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The doctoring of photos, once considered the reserve of tyrants and UFO nuts, is becoming increasingly widespread.

Below we present 20 of the most striking, interesting and controversial fake photos, most of them produced in the last five years.

1) Shark lunges at helicopter


2) World Trade Center tourist


3) Iranian missile test



4) Ann Widdecombe's mixed messages



5) Chairman Mao airbrushes out his former friends



6) Snowball the monster cat


7) Smoke over Beirut


Altered Photo


Original


8) Antelopes and trains in harmony


9) Tsunami captured from tower block


10) Bush reading upside down


11) Shark sneaks up on scuba divers


12) John Kerry with Jane Fonda


13) Giant skeletons discovered in India


14) Benito Mussolini, the fearless horseman


15) Karl Rove's 'secret file'



16) James Purnell doctored at hospital


17) Soldier doll held hostage in Iraq


18) Fidel Castro made to look like Hitler


19) Oil rig, tornado and lightning strike


20) Cottingley Fairies