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21:53 GMT, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 22:53 UK

Day in pictures

Musicians on a floating theatre on the River Thames

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Musicians travel on a floating theatre on the River Thames to the Globe Theatre to celebrate William Shakespeare's 444th birthday, which coincides with St George's Day.

People throwing stones at police at protest in Colombia

People throwing stones at police at protest in Colombia

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People throw stones towards police during clashes at a protest in northern Colombia by coca farmers, angry at government plans to eradicate illegal crops.

A visitor to the National Aquarium in Baltimore passes by a display of penquins

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A visitor to the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland, passes by a display of penguins.

Sun shining through haze in Alaska

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The sun shines through a haze as it rises over King Mountain in the Matanuska Valley, Alaska. The haze is the result of smoke from Russian wildfires, and sandstorms in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.

Baby anteater on mother's back

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A one-month-old anteater who was born in captivity rides on her mother's back at the zoo in Cali, Colombia.

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Bulgarians admire painted Easter eggs at an exhibition in the town of Varna. The Orthodox Church will celebrate Easter on 27 April.

A boy jumps into an irrigation canal in Bhubaneshwar, India

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A boy jumps into an irrigation canal to escape the heat in Bhubaneswar, the capital of the eastern Indian state of Orissa. An ongoing heatwave has left at least four people dead.

Elderly men watch an anti-government demonstration in Srinagar

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Elderly men watch an anti-government demonstration against the soaring cost of food and commodities in the city of Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Fans of the South Korean electronics firm, Samsung, burn pictures of Kim Yong-chul in Seoul

Fans of the South Korean electronics firm, Samsung, burn pictures of Kim Yong-chul in Seoul

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Fans of the South Korean firm, Samsung, burn pictures of its former top lawyer outside a news conference where he urged its chairman to resign after he was charged with tax evasion and breach of trust.

Jewellery and high quality pottery found in Fiji

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Excavations of the earliest human settlement in Fiji at Bourewa Beach have unearthed a cache of jewellery and high quality pottery made some 3,000 years ago by the Stone Age Lapita people.

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