World News in Pictures

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Medical Attention
A Libyan rebel wounded during the battle for control of Brega, a big oil town, is rushed into the emergency room of a hospital in Ajdabiya on Tuesday.



Unrest in Moscow
A Russian policeman scuffles with an activist of "The Other Russia" movement in Moscow on Tuesday. Activists were there to support a fellow member who's on trial for what they say is a politically motivated charge of dealing drugs.

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Borders to Liquidate Following Bankruptcy Filing
What was once a sign for a Borders bookstore is seen on Monday in San Rafael, California. Borders Group Inc., the nation's second largest bookstore chain, announced it will liquidate the company after failing to find a buyer.

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Egypt's Man in the Middle
A man looks on Monday while protesters gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the scene of an uprising that helped oust Hosni Mubarak from power, to demand change as anger grows with military rulers over the slow pace of reform.



Clinton Visits India
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, here flanked by Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, arrived in New Delhi on Monday for a "strategic dialogue" with officials before heading south to the rapidly expanding city of Chennai.

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NBA player Yao Ming reacts during a news conference to announce his retirement from basketball, in Shanghai, China, on July 20. Yao, who ignited China's interest in the NBA and became one of Asia's best-known athletes, announced his retirement from basketball on Wednesday. The 30-year-old had been widely expected to retire after he told the Houston Rockets he would not be returning next season after two years blighted by injuries.

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The European Space Agency's Herschel Space Telescope provides an infrared view of a twisted ring at the center of our galaxy.

If you look for signs and portents in the skies, you can't do much better than this: The Herschel Space Telescope has provided the best view yet of an infinity sign at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
"This is what is so exciting about launching a new space telescope like Herschel," Sergio Molinari of the Institute of Space Physics in Rome said in an image advisory issued today. "We have a new and exciting mystery on our hands, right at the center of our own galaxy."
Molinari is the lead author of a research paper on the twisted ring, appearing in a recent issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters. Portions of the ring have been spotted before, but Herschel's image cuts through the dust at the galactic center to reveal the full structure in submillimeter wavelengths. This version of Herschel's view highlights the shape of the ring, which stretches across more than 600 light-years:

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Mental patients sleep as police raid the Pequeno Cottolengo shelter in Quintero, some 100 miles northwest of Santiago on July 12. Police raided the local branch of the Pequeno Cottolengo international network of shelters run by the Roman Catholic Church to shelter and aid mentally handicapped children and adolescents, after an employee denounced them for physically abusing the patients.

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Tour de France 2011 - Stage 16

The best images from the 162.5 km stage between Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux and Gap, the principal city of the Hautes-Alpes, southeastern France

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A signpost erected in "honour" of an incident in the 2003 Tour when Spanish rider Joseba Beloki crashed on the descent from Col du Mense causing yellow jersey leader Lance Armstrong to cut through the field rejoining the course fifty metres along the road









Ryder Hesjedal celebrates as his teammate Thor Hushovd holds off the challenge of Edvald Boasson Hagen to take his second stage win of this year's tour

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Murdoch gets pied



A man tries to attack News Corp Chief Executive and Chairman Rupert Murdoch with a white substance during a parliamentary committee hearing on phone hacking at Portcullis House in London, July 19, 2011.

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US songwriter Jerry Ragovoy dies aged 80



US songwriter Jerry Ragovoy, who wrote songs for the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin and Elvis Presley, has died aged 80.

The Grammy award-winning musician passed away last week at the Lenox Hill Hospital in New York following complications from a stroke.

Some of his famous songs included the Stones' 1964 hit Time Is On My Side and Erma Franklin's Piece of My Heart.

He also wrote songs under the pseudonym of Norman Meade.

Born in Philadelphia as Jordan Ragovoy, the musician entered record production in 1953, working with The Castelles.

Piece of My Heart, first recorded by Franklin in 1967 was famously recorded by Janis Joplin a year later.

B.B King, Louis Jordan, Dusty Springfield and Aretha Franklin also recorded tracks written by Ragovoy.

He also worked as a producer for artists including Diana Ross and Dionne Warwick.

In 1973, Ragovoy walked away with his first Grammy for best score from an original cast show album, for his production work on Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times newspaper, Jim Steinblatt, a spokesman for the performance rights group ASCAP, said: "Jerry was a giant of soul, R&B and rock songwriting and record production.

"His songs were far better known than he was."

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Another dramatic picture of the leopard attack in India

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Cameroon's First Lady Chantal Biya, left, the wife of President Paul Biya, stands alongside China's President Hu Jintao's wife Liu Yongqing as they attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 20.

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An armed villager guards the entrance to the village of Castanas, on the outskirts of Guatemala City, on July 19. The villagers formed an armed group to defend themselves in response to an extortion threat last Friday by the Mara Salvatrucha criminal gang, according to the leader of the armed villagers. There was no official comment from the local authorities.

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China's team perform during the preliminary round of the synchronized swimming team free routine at the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai on July 20.

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Somali refugees who recently crossed the border from Somalia into southern Ethiopia cluster between two food tents as they wait to be called to collect food aid at the Kobe refugee camp on July 19.

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Lima, Peru: Football fans in a bar watch Uruguay beat Peru in the Copa America semi-final



Bali, Indonesia: An artist performs as the Hindu god Hanuman during the Kecak dance at Uluwatu temple. The Kecak dance is based on the Sanskrit epic Ramayana

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Guatemala City, Guatemala: The corpse of an murder victim lies in the street



Lima, Peru: Prisoners celebrate after the final of the Penitentiary Copa America football tournament at Miguel Castro Castro prison

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Nicosia, Cyprus: A father and son walk past the graves of Greek and Cypriot soldiers who were killed in the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus at the Tymvos Macedonitissas military cemetery



Kolkata, India: A woman scavenges in a rubbish dump

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Avignon, France: Children perform during a rehearsal of the play Sur le Concept du Visage du Fils de Dieu by the Italian director Romeo Castellucci

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A man prepares the grave of Hassan al-Hora during his funeral at a cemetery in Sanaa July 19, 2011.



Spain's Ona Carbonell and Andrea Fuentes perform during the preliminary round of the synchronised swimming duet free routine at the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai July 19, 2011.

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A stuffed bear lies over a child's grave at the children section of the San Rafael cemetery in Ciudad Juarez July 17, 2011.



An internally displaced woman holds her malnourished son at a new settlement in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, July 19, 2011.

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Children dressed as J.K. Rowling's famous character Harry Potter watch a presentation at the launch of the Harry Potter exhibition in Sydney's Powerhouse Museum July 19, 2011.



An Interior Ministry officer detains ecology activist Yevgeniya Chirikova during a flash mob in support of conserving the Khimki forest, in Moscow, July 19, 2011.

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French singer Cali is pictured crowd surfing during the first day of the 36th Paleo music festival in Nyon July 19, 2011.



Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron delivers a speech on growth and trade to delegates at the The Pan African University Business School in Lagos July 19, 2011.