World News in Pictures

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A demonstrator sleeps on a mattress as people camp out in Madrid's Puerta del Sol two days after Spanish regional and local elections, May 24, 2011.



Jeannie Owens searches through a family member's destroyed home after a devastating tornado hit Joplin, Missouri May 24, 2011.

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French motorcycle police outriders line up outside the venue of the G8 summit in Deauville, northern France, May 24, 2011.



A Libyan rebel fighter rests at Dafniyah's western front line, near the Misrata city centre, May 24, 2011.

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Police officers search a group of Islamic demonstrators near the residence of Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron in London May 24, 2011



Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress in front of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) in Washington, May 24, 2011.

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Movistar rider Ignatas Konovalovas of Lithuania (R) climbs during the time trial for the 12.7 km (7.9 miles) 16th stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race from Belluno to Nevegal May 24, 2011.



The body of a tribesman loyal to tribal leader Shiekh Sadiq al-Ahmar lies in the hospital after he was killed during clashes with police forces outside al-Ahmar's house in Sanaa May 24, 2011.

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The reflection of a stockbroker in a glass panel shows him reacting as he observes the latest share prices during a trading session at the Karachi Stock Exchange May 24, 2011.



The Floating Island is lit up on Han River in Seoul May 23, 2011

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Women walk past a sign on a Project Champion camera post in the Sparkbrook area of Birmingham, central England



An inmate rides a horse and listens to a prison guard on an agrarian field of a penal colony settlement some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, May 24, 2011.

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Battle over Sudan's Abyei region



Men are pictured in a compound belonging to the World Food Programme as it was being looted in Abyei, in this United Nations Missions in Sudan (UNMIS) handout photo taken May 24, 2011 and released on May 25, 2011.



Men smile as they transport sacks of food looted from a compound belonging to the World Food Programme in Abyei, in this United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) handout

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Zambian soldiers, serving with the international peacekeeping operation, wait to depart on a patrol around Abyei town



The first of 125 Indian Force Reserve Battalion troops, who have been deployed in Abyei to reinforce those already on the ground serving with the international peacekeeping operation, sit in a vehicle as they arrive in Abyei

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Smoke rise from burnt homes in Abyei town



Armed men walk past a U.N. peacekeeping mission (UNMIS) camp in Abyei town

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Looters steal from an unidentified compounded in Abyei town

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Armed men walk past a dead man



A looter makes off with a bed frame in Abyei town

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Men wave near looted items taken from abandoned homesteads on the streets of Abyei town

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A man gestures at a compound belonging to the World Food Programme as it is being looted

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California's overcrowded prisons





Prisoners at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, housed in a gymnasium due to overcrowding,

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Caught in the Crossfire

People carry a boy who was wounded in a battle between Islamist insurgents and government forces in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Wednesday.



Deadly Car Bombing in Pakistan

At least 22 people were killed when suspected militants drove a car packed with explosives into a police station in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Wednesday. Here: A vehicle damaged in the attack is cleared away.

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Keeping Dry

Lawyers for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich launched their defense in his corruption trial on Wednesday in Chicago. Here: Blagojevich smiles as he makes his way into federal court.



Nancy Kerrigan's Brother Acquitted

On Wednesday, a jury in Woburn, Mass., acquitted Mark Kerrigan, brother of Olympian Nancy Kerrigan, of involuntary manslaughter in the death of his father. He was, however, convicted on a lesser charge. Here: Kerrigan on May 19.

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Lack of Spirit
On Wednesday, NASA ended its attempts to contact the Mars rover Spirit, which went incommunicado after getting stuck in a sand pit two years ago. Here: A panoramic view of the robot geologist on the Red Planet in 2007.



Not on Our Watch
In Desaguadero, Peru, on Tuesday, indigenous Aymara women prepare food for a protest against plans for a silver mining project that demonstrators say will pollute the Desaguadero River and Lake Titicaca.

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'Operation Escargot' Is in Effect
As part of a strike to protest a fuel price increase, taxicabs slow to a crawl to bottleneck traffic during a so-called operation escargot (snail operation) outside of Toulouse, France, on Wednesday.



Not Clowning Around
Protesters observe a minute of silence at Madrid's Puerta del Sol square during a Tuesday demonstration against Spain's economic crisis and sky-high jobless rate.

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Ratko Mladic arrested: Bosnia war crimes suspect held







Serbian President Boris Tadic: "Today we closed one chapter of our recent history"


Ratko Mladic, wanted by UN prosecutors for war crimes during the Bosnian civil war in the 1990s, has been arrested in Serbia and is being flown to The Hague.

Serbian President Boris Tadic confirmed the arrest of the former Bosnian Serb army chief at a news conference.

Gen Mladic is accused over the massacre of at least 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.

He was the most prominent Bosnian war crimes suspect at large since the arrest of Radovan Karadzic in 2008.

President Tadic said work was under way to extradite Gen Mladic to the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, and it later emerged that that a plane carrying the suspect had taken off from Belgrade for the Dutch city.

The detention, the Serbian leader said, had closed one chapter in Serbian history, bringing the country and the region closer to reconciliation.


Ratko Mladic

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Demonstrators in Madrid perform Yoga



An Indian woman is seen through the window of a small plane that crashed into a residential community killing 10 people

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Residents pray in Namie, Japan when they return to the area where their homes stood before the earthquake/Tsunami of 11 March



A worker arranges fish at a market in Yangon, Myanmar