World News in Pictures

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Celebrations around the nation as the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and declined to rule on California's Prop 8, legalizing same-sex marriage in the state

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Rufus the Hawk wears his new hood in Wimbledon colours while on patrol to deter pigeons on Centre Court with his handler Imogen Davies during day four of the Wimbledon Championships



Glastonbury Festival-goers at the stone circle at dawn.



Not a morning person? Try inhaling laughing gas for a boost.

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President Barack Obama waves to onlookers as he arrives in Dakar, Senegal on the first stop of a week-long three nation visit of Africa

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Kevin Rudd is sworn in to the role of Prime Minister of Australia, by the Governor-General Quentin Bryce at a ceremony at Government House, Canberra. Kevin Rudd won the Australian Labor Party leadership ballot 57-45 last night

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Supporters of Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) wave during the start of the general election campaign in Phnom Penh



Excess air bags: Cambodian people ride a motorcycle overloaded with cushions in Phnom Penh

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Protests flare in Brazil



Demonstrators run as riot police fire tear gas during clashes at a protest on the streets of Belo Horizonte June 26, 2013. Tens of thousands of Brazilians have taken to the streets this month in the biggest protests in 20 years, fuelled by an array of grievances ranging from poor public services to the high cost of World Cup soccer stadiums and corruption

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Motorcycles burnt by demonstrators are pictured near Mineirao stadium after an anti-government protest in Belo Horizonte June 26, 2013

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Mark Webber to leave Formula 1 at the end of 2013 season

Red Bull driver Mark Webber has decided to leave Formula 1 at the end of this season.

The 36-year-old Australian is joining Porsche's new sportscar programme and will compete in the classic Le Mans 24 Hours race for the German manufacturer.

Webber had options to stay in F1, either with Red Bull or another top team, but feels it is time to move on.

Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen, the 2007 world champion, is favourite to replace Webber, who made his F1 debut in 2002.

Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne are also options

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Uttarakhand after the floods

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Noses off: An actress walks on the cathedral steps stage during a preview for the opera Turandot by Puccini at the DomStufen open air festival in front of the Mariendom in Erfurt, central Germany



Crazy matching headgear at Glastonbury this afternoon



Protesters trying to climb over a wall in Manchester to get round the cordon created to stop protesters demonstrating outside the Chartered Institute of Housing during the visit of Lord Freud, a minister of state in the Department of Work and Pensions

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Kosovo Police splashed with paint clash with demonstrators in Pristina during a protest against the ratification of the agreement with Serbia in front of the Assembly and the Government of Kosovo



David Cameron arrives at a European Union leaders summit in Brussels today



Serena Williams leaps in the air as she celebrates a point

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Children run through the 'White Bouncy Castle' installation by artist William Forsythe in Berlin, Germany.

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Festival goers during a Rolling Stones flashmob at the Glastonbury. The Rolling Stones will be headlining the festival on Saturday night.

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People carry 95 balloons, to mark Nelson Mandela's upcoming 95th birthday, as they march and sing outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital



Lottie, 5, rides a Clydesdale Prancing Pony outside Hamleys toy shop. The pony retails for £850 and is predicted to be a top selling toy in store for Christmas 2013.



Tristan Robertson Jeyes, 2, drives a £250 pink Cadillac next to Jayla Silva, 3, on a £160 mini dodgem in Hamleys toy store

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Senegalese performers wait along the motorcade route as President Barack Obama arrives to meet with Senegal's President Macky Sall



Senegal President Macky Sall his wife Marieme Faye Sall welcome President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama at the presidential palace in Dakar

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Doreen Lawrence, mother of Stephen Lawrence, leaves the Home Office in London following a meeting with the Home Secretary, Theresa May.



People entering the grotto of the Rhone glacier in the central Alps of Switzerland. The glacier is protected by blankets at this time of the year to keep ice melting to a minimum



The sprawling hillside settlement of Larung Gar, home to Serthar Buddhist Institute, in the traditional Tibetan region of Kham. Thousands of tiny homes sprawl up a mountainside forming one of the world's largest Buddhist Institutes

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The guitarist from the band Lightningfan, Wang Hongbin, creates lightning with a Tesla Coil in their village outside Fuzhou in China's Fujian province. The Tesla Coil invented by Nikola Tesla in 1891 is a transformer that produces vast amounts of voltage at high frequencies that creates long bolts of electricity like lightening. Inventor and founding member of the band Wang Zengxiang, an electrical engineer made his first Tesla Coil in 2007 and afterwards formed his 10 member band who, whilst wearing ferro-alloy metal suits play guitars, violins and drums with bolts of lightening crackling from them and their instruments to the beat.



Julie Scott puts the final touches on a rocking horse, a souvenir to commemorate the birth of the Royal baby, at Royal Crown Derby, Derby. The rocking horse is going to be limited edition piece with 750 pieces available.

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Team Emirates sails their AC-72 racing yacht by the Golden Gate Bridge as they test out the course in preparation for the upcoming America's Cup competition on San Francisco Bay



A baby orangutan watches the 40th anniversary celebrations at the Singapore Zoo in Singapore



Members of the China National Acrobatic Troupe Circus perform at the Beiteddine Art Festival 2013 in Beiteddine, southeast of Beirut, Lebanon. The annual festival runs from 21 June to 10 August 2013.

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Competitors warm up in the main pool ahead of the preliminaries on day 2 of the 2013 USA Swimming National Championships and World Trials at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana



Riot police are engulfed with flames after a molotov cocktail was thrown at them during a demonstration against the government to demand changes in the public state education system in Santiago, Chile



Several times a day, shopkeepers swiftly pack up their food stalls and pull back their canopies to let a train pass through a food market in Maeklong, some 60 kilometers south-west of Bangkok.

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Mandela tributes at Pretoria hospital

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Protesters in Santiago, Chile

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Mourning Gandolfini



Mourners line up to try and gain admission to the Cathedral Church of St. John The Divine, where actor James Gandolfini's funeral will take place, in New York, June 27, 2013. Family, friends and fans of Gandolfini gathered at a Manhattan cathedral for his funeral on Thursday, a week after the 51-year-old star of the HBO television show "The Sopranos" died of a heart attack while visiting Rome.





Actor Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria Thomas arrive for funeral services of James Gandolfini outside the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York June 27, 2013.



Actor Steve Buscemi arrives for the funeral services of James Gandolfini outside the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York June 27, 2013

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