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Umi, who is three-months-old, is examined by a nurse at a Save the Children outreach site in Kenya. Weighing just 3.7lbs, Umi was referred to the district hospital. Her mother, Amina, says her two other children are malnourished because the drought caused the death of the family's livestock, which subsequently led to a lack of milk

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Mothers and children at an outreach site in Kanjara village, Wajir, collecting packets of high-nutrient peanut paste

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Juba, South Sudan: A man holds up South Sudan's new flag as children rehearse their dance routine, to be performed at half time during South Sudan's national soccer team's match with Kenya as part of the independence day celebrations



Srinagar, India: Kashmiri Muslim women pray as an imam displays the holy relic believed to be the hair from the beard of Prophet Mohammed, at the Hazratbal Shrine

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Tripoli, Libya: Brides and grooms walk through a crowd during a mass wedding for 25 couples in support of Muammar Gaddafi at his Bab al-Aziziya compound



Pamplona, Spain: A boy reacts in fear as a 'Kiliki' lifts up his hat during San Fermin festival's Comparsa de gigantes y cabezudos (Parade of the giants and the big heads

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Qingdao, China: Tourists and locals at a beach in Huiquan Bay during foggy weather



Moscow, Russia: University hopefuls wait to take entrance examinations outside the Vakhtangov Theatre Academy

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Guatemala City, Guatemala: Human bones exhumed from a mass grave in La Verbena cemetery are displayed to the press. More than 10,000 unidentified bodies have been exhumed from the mass grave, which is thought to date from 1987 during the Guatemalan civil war



Chandigarh, India: Punjabi farmers protest against a recent fuel price increase

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British Gas raises gas and electricity prices



British Gas has stunned households across the UK by announcing a rise in gas and electricity prices of 18% and 16%, just eight months after it raised its prices by 7%.

The increase, which will affect 9 million customers and be effective from 18 August, provoked energy minister Chris Huhne to today demand change in the UK electricity market.

At a time when households are struggling with soaring food bills amid persistently high inflation, the price rise will add £192 to the average annual dual fuel bill, which will increase from £1,096 to £1,288 as a result.

Mike O'Connor, chief executive of Consumer Focus, said: "This price rise will send a shock wave across the country. The impact on customers will be severe, piling more pressure on severely stretched household budgets and pushing hundreds of thousands more households into fuel poverty."

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Baseball tragedy as fan dies in fall from stands



A fan fell to his death at Rangers Ballpark on Thursday after catching a ball tossed to him by the Texas outfielder Josh Hamilton.

The man, named as 39-year-old firefighter Shannon Stone, died in hospital less than an hour after falling some 20 feet from the outfield seats to a paved area behind a scoreboard.


Stone, who as at the game with his young son, was reaching for a ball thrown towards the stands by Hamilton during the second inning of the match against Oakland and toppled over a railing after making the catch.

Local fire department officials said Stone, who witnesses said was conscious after the fall, "went into full arrest" while being transported by ambulance.

There was an audible gasp in the stands at when Stone tumbled over the rail, similar to an accident at Rangers Ballpark almost exactly a year earlier when a fan named Tyler Morris, also a firefighter, fell from the second level to the lower bowl while trying to catch a foul ball on 6 July 2010. He suffered a fractured skull and broken ankle.

"We are deeply saddened that the man who fell has passed away as a result of this tragic accident," the club's president, Nolan Ryan, said in a statement on the Rangers website. "Our thoughts and prayers are with his family."

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Running of the bulls




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William and Kate in Canada




Britain's Prince William talks to his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, during a tour of the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta, July 7, 2011

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Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, share a laugh before they are shown how to save the life of a medical test mannequin at the University of Calgary's Ward of the 21st Century in Calgary, Alberta, July 7, 2011.

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Kids, Don't Be Afraid ...
An employee dressed as an astronaut at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida greets children on Thursday -- one day before space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to launch for the last mission of the space shuttle program



Money Matters
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, here speaking with reporters on Capitol Hill Thursday, discussed her meeting with President Obama and other lawmakers about resolving the country's massive debt crisis.

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Downpour in India
Indian residents walk through a flooded street during a heavy rain shower in Mumbai on Friday.

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DR Congo plane crashes at Kisangani airport



A passenger plane with 112 people on board has crashed at Kisangani airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials say.

Up to 40 people have been found alive, but more than 50 others are known to have died, reports say.

The plane, operated by the Congolese airline Hewa Bora, had tried to land in bad weather, officials said.

There is no confirmation of where the plane had flown from or the type of aircraft involved.

"The pilot tried to land but apparently they didn't touch the runway," Hewa Bora chief executive Stavros Papaioannou told Reuters news agency.

Hewa Bora is a private Congolese airline that runs scheduled flights from the capital, Kinshasa, to the central city of Kisangani and other destinations.

The firm is on a European Union airline blacklist over safety concerns.

Hewa Bora has been involved in four previous incidents of concern, according to the Aviation Safety Network website, including a 2008 crash when a DC-9 crashed on take-off in the Congolese town of Goma. More than 40 people died, most of them on the ground.

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Adolf Hitler's Austrian hometown revokes honour title



Adolf Hitler's hometown in Austria has revoked the Nazi leader's honorary citizenship - even if he never may have been given it.

The council in Braunau am Inn decided to strip Hitler of any honour he may have received and which did not expire automatically after his death in 1945.

Hitler was actually born in Ranshofen in 1889, and the village made him an honorary citizen in 1933.

Ranshofen later became part of Braunau, and is now seen as Hitler's birthplace.

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Mass rally in Egypt

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1.7 million people, or around 95% of the population of Tripoli, one third of the entire population of Libya, have turned out in perhaps the largest demonstration ever in world history last Friday, to demand an end to the NATO bombings of Libya. Photo: Mohanned Magam