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A selection of our best photos from the past 24 hours.  Launch Slideshow 

 
Seventeen-year-old, mother of 7
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 
Pamela Villarruel, 17, bore all seven children in just three pregnancies, having her first boy in 2005 when she was 14 and the other six girls in two deliveries of triplets in the following two years.
 
Cannes: Day One
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 
The 61th Cannes Film Festival runs May 14-25.
 
Fusionman flies
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 
Former Swiss military pilot Yves Rossy, also known as "Fusionman," is the first man ever to successfully fly with wings, powered by four engines on his back.

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A Presidential celebration
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Victory Day
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Faces of Senegal
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Being a Chinese acrobat
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Israel 1948
Thursday, 8 May 2008 
Chaos in Lebanon
Thursday, 8 May 2008 
Terror in the park
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Costume Institute gala
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European waterfall
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Putin's Russia
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Environment watch
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Swearing in the new Vatican guards
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