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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

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Workers prepare to install the Torso of Tutankhamun, a painted wooden mannequin, as part of the 'Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs' exhibit at the Discovery Times Square Exposition in New York, April 15, 2010. The King Tut exhibition will be on display from April 23, 2010 to January 2, 2011. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Body painter Athena paints campaign slogans for New York gubernatorial candidate Kristin Davis on the body of Kat Smith during a campaign fund raiser in New York April 15, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Activists of the environmental organization Greenpeace dressed as an orangutans hold a placard against the destruction of the rainforests to produce palm oil prior to the general meeting of the world's biggest food and beverage company, Nestle Group, in Lausanne, Switzerland. -- PHOTO: AP

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People gather on a square in front of Wawel Royal Castle after a silent march for late Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria through the old city in Krakow April 15, 2010. A decision to bury Polish President Lech Kaczynski in the crypt of Wawel cathedral in Krakow, a place reserved for the nation's heroes, poets and kings, has sharply divided Poles days before the funeral on Sunday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Young quake survivors sit around a stove amid the rubble of their collapsed homes in Jiegu, Yushu County. 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 earthquake that left 760 dead. -- PHOTO: AFP




Elijah Hicks supports his mom Kim, who says she has not had a raise in 7 years, as the Transport Workers Union Local 513 members conduct an informational picket line to protest American Airlines executive bonuses on Thursday, April 15, 2010 at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Dallas. -- PHOTO: AP

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Remi Vincentini, 6, lays flowers next to a dead gray whale that washed up on Arroyo Beach in southwest Seattle on Thursday, April 15, 2010. The 35 foot-long mammal was discovered still alive on Wednesday afternoon on the beach by a nearby resident. When she discovered it she said it was still trying to breath. NOAA officials planned to tow the whale to a nearby state park where they planned to perform a necropsy to determine why the animal died. Gray whales are not as common in Puget Sound as the resident and transient orca whales that are regularly seen in Puget Sound. -- PHOTO: AP




A child looks at bullet holes after a gunfight between soldiers and gunmen in Cadereyta, on the outskirts of Monterrey on April 15, 2010. A clash between soldiers and suspected members of organised crime left two gunmen detained, and a 14 year-old girl injured by a splinter in the face, according to local media. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Wendi Lynn G. wears a tea bag earring during the 2010 Tax Day Tea Party on April 15, 2010 in Pleasanton, California. Tea Parties were held across the United States to denounce tax day. More than a thousand people attended the Tax Day Tea Party at the Alameda County Fairgrounds. -- PHOTO: AFP

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Spanish bullfighter Antonio Ferrera is tackled by a bull during a bullfight at The Maestranza bullring in Seville on April 15, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Bedouin children ride bicycles near camels in the Negev desert village of Tarabin, southern Israel, Thursday, April 15, 2010. The Israel Cycling Federation donated about 800 all-terrain bicycles to Bedouin children on Thursday, as part of its project 'Bikes-4-All', collecting used bikes for re-distribution to those who cannot afford them. -- PHOTO: AP




A Hindu devotee gets his hand pierced with iron pins during the 'Bhotka Parab' festival on the occasion of Bengali New Year in Purulia, about 350 kilometres west of Calcutta, India, Thursday, April 15, 2010. The devotees pierce their body and tongue with steel hooks and pins in the belief that the ritual will help them in fulfilling their wishes. -- PHOTO: AP




Palestinians hold pictures of their relatives imprisoned in Israeli jails, during a demonstration calling for their release, in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, Thursday, April 15, 2010. Palestinians will mark the annual prisoner's day on Saturday to call for the release of over 6,000 Palestinian prisoners currently held in Israeli prisons. -- PHOTO: AP