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Top 10 PHOTOS in the last 24 hours

Last updated on: December 7, 2011 09:56 IST

A protester is engulfed by flames as he throws a petrol bomb against riot police guarding the parliament in Athens' Syntagma (Constitution) square during clashes December 6. Greek police fired tear gas on Tuesday at dozens of black-clad protesters in Athens who hurled petrol bombs and stones, while hundreds marched to parliament to mark the 2008 shooting of a student by police

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Top 10 PHOTOS in the last 24 hours

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A snake charmer performs at Galle Face Green in Colombo, Sri Lanka

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Top 10 PHOTOS in the last 24 hours

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A model uses her mobile phone as she gets ready backstage before the 2012 Korea Hair Collection in Seoul

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A cabriolet car transporting an illuminated Christmas tree and people dressed as Father Frost, the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus, drives along a road in the suburbs of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk

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Dylan, a Newfoundland dog, pulls Christmas trees from the forest to a customer's car at Dalby, near Pickering, northern England December 6. The dog owners charity Aqua Nova Bears are deploying their members' Newfoundland dogs, which can weigh up to 12 stone (76 kg), to raise money for the Yorkshire air ambulance fund

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A factory worker from Hi-P International, who is on strike, leaves the factory on her bicycle after police entered the place with trucks to remove heavy machinery, at a suburban area of Shanghai December 6. Workers at Hi-P International, a Singapore-owned electronics plant in Shanghai, remained on strike to denounce what they said was a management plan for mass layoffs, the latest outbreak of labour unrest in China. According to workers, police have arrested dozens of workers who blocked the entrance of the factory

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Top 10 PHOTOS in the last 24 hours

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A boy carrying Yemen's national flag looks inside a burgled bank during a demonstration to demand trial of Yemen's outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh and against immunity for him in the southern city of Taiz December 6

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Protesters get up after blocking a road during a protest against the presidential election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Toronto, December 6. Around 150 protesters from a Congolese community shut down a major city intersection in front of the U.S. consulate on Tuesday. Three people were arrested

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A Somali illegal immigrant sits on the ground at the Armed Forces of Malta Maritime Squadron base at Haywharf in Marsamxett Harbour, Valletta December 6. A group of 44 Somali immigrants arrived in Malta after being rescued from a sinking seven-metre dinghy some 60 nautical miles south of Malta on Tuesday. The boat is believed to have left from the Libyan coast on Saturday, according to local media

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Top 10 PHOTOS in the last 24 hours

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Wands and "butterbeer" are distributed to fans during an announcement of the new "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter" attraction, to be built at Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles December 6

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