World News in Pictures

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Liz being greeted by the Brisbane faithful

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Libya declares liberation

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The bodies of the former leader supporters killed when his convoy was attacked still lay in the sun.

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Aston Villa and Scotland's Barry Bannan held after M1 crash



Premier League footballer Barry Bannan has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving and failing to stop after a car crash on the M1 in Nottinghamshire.

The 21-year-old Aston Villa and Scotland midfielder was arrested along with Shrewsbury Town striker James Collins on Sunday morning.

A Range Rover travelling south hit the central reservation near junction 26 at 05:30 BST, Nottinghamshire Police said.

The motorway was closed for a short time following the crash.

No other vehicles were reported to be involved.

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Stone Roses singer Ian Brown admits speeding at 105mph



Stone Roses singer Ian Brown has been given a fine and penalty points after admitting driving at more than 100mph.

At Chester Magistrates' Court, Brown, 48, from Lymm in Cheshire, pleaded guilty to speeding.

He was stopped at 00:35 BST on 25 April on the northbound M6 motorway in Cheshire after being recorded doing 105mph.

The singer, who is touring next year with the reformed band, was fined £650 and given six points on his licence.

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Relative of Australia killer Ivan Milat admits murder

Ivan Milat was convicted of seven killings in 1996

The teenage relative of notorious Australian serial killer Ivan Milat has pleaded guilty to the brutal axe murder of another teenager.

The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted killing 17-year-old David Auchterlonie.

Mr Auchterlonie's body was found in Belanglo State Forest, south-west of Sydney, last November.

It is the same forest that Ivan Milat dumped the bodies of seven backpackers he killed between 1989 and 1992.

According to papers filed with Sydney's Campbelltown Children's Court, the teenager bragged to a friend the day after the killing: ''You know me, you know my family... I did what they do."

He is said to have gone with Mr Auchterlonie and two other friends to Belanglo forest on the night of 20 November 2010.

The murder and the conversation leading up to it were captured in a video recording on one of the friends' mobile phone

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Marat/Sade: Audiences walk out of 'perverse' RSC show

The play is being staged at the newly-refurbished Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford

Audiences have been walking out of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Marat/Sade, which features scenes of nudity and torture

At one preview show, 80 theatregoers left the show at the interval.

The RSC says that number was unusually high. According to a spokeswoman, "only four or five" walked out on Sunday.

Marat/Sade is set in a lunatic asylum, where the Marquis de Sade is directing a play about the murder of political thinker Jean Paul Marat.

A review in the Financial Times called it "comprehensively perverse", adding that it constantly challenges "both dramatic conventions and audience composure".

Some of the more shocking scenes include a gang rape and a character being tortured with a Taser.

Audience members interviewed on the RSC's own website described the production as "warped", "disturbing" and "shocking".

Others recommended the play, which is frequently studied as part of the A-Level English syllabus, saying "you have to see it to understand

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US ambassador Robert Ford pulled out of Syria



The US has pulled out its ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, because of concerns for his safety, officials say.

Mr Ford angered Syrian authorities by showing solidarity with activists involved in an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule.

A US spokesman said Mr Ford had left Damascus at the weekend after "credible threats against his personal safety".

Last month, Mr Ford and colleagues were pelted with eggs and tomatoes when visiting an opposition figure.

He was then briefly trapped in his office by pro-Assad demonstrators.

An official at the US embassy in Damascus told the Associated Press Mr Ford had not been formally recalled.

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Ercis, Turkey: Yunus, 13, waits with another earthquake survivor to be rescued from a collapsed building



Piraeus, Greece: a fisherman sits next to a docked ship during a seamen's strike at a port near Athens

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São Paulo, Brazil: women in wedding gowns jump during the Parade of Brides. The event calls on those who are married or about to be wed 'to be a bride for one more day'



Bangkok, Thailand: a woman looks from inside a truck that is being used to evacuate people from advancing floods

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Masaya, Nicaragua: a child dressed as a devil sits sits between two sleeping men during the Torovenado festival, which honours the city's patron saint Jeronimo



Phakding, Nepal: a Nepalese Sherpa adjusts his footing as touches up the paint on a large Mani stone, covered with Buddhist prayers. The stone is on one the the main pathways leading to Mount Everest



Puerto Gaitán, Colombia: an elderly man sits outside the headquarters of a mayoral candidate in local elections

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Giaglione, Italy: a protester holds on to a wire fence while police guard a construction site for the Turin-Lyon high speed train line



Chapala, Mexico: Jonathan William Travers of the US competes in the men's water skiing slalom finals at the Pan American Games. Travers went on to win the gold medal

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A man sleeps on a fence at the isolated and flooded village of Kajee Nush in Pathum Thani province, on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, October 21, 2011



A man, who was shot in a crossfire during clashes between forces loyal to Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh and followers of tribal leader Sadiq al-Ahmar, reacts while being treated by medics in Sanaa October 23, 2011.

