14:31 GMT, Thursday, 12 June 2008 15:31 UK

Day in pictures

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The steeple of Evangelist church in the city of Bistrita in Romania's Transylvania region burns after fire broke out in the 700-year-old building.


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A football fan gears up for the Croatia v Germany match at Euro 2008 in Klagenfurt, Austria.


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A bus driver sleeps inside a bus, as transport workers and traders strike for a fourth day over fuel price rises in Jammu, Indian-administered Kashmir.


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A previously unseen photograph of musician John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, is displayed at Bonhams auction house in London


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Silent mourning takes place for the late Afghan journalist Abdul Samad Rohani in Kabul, after he was killed earlier this week. He worked for the BBC in Helmand province.


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A young boy looks through a bullet hole in the window of a school in the Shia area of Sadr city in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.


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Men ride on top of a Jeep in the Kenyan town of Kilgoris to celebrate the victory of their local candidate for parliament in a by-election.


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A former prostitute who is HIV positive sleeps in a hammock outside her shelter in a shantytown in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, after beginning a course of anti-retroviral medicine to prolong her life.

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