World News in Pictures

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Uruguay 2

Cavani 58′, 78′


Italy 2
Astori 25′ Diamanti 73′





Italy win 3-2 on penalties



Gianluigi Buffon saved three penalties as Italy beat Uruguay to claim third place in the Confederations Cup.

Davide Astori put Italy ahead when he tapped home on the line before Edinson Cavani equalised with a low effort.

Alessandro Diamanti restored Italy's lead with a curling free-kick and then Cavani levelled again with a stunning free-kick to ensure extra time.

Riccardo Montolivo was sent off for two yellow cards in extra time but Italy held on to seal a 3-2 win on penalties.

Diego Forlan, Martin Caceres and Walter Gargano all missed to hand Italy third spot in Salvador.

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Paul Casey wins Irish Open at Carton House


IRISH OPEN, FINAL ROUND LEADERBOARD

• -14: P Casey (Eng)
• -11: J Luiten (Ned) R Rock (Eng)
• -9: P Larrazabal (Spa)
• -8: S Lowry (Ire), G Shaw (NI), R Cabrera-Bello (Sp), JM Olazabal (Sp), A Quiros
• Selected: -7: J Donaldson (Wal)
• Par: P Lawrie (Scot)

Paul Casey secured his first victory in over two years with a three-shot win in the Irish Open at Carton House.

The Englishman, who plummeted from third in the world rankings to 169th, fired a superb five-under-par 67 in blustery conditions to finish 14 under.

Overnight leader Joost Luiten (74) and Robert Rock (71) were second with Pablo Larrazabal (75) fourth on nine under.

Jose Maria Olazabal was tied for the lead midway through his round but faded to finish joint fifth on eight under.

Casey claimed the 12th European Tour title of his career in dramatic fashion after overturning a four-shot deficit in the final round.

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Double Olympic champion Mo Farah came through his toughest test of the season to win the men's 5,000m in Birmingham.

Farah impressively won in 13 minutes 14.24 seconds to end a successful day for Britain at the Diamond League.

The 30-year-old's final 200m burst pushed Ethiopian pair Yenew Alamirew and Hagos Gebrhiwet into second and third respectively.

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Obama visits Robben Island in South Africa



Inside Nelson Mandela's cell

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Glastonbury 2013: Sunday's bands



Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons, who headlined the Pyramid stage on Sunday evening



Soul legend Bobby Womack performs on the West Holts stage



Mumford & Sons bassist Ted Dwane on stage just weeks after undergoing surgery for a blood clot on his brain



John Lydon of Public Image Ltd on the Avalon stage

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Sir Bruce Forsyth does his thing in the Avalon tent. 'The bonhomie between performer and crowd was substantial,' wrote Paul MacInnes.



Nicole Fiorentino of the Smashing Pumpkins on the Other stage

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on the Pyramid stage



Rufus Wainwright on the Pyramid stage



Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig.



Country star Kenny Rogers on the Pyramid stage. 'It would be a stony heart that wasn't charmed by his twinkly amusement,' wrote Dorian Lynskey

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Gun injury victim receives 'most extensive full face transplant to date'



Richard Norris, right, speaks with Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, who led the surgical team that performed Norris's face transplant, during a visit at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. In the 15 years between a shotgun blast that ravaged the bottom half of Norris' face and the face transplant, Mr Norris faced cruelty from strangers, fought addiction and contemplated suicide. Now he's starting a new life with the hope that his life path will send a message of hope to people in similar situations and encourage empathy in others



Richard Norris in an undated prom photograph. The 37 year old Virginia man had what was said to be the world's most comprehensive face transplant in March 2012 after being shot in the face in 1997.



Richard Norris before what was described as the world's most comprehensive face transplant to replace both jaws, teeth, tongue, skin, and underlying nerve and muscle tissue from scalp to neck. Norris was shot in the face in 1997, since that time he has received multiple life-saving and reconstructive surgeries.



Norris following his transplant in this undated photo, which surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center described as the world's most comprehensve face transplant. The surgery lasted 36-hours



Richard Norris pictured 114 days after his face transplant in March 2012. He recieved the transplant in a 36-hour operation which included the replacement of both jaws, teeth, tongue, skin, and underlying nerve and muscle tissue from scalp to neck.



