News in pictures on Friday 23.04.2010

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Apr 23, 2010
News in pictures on Friday

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Members of Cuba's Giganteria group carry a giant figure known as La Tarasca during a rally to mark the International Earth Day in Havana, Thursday, April 22, 2010. People filled La Tarasca with messages and then burnt it to cleanse themselves of bad things and hate. -- PHOTO: AP

Women wearing traditional Sevillana dresses eat candy floss at a fair in Seville, April 22, 2010. The fair runs until April 25. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Inmates wearing Mexico's, Brazil's, France's, Russia's and South Africa's national soccer uniform, cheer prior to the start of an indoor soccer championship at the Miguel Castro Castro prison in Lima, Thursday, April 22, 2010. -- PHOTO: AP

 

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A security worker guards a Chinese-made Karry vans booth as a worker dressed in cartoon mini-van shape costumes stands behind to attract visitors at the Beijing auto show Auto China 2010 in Beijing, China, Friday, April 23, 2010. -- PHOTO: AP

A Kenyan artist mixes paints as he prepares an anti-pirate graffiti on a wooden board at the sprawling Kibera slums in Kenya's capital Nairobi, April 22, 2010. Pirate attacks around the world fell by over a third in the first quarter versus the same period last year although Somali gangs who accounted for over half the incidents were striking deeper offshore, a watchdog said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Music fountain performs at the Wynn Macau Thursday April 22, 2010. Billionaire Steve Wynn opened his latest hotel and casino in Macau Wednesday and said he aims to start building a massive new resort in the Chinese gambling mecca next year. -- PHOTO: AP

 

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Volunteers from the Legg Mason company help plant a tree on Earth Day, April 22, 2010, on Sherman Avenue in northern Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood in New York, joining 300 other volunteers in the Root for New York corporate challenge. New York Restoration Project and City Year New York joined to support Milllion Trees NYC, an effort to plant one million new trees across New York City by 2017. -- PHOTO: AP

The coffin of former International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch is being carried to Barcelona's cathedral for a funeral mass on April 22, 2010. Samaranch, one of the longest-serving presidents of the IOC, passed away from a cardiorespiratory arrest at a Barcelona hospital on April 21, 2010 at the age of 89. Hundreds of people, including top athletes and politicians, paid tribute to Samaranch as he lay in wait in Barcelona. -- PHOTO: AFP

Marking the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and the importance of marine conservation, a coalition of groups demonstrate together to educate the public about the crisis currently facing whales and rally against renewed commercial whaling during an Earth Day event on the National Mall in Washington, DC, April 22, 2010. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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Riot police are seen standing guard through the shattered window of a French cafe where red roses have been placed in Bangkok's Silom business district. The cafe's window was destroyed when multiple explosions shook the area yesterday night. Hundreds of Thai riot police confronted anti-government protesters at a barricade in Bangkok's business district on Friday, a day after grenade attacks in the area killed three people, but later pulled back without violence. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

The Northern Lights are seen above the ash plume of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano in the evening. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A person is reflected in a window displaying the model of Volvo Electric C30 car at the Beijing Auto Show in Beijing. China overtook the United States as the world's biggest auto market in terms of number of vehicles sold in 2009, helped by Beijing's incentives. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

 

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A view of a street in Havana. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A turtle stands on a rock at the Botanic Gardens in Medellin. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Spanish matador Ruben Pinar performs a pass on a bull during a bullfight in The Maestranza bullring in Seville. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A baby camel lies in its enclosure, at the zoo in Zurich, Switzerland. -- PHOTO: AP