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Bangkok, Thailand: A boy carries a framed picture of a relative who died in street clashes between demonstrators and armed troops
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Ninghai, China: Actors wait before a show at the China Tourism Day inauguration ceremony
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Exeter, UK: Sheep line up to be judged at the Devon County Show
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Spidey returns!
Have your Spidey senses been tingling this week? If so, you’re probably a personal-injury lawyer, excited by the news that Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has reopened on Broadway. After a string of accidents among the performers and stinging reviews from the New York critics, the singing superhero took a three-week hiatus, during which the show has been overhauled by a new creative team. The early noise about take two of The World’s Most Expensive Musical Ever? Not as bad as it was, and no more hospitalisations
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Call of the wild
From a New York media circus to the more traditional variety: the UK government has decided to allow circuses to continue using wild animals in their shows – to the fury of animal-welfare campaigners, who had expected an outright ban. A strict new licensing regime will be enforced to ensure that lions, tigers and elephants are kept safely. (Oh, how the Spider-Man cast must be jealous)
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Shipshape and Bristol fashion
In Bristol, meanwhile, plans are afoot to moor up a pirate ship outside the Old Vic theatre. The historic playhouse is currently undergoing redevelopment, so its team are planning to stage their summer show, Treasure Island, aboard a 500-seat, 50ft replica Jolly Roger. The galleon will be anchored near the Llandoger Trow pub, where Robert Louis Stevenson supposedly found inspiration for his novel over a few pints of West Country cider
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West End feels the chill
Choppy waters ahead for the West End, however, with results for the first quarter of 2011 revealing that both attendances and revenue have fallen (10% and 6% respectively) compared with the same period last year. London theatre has so far proved impressively buoyant in the face of recession, so producers and theatre owners will be hoping that these latest figures aren’t signs that the sharks are finally circling. Optimists point to big new openings on the horizon such as Shrek: The Musical and Ghost, which should help boost takings in the coming months
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Matilda swings into London
One such big opening is the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new musical version of Roald Dahl’s Matilda. The show, with songs by flame-haired Aussie comic Tim Minchin, was a huge hit when it debuted in Stratford-upon-Avon last year, and in October will be making its way to the West End’s Cambridge theatre (currently home to Chicago). The RSC will be hoping it can emulate the company’s greatest musical triumph, Les Misérables, rather than the ill-fated and short-lived Carrie: The Musical
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Goold takes a gamble on Shakespeare
Pushing the RSC’s takings back up in Stratford is our second superhero of the week, Patrick Stewart. Having recently made up with his own arch-nemesis James Corden, Stewart takes on the role of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice for the third time in his career. The production – directed by hot director Rupert Goold, with the action shifted to casino paradise Las Vegas – opened to critics last night. Did they have their pound of flesh?
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Legendary playwright bows out
Yet another RSC connection with this week’s sad news that playwright Pam Gems has died aged 85. Her "play with music" Piaf – recently revived by the Donmar Warehouse with Elena Roger as the chanteuse – was premiered by the RSC in 1978. Gems later went on to write Stanley for the National theatre, which won both Evening Standard and Olivier awards. With her passing, the theatre world loses one of its most distinctive and successful feminist playwrights
Peaceful protests in Madrid's Puerta del Sol Square
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A demonstrator climbs over the entrance of the Puerta del Sol subway covered by protesters' banners
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The week's art shows
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Tadasu Takamine, Birmingham
Provocative video artist Takamine is no shock tactics exponent, but his works do provoke uneasy, often contradictory thoughts. In God Bless America (2002), the artist and his partner live a 17-day, post-9/11 ritual in a red room where they eat, sleep, have sex, and attack a head of George W Bush. At Ikon Gallery until 17 July
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David Salle, London
In the 1980s, Salle turned painting back into a going concern. His remixes of tropes from Rosenquist, Picabia and Polke created canvases where high art references and pop trash collided. Untitled Red Chair (2011) forms part of his first London show since 2003, and shows the iconic female figures typical of his work. At Maureen Paley from Thursday until 17 July
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Fade Away, Newcastle upon Tyne
Works such as Paul Housley's Blue Boy (2010) feature in this timely show of paintings that float somewhere intriguingly ambiguous between the figurative and the abstract. At Gallery North until 26 May
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Fred Sandback, London
The great string sculptor Sandback comes to London. Installations such as Untitled (Sculptural Study, Seven-part Right-angled Triangular Construction) shows Sandback's propensity for collapsing the space between people and sculpture, turning white cube galleries into landscapes with nothing more than coloured yarn. At Whitechapel Gallery, Wednesday to 14 August
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Georg Baselitz, London
Baselitz's earliest works were appalling – misshapen cocks and monstrous feet that served up brutal truths of the second world war. The 20th century's major trauma continues to haunt his work. His latest series, including Trauerhunde (2010), responds to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. At White Cube Mason's Yard until 9 July
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Peter Blake, Bath
Marking the opening of the new Holburne Museum building in Bath, Peter Blake reveals the cultural curiosities he's been amassing for decades, including Mr Potter's stuffed animals (above) and Elvis Presley's autograph. At Holburne Museum of Art until 4 September
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Gravity's Rainbow, Edinburgh
Can colours be the sole subject of an artwork? The Ingleby Gallery thinks so, and have commissioned this charming show which takes its title from the Thomas Pynchon novel. Here, Peter Liversidge scours the streets for any junk as long as it is yellow for this shelf exhibit, Doppelganger (yellow). At the Ingleby Gallery until 30 July
A man who tried to take his pony on a train, has now been spotted with the horse in a bar and in the emergency room of a hospital.
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A man with a pony in the Elihu Yale pub in Wrexham, Wales.
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The man and horse in the Accident & Emergency department of Wrexham Maelor Hospital.
