World News in Pictures

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Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on board a Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train and a baby held by a mother touch through the window at Koriyama railway station, northern Japan, Nov. 6, after delivering a speech to Fukushima residents racked with the aftermath of the March 11 tsunami and radiation damage caused by the accident at Fukushima nuclear power plant.



Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama (L) is welcomed by tsunami survivors and relatives of victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami as he arrives in Ishinomaki



Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama comforts a kindergarden child, who lost his parents in the tsunami caused by the March 11 earthquake, as he visits Saikoji temple to hold a memorial service for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki, northern Japan, Nov. 5. An estimated 15,800 people died in the earthquake and tsunami

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Mina, Saudi Arabia: Muslim pilgrims cast stones at a pillar, symbolising the stoning of the devil, in a ritual called Jamarat, the last rite of the annual hajj



Ayutthaya, Thailand: A partially submerged Buddha overgrown by a Bodhi tree in the ruins of Wat Mahathat temple

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Pomona, US: National Socialist Movement members hold a rally against illegal immigration in California. The neo-Nazis were outnumbered by counter-protesters



Helmand, Afghanistan: US flight medic sergeant Megan Ford helps a severely wounded Afghan elder during an airlift



Bangkok, Thailand: A wave of floodwater caused by road traffic strikes a family's newly made flood barrier

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$1m artwork damaged by cleaner

The cleaner had been told to keep at least 20cm away from the art


An art installation worth more than $1m (£624,000) has been damaged by an overzealous cleaner who tried to scrub away a deliberate patina.


The patina was meant to look like a puddle beneath a rubber trough placed under a stacked tower of wooden slats.

Artist Martin Kippenberger's When It Starts Dripping From the Ceiling remains on display in Dortmund's Ostwall Museum, where the damage occurred.

The work is on loan to the museum.

The private collector who owns the installation by Kippenberger - who died in 1997 - has agreed that it remain on display despite the incident.

Dortmund city spokesperson Dagmar Papajewski said it had not been decided whether the patina would be restored.

"It will be up to the collector to decide," Ms Papajewski told AP. "We can't consult Kippenberger about it

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Bus crash in Hurghada, Egypt, kills 11 Hungarian tourists



The driver is believed to have lost control as he drove at high speed along a ring road leading to Hurghada's airport, the Mena news agency reported.

The crash also injured 27 Hungarian tourists, including four children.

Poor road conditions and lax enforcement of traffic laws are blamed for a high accident rate in Egypt.

The bus was carrying the tourists from their hotel to the airport when the accident happened, officials said.

Hurghada is located on the Red Sea coast, about 500km (300 miles) southeast of Cairo.

The accident took place on the first day of Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, when many Egyptians and tourists head to Red Sea resorts.

Police estimate road accidents kill about 6,000 people annually in the nation with a population of about 82 million.

Eight US tourists were killed in a bus crash last December near the southern city of Aswan.

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Floods in France and Italy

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Greeks agree coalition government without Papandreou


George Papandreou had already made clear his willingness to step aside

Greek leaders at crisis talks in Athens have agreed to form a new national unity government, the president's office says.

Beleaguered Prime Minister George Papandreou will step aside and his successor will be chosen on Monday, the statement said.

He and main opposition leader Antonis Samaras attended Sunday's talks, hosted by President Karolos Papoulias.

The announcement follows a week of turmoil over Greece's debt crisis.

Once the new leader has been named, the president will invite parties to join the new government, the statement said.

The plan envisages elections once an EU bailout package has been approved.
Mr Papandreou had been trying to build a national unity government to replace his Pasok party administration, but Mr Samaras, of the New Democracy party, had been refusing to negotiate unless his rival resigned first.

The two men also disagreed sharply on the timing of new elections, with Mr Papandreou seeking a delay of several months while Mr Samaras wanted them immediately.

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Occupy Oakland leads protests in the US

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IBF Super Middleweight champion Lucian Bute of Romania punches Glen Johnson of Jamaica during their IBF Super Middleweight championship fight at the Colisee de Quebec in Quebec City, Nov. 5, 2011. Bute won the fight.



QUEBEC CITY - Montreal fighter Lucian Bute successfully defended his IBF super-middleweight title with a one-sided decision over Glen Johnson on Saturday night.

The 31-year-old Bute improved to 30-0, winning all 12 rounds on two judges' cards and 11 of 12 on the other in front of a crowd of 15,306 at the Colisee.

