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1 - UNITED STATES: Truth Or Consequences – A security personnel mans his position in front of White Knight Two, carrying Space Ship Two, outside the Spaceport America Terminal Hangar Facility at ‘Spaceport America northeast of Truth Or Consequences’, on Monday.
Sir Richard Branson was on hand to host guests and media at the ‘Keys To A New Dawn’ event, for the dedication of Virgin Galactic’s new home at Spaceport America, the world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport in southern New Mexico.
PHOTO: Frederic J. Brown

 

2 - GERMANY: Munich – The face of Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs is created with adhesive notes on the window of an Apple Store in Munich on Tuesday. Millions of people have paid emotional tribute to Jobs, since he died on October 5 at the age of 56 after a years-long battle with cancer.
PHOTO: Christof Stache

 

3 - CHILE: Santiago – A student with her body painted performs on the second day of a 48-hour demonstration to press the government of President Sebastian Pinera to reform the country’s education system, as bonfires and barricades were set in several points across the Chilean capital, Santiago, on Wednesday.
PHOTO: Hector Retamal

 

4 - CHINA: Nanning – A citizen visits the exhibition of collections of the History Museum of Vietnam, in Nanning, capital of south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Thursday. The exhibition, which kicked off on Tuesday, will last three months with 118 exhibits on display.
PHOTO: Lu Bo’an

 

5 - YEMEN: Sanaa – Yemeni anti-governmnet protesters show their palms painted in the colours of the (L-R) Libyan, Yemeni and Syrian flags as tens of thousands gather in Sanaa on Friday.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of the Yemeni capital to demand the resignation of veteran President Ali Abdullah Saleh, galvanised by the death of Libya’s Moamer Kadhafi.
PHOTO: Marwan Naamani

 

6 - SPAIN: Bilbao – Hooded people paint a graffiti that reads “Amnistia and Freedom” during a pro-independence march on Saturday in the northern Spanish Basque city of Bilbao. Demonstrators shouted “independence” at the gathering instigated by several leftist, pro-independence parties, unions and signatories of last year’s ‘’Guernica agreement’’, signed on October 25, 2010, which called for an end to ETA violence.
PHOTO: Ander Gillenea

 

7 - AUSTRALIA: Canberra – A supporter waits for the arrival of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip who will attend church services at St. John’s in Canberra on Sunday. The queen is in Australia for her 16th visit to the former penal colony on what will perhaps be the 85-year-old monarch’s last tour Down Under.
PHOTO: Alex Coppel

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