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A women wearing a dress of fresh flowers designed by Zita Elze poses for photographers in the M & A Centenary Garden during media day at the Chelsea Flower Show in London May 20, 2013. The annual show opens to the public on Tuesday
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Supporters of Hezbollah and relatives of Hasan Faisal Sheker, an 18-year-old Hezbollah member, carry the coffin during his funeral in Nabi Sheet near Baalbeck May 20, 2013. About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday
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Britain's Prince Harry (L) jokes with a baby as he attends the opening of the Help for Heroes Recovery Centre for injured service personnel at Tedworth House, in Tidworth, south western England May 20, 2013
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (2nd R) waves during a visit to the Pyongyang Myohyangsan Children's Camp, situated at the foot of Mt. Myohyang in North Phyongan Province, in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 20, 2013
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Relatives carry the coffin of an Iraqi police officer killed by militants, during a funeral in Najaf, around 160 km (99 miles) south of Baghdad May 20, 2013. The attacks took place in the Sunni heartland of Anbar, where gunmen on Saturday ambushed and kidnapped 10 policemen near the provincial capital of Ramadi, and four members of a government-backed Sunni militia fighters were killed near Falluja city. When Sunni-Shi'ite bloodshed was at its height in 2006-07, Anbar, which shares a border with Syria, was in the grip of al Qaeda's local affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq, which has regained strength in recent months
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Lebanese Sunni gunmen ride on motorcycles during the funeral of one of their colleagues in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli May 20, 2013. Three people have been killed and about 40 wounded in two days of fighting in Tripoli, security sources said on Monday, as sectarian violence spilled over from the civil war in Syria
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China's Zhang Jike (C) reacts among family members after defeating his compatriot Wang Hao in the men's singles final at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Paris May 20, 2013.
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Mayor Terry Buckle drives his car into Tesco Express store in Moreton Hall
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A mayor has driven his car through the doors of his local Tesco Express.
Councillor Terry Buckle, mayor of St Edmundsbury in Suffolk, drove his car into the store at Lawson Place, Moreton Hall, on Tuesday afternoon.
He was taken to West Suffolk Hospital with minor injuries but later released. His family said he was "alright".
Morteon Hall councillor Frank Warby said: "He had a slight mishap. They are automatic doors so opened as he approached."
Suffolk Police said officers were called to the store, which is on the outskirts of Bury St Edmunds, at 16:35 BST.
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An ice-jam on the Yukon River has caused flooding in Alaska
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The Queen at the Chelsea Flower Show
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Stunt expert Leigh-Anne Vizer sits on King Kong's hand above Melbourne during a King Kong production photo call at Eureka Skydeck
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Riots grip Stockholm suburbs after police shooting
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Some 100 cars were burnt on Sunday night alone
Rioters have lit fires and stoned emergency services in the suburbs of Stockholm for the third night in a row after a man was shot dead by police.
Incidents were reported in at least nine suburbs of the Swedish capital and police made eight arrests.
On Sunday night, more than 100 cars were set alight, Swedish media report.
Police in the deprived, largely immigrant suburb of Husby shot a man dead last week after he reportedly threatened to kill them with a machete.
The founder of a local youth group told Swedish media the riots were a reaction to "police brutality".
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt told reporters on Tuesday that Sweden would not be intimidated by rioters.
More than 80% of Husby's 12,000 or so inhabitants are from an immigrant background, and most are from Turkey, the Middle East and Somalia.
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent escorts a group of undocumented immigrants into custody with helicopter support from the U.S. Office of Air and Marine on May 20, near the U.S.-Mexico border in Havana, Texas. The Rio Grande Valley area has become the busiest sector for illegal immigration on the whole U.S.-Mexico border with more than a 50 percent increase in the last year.
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The Rio Grande snakes between Mexico and the United States, forming the international border on May 21, near Harlingen, Texas. The area is active for drug smugglers bringing their product north from Mexico into the United States.
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A suspected drug smuggling scout paddles his raft back across the Rio Grande into Mexico from the U.S. side of the border on May 21, near Hidalgo Texas
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Dengfeng, China: Students train at the Tagou martial arts school near the city's Shaolin temple
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Oklahoma, US: Standy Stewart and her daughter-in-law Robyn Rojas eat while sitting among the wreckage of their tornado-hit home
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Lome, Togo: Women wearing red, a traditional colour of mourning, march in protest over the death of opposition figure Etienne Yakanou
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Moving house Chinese style. Liu Lingchao a 38-year-old migrant worker from Liuzhou's Rong'an County, decided to make a moving hut five years ago in Guangdong Province to live in on his way to Rong'an, his hometown. The hut measures about 60 kilograms in weight, 1.5 meters in length and 2.2 meters in height. Since then, Liu has been carrying a hut and making a living by collecting rubbish along the way
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Police officers man a cordoned off area in Woolwich, east London following an incident in which a man was killed and two others seriously injured
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Volunteers fill boxes with nonperishables food items at the Feed the Children distribution centre in Oklahoma City to help tornado victims
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Demonstrators carry a coffin representing the death of Legal Aid near Parliament in London, England. Lawyers are calling on the government to halt planned cuts to the system of legal aid in the United Kingdom
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A couple visit Regent's Park bandstand in London. Anthony Downey has today been charged with the 1982 Hyde Park bombing in which four soldiers of the Royal Household Cavalry and seven horses were killed. The second bomb that day killed seven Royal Green Jackets bandsmen who were at the Regent's Park bandstand
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It would be a bit annoying if you forgot the milk! A man rows a boat near a house built on a rock on the river Drina near the western Serbian town of Bajina Basta. The house was built in 1968 by a group of young men who decided that the rock on the river was an ideal place for a tiny shelter.
