21:47 GMT, Monday, 7 April 2008 22:47 UK

Day in pictures

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Japanese golfer Shingo Katayama peers out of a bunker to watch his ball during a practice round for the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia.


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Singer and actress Olivia Newton-John reacts as she is confronted by a group of waiting media on the Great Wall of China. She is leading a 21-day trek to raise awareness and funds for her cancer charity.


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Haitians run through their capital, Port-au-Prince, during renewed protests against rising prices and poverty.


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A Palestinian boy sits in a shaft of light in an abandoned house in the West Bank.


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Free at last - swans swim on the Alster river in Hamburg, Germany, after being released from their winter quarters. Each year since 1674, the flock have been rounded up and kept under cover until Spring.


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Convincing these Highland cattle near Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, that Spring has sprung may take some work as they continue to feel the effects of cold weather which hit the UK at the weekend.


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In stark contrast, this boy resorts to plunging into a river to escape the heat in Manila in the Philippines.


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Iraqi men cry for relatives killed when an explosion destroyed their house in Basra. Officials say the cause of the blast is not yet known.


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David Hockney stands in front of his oil painting "Bigger Trees Near Warter". The painting has been donated to London's Tate Britain gallery by the artist.

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