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Thursday, 12 July 2012 17:52
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ITALY: Tourists sunbathe as salvage team members work at the rock on the side of the Costa Concordia cruise ship near the harbour of Giglio Porto on July 12, 2012. Salvage crews began work on preparations to refloat the half-submerged Costa Concordia cruise liner in what is set to be the biggest ever operation of its kind. The cruise liner, operated by Carnival Corp's Costa Cruises unit, capsized off the Tuscan island of Giglio after hitting rocks on January 13. At least 30 people died and two are still unaccounted for. -AFP ...
MOSCOW: Member of Russia Gymnastics men's team, Nikita Ignatiev (R), performs during a training session outside Moscow, on July 12, 2012. -AFP ...
KUMAMOTO: Vehicles are piled-up in a residential area covered in mud after heavy rains fell at Kumamoto city in Japan's southern island of Kyushu on July 12, 2012. At least six people died, 18 were missing and 50,000 ordered to evacuate as the heaviest rainfall on record pounded the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu, officials and reports said on July 12. -AFP ...
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan journalists protesting harassment of media personnel and independent websites stage a demonstration in Colombo on July 12, 2012. The demonstration came as Sri Lanka announced new laws to crack down against opposition news portals. -AFP ...
LAHORE: Loin eats ice to beat the heat due to hot and dry weather at Lahore zoological garden on Wednesday. -PPI ...
LUDVIKA: A house hangs over a rain-swollen creek at Nyhammar in Dalarna, central Sweden, on July 10, 2012. Areas in Sweden hit by floods are bracing themselves for further downpours and thunderstorms as a low pressure system moves across the region. -AFP ...
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- PAMPLONA: Participants run in front of Fuente Ymbro's bulls during the fifth San Fermin Festival bull run, on July 11, 2012, in Pamplona, northern Spain. -AFP
- BEVERLY HILLS: A general view of a model during 'Capturing The Final Frontier: NASA Animation And The Movies' hosted by AMPAS held at The Samuel Goldwyn Theater on July 10, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. -AFP
- JAKARTA: An Indonesian official briefs German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2L) during a visit at the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) in Jakarta on July 11, 2012 at the conclusion of her two-day visit in Indonesia. Merkel inspected the facility
- VIENTIANE: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) sits with Laotian Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong (R) at their meeting at the prime minister's office in Vientiane on July 11, 2012. Clinton became the first US secretary of state to visit Laos for
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