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Twenty Estonian men yoked to the Tallink's cruise ship Baltic Queen move the 20.000-ton cruise ship, to set a new record, during the Tallinn's Maritime Days in Tallinn on May 20, 2011. The event was organized as one of the key events on Tallinn's Maritime Days by Tallink company. The Baltic Queen is one of the Baltic Sea's largest cruise ships, with a length of 212 meters, beam of 29 meters and weight of close to 20,000 tons. In 2010 the Estonian men hauled a 200-ton train and in 2009, one of the muscle men, Andrus Murumets, single-handedly pushed a 40-ton Estonian Air Boeing 737-500.
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Pat "Deep Dish" Bertoletti, Thomas Harrison, and Chris Floyd, left to right, tackle the Armour Pepperoni with Cheese Eating Competition at Rounder's Pizzeria in Austin, Texas on Thursday, May 19, 2011. Bertoletti won the event by eating 252 slices, or 2.25 pounds, in 6 minutes.
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Crackled and dry earth is seen in the wide riverbed of the Loire River near the Anjou-Bretagne bridge in Ancenis, western France, May 20, 2011. The French environment minister said on Monday that France was in a 'situation of crisis' and on Wednesday imposed curbs on water consumption in a third of France's administrative departments.
Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Ireland to coming to a close
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrives by helicopter at Cashel, County Tipperary, to visit the Rock of Cashel monument, on the last day of her four-day visit to Ireland, on May 20, 2011. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II toured the Rock of Cashel, one of Ireland's most historic monuments, as she tasted tourism and gastronomic highlights Friday on the final day of her state visit. Wearing a bright green coat with a blue dress and hat, the Queen and her husband Prince Philip flew in by helicopter from Dublin on a drizzly morning.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip (C) view the nave of the Cathedral at St Patrick's Rock in Cashel, County Tipperary May 20, 2011.
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Demonstrators listen to a speaker at Madrid's landmark Puerta del Sol on May 20. Spanish youths vowed on Friday to continue demonstrating against unemployment and mainstream politics, and the government thought twice about enforcing a ban on election weekend protests that could provoke clashes.
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Relatives sit next to the body of a suspected Muslim separatist in southern Thailand's Yala province on May 20. Four insurgents were killed in a shootout with government security forces in Thailand's rebellious Muslim south on Friday and 12 people were wounded in a truck bombing, police said, as separatist tensions intensify near the border with Malaysia.
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Tour guide Kim Voorhies of Lafayette, La., giving a day to rescuing osprey chicks in nests too close to floodwaters from the Morganza Spillway, hands a chick to licensed bird rehabilitator Cindy Ransonet of New Iberia, La., on March 17, 2011. Cow Island Lake in St. Martin Parish already was about seven feet above its usual level, and Voorhies said alligators had eaten chicks from lower nests. The water was still rising, and Voorhies' father, who got federal approval for the mission, said it would bring the nest into alligator reach at the crest.
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NATO fighter jets struck the Tripoli harbor in bombing runs overnight, damaging five coast guard boats and a warship, the Libyan government said early Friday. Reporters could see flames and smoke rising from the stricken warship into the night sky.
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Smoke rises from a ship that was hit in an airstrike, at Tripoli sea port early on May 20.
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Children peep through a torn U.S flag hanging from their makeshift shelter in a slum area on the outskirts of Karachi, May 19, 2011
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A female officer from Officer Candidate School at Kabul Military Training Centre stands next to her bed as high ranking officials from the defense ministry arrives to inspect the school after their graduation ceremony in Kabul, May 19, 2011.
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Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn gestures during his bail hearing inside of the New York State Supreme Courthouse in New York May 19, 2011.
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A supporter of the opposition Socialist Party clashes with police as he tries to enter the Central Election Commission to protest over the delay in releasing the results from May 8 local elections, in which they claim their leader Edi Rama won re-election as mayor of the capital, Tirana, May 18, 2011.
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Logos are printed on Roses displayed at Tehran's International flower and plant fair May 19, 2011.
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General view as French tennis players Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (R) and Richard Gasquet (L) play on a roof-top clay court on a Paris department store May 19, 2011 ahead of the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros.
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Monaco's Prince Albert and his fiancee Charlene Wittstock attend an auction during the amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS 2011 event in Antibes during the 64th Cannes Film Festival May 19, 2011.
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A labourer builds components of wind turbines at a wind power equipment factory in Zouping, Shandong province May 18, 2011.
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Libyans watch a television broadcast of a speech by U.S. President Barack Obama in U.S., at a shop in Benghazi May 19, 2011.
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Anti-terror policemen hold a man suspected of having links with a suicide bomber who blew himself up, outside a police office in Cirebon May 19, 2011.
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Thousands of anti-government ''red shirt'' protesters pray during a rally at Ratchaprasong intersection at Bangkok's shopping district May 19, 2011
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French television journalist Maryse Burgot works in front of the apartment building in New York on May 20 where former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn reportedly will spend his house arrest. Strauss-Kahn won bail after being indicted on "serious" sex charges, but was ordered to remain under house arrest with an armed guard and post one million USD in cash. Judge Michael Obus also told the former head of the International Monetary Fund to put up a five million USD bond, wear an electronic ankle bracelet, and surrender all travel documents.
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Aerial dancers from Voloa, perform a dress rehearsal ahead of their performance at the opening night of Salisbury International Arts Festival on May 20 in Salisbury, England. The 39th Salisbury International Arts Festival runs from tonight until Saturday June 4 and features a programm of theater, dance, circus, film, music, comedy and spoken word in locations around the historic city, from Salisbury Cathedral to Stonehenge.
I was there in person to witness these very talented guys perform some quite scary manouevres earlier without a safety harness with what appeared to be bedsheets. Quite amazing! :)