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Apr 16, 2010
News in pictures on Friday



Paper lamps produced with vegetable fibre from yellow and red peppers, tomatoes and beet roots, are on display at the Milan International Furniture Expo, in Milan, Italy, Thursday, April 15, 2010. The Milan Furniture Fair opened on April 14 and will close on April 19, hosting designers and their creations from all over the world. -- PHOTO: AP




People light candles arranged in the shape of a heart, and the numbers '4.14' as they mourn victims of a recent earthquake in Yushu county, at a plaza in Nanjing, in east China's Jiangsu province on April 15, 2010. Meanwhile, stunned survivors of China's earthquake complained of hunger as the government rushed supplies and personnel into the remote disaster zone high on the Tibetan plateau, following the April 14, 6.9 magnitude quake that left 760 dead -- PHOTO: AFP




An Indian villager fills a container with water as she stands in a ditch dug within a waterhole in the village of Gajdinapur in Patan District some 200kms. from Ahmedabad on April 15, 2010. The villagers have little choice but to use the water which contains high levels of fluoride. Many are migrating away from the area in order to seek cleaner water for themselves and their animals. -- PHOTO: AFP