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A Thai "Red Shirt" anti-government protester sits as all others left the main stage after their leaders announced their surrender inside the protesters' camp in downtown Bangkok. - AFP

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A Thai protester surrenders during a crackdown by Thai soldiers on the Red Shirt anti-government protesters' camp in Bangkok, Thailand. - AFP

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A Thai "Red Shirt" anti-government protester smashes windows with a hammer outside the Central World shopping mall after their leaders announce their surrender in downtown Bangkok, Thailand. - AFP



 

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The body of the late Dr Goh Keng Swee, Singapore's former Deputy Prime Minister, lies in state in Parliament House. -

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Over 5,000 people turned up at Parliament House on Thursday to pay their last respects to Dr Goh Keng Swee, Singapore's former Deputy Prime Minister. -

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Over 5,000 people turned up at Parliament House on Thursday to pay their last respects to Dr Goh Keng Swee, Singapore's former Deputy Prime Minister. -



 

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Sevilla's players celebrate after winning the King’s Cup final match against Atletico Madrid at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona. Sevilla won 2-0. - AFP

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Redick #7 of the Orlando Magic lies on the court in pain against the Boston Celtics in Game Two of the Eastern Conference Finals during the 2010 NBA Playoffs at Amway Arena in Orlando, Florida. - AFP

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Australian Richie Porte celebrates with the overall leader's pink jersey following victory in the Tour of Italy 11th stage, a 262-kilometre ride from Lucera to L'Aquila, Italy. - AFP



 

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Thai police escort thousands of anti-government protesters out of a Buddhist temple where they had taken shelter following an army assault in downtown Bangkok. - AFP

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Firemen spray water on Thailand's biggest shopping mall - Central World - after it was set ablaze by anit-government protesters following an army assault in downtown Bangkok. - AFP

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Former South Korean soldiers tear a North Korean flag during a rally against Pyongyang in front of the Defense Ministry in Seoul. South Korea accused North Korea of firing a torpedo that sank a naval warship in March, killing 46 sailors. - AP


 

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Tearful Cambodians mark an annual "Day of Anger" with a re-enactment of Khmer Rouge crimes at a notorious "killing field", to commemorate their relatives killed by the ruthless regime. - AFP

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Policemen investigate at the Paris' Musee d'Art Moderne (Paris modern art museum) where five works, including paintings by modern masters Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, have been stolen. - AFP

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A Greenpeace campainer collects samples of oil in a bayou south of Venice, Louisiana, as crude oil oozes into fragile US marshlands. - AFP




 

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Demonstrators shout slogans in the centre of Thessaloniki, Greece, prior to a protest march marking a 24-hour general strike against pension reform and government spending cuts. - AFP

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British Airways cabin crew could go on strike from Monday after their union won an appeal against a court injunction which had prevented a planned stoppage from going ahead. - AFP

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Hundreds of supporters of Taiwan's major pro-independence opposition rally in the capital city as part of the party's efforts to stop the government from forging a trade pact with China. - AFP



 

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West Indies' wicketkeeper Andre Fletcher (L) looks on as South African batsman AB de Villiers hits a boundary during their second T20 match at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in St John's, Antigua and Barbuda. - AFP

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Russia's Alexei Tereshchenko (L) vies with Canada's Steve Stamkos during their IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship quarter-final match in the western German city of Cologne. - AFP

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Cyclist Lance Armstrong bleeds from a cut under his left eye after crashing during the fifth stage of the Tour of California cycling race. - AP


 

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Rescue personnel, volunteers and onlookers are seen near the smouldering wreckage of an Air India Boeing 737-800 aircraft which crashed upon landing in Mangalore on Saturday. - AFP

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Wreckage of an Air India plane that crashed in Mangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka on Saturday. - AP

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A survivor from the Air India Boeing 737-800 aircraft crash is wheeled into a hospital in Mangalore. - AFP


 

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) signs a copy of her book while touring the US Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 in Shanghai on Saturday. - AFP

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A Thai women embraces a Red Shirt anti-government protester as he arrives from Bangkok at the train station in Chiang Mai, Thailand. - AFP

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A Greenpeace environmentalist collects samples of oil in a bayou south of Venice, Louisiana. - AFP



 

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Protesters gather for a candlelight vigil to mark the month anniversary of the BP oil spill in New Orleans, Louisiana. - AFP

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US astronauts take their final space walk at the International Space Station to complete battery replacement work (top) and various other tasks before heading home. - AFP

