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Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko smile before leaving for London at Tokyo's Haneda international airport Wednesday (May 16 2012). The imperial couple will visit Britain for the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's 60th year on the throne. Picture: Itsuo Inouye/AP
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Serena Williams of the US returns the ball to Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan during their match at the Rome Masters tennis tournament on Tuesday (May 15 2012). Picture: Max Rossi/Reuters
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A woman passes beside a mural painted by U.S. artist Miles MacGregor, 'Mac', during the 11th Biennial contemporary art exhibition in Havana (May 13 2012). Mac used the spraypaint on stucco technique to paint a mural based on a picture of Cuban cook Adis Naranjo. The Havana Biennial is a major event for contemporary art, attracting artists and curators from all over the world and runs from May 11 to June 11 2012. Picture: Desmond Boylan/Reuters
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A man carries a bucket of crude oil at an illegal refinery in the village of Isuini-biri in Nigeria's Bayelsa state (May 15 2012). Nigeria is Africa's largest crude oil exporter but its production capacity has been slashed by thieves drilling into pipelines passing through winding creeks and waterways in the vast delta. The underground industry is thought to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Picture: Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters
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Demonstrators walk as they form a human chain to commemorate the 15M movement in downtown Malaga, southern Spain (May 15 2012). Dubbed "Los Indignados" (the Indignant), the movement which spawned similar protests worldwide prepares to occupy Spanish streets for the whole weekend on the first anniversary of the 15M movement in a renewed protest over government austerity measures, banks, politicians, economic recession, and the highest unemployment in the eurozone. Picture: Jon Nazca/Reuters
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This April 27 2012 photo shows a worker at a steelmaker in Zhangjiagang in east China's Jiangsu province. China's economic growth has abruptly decelerated from overheated to slower than Beijing wanted in just half a year as export demand and consumer spending at home weaken, raising the threat of job losses and possible unrest. Picture: AP Photo
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Singer Thalia arrives at the Plaza Hotel to attend the annual event "50 Most Beautiful" in New York (May 15 2012). Picture: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
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Outgoing French president Nicolas Sarkozy shakes hands with new president Francois Hollande at Elysee Palace on Tuesday (May 15 2012) in Paris, France. Sarkozy has suggested that he would leave politics to return to a career in law. Picture: Patrick Aventurier/Getty Images
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A logotype is seen on a Renault vehicle at an a (May 15 2012). Picture: Maxim Shemeto/Reuters
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A Cosatu supporter, with a stone in hand, takes aim at DA supporters shortly after violence broke in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, on Tuesday (May 15 2012) during the DA’s march against Cosatu’s opposition to the youth wage subsidy. Picture: Herman Verwey/City Press
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DA party leader Helen Zille and Parliamentary Leader Lindiwe Mazibuko lead the DA march against Cosatu’s opposition to the youth wage subsidy in Johannesburg on Tuesday (May 15 2012). Picture: Herman Verwey/City Press
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The red carpet is seen in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace for the handover ceremony between France's newly-elected President Francois Hollande and outgoing President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris on Tuesday (May 15 2012). Picture: Philippe Wojazer/Reuters
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The Sony logo is seen on a brochure and a Panasonic logo is seen on a TV remote controller at an electronics shop in Tokyo on Tuesday (May 15 2012). Sony Corp and Panasonic Corp are in talks to develop the technology to mass produce next-generation OLED televisions, sources close to the matter said, but may already be running to catch up with South Korean rivals in a technology widely seen replacing current LCD TVs. Picture: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
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Actress Lea Michele attends the FOX network upfront presentation party at Wollman Rink on Monday (May 14 2012) in New York. Picture: Evan Agostini/AP
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A morpho peleides butterfly takes flight in Butterfly Garden in La Guacima, northwest of San Jose on Monday (May 14 2012). According to the owner Joris Brinkerhoff, more than 80 000 cocoons of 70 different species are exported every month from Costa Rica to Europe, Asia, Canada, Mexico and the United States, with prices of the cocoons ranging from $3 to $10 each. Picture: Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters
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Singer Rihanna performs at the Robin Hood Foundation Benefit at the Jacob K Javits Convention Center in New York on Monday (May 14 2012). Picture: Andrew Kelly/Reuters
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A coffee processing plant worker inspects coffee beans in Bogota on Monday (May 14 2012). The Free Trade Agreement between Colombia and the United States will take effect on May 15. Picture: Fredy Builes/Reuters
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IN TRANSITION: A child, whose parents say they belong to the Burmese Rohingya Community from Myanmar, sits inside a makeshift shelter in a camp in New Delhi (May 14 2012). Around 2 500 refugees from Myanmar have put up camps on a land near New Delhi's airport to demand refugee status, saying it will help provide them with better facilities, local media reported. Picture: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
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Employees install car components at an assembly line at a Ford manufacturing plant in Chongqing municipality (April 20 2012). The plant, which opened in February, will need to be a success if Ford is to get a better foothold in the world's biggest car market, where it badly lags rivals such as General Motors Co and Volkswagen AG. Ford, which was late getting into China, had just 2.8%of the 18.5 million vehicle market last year, against GM's 14%t and VW's 12%. Picture: Stringer/Reuters
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IMPROVISING: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a man uses a small boat to make his way through a waterlogged road in Shunchang County, southeast China's Fujian Province, on Sunday (May 13 2012). Picture: Chen Baicai/AP Photo/Xinhua
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People stand in the lobby of JPMorgan Chase headquarters in New York. JPMorgan Chase is expected to accept the resignation of one of the highest-ranking women on Wall Street, Ina Drew, after the bank lost $2 billion in a trading blunder, a person familiar with the matter said Sunday (May 13 2012). Picture: Mark Lennihan/AP
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American gospel singer Kirk Franklin performs during the 21st Annual St Lucia Jazz Festival at Pigeon Island National Landmark (May 12 2012) which ended on Sunday (May 13 2012). Picture: Andrea De Silva/Reuters
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Participants pose during the European Bodybuilding Competition in Zagreb, Croatia, on Sunday (May 13 2012). Picture: Antonio Bronic/Reuters
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Boca Juniors' Rolando Schiavi, left, and Velez Sarsfield's Mauro Obolo go for a header during an Argentina's league soccer match in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Sunday (May 13 2012). Picture: Natacha Pisarenko/AP
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