"It was a great fight and a great performance for me," said Bute, born in Romania.

"Glen Johnson is a great fighter. To beat him, you have to avoid the jab. I did that and I tried to out-jab him. I have to be able to beat guys like him."

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Maintenance workers inspect the damage to one of the spires on Benedictine Hall at St. Gregory's University in Shawnee, Okla. on Nov. 6, 2011. Two earthquakes in the area in less than 24 hours caused one of the towers to topple, and damaged the remaining three.

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These pictures are incredible. For those of us who ride, we know it’s particularly amazing that nobody was seriously injured. I wonder how much the Simoncelli tribute might have been on everyone’s mind as the racers entered the first turn. I’ve always thought that riding a motorcycle is a little like swimming. It’s difficult to do if you think about the mechanics of it and are worried about the danger






Ducati rider Nicky Hayden from US, slides through the gravel on the first turn



Casey Stoner steers his Honda to victory during Spain's Valencia Motorcycle Grand Prix on Nov. 6, 2011.

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'Carlos the Jackal' faces new French bomb attack trial

Ilich Ramirez Sanchez said recently he is in "combative mood"
the Jackal" has gone on trial in Paris over four bomb attacks in the early 1980s that killed 11 people.


"Carlos", a Venezuelan whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is appearing before a panel of magistrates who will rule on the terrorism-related charges.
The 62-year-old is already serving a life sentence in France for the murder of two policemen in 1975.

He was captured by French special forces in Sudan in 1994.

By the time of his capture, he had earned global notoriety as a mastermind of fatal bomb attacks, assassinations and hostage-takings.

His most infamous act was leading a raid in Vienna in 1975, when his group took 11 ministers of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) hostage.

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Light 'promising' in cancer fight

By James Gallagher Health reporter, BBC News

Can light cure cancer?

Light is a "promising" tool in the fight against cancer, say researchers in the US.
A study, published in Nature Medicine, showed how a drug could be created which sticks to tumours, but is then only activated when hit by specific waves of light.
It means a treatment can be highly targeted and not damage the surrounding tissue.

A cancer charity said the treatment showed early promise.

Currently, treatments for cancer can be separated into three categories: blasting it with radiation, surgically removing a tumour or using drugs to kill the cancerous cells. All have side effects and scientists are trying to come up with more precise therapies.

In this study, researchers at the National Cancer Institute, Maryland, used an antibody which targets proteins on the surface of cancerous cells.

They then attached a chemical, IR700, to the antibody. IR700 is activated when it is hit by near infrared light. This wavelength of light can penetrate several centimetres into the skin.

This potential treatment has promise” Laura McCallum Cancer Research UK

To test the antibody-chemical combination, researchers implanted tumours, squamous cell carinoma, into the backs of mice. They were given the drug and exposed to near infrared light.

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Britain ranks below Peru in a new analysis by one of the world’s biggest fund managers of the risk to investors who buy government bonds. Norway, Sweden and Switzerland are the least risky bond issuers among 44 countries analysed in the BlackRock Sovereign Risk Index. At the other end of the scale, also in descending order, Egypt, Portugal and Greece are reckoned to be the most risky.
Britain falls near the middle of this new world order, ranking directly below Russia, China, Czech Republic, Israel and Peru. Some small comfort may be taken from the fact that gilts issued by the British Government are reckoned to be a better bet than bonds issued by France, the Philipines and Poland; which rank directly below Britain.

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Struggling families were told to brace to expect the average cost of unleaded petrol to rise from an average of £1.34.8 today to £1.54 [ per litre] within four years.
Experts said this would the cost of filling up a Ford Mondeo, which has a 70-litre tank, will rise from just over £93 to nearly £108.
After a brief respite, fuel costs will rise again within a few months amid surging demand from booming Asia economies, which are expected to trigger a boom in oil markets, according to forecasters at the Ernst & Young ITEM Club.

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Cape Town, South Africa: A couple watch the sunset over the remains of the stranded Turkish bulk carrier MV Seli. The ship ran aground in September 2009 and has since broken up



Bangkok, Thailand: Buddhist monks wash a funeral pavilion as floodwater starts to recede near the Chao Praya river



San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala: Voters line up to cast their ballots during the presidential runoff election

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Oz Zion, West Bank: A Jewish settler looks for his belongings in the rubble after Israeli security forces demolished three structures in the illegal outpost near the city of Ramallah



New York, US: Runners cross the Verrazano-Narrows bridge towards Brooklyn at the start of the ING New York City marathon

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Leaflets dropped by helicopter fall onto a market in the Paynesville Red Light neighbourhood during a final campaign rally for incumbent Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in the capital Monrovia, November 6, 2011.



