negev, speaks to a group of volunteer workers who have come to help him protect his remaining crops from locusts.

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Huge swarms of the newly hatched critters have begun marching across the sand, devouring everything in their path.

With the help of high-tech irrigation methods, much of Israel’s desert has been transformed into lush farmland that supplies supermarkets across the country with fresh produce. But the swarm of locusts, which locals say is the worst infestation in decades, is threatening crops and farms

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Lewes, UK: Jessica Mander stands beside an installation entitled 'Catafalque' by British Artist Sean Henry at Glyndebourne Opera House

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Rio Alejandro, Panama: Andres Gardin, 64, popularly known as "Coconut-peeler" or "Mister T" performs his tricks

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Mazar-I Sharif, Afghanistan: Afghan schoolgirls, two of many claiming to be poisoned while at school, lie in bed at a hospital

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Members of the Benfica squad take part in a training session at the Amsterdam Arena. Benfica play Chelsea tomorrow in the final of the Europa league

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Shorn: an alpaca in a field at Alpaca-Land farm in Obertrum in the Austrian province of Salzburg. The annual shearing is done in the spring to make the animals more comfortable for the summer months

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The Russian Soyuz space capsule, carrying US astronaut Thomas Marshburn, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, descends about 90 miles south-east of the town of Dzhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan, this morning

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And here's Canadian spaceman, photographer and sometime singer Chris Hadfield giving a thumbs up shortly after the landing

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The Popocatepetl Volcano, 55 km southeast of Mexico City, is seen from Santiago Xalitxintla, in Puebla, spewing a cloud of ash and smoke. The National Disaster Prevention Centre raised the alert level on Sunday to "yellow phase three".

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David Cameron accompanies Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick to the Boston Marathon Bombing Memorial

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That sinking feeling - a deflated Rubber Duck by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman floats in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour. The 16.5m-high inflatable sculpture, which made its first public appearance in the territory on 2 May, will be shown at the Ocean Terminal for a month

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No risk of saddle sores - a group of kick bikers train in the Sumava mountains in south-west Czech Republic. An international team of six riders from the Czech Republic, Finland and the Netherlands is set to mark the 100th edition of the Tour de France by covering the entire distance on kick bikes

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A barge moves into position as workers prepare to remove the Star Jet rollercoaster that has been in the ocean for six months after the Casino Pier it was built on collapsed when superstorm Sandy hit Seaside Heights, New Jersey

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British television actor Bill Roache walks past reporters as he arrives at Preston magistrates court. Roache, known for his longstanding role as the character Ken Barlow in the soap opera Coronation Street, made his first appearance in court where he faces charges of two counts of rape involving a 15-year-old girl in 1967