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16:48 GMT, Thursday, 7 August 2008 17:48 UK

Day in pictures

A boy plays in fountains in Cordoba, Spain.

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A young Canadian boy cools himself down in a water fountain in Cordoba, southern Spain.

Archie the Armadillo eats a plate of fruit at Bristol Zoo in southern England.

Archie the Armadillo eats a plate of fruit at Bristol Zoo in southern England.

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Archie, a six-banded South American armadillo, becomes the latest participant in the Amazing Animals display at Bristol Zoo, England, where visitors can see animals moving freely outside their enclosures.

Police and protesters clash in Srinagar, India

Police and protesters clash in Srinagar, India

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Police defend themselves from stones thrown by Kashmiri Muslim protesters during continuing demonstrations in Srinagar, India.

US Democratic candidate Barack Obama in Minnesota, US.

US Democratic candidate Barack Obama in Minnesota, US.

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Barack Obama, Democratic party candidate for the US presidential elections in November, poses with a baby while campaigning in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Lightning strikes over London, UK

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Lightning strikes over blocks of flats in London, during a summer storm which lit up the sky in the early hours of the morning.

A woman places flowers at a memorial in Nairobi, Kenya.

A woman places flowers at a memorial in Nairobi, Kenya.

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A woman who survived the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi places flowers on a memorial during a ceremony marking 10 years since the attack, which killed 218 people.

US First Lady Laura Bush (C) meets Karen refugee camps at a camp in Burma.

US First Lady Laura Bush (C) meets Karen refugee camps at a camp in Burma.

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The United States' First Lady, Laura Bush, meets Karen refugees in traditional costumes during a visit to the Mae La refugee camp in Thailand, close to the border with Burma.

A protest in Baghdad, Iraq

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Iraqis displaced by internal violence stage a protest in Baghdad against a government order that they must vacate the abandoned government buildings in which they have been living.

Iraqi children watch a man painting a wall in Sadr City, Baghdad

Iraqi children watch a man painting a wall in Sadr City, Baghdad

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Meanwhile in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, children watch as an artist decorates a security barrier.

Dutch climbers Las Van De Gevel (L) and Wilco Van Rooijen (R) in Islamabad, Pakistan

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Frost-bitten Dutch climbers Las Van De Gevel (L) and Wilco Van Rooijen (R) talk to reporters in Pakistan about the expedition to climb K2, the world's second highest peak, in which 11 people died.

Exiled Tibetans stage protests in Dharmsala, India

Exiled Tibetans stage protests in Dharmsala, India

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Exiled Tibetan Buddhist monks shout slogans during a protest march in Dharmsala, India.

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