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Friday, 28 December 2007, 13:44 GMT

Week in pictures: 22-28 December

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Thailand conducted its first general election since the September 2006 coup which ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra.

Pilgrim in the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem

Pilgrim in the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem

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Pilgrims marked Christmas Eve in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, reputed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ.

View of the Vatican - 25 December 2007

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Christians around the world marked Christmas Day, the traditional day of Jesus Christ's birth.

The search for people buried by landslides in central Java

The search for people buried by landslides in central Java

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Local people and rescue teams desperately searched for people buried by landslides in central Java, Indonesia.

Kenyan voter

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Polls opened across Kenya after a vigorous, and occasionally violent, campaign.

Benazir Bhutto waves to thousands of supporters at a campaign rally on 27 December 2007.

Benazir Bhutto waves to thousands of supporters at a campaign rally on 27 December 2007.

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Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated during a rally in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad.

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto waves from her car just seconds before being attacked

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Ms Bhutto, 54, was leaving an election rally in Rawalpindi, standing in the open sunroof of a car, when a gunman shot her in the neck and chest.

Survivors flee bomb the attack.

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Seconds later, the attacker blew himself up, killing at least 20 people.

Mourners remove Benazir Bhutto's coffin from Rawalpindi General Hospital on 27 December

Mourners remove Benazir Bhutto's coffin from Rawalpindi General Hospital on 27 December

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The journey of Bhutto's body to the family's ancestral graveyard in Ghari Khuda Baksh, Larkana began in a simple wooden coffin.

Shackleton 100 year exhibition member crosses snow

Shackleton 100 year exhibition member crosses snow

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A century after Sir Ernest Shackleton abandoned an attempt on the South Pole, descendants of the explorer and his team are hoping to achieve what he could not.

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