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Japanese fans of South Korean actor Bae Yung-joon are overwhelmed at seeing his new wax figure at Madame Tussauds in Hong Kong, the first of a Korean star. -
An Iraqi street vendor sells banknotes from the regime of former leader, Saddam Hussein, whose trial on charges including torture and murder resumed on Monday. -
A plastic cow in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, is painted in the colours of EU members' flags. On Tuesday, Romania and Bulgaria find out if they can join the EU in January 2007. -
A London bookstore displays a 19th century Louis XVI style chandelier from the Vatican. It is expected to sell for £10,000 ($18,950) at auction on Friday. -
Colourful clothes are on offer at a stall in a market in the Afghan capital, Kabul. -
Colourful clothes are on offer at a stall in a market in the Afghan capital, Kabul. -
Week in pictures: 13-19 May
A farmer takes a cigarette break while volcanic activity on Mount Merapi in Central Java intensifies. Thousands of villagers have fled but others refuse to leave. -
The main wall of China's controversial Three Gorges Dam, due to be completed on Saturday, nine months ahead of schedule. -
Sister Mary Michael, from Lincoln, England, stages a protest against the controversial Da Vinci Code film which is premiering at the Cannes Film Festival. -
Protesters mass at the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, to condemn a deadly attack on a court in Ankara. -
A Pakistani vendor pulls a cart piled high with monitors from discarded computers. An informal industry restoring computers has developed in Karachi. -
An ailing 26-year-old panda receives a medical check-up at a hospital in southeast China's Fujian. The hospital normally treats humans but made a special exception for the panda. -
X marks the spot: This year's UK Big Brother housemates have begun their 13-week incarceration. First to enter the house was Bonnie, a 20 year-old care worker. -
Indian army officers don chemical protection suits for a decontamination procedure during military drills in the Punjab. -
This Berlin sculpture of books by German writers is one of six created as part of an initiative for the football World Cup. -
Hollywood actress Penelope Cruz faces the cameras during a photocall to promote her movie at the Cannes film festival. -
Day in pictures: 16 June 2006
Moroccan farmers destroy cannabis plantations in a police-supervised programme in the northern Larache region. -
Friday prayers are held in Baghdad's poor neighbourhood of Sadr City under scorching noonday sun. -
South African President Thabo Mbeki leads the nation in remembering the Soweto uprising on its 30th anniversary. -
Sikh worshippers wait to enter the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, on the 400th anniversary of the death of the fifth Guru of Sikhism. -
Excited Argentina fans don full regalia ahead of their World Cup match against Serbia-Montenegro. -
Women sow rice in a field near Allalahbad in north-eastern India. -
The Spanish international agricultural show takes place in la Semana Verde de Galicia. -
AP - Sun Jun 18, 4:25 PM ET
Sgt. Chris Dayton, left, of Burlington, Vt., holds his son Carter Dayton, Sunday, June 18, 2006, after he and members of the Vermont National Guard, Task Force Saber, return to the Burlington International Airport in Burlington, Vt., after a deployment to Iraq. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett) -
AP - Sun Jun 18, 2:36 PM ET
St. Louis Cardinals' Chris Carpenter and son David play in the annual Father's Day game before the Cardinals Colorado Rockies baseball game Sunday, June 18, 2006, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Bill Boyce)