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Demonstrators holding Turkish flags gather in the city's main square to protest against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Aegean port city of Izmir October 23, 2011.



An elderly woman is evacuated as floods advance into Bangkok, Thailand, October 23, 2011



France's First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy carries her new-born daughter as she leaves the maternity clinic, Clinique de la Muette, in Paris October 23, 2011.

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A government employee carries a polling booth as she prepares a poling station in Tunis October 22, 2011.



Chile's Daniela Caram (L) celebrates a goal against Mexico with teammate Josefina Khamis (R) in their Group B women's field hockey match at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara October 23, 2011



Girls wave their scarves during an awareness rally for breast cancer in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh October 22, 2011. The rally was held to promote breast cancer awareness and support the fight against it.

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Audrey Jackson waits in her car seat as Lauren Jackson kisses her husband, Captain Benjamin Jackson of the 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, after a welcome home ceremony celebrating his return from a yearlong tour in Afghanistan, at Fort Drum, New York, October 21, 2011



An officer cadet stands on parade with cap askew before the arrival of Queen Elizabeth at the Royal Military College in Canberra October 22, 2011. Queen Elizabeth is in Australia for an eleven-day official visit.



Protesters and members of Occupy Wall Street wait for the start of the march, during an annual demonstration calling for a stop to police brutality in New York October 22, 2011.



A municipal worker paints over graffiti reading "ETA, The People Are With You" in Guernica October 21, 2011, the day after Basque separatist group ETA announced a definitive cessation of armed activity.

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The hands of a dead man are seen on a sidewalk in Mazatlan, Mexico, October 22, 2011. A man was shot dead outside his home by two gunmen, according to local media.

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Jorge Santiago, left, and Joe Morales of the New England Barbers Association give free haircuts to volunteers Richard Hirsh, left, and C.J. Holm, who wear capes bearing the names of large financial institutions, in front of Occupy Wall Street headquarters at Zuccotti Park in New York, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. The stunt involving a half-dozen barbers was designed to call attention to the banking term.



Sporting a "99%" haircut himself, barber Steve Vilot, of Sims Barbers in Pittsfield, Mass., gives a haircut to Joe Arbini at Occupy Wall Street headquarters in front of Zuccotti Park on Monday in New York City.



Some barbers descended on New York's Occupy Wall Street protest — cutting hair while suggesting bankers "take a haircut."

That's a banking term meaning adjusting a loan.

On Monday afternoon, the half dozen barbers set up chairs on Broadway. Each wore a top with the name of a big financial institution.

Barber Steve Vilot (vee-LOH') says he hopes the free haircuts inspire banks to ease the debts of families in danger of losing their homes.

Michael Kink heads the Stronger Economy for All Coalition.

He says banks are happy to "take a haircut" when it comes to the privileged 1 percent. But he says Wall Street could jump-start the economy with cuts for the other 99 percent.

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Photographer Jeff Berkes' picture of an Orionid meteor streak over Elverson, Pa., also features autumn leaves

The Orionid meteor shower is one of the highlights of the fall season for skywatchers, generally sparking up to 15 meteor sightings an hour during its peak on Oct. 21-22



An internally displaced girl from Bara looks through a scarf covering her face while sitting amid other women waiting to be registered at the Jalozai camp, supported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province on October 24. Families continue to evacuate Bara on Monday as the Pakistan army geared up for an operation against militants in the Khyber tribal region, local media reported.

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A man, center, holds the body of his daughter, killed in an earthquake, before her burial at a cemetery in Ercis, October 24, 2011

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European Track Cycling Championships 2011 - Holland





Ed Clancy of Team GB going in the scratch race of his omnium competition



Jason Kenny, centre, lines up for his keirin semi-final. He just failed to qualify for the final

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Riders in the men's omnium scratch race



Laura Trott is all smiles after winning the 500m time trial and thus winning the gold medal in the women's omnium. Ernie the mechanic holds the bike



Coaches push off the women at the start in the 1st semi-final of the keirin

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Matt Crampton sits just behind the motorbike on his way to winning the men's keirin final



Victoria Pendleton wins the women's keirin final



She's all smiles at the presentation

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Q awards 2011



Russell Kane



Tom Meighan and Sergio Pizzorno of Kasabian

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Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland and Guy Berryman of Coldplay



Noel Gallagher