Passengers ride on top of an overcrowded train at a railway station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 6, 2011.



Anti-government protesters run away from tear-gas fired by riot police during a demonstration after a funeral procession at Daih village, Manama, Bahrain, November 4, 2011



Residents travel on a boat as a bus drives on a flooded street in Bangkok,

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A bodyfitness category participant prepares backstage before the third "Strongo Cup" open amateur bodybuilding and body fitness tournament at the Opera and ballet theatre in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, November 5, 2011.



An Occupy Wall Street campaign demonstrator sits covered in a blanket in Zuccotti Park, near Wall Street in New York,



Programmes to mark Alex Ferguson's 25th year as Manchester United manager await fans in the stands before their English Premier League match against Sunderland at Old Trafford in Manchester, northern England, November 5, 2011.



People run after a flood alarm went off in downtown Genoa, November 5, 2011

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A worker puts up an election poster of Socialist prime ministerial candidate Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba on the first day of the electoral campaign in the Andalusian capital of Seville, Spain, November 4, 2011.



Bejewelled brides attend a mass marriage ceremony in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, India, November 6, 2011



A labourer rests on piles of plastic bottles at a recycling centre in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China, November 6, 2011



An opposition fighter opens fire into the air to show anger during the funeral of a comrade killed during recent clashes with security forces in the southern city of Taiz, Yemen, November 4, 2011.



Ukrainian ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is seen through a prison window in Kiev, November 4, 2011



A man affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement is arrested outside the New York City Supreme Court in New York, November 5, 2011.



Residents and rescue workers search for survivors after a landslide caused by heavy rains, in Manizales, Colombia, November 6, 2011



A streaker runs on the pitch during the German Bundesliga first division soccer match between Bayern Munich and Augsburg in Augsburg, Germany, November 6, 2011



An image released by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) shows Israeli soldiers boarding one of the two Gaza-bound boats carrying pro-Palestinian activists in the Mediterranean Sea, November 4, 2011.

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Greece Prepares to Pick New Prime Minister
Prime Minister George Papandreou arrives for a cabinet meeting in Athens. Greek leaders are set to pick a new Prime Minister and push through the bailout before Greece runs out of money in mid-December.



Spell It Out
Thousands take part in a Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline demonstration next to the White House. Pipeline opponents say extracting crude from sand emits three times more carbon than conventional oil production.

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Grateful to Walk Out
Residents carry their belongings out of the area as workers search for survivors in Manizales, Colombia. At least 29 people were killed after a landslide caused by heavy rains.



Cruising
A Thai man drives his motorcycle through floodwaters in Bangkok. Hundreds of thousands of people were told to evacuate but chose to stay despite risks including electrocution and disease.

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Penn State Reeling Over Child Abuse Scandal
Former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky is placed in a police car in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Joe Paterno's former longtime assistant is accused of sexually abusing eight boys.



A Strange Homecoming
A Libyan puts a teddy bear he found in the rubble of his destroyed house in front of a burned car for a picture in Sirte. Sirte was the hometown of the late Muammar Gaddafi.



Here's Your Crown
Miss Venezuela, Ivian Sarcos, reacts after winning Miss World 2011 at Earls Court in London, England on November 6, 2011.

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Significant to Both Sides
Palestinian girls walk towards Israeli soliders following prayers at the Ibrahimi Mosque, a religious site important to both Muslims and Jews, on the first day of Eid al-Adha in the West Bank city of Hebron



Two Forms of Transportation
Pakistani men hold a camel from the back of a car after buying it in an animal market in Lahore on November 6, 2011.



Flash Floods Devastate Italy
Cars and scooters are piled up among the debris in Genoa, Italy. Italian officials have issued more flood warnings as torrential rains continue to hit the country.

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Ash discolors the sea after an eruption of an underwater volcano off the coast of El Hierro in the Canary Islands in southwestern Spain on Sunday, Nov. 6. The Spanish Geographical Institute reported on Nov. 7 that it recorded 15 seismic tremors in the last 24 hours.