World News in Pictures

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A police officer stands near the dead body of a man lying on a sofa at a drug rehabilitation center in the outskirts of Torreon, Mexico, June 3, 2012.



The computer terminal number 25 where Canadian murder suspect Luka Rocco Magnotta was identified in an internet cafe in Berlin, June 4, 2012. Magnotta, suspected of murdering and dismembering a Chinese student in Montreal, was arrested in an internet cafe on Karl Marx Strasse, a busy shopping street running through the multi-cultural south-Berlin district, which is home to numerous Turkish and Lebanese cafes and snack bars



Coal miners run during confrontations with the riot Civil Guard after setting an incendiary device to a barricade near highway A-66 in Vega del Rey, near Oviedo, northern Spain, June 4, 2012.

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NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 04: Socialite Paris Hilton arrives at a New York courthouse on June 4, 2012 in New York City. Hilton is in court over a dispute stemming from a failed business deal with Italian lingerie company Le Bonitas.

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Participants of a jet ski tournament ride through the canal of Corinth, connecting Peloponeese with mainland Greece on Tuesday

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An extreme ultraviolet picture of the sun from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the planet Venus in transit, as well as dramatic swirls of solar activity



Venus can be seen at top right, beginning to cross the face of the sun, in a picture of the transit taken from Manhattan's West Side.



Love the 'i'll risk one eye' lady at the back






Robert Wetzel sent in this picture of the Venus transit from San Diego, using msnbc.com's FirstPerson photo-sharing tool. The picture was taken using a Celestron G5 telescope and a Nikon D300 camera with a solar filter. Focal length is approximately 1875mm

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Participants celebrate after creating the world record for the category of "Most Participants in a Multi-legged Race" in a riverside park in Taipei on Tuesday. A group of 450 tourists from Japan's Junior Chamber International and 152 Taiwanese youth jointly created a new world record in a 603-legged race

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The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team fly in formation over Buckingham Palace as The Royal family stand on the balcony on June 5, in London, England. For only the second time in its history the UK celebrates the Diamond Jubilee of a monarch. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II celebrates the 60th anniversary of her ascension to the throne. Thousands of wellwishers from around the world have flocked to London to witness the spectacle of the weekend's celebrations.



Metropolitan police officers encourage Royal supporters to cheer before Britain's Queen Elizabeth II Carriage Procession from Westminster Hall to Buckingham Palace in London, Britain, on June 5. The British Royal Family's procession followed a national service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral, a reception at Guildhall and a lunch at Westminster Hall. This is the final day of the Diamond Jubilee weekend celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne.

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Residents vote shortly after the polls opened in the Wisconsin recall election at the Beloit Historical Society on June 5, in Beloit, Wisconsin. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, a Democrat, is trying to unseat Republican Governor Scott Walker in the recall election. Opponents of Walker forced a recall election after the governor pushed to change the collective bargaining process for public employees in the state.




People wait in line for voting to open on June 5, in Milwaukee. Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker is taking on Democratic challenger Tom Barrett in a recall election



Gubernatorial candidate and Milwaukee's Democratic Mayor Tom Barrett lines up to vote at the French Immersion School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 5. Wisconsin voters will decide on Tuesday whether to throw Governor Scott Walker out of office in a rare recall election forced by opponents of the Republican's controversial effort to curb collective bargaining for most unionized government workers.

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People walk in front of a wall sprayed with graffiti, depicting the ruling military council controlling the presidential elections as a puppet show and a mural depicting presidential candidate and former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq (L), former presidential candidate Amr Moussa and Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi near Tahrir Square during a demonstration in Cairo on June 5. Activists urged Egyptians to turn out for a big protest on Tuesday to reclaim a revolt they say has been hijacked after Hosni Mubarak was jailed for life but top security officials freed in a trial seen as a sign his old guard remain in charge.

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Crisis in Syria




Bodies of people whom anti-government protesters say were killed by gunmen loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad lie on the floor near the town of Qusair, May 31, 2012.



The wreckage of a bus carrying officers and soldiers is pictured after an explosion on a road in Aleppo, May 28, 2012



Dead bodies, whom anti-government protesters say were killed by government security forces, are seen placed on a vehicle belonging to the United Nations observers' mission in Syria in Huola, near Homs, May 26, 2012



Members of the Syrian Free Army speaks to a person believed to be a member of the United Nations observers mission in Syria, near the bodies of whom anti-government protesters say were killed by government security forces, at Ali Bin Al Hussein mosque in Huola, near Homs, May 26, 2012

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I may be offline for a few days as i am travelling. Will catch up with events asap.

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The transit of Venus across the Sun. June 5th.

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The bodies of 21 army and law-enforcement martyrs on Wednesday were escorted from the military hospitals of Tishreen in Damascus, Zahi Azraq in Lattakia and Deir Ezzor to their final resting place. Solemn funeral processions were held for the martyrs who were martyred in the line of duty in Damascus, Damascus Countryside, Daraa, Idleb, Deir Ezzor, Lattakia, Homs, and Hama

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Singer Carrie Underwood performs at the 2012 CMT Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee June 6, 2012.



Singer Eric Church performs at the 2012 CMT Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee June 6, 2012.

