19:27 GMT, Friday, 16 May 2008 20:27 UK

Day in pictures

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Burmese children suffering from diarrhoea sleep at a monastery near Rangoon. Aid workers say up to 20% of Burma's children have had diarrhoea since Cyclone Nargis struck last week.


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Pakistani Shia Muslim boys carry toy guns as they chant anti-US and anti-Israel slogans during a protest rally in Karachi to mark the 60th anniversary of Israel's creation.


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US troops treat a man shot in the leg after he fled a US patrol in Baghdad, Iraq. Troops challenged the man after finding him and two others digging in an area of frequent insurgent mortar activity.


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A taxi lies crushed under a boulder in Beichuan, Sichuan province, in the aftermath of China's devastating earthquake.


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Frenchman Gerard Wartraux, who settled in Senegal in the 1970s, shows the jaw of a crocodile from his farm.


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Officers of Austria's special police unit Cobra display their skills ahead of the Euro 2008 football championships.


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A Lancaster bomber swoops over Derwent dam in central England, to mark the 65th anniversary of the raid that destroyed German dams during World War II.


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Italian motorcycle police parade at Piazza Del Popolo in Rome.


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French actresses, including Catherine Deneuve, pose at the launch of the film A Christmas Tale at the Cannes Film Festival in France.

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