News in pictures on Wednesday 07.04.2010

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World
Apr 7, 2010

News in pictures on Wednesday

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Britain's opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron cycles from his house in west London. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown launched a month-long election campaign likely to be dominated by the economy and shaping up to be the most unpredictable contest since 1992. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Two butterflies are seen skewered on needles and presented in a wine glass in the installation piece "Bon Apetit", part of the collection "FX Harsono: Testimonies", a survey of artwork by Indonesian artist FX Harsono, at the Singapore Art Museum. The exhibition features a collection of work by Harsono, and will be on display until May 9, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Dave Delan, a construction worker, sits beside the body of one of his two brothers who died when a portion of the building they are working on collapsed on Wednesday in central Philippines. Five construction workers died and six were injured when the roof of a mall under construction collapsed. -- PHOTO: AP

 

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Scorpions band members (from left) Pawel Maciwoda, Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine, Matthias Jabs, and James Kottak leave their handprints as they are inducted into the Hollywood RockWalk in Hollywood. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Miners prepare to go down the flooded Wangjialing Coal Mine as Chinese rescuers pulled five more bodies from a flooded coal mine and searched for 33 missing men a day after the "miracle" rescue of over 100 fellow miners who endured a week underground. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Riot policemen rest inside Parliament House as "Red shirt" protesters briefly occupied the grounds of Thailand's parliament on Wednesday. Hundreds of protesters, who have already forced the capital's main shopping district to close since Saturday, pushed through a thin line of riot police, but then left after about 20 minutes and massed outside the building. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

 

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Sarah Leas, mother of Lance Cpl. Rick J. Centanni , wearing his name on her arm, attends his burial service in Riverside, California. -- PHOTO: AP

A man and his son rest in their flooded house caused by underground water leaking to the surface in Mexicali, Baja California state, following the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that hit the US-Mexico border region on April 4. Aftershocks shook western Mexico-US border areas yesterday, following the major 7.2-earthquake which left two people dead in Mexico and rocked buildings as far away as Los Angeles. -- PHOTO: AFP

Buttons are offered for sale during a rally for the Tea Party Express national tour at Davis Park in Rockford, Illinois. The Tea Party Express members are on a cross-country tour to rally support for the Tea Party agenda including their conservative causes and candidates. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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With snow and wind in the air, student Emmit McFarland of Crested Butte, Colo. pushes his bike through the new snow after leaving Crested Butte Community School for the day in Crested Butte. -- PHOTO: AP

A US Marine from India Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines uses a headlight set up in red color to read a book at a joint combat outpost with Afghan National Army soldiers, in a stronghold Taleban area in Marjah, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. -- PHOTO: AFP

The bodies of some of the twelve victims of a landslide at the Prazeres shantytown, lie in the street in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Flooding from torrential rains and deadly mudslides claimed at least 79 lives in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state, authorities said on Tuesday. Civil defence officials said about half of the fatalities occurred in Rio de Janeiro city, where authorities urged residents to remain indoors and not venture downtown, where streets were impassable. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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A giant bust of George Washington, made by artist David Adickes, is disassembled in Presidential Park, Pearland, Texas where six busts of presidents were removed because the land they were placed on is under foreclosure. The development company who owns the statues is return the statues to Adickes. -- PHOTO: AP

A man gets his shoes shined as cargo carriers rest wait for clients at a bus station in Port-au-Prince. -- PHOTO: AP

A note is posted at Marsh Fork Worship Centre in Eunice, West Virginia, near the Upper Big Branch coal mine owned by Massey Energy Company and operated by Performance Coal Company in nearby Montcoal, West Virginia, after 25 miners were killed in an explosion. The accident was the worst in the United States in decades. -- PHOTO: AFP