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Masked Israeli police officers arrest a Palestinian as the Nakba Day protests turned violent in the East Jerusalem Arab district of Issawiya. Tensions boiled over in several locations leaving as many as 60 demonstrators injured, mainly from teargas inhalation, but also by rubber bullets Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA

'I still prefer my corgis' - Queen Elizabeth II speaks with a local gundog training group during a visit to the 'Wild London' exhibition in Richmond, west London Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/PA

An elderly woman from South Kordofan is photographed shortly after arriving at a refugee registration centre in the Yida refugee camp in Unity State, South Sudan. In recent weeks, aid agencies have reported a steep influx of new arrivals, at times exceeding 700 per day. More than 30,000 refugees currently reside in Yida having fled the war between the Republic of Sudan and rebel forces in South Kordofan Photograph: Pete Muller/AP

Christopher Baker, the new director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Here he poses for his own portrait in front of the Three Oncologists by Ken Currie at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

It's all in a day's work for these pizza delivery guys taking hot food to the salvage team and crew on board the Japanese trawler Eihatsu Maru which ran aground off the exclusive Clifton beach in Cape Town, South Africa Photograph: Nic Bothma/EPA

With the 65th Cannes Film Festival starting tomorrow, movie fans have been busy putting out their stepladders to grab a good glimpse. We wonder if they have nametags? Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters

Members of South Africa's biggest trade union Cosatu clash with supporters of South Africa's main opposition group, the Democratic Alliance, in Johannesburg. The DA were marching to support a government plan to subsidise wages of young people to ease chronic unemployment among the unskilled youth when they were met by angry Cosatu members. A violent confrontation was later broken up by police Photograph: Kim Ludbrook/EPA

It may have rained on the presidential parade ... Photograph: Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images

... but it didn't dampen the newly-elected François Hollande's day as he arrived to pay his respects to the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe Photograph: Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images

Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks arrives at Lewisham police station where she is charged with allegedly perverting the course of justice. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA

Rebekah's husband, racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks, leaves Hammersmith police station in London. He is also to be charged Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA

Freshly charghed: Rebecca Brooks and her husband Charlie Brooks leave their solicitors to speak to reporters on May 15, 2012 in London, England. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

The inauguration of France's new president is one of the major stories of today. Events began this morning with Hollande being welcomed at the Elysée Palace for the formal investiture by his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images

Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, say their farewells after the investiture ceremony and make their way from the Elysée Palace; perhaps for the last time? Photograph: Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Images

... à bientôt ... Photograph: Jacky Naegelen/Reuters

A Greenpeace activist makes a perilous climb up the anchor chain of the Bahamas-flagged Clipper Hope ship in São Luís, off Brazil's Maranhão state, as it prepares to ferry pig iron to the US. Greenpeace hopes to highlight the ecological damage caused by the pig iron industry, which it says uses vast amounts of wood charcoal in the smelting process Photograph: Greenpeace/Reuters

Israeli riot police arrest a boy in the East Jerusalem Arab district of Issawiya, as Palestinians mark Nakba day, which commemorates the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians following the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948 Photograph: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images

The Soyuz TMA-04M rocket enjoys a successful launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying a three-strong crew of astronauts to the International Space Station Photograph: Bill Ingalls/AFP/Getty Images

Prostitutes evade riot police inside a shop as activists protest at Puerta del Sol square in Madrid on the anniversary of the birth of the indignados movement. Civil unrest is growing in Spain amid government austerity measures, increasing uncertainty over the health of its banking sector, worries over the euro and the deepening crisis in Greece Photograph: Alberto Di Lolli/AP

A lovely day for a stroll. A couple dressed in Spanish traditional dress walk through the square at Puerta del Sol on May 15, 2012 in Madrid. Photograph: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images