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A group of Pygmies from Cameroon's Baka tribe perform for Pope Benedict XVI in Cameroon

Pygmies from Cameroon's Baka tribe perform for the Pope in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde, before his departure for Angola.

A model presents a creation by designer Manish Arora, at the India Fashion Week in New Delhi

A model sports a creation by designer Manish Arora at the India Fashion Week in New Delhi.

New York skyline, pic credit: Gideon Glassman

Purple sky at night: New York is captured in all its glory, silhouetted against a dark sky.

Ashleigh Reid competes in long jump, Brisbane, Australia

Queensland's Ashleigh Reid competes in the women's heptathlon long jump event at the Australian athletics championships in Brisbane.

Poppy and soldier, Baqwa, Afghanistan

A US marine on patrol near a poppy field in south-west Afghanistan.

North, a little penguin, Sydney, Australia

North, an adult Little Penguin, is returned to the sea following a period of care at a wildlife hospital in Sydney, Australia.

US students protest in Washington DC

Students protest at the Dupont Circle fountain in Washington DC to mark the sixth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war.



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