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Up-in-the-air concert to mark 8th Cultural Visit event in Brazil

Source: Xinhua Published: May 07, 2012 14:31

Up-in-the-air concert to mark 8th Cultural Visit event in Brazil

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Workplace wedding

Source: Global Times Published: May 07, 2012 11:42

A photographer takes wedding pictures for a bride at the assembly line of a car company in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province Sunday. Thirteen pairs of newly-weds chose to shoot their wedding photos at their workplace. Photo: CFP

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Larger than life

Source: Global Times Published: May 07, 2012 11:40

The "supermoon" appears over Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, last night, when it was at its biggest and brightest this year. The moon arrived at its perigee, or the closest point to the Earth in its orbit Sunday. Photo: IC

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Hollande wins French presidential election

Source: Xinhua Published: May 07, 2012 10:46

France's Socialist Party's candidate Francois Hollande addresses supporters after he defeated incumbent French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday's decisive presidential runoff, in Tulle, southern France, May 6, 2012.

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Chinese embrace beginning of summer

Source: Xinhua Published: May 06, 2012 17:06

Children show their painted eggs during an activity featuring local folk custom at a kindergarten in Zibo, east China's Shandong Province, May 5, 2012. The activity was held Saturday by the kindergarten to celebrate "Li Xia", the beginning of the summer in Chinese Lunar Calendar.

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Lingering drought wreaks havoc in SW China's Guangxi

Source: Xinhua Published: May 06, 2012 16:44

A villager walks on the cracked paddy field in Batao Village of Tianlin County in Base City, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 5, 2012.

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London Olympic Stadium officially opened

Source: Xinhua Published: May 06, 2012 15:03

Sebastian Coe (R F), chairman of LOCOG presses the button with nine-year-old Niamh Clarke-Willis (L F) to officially open the Olympic Stadium during day two of the BUCS VISA Athletics Championships 2012 LOCOG Test Event for London 2012 at the Olympic Stadium on May 5, 2012 in London.

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"Super Moon" lights up night sky

Source: Xinhua Published: May 06, 2012 09:49

A full moon is seen in the photo taken with multi-exposure technique in Jerusalem on May 5, 2012. Saturday will see the rise of a full moon called the "Super Moon" when it arrives at its closest point to the Earth in 2012.

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Paying the price

Source: AFP Published: May 05, 2012 08:28

Shlomo (left), the father of Hagai Amir, who is the brother and key accomplice of the man who assassinated Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, walks past left-wing protesters protesting the release of his son outside Ayalon prison in Ramla near Tel Aviv on Friday. Amir was freed from prison after ...

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I see you

Source: AFP Published: May 05, 2012 08:20

An Iranian man casts his ballot next to a portrait of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a mosque used as a polling station in Tehran during the run-off parliamentary elections on Friday to decide 65 seats still outstanding in its 290-member legislature. The vote was seen as unlikely to change...

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