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A kayaker rides the biggest bore tide of the summer as it roared into Turnagain Arm south of Anchorage, Alaska, on Tuesday



The biggest bore tide of the summer roared into Turnagain Arm south of Anchorage, Alaska, on Tuesday, June 5, 2012. Here a kayaker awaits the bore tide to ride it. Bore tides can happen all over the world, but Anchorage's Turnagain Arm and Knik Arms are the only places in the United States where they occur regularly, according to Michael Lawson a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Anchorage.

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Sightseers brave treacherous conditions at Bronte Beach on Wednesday in Sydney, Australia. Wind speeds of up to 127km/h were recorded last night as Sydney was lashed by wild weather caused by the arrival of a low pressure system. A high tide and a large swell is heightening the risk of sand erosion at local beaches on the New South Wales coast.

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Daniel Bowley, left, hugs his sister after Aaron Deveau, 18, seated at right, was found guilty in Haverhill District Court in Haverhill, Mass., June 6, 2012, on charges of motor vehicle homicide while texting. Authorities said the then-17-year-old Deveau was texting when he crossed the center line of a Haverhill street on Feb. 20, 2011 and crashed into a vehicle driven by Daniel's father, Donald Bowley, of Danville, N.H., who died 18 days later in the hospital.

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A flotilla surrounds NASA space shuttle Enterprise as it is carried by barge up the Hudson River on route to its permanent home at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on June 6, in New York City. The Enterprise, only used for atmospheric testing, will be hoisted by crane onto the flight deck of the retired Intrepid aircraft carrier. The Enterprise's original move-in date was Tuesday but bad weather had delayed preparation work.

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A music group performs on a path amid fields to greet the farmers at Hwanggumpyong Island, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju and the Chinese border city of Dandong on June 6.

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U.S. World War II veteran Clarence "Mac" Evans, 87, from West Virginia, who landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944, with the 29th Infantry Division, walks among the graves at the Colleville American military cemetery in Colleville sur Mer, western France, on June 6, before the start of the ceremony commemorating the 68th anniversary of the D-Day. Evans was searching for the tombs of 17 of his fellows who died on D-Day.

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Solar Impulse pilots Bertrand Piccard, center, celebrates with Andre Borschberg, right, and Mustapha Bakkoury, president of the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy upon arrival at Rabat airport, Morocco on Tuesday.



Reuters reports: A solar energy plane landed in Morocco on Tuesday, completing the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the sun to show the potential for pollution-free air travel.

Shortly before Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard landed in Rabat's airport, the project co-founder and pilot Andre Borschberg said the aircraft has proved its sustainability. "The aircraft can now fly day and night. It's quite a show ... It's a technology we can trust," he told reporters

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Malkiya, Bahrain: anti-government protesters throw petrol bombs toward riot police

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David Cameron and his Norwegian counterpart Jens Stoltenberg during a trip to Oslo. Cameron and Stoltenberg are visiting Angela Merkel in Berlin later. Cameron said that Norway and Britain have proper and credible plans for deficit reduction



Stills from a video allegedly shows the bodies of people killed near Hama, Syria. Opposition forces have accused the Syrian government of a new massacre of possibly up to a 100 people, hours before a UN security council convenes to review the crisis. The killings will pile pressure on world powers to act, although Russia and China are opposed to any kind of outside intervention



Another day and another person incredibly excited to be holding the Olympic torch. On Thursday, it was the turn of comedian Patrick Kielty who has the task of carrying the flame between Newcastle and Downpatrick

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A man rests at his damaged house in Homs, Syria, June 5, 2012.



Policemen smoke after a blast outside Taiyanggong Thermal Power Plant owned by the Jing Neng group, in Beijing, June 6, 2012. The blast ripped through the thermal power plant killing two women and injuring another, according to local authorities and witnesses



Israeli police officers detain youths taking part in a protest in Jerusalem after the rejection of a bill in parliament, June 6, 2012.




A Palestinian firefighter gestures at the scene of an explosion in a market in Gaza City, June 6, 2012. Medics said one person was wounded seriously in the explosion when an oxygen tank blew up.



Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to Myanmar Muslims leaders at the National League for Democracy head office in Yangon, Myanmar, June 6, 2012.

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Five men and a teenager are jailed for between 18 and 30 years after police were "lured" to a pub fire and shot at during riots in Birmingham.

Twelve shots were fired at police after a petrol bomb attack on the Bartons Arms in Aston.

The West Midlands force helicopter was also shot at.

Judge William Davis QC said the aim of the disorder was to draw police to the pub in order to attack them.

He said: "Members of the group attacked the building. They smashed windows, they went inside and ransacked the premises. They threw chairs and tables out on to the pavement.

"Other members of the group stayed on the pavement outside the building. Some threw missiles, bottles and the like, at a passing police car. Others lit petrol bombs that had been brought to the scene.

"The purpose of all this was not to loot or to steal. Nor was it mindless vandalism.

The purpose, the common purpose, was to behave in such a way that the police would come to the scene and then to attack the police."

The lives of pub staff and customers were put at risk in the blaze, the court heard.

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Greek far-right Golden Dawn MP wanted for assault



Greek prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for the spokesman of the far-right Golden Dawn party after he slapped a left-wing politician in the face on live television.

Ilias Kasidiaris, who was elected to Greece's parliament in last month's elections, was debating with two female politicians on a chat show.

Video footage shows him throwing a glass of water at one of the women.

When the other intervened, he slapped her in the face three times.