1,000 tons of paper and wood pellets were stocked in the building which was completely destroyed
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China: People shield their faces from dust
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South Africa: Refugees from xenophobic violence sit on a bus
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Tibetan activists shout slogans from the back of a police vehicle
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Amy Dockstader, nine, hugs her mother, Nancy, after the members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints were reunited
Buddha lies among the ruins of the destroyed Erwang Temple
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One of the 2,400 cottages provided by the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency
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survivor of the earthquake calls out to a friend
Germany: Lightning passes a church
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UK: Performers from the Suzhou Kunqu opera company of Jiangsu province
at Sadler's Wells Theatre
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Pakistan: A fruit vendor sells watermelons from his roadside cart.
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woman passes a bronze sculpture by Mexican artist Jose Luis Cuevas
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India: A fisherman works in a traditional fishbreeding pond
clipped from: www.guardian.co.uk 