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David Cameron arriving at the EU Summit in Brussels to discuss ways of tackling tax evasion and avoidance - no wonder he's pulling that face
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Some 25,000 thousand Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Belz Hasidic Dynasty watch as bride Hannah Batya Penet dances with her relative during the wedding ceremony of Rabbi Shalom Rokach, the Grandson of the Belz Rabbi to Hana Batya Penerin Jerusalem, Israel. It was one of the biggest weddings of the of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in the past few years.
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An Israeli soldier directs a Merkava tank in the Israeli annexed Golan Heights near the border with Syria. The head of Israel's armed forces warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of 'consequences' if fire continues from Syrian territory against Israeli troops in the occupied Golan Heights
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And they're off -the pack pedals at the start of the 17th stage of the Giro d'Italia, the Tour of Italy, in Caravaggio
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Britain's leader of the opposition Labour party Ed Miliband speaks at the Google big tent event at the Grove Hotel, London
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Outside Paris' Notre Dame cathedral, a member of the Femen feminist activist group, with writing on her chest reading "May fascists rest in hell," is arrested by police officers after she took part in a protest action about the suicide of a far-right activist inside the cathedral the previous day.
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A ring tailed Lemur gets to grips with a new slide and climbing frame installed in its enclosure at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire.
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I can't help thinking a few chips would improve it: 'Feast Table: Undeclared Perceptions, 2012' by Entang Wiharso, on display at Art Basel in Hong Kong
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Here a man salvages things from what is left of a bedroom of his tornado devastated home.
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The former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu dances with the choir after he received the 2013 Templeton Prize at the Guildhall in central London on May 21, 2013. South African anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu won the 2013 Templeton Prize worth $1.7 million for helping inspire people around the world by promoting forgiveness and justice, organisers said.
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Jodi Arias points to her family as a reason for the jury to give her a life in prison sentence instead of the death penalty during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona May 21, 2013. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008.
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A man, wearing a surgical mask as a precautionary measure against the novel coronavirus, walks near a hospital in Khobar city in Dammam May 21, 2013. Saudi Arabia has reported another case of infection in a concentrated outbreak of a new strain of a virus that emerged in the Middle East last year and spread into Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on May 18, 2013. In a disease outbreak update issued from its Geneva headquarters, the WHO said the latest patient is an 81-year-old woman with multiple medical conditions. She became ill on April 28 and is in a critical but stable condition. Worldwide, there have now been 41 laboratory-confirmed infections, including 20 deaths, since the new coronavirus was identified by scientists in September 2012.
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Former leader of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) Moaz al-Khatib (L) talks to Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo at the end of a joint news conference in Madrid May 21, 2013. Representatives of the Syrian opposition met in Madrid on Monday and Tuesday to consolidate their position and attempt to find a political solution to a conflict that in over two years has left about 70,000 dead, according to the UN.
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Lebanese army soldiers patrol the Sunni Muslim Bab al-Tebbaneh neighborhood after being deployed to tighten security, following clashes between Sunni Muslims and Alawites in the port city of Tripoli, northern Lebanon May 21, 2013. Five people have been killed and about 50 wounded in two days of fighting in Tripoli, security sources said on Monday, a spillover of violence from the civil war in Syria.
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Rescue workers carry out the body of a victim in a road cave-in accident in this picture taken through a security window in Shenzhen, Guangdong province May 21, 2013.
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Ethiopian migrants sleep out in the open near a transit centre where they wait to be repatriated, in the western Yemeni town of Haradh, on the border with Saudi Arabia, May 21, 2013. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in April ordered a three-month delay to a crackdown on migrant workers which has led to thousands of deportations, to give foreigners in the kingdom a chance to sort out their papers. More than 200,000 foreigners have been deported from the country over the past few months.
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A magnifying glass is held in front of a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013. The Financial Times' website and Twitter feeds were hacked May 17, 2013, renewing questions about whether the popular social media service has done enough to tighten security as cyber-attacks on the news media intensify. The attack is the latest in which hackers commandeered the Twitter account of a prominent news organization to push their agenda. Twitter's 200 million users worldwide send out more than 400 million tweets a day, making it a potent distributor of news.
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Bristol tandem bike deaths driver Nicholas Lovell jailed
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Ross and Clare Simons were riding a tandem bike when they were hit by the car
A man who killed a couple when he knocked them off their tandem bike with a car while being pursued by police has been jailed for over 10 years.
Ross Simons, 34, and his wife Clare, 30, died at the scene in Hanham, Bristol, on 27 January.
