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Italy coach crash: At least 38 dead near Avellino





The BBC's Alan Johnson says the coach was "badly out of control"


A coach has plunged off a flyover in southern Italy leaving at least 38 people dead, rescue services say.

The coach hit several vehicles before smashing through a parapet and toppling down a steep slope near the town of Avellino, in the Campania region.

At least nine people have been injured, some of them seriously, Italian media report.

The coach was taking about 50 people, including children, back to Naples following a pilgrimage, reports say.

The cause of the accident is not clear.

TV footage showed smashed vehicles on the flyover and shrouded bodies lined up by the side of a road.



The driver of the coach is said to be among the dead.

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Two Polish nuns watch people bathing as hundreds of thousands of young Catholic pilgrims begin to attend World Youth Day at Copacabana beach during the pope's visit



Pyongyang, North Korea: Veterans of the Korean war wave to their leader Kim Jong-un during a mass military parade in Kim Il-sung Square to mark the 60th anniversary of the Korean war armistice



Cairo, Egypt: A streak of dried blood on the ground where supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi were killed in fighting between pro-Morsi demonstrators and Egyptian security forces

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Taipei, Taiwan: Participants arrange their facial masks after 1,213 people broke the Guinness World Record by applying facial masks for 10 minutes at the same time



Lima, Peru: A demonstrator is arrested by the police during a protest by students and workers

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Italy coach crash: many dead and injured as bus plunges off road - more pics



A coach filled with Italians returning home after an excursion plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy after it had smashed into several cars that were slowed by heavy traffic, killing at least 37 people, said police and rescuers.






The radio report said 11 people were hospitalized with injuries, two of them in very critical condition. It was not immediately known if there were other survivors or any missing.

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In its plunge, the bus tore away whole sections of concrete barriers as well as guardrail. The concrete lay in large chunks in a clearing in a wooded area where the bus landed.

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Deadly Egypt clashes































A mixture of pro and anti-Morsi protesters

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Brompton World Folding Bike Championships

The Brompton World Championships took place at the Orbital cycling festival this weekend. The race kicks off with a Le Mans-style dash to the bikes, which are assembled and raced over a 15km course. Dress code is jacket and tie, with a prize for the most stylish competitor

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A veteran of the 2011 championships displays his medal

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A youth rides a horse in the river Arges near Bucharest as temperatures reached 40C southwest Romania.



Prince Charles tries an oyster at the Whitstable Oyster Festival in Kent. The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall were visiting Whitstable and Chatham Dockyard as part of a tour of Kent.

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Tilda Swinton with fans on the red carpet of the world premiere of her movie Snowpiercer in Seoul, South Korea.



Kashmiri government employees are sprayed with purple dye from a police water cannon during a demonstration in Srinagar. They were protesting over contracts and for a pay rise.

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Smoke billows from burning hillsides in Vallirana, near Barçelona, Spain.



Burning bright: An activist with a painted face takes part in a protest against the Sumatran tiger trade on Global Tiger Day, in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Thai soldiers in white biohazard suits take part in a clean-up operation at Ao Prao Beach on Koh Samet. Crude oil that leaked from a pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand over the weekend has reached the Thai tourist resort, pipeline operator PTT Global Chemical said today. Around 50,000 litres of the oil poured into the sea on Saturday 12 miles off the coast of Rayong, southeast of the capital Bangkok.


A woman is arrested at an anti-fracking protest at the Cuadrilla site in Balcombe, Sussex, England.

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Women make their way past the site of a car bomb explosion in Basra, Iraq. A wave of over a dozen car bombings hit central and southern Iraq this morning, officials said, killing many people.



Workers tend to grass on a lawn at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun mausoleum in Pyongyang, manicuring lawns the size of a football field with a pair of tweezers. The gardens form one of the most sacred sites in North Korea hosting the embalmed bodies of Kim Il-sung and his son and successor Kim Jong-il.



Hot snack: a man has a meal at a small table placed in the Hanjiang river in Wuhan, China, as temperatures reach 37C

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Riot policemen protect a man, that was accused of trying to hit a Buddhist monk, as a monk tries to punch him after an incident at a polling station, in which voters protested against alleged election irregularities, in Phnom Penh July 28, 2013. Cambodians voted on Sunday in an election likely to hand another five years in power to Asia's longest-serving prime minister, Hun Sen, but an energised opposition says there have been irregularities and it will continue to fight for true democracy



A riot police officer orders a news photographer to move away during an anti-government protest in central Istanbul July 28, 2013

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Participants get ready to apply facial masks in Taipei July 28. 2013. A total of 1213 people broke the Guinness World Record by applying facial masks for 10 minutes at the same time on Sunday, according to event organizers.



A demonstrator holds a lighted flare during a protest to demand the ouster of the Islamist-dominated government, outside the Constituent Assembly headquarters in Tunis July 28, 2013.

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People look at a tanker after it fell into a caved-in area on a road in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, July 27, 2013. No casualty was reported in the accident, according to local media.



Norway's Solveig Gulbrandsen reacts after losing their women's Euro 2013 final soccer match against Germany at Friend's Arena in Stockholm July 28, 2013

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A child plays in front of riot policemen along a street during a protest against President Ollanta Humala's government on Peru's Independence Day in Lima July 28, 2013.



Visitors crowd an artificial wave pool at a tourist resort to escape the summer heat in Daying county of Suining, Sichuan province, July 27, 2013



Tourists drive their Mini Hot Rod cars, produced by small carmaker Wenckstern, during a tour in Berlin July 27, 2013. A Berlin company offers city tours with the cars to landmarks

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Great Britain's Richard Whitehead gestures while crossing the finish line to win the men's 200m T42 event during the London 'Anniversary Games' International Para Challenge athletics meeting at the Olympic Stadium, in east London July 28, 2013. The venue is where the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games were held one year ago



Crew members of ship "Georg Stage" of Denmark stay on the yards as they leave port during the Tall Ships Races event in Riga July 28, 2013. According to organizers, more than 100 different-sized sail ships visited Riga and about 1.5 million spectators attended this four-day event



Palestinians chant slogans during a protest against resuming peace talks with Israel, in Gaza City July 28, 2013. Israel was expected on Sunday to approve releasing more than 100 Arab prisoners as a step to renew stalled peace talks with the Palestinians ahead of plans to convene negotiators in Washington later this week.

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Clergy gather for Pope Francis' final mass on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, July 28, 2013. Pope Francis, in a stunningly candid assessment of the state of the Catholic Church, said on Saturday it should look in the mirror and ask why so many people are leaving the faith of their fathers.

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How did the praying mantis cross the pond? On the back of a frog! This clever insect didn't fancy getting its feet wet, so it jumped on top of a frog, who then obliged by wading across photographer Nordin Seruvan's shallow pond in his back garden in Borneo, Indonesia.....

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The new BMW i3 is unveiled in Old Billingsgate Market, London. The vehicle is one of BMW's 'i' branded electric and hybrid-powered cars



A member of the Mongolian Armed Forces Orchestra takes a photo with his iPhone 5 as he watches the New Zealand Army Band peform at the launch of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Against the backdrop of Edinburgh Castle, this year's tattoo will take place between August 2-24.

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Indian Hindu devotees representing Potharaju, brother of the goddess Mahankali, dance in the streets during the Bonalu festival at the Sri Ujjaini Mahakali Temple in Secunderabad, India



A hippo at Belgrade Zoo strains to catch a melon whilst still chewing on a lettuce