Richard Norris speaks with a psychiatrist during a visit to the University of Maryland Medical Center






Mr Norris's operation is considered the most extensive face transplant performed to date

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Brazil v Spain: Confederations Cup final



The Brazillian manager



Brazil were in superb form, as was Neymar, celebrating his second goal



Neymar, Jordi Alba and Cesar Azpilicueta seem to have learned the same dance moves



2-0 down, Spain consider a tough situation at half-time



Fred of Brazil scores his team's third goal to seal the match

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Spain's Gerard Pique receives a red card for a foul on Brazil's Neymar



David Luiz celebrates victory



As does Neymar



More manhugs

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Arizona wildfire



At least 19 US firefighters have died in the wildfire sweeping across the state











It's the highest death toll for firefighters since 9/11

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Egyptian protests

Millions demonstrated across Egypt on Sunday, launching an all-out push to force Mohamed Morsi from office on the one-year anniversary of his inauguration












Egyptian protesters attack the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in the Mokattam district in Cairo

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Fire in Smethwick

A huge fire has engulfed 50,000 tonnes of plastic and paper at a recycling plant, injuring nine firefighters fighting the inferno and sending a plume of intense smoke into the air






More than 35 fire engines attend the scene of the blaze in Dartmouth Road


















Smoke rises over the Birmingham skyline

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The Master of the Amiens Triptych, a 14th-century gothic ivory sculpture from the collection of Gustav Rau, is shown as part of Sotheby's forthcoming sale of European sculptures & works of art from medieval, renaissance, Romantic and modern periods. The piece is expected to fetch between £2.5 and £3.5 million



Sadly for Laura Robson her match against Kaia Kanepi of Estonia has ended her championship hopes for this year.

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The US president, Barack Obama, and Tanzania's president, Jakaya Kikwete, greet a crowd of well-wishers during an official welcoming ceremony in Dar Es Salaam. Obama is seeking to build a new economic partnership with Africa on his tour of the continent where the US faces competition from China

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With 13 days to go until the royal baby's official due date, four oversized babies wearing nappies and crowns advertise Paddy Power bookmakers on the tube for baby betting odds.



Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador of the Saxo-Tinkoff team is photographed at the start of the third stage of the the Tour de France 2013 between Ajaccio and Calvi, Corsica

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Protesters ransack the headquarters of President Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood group in the Muqatam district in Cairo. Demonstrators are preparing for a second day of mass rallies aimed at forcing the Islamist leader from power



An anti-Morsi protester shows a gun that was allegedly used by Muslim Brotherhood members and seized after storming the headquarters. Reports say at least 12 people were killed in the violence that started yesterday around the Muslim Brotherhood's main offices.

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Children look through a broken window in the abandoned convent known as Gesu, in Brussels, Belgium. Around 160 squatters face expulsion when a €90m project by a Swiss developer to turn their dwellings into a luxury hotel and apartments gets the go-ahead. The Gesu church and convent have remained vacant for decades and were bought by Swiss developer Rosebud Heritage in 2007, who agreed that the property could be used as a squat until the works started



Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, walks to a monetary policy committee briefing on his first day at the bank's headquarters in London

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Feeling trashed? Festival-goers leave the Glastonbury festival site on Worthy Farm in Somerset.

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David Cameron stands with the presient of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, as they listen to the national anthem at the presidential palace in Astana, Kazakhstan. Cameron is visiting Kazakhstan as part of a trade mission



Thousands of protesters attend a march calling for Hong Kong's chief executive, Leung Chun-Ying, to step down



Visitors handle army weapons during the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day at the Ngong Shuen Chau Barracks

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Footwear next to blood stains at the site of Sunday's bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan



Relatives sit beside the bodies of the victims who were killed in a suicide bomb attack targeting Shia Muslims, killing at least 50 people

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Workers clean up seaweed covering a beach in Qingdao, China



A duck searches for food at a beach covered by a thick layer of green algae

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Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers approach a suicide attacker after his vest was defused in Jalalabad province June 30, 2013. Afghan security forces captured a would-be suicide attacker before he blew himself up in Jalalabad on Sunday.



People take part in the Gay Pride Parade in New York June 30, 2013



A Bosnian Muslim man wearing traditional clothes sleeps during the anniversary of Ajvatovica in the woods near the central Bosnian village of Prusac June 30, 2013. Tens of thousands of Muslims climb the mountain to pray at a site where, according to tradition, a miracle happened when a huge rock divided in half after a Muslim man prayed in front of it. The pilgrimage, the biggest for Muslims in Europe, is a 503-year-old tradition.



Win Zaw Oo, 36, has his height measured while posing for a photo during a medical check-up at a clinic in Yangon June 30, 2013. Win Zaw Oo, who stands at 7 feet 5 inches tall, is Myanmar's tallest man, according to his medical team

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Riot police clash with demonstrators during a protest on the streets of Rio de Janeiro June 30, 2013. Tens of thousands of Brazilians have taken to the streets this month in the biggest protests in 20 years, fuelled by an array of grievances ranging from poor public services to the high cost of World Cup soccer stadiums and corruption



Armed paramilitary policemen run in formation during a gathering to mobilize security operations in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, June 29, 2013. More than a hundred people, riding motorobikes and wielding knives, attacked a police station in China's ethnically divided western region of Xinjiang, state media said on Saturday, in the latest unrest to hit the restive region in the past week. Picture taken June 29, 2013.



Texas Rangers Engel Beltre reacts after a scoring on a collision at home with Cincinnati Reds Devin Mesoraco in the fifth inning of their MLB Interleague baseball game in Arlington, Texas June 30, 2013