Last month Nicholas Lovell, 38, of West Street, Oldland Common, admitted two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, at Bristol Crown Court.
Lovell, who was banned from driving at the time, fled the crash scene.
During a previous hearing, he also pleaded guilty to one count of driving while disqualified.
The court was told that at the time of the crash he was driving a Citroen Picasso owned by his partner Louise Cox, 35, also of Oldland Common, who admitted perverting the course of justice by providing police with false details about who had been driving her vehicle.
'Breathtaking selfishness'
Lovell was sentenced to 10 years and six months and banned from driving for life, while Cox was jailed for a year.
Sentencing him, Mr Justice Haddon-Cave said: "This is the worst example one could imagine of this sort of offence.
"You have a serious drug problem but your deep selfishness and disregard for others is breathtaking."
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Lovell and Cox were in the car which hit Ross and Clare Simons' tandem
He added that no words could describe the loss and devastation felt by the family and friends of the couple and that he would pass a sentence which was the maximum the law would allow.
Speaking outside court, the family of Ross and Clare Simons said they would be campaigning for a change in the law to get tougher sentences for drivers who kill.
Kelly Woodruff, sister of Ross Simons, said: "We thank the judge for imposing the maximum sentence he could, however we feel cheated by the justice system that does not allow a longer sentence to be imposed for the tragic loss of their lives considering his past convictions.
"While they will serve a few years in prison, we and those close to Ross and Clare, have been given life sentences.
"Both families now ask for the support of the general public and the Press to back us as we intend to start campaigning against the shockingly low sentences given out for this type of offence," she said.
"We will need everyone's support to take this to the highest levels and get the laws changed."
'Heartless man'
Det Ch Insp Rachel Williams said: "Nicholas Lovell is a heartless man who has shown no remorse for the deaths of Ross and Clare.
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Ross Simons' sister Kelly Woodruff (centre) said the families would campaign for tougher sentencing
"He needlessly took away the lives of this innocent couple who were looking forward to a long and happy future together. It took just a few reckless moments to snatch that away.
"The sentence passed highlights the seriousness of both Lovell and Cox's actions."
Before the collision, which was initially referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), Avon and Somerset Police said an officer indicated for the car to stop but then lost sight of it.
Shortly afterwards, Lovell struck another vehicle on Lower Hanham Road before colliding with Mr and Mrs Simons' tandem.
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Seoul, South Korea: an injured Vietnam war veteran scuffles with South Korean police during an anti-Japan rally in front of the Japanese embassy
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Tokyo, Japan: the Tokyo Skytree is seen behind a monument. The broadcasting and observation tower marked its first anniversary
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Moscow, Russia: a young woman in wheelchair performs at a beauty contest for wheelchair users: Miss Independence 2013
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Los Angeles, US: law enforcement personnel during the 27th annual memorial service hold photos of FBI special agents killed in the line of duty
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Rome, Italy: the artwork 'Combattenti' by Italian artist Marisa Albanese during a preview of the exhibition Post Classici at the archeological sites of the Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill
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Mexico City, Mexico: a mounted police officer holds a disabled girl during a session of equine-assisted therapy at the mounted police unit
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Lebanese army soldiers take women out of the Bab Tabbaneh district of Tripoli to safer areas, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon. Opponents and supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad traded heavy machine gun fire and mortar shells in the city, leaving five people dead in what was described as some of the heaviest fighting there for while
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A difficult day for these Bangladeshi rickshaw drivers in the capital, Dhaka. Torrential rain has resulted in water clogging parts of the city with many roads under water
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Also in Barcelona, activists from the animal-rights group 'AnimaNaturalis' protest against bullfighting covered with fake blood. They are asking the government not to protect bullfighting as part of Spain's heritage
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Textile workers attend a demonstration organized by Unions in defence of collective agreements in Barcelona, this morning
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The Queen swapped her limo for a bio-fulled bus to travel to the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. She and Duke of Edinburgh traveled on a guided bus to the research institute and will also visit the birthing centre and neonatal unit at the Rosie Maternity Hospital.
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People walk past the Customs House in Sydney which is lit up by a projection as landmarks around the city become part of Vivid Sydney, the annual festival of light, music and ideas in Australia. More than 60 interactive and immersive light sculptures and installations across Circular Quay, The Rocks, Walsh Bay, Darling Harbour and North Sydney are taking part in the festival.
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It's late May so after Cannes it'll be the Monaco Grand Prix: Fernando Alonso of Spain and Ferrari drives during the first practice session for this weekend's race
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This picture taken yesterday shows 80-year-old Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura (R) and his son Gota (L) as they leave the C4 camp to ascent to the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal. Yuichiro Miura has reached the summit of Mount Everest, becoming the oldest person to reach the roof of the world, Nepalese tourism officials said this morning.
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Lightning flashes in the sky in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, China. Heavy rainfall since Saturday has killed two people in the south China province.
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Take that: A Sumatran elephant splashes water on a tourist as elephants are bathed in Tangkahan river, located in Leuser National Park on Indonesia's Sumatra island
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A woman blows a kiss as she lays flowers in memory of the victim outside the Royal Artillery Barracks near the scene of a terror attack in Woolwich
