20:50 GMT, Tuesday, 18 November 2008

Day in pictures

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Hundreds of families camp out near the UN base in Kanyabayonga, Northern Kivu, to escape looting soldiers in the DR Congo.


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An artist displays beheaded and dismembered dolls in the streets of Caracas, Venezuela.


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Thousands of public workers in Chile go on strike to demand higher wages.


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A girl walks past collapsed houses in Buol on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, a day after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the area.


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Royal officials in the Thai capital, Bangkok, transfer the royal urn on the fifth day of a six-day funeral for the late Princess Galyani Vadhana.


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A worker in Allahabad, India, cleans the statue of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on the eve of the anniversary of her birth.


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As word game Scrabble celebrates its 60th birthday, manufacturers say it has become the UK's best-selling board game.


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Denzil Gunner, 30, wins a mince pie eating competition at the Wookey Hole Show in the UK. He ate 41 mince pies in the space of 10 minutes.


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Lebanese teachers hold banners during a protest to demand better pay, near the Lebanese parliament in Beirut.


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Family members show their anguish at the Gaomendong coal mine near Pingdingshan, Henan province, China, where a mineshaft was flooded.

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