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Fiat Yamaha team's rider Italian Valentino Rossi (foreground) signs autographs after a free practice session at Le Mans' circuit ahead of the MotoGP French Grand Prix. - AFP



 

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Romania's Alexandra Dulgheru returns the ball to China's Li Na during their semi-final match of the WTA Polsat Warsaw Open in Warsaw, Poland. - AFP

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Italy's Manuel Belletti (C) of the CSF team celebrates on the podium after winning the 13th stage (222km) in the 93rd Giro d'Italia cycling event from Porto Recanati to Cesenatico, Italy. - AFP

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English golfer Luke Donald watches his drive from the 2nd tee during the second day of the PGA Championship on the West Course at Wentworth, England. - AFP



 

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Civilians crowd around the tail of the Air India Express plane that crashed in Mangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. - AP

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Volunteers carry the lifeless body of the victim of the Air India Express plane crash at a mortuary in Mangalore. - AP

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A policeman walks past the collapsed section of Thailand's biggest shopping mall - Central World - in downtown Bangkok. - AFP



 

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A Thai soldier arranges war weapons that authorities discovered and seized from an area where anti-government protesters have occupied. - AP

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An oil-covered crab crawls past a blob of oil on the beach on Grand Isle, Louisiana. - AFP

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At least 19 people were killed and another 71 injured on Sunday when a train derailed in a mountainous area of east China after a landslide damaged the tracks. - AFP



 

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Citizens from the Kozanow district of Wroclaw run with sand bags to reinforce a barrier against the rising water of the Sleza river in Wroclaw. - AFP

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A David Feldman employee shows what is believed to be the world's most expensive stamp, the Swedish 'Treskilling Yellow - Error of Color'. - AP

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Inter Milan players celebrate after winning the UEFA Champions League final football match Inter Milan against Bayern Munich to clinch a historic treble. - AFP



 

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Blackpool's Billy Clarke (R) jumps to celebrate with teammate DJ Campbell (L) after beating Cardiff City during the 2010 Championship play-off final to gain promotion to the English Premier League. - AFP

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Russia's Maria Sharapova returns the ball to Germany's Kristina Barrois during their WTA tennis tournament final in Strabourg. - AFP

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Spain's David Arroyo Durán receives the traditional kiss from race hostess after conquering the pink jersey of leader of the race after the 14th stage of the Giro d'Italia, tour of Italy cycling race. - AP



 

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Singapore bids farewell to Dr Goh Keng Swee. The former Deputy Prime Minister was given a State Funeral at the Singapore Conference Hall on Sunday. -

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Forensic experts examine the wreckage of the Air India Express plane. - AP

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A father of a member of the cabin crew who died in the crashed Air India Express plane reacts during her daughter's cremation on the outskirts Mumbai. - AFP


 

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Thai school children and locals wash and sweep a road during a cleanup operation after Wednesday's Thai army assault on anti-government protesters in downtown Bangkok. - AP

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Chinese rescuers check the twisted wreckage of carriages of a train headed from Shanghai to the tourist city of Guilin, which derailed in Dongxiang county. - AFP

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In this image taken from NASA television, the space shuttle Atlantis, top left, moves away from the International Space Station after undocking. - AP


 

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An oil-covered pelican flaps its wings on an island in Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana. - AP

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Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul bags the top prize for his surreal reincarnation tale, "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives". - AFP

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French eighth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga requires five sets to see off the dangerous German Daniel Brands. - AP



 

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French football team strikers Thierry Henry (L) and Andre-Pierre Gignac compete during a buggy car race. Defender William Gallas has a mild accident during this race. - AFP

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World and Olympic triple gold medallist Usain Bolt launched his IAAF Diamond League campaign in Shanghai on Sunday with a comfortable 200m win in 19.76 seconds. - AFP

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Spain's Jorge Lorenzo, on a Yamaha, wins the French Grand Prix, the third race of the season, on Sunday to cement his lead in the MotoGP championship. - AP



 

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Residents and a foreigner (L) clean up Rama IV road in Bangkok, 2010 following anti-government protests. - AFP

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Sixteen Russian tourists were killed Tuesday when their bus plunged off a bridge and fell into a stream in Turkey's Mediterranean province of Antalya. - AFP

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Chinese President Hu Jintao (2nd R) shakes hands with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton alongside US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (L) during the opening session of the second round of the US-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. - AFP



 
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