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Looking pretty pleased with the result, Barack Obama talks with Solicitor General Donald Verrilli in the Oval Office, after learning of the supreme court's ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Thursday night Photograph: White House/Getty Images

Not looking quite his usual chipper self, David Cameron leaves the European Union leaders summit in Brussels in the small hours of Friday morning Photograph: Laurent Dubrule/Reuters

Joyful Italian football fans cheer in the Warsaw fanzone after the Italian team scored during the Euro 2012 semi-final between Italy and Germany. Italy won 2-1 Photograph: Wojtek Radwanski/AFP/Getty Images

Another capital, another late night: Italian football fans in Rome celebrate their team's colossal victory against the Germans Photograph: Alessandra Tarantino/AP

Preparations for the Olympics are ongoing worldwide. Here US gymnast Sam Mikulak applies chalk to his hands as he prepares to compete on the rings at the US Olympic gymnastics trials in San Jose, California Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters

The white gloves say it all: a driver in the cab during a trip of the first bullet train on the newly built railway linking Longyan and Xiamen in south-east China's Fujian province Photograph: Zhang Guojun/Xinhua Press/Corbis

Touchdown! Elsewhere in China, the capsule of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft lands safely in Siziwang Banner, a county in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Photograph: Wang Jianmin/Xinhua Press/Corbis

Showing no ill effects from the space flight or the bumpy landing, Chinese female astronaut Liu Yang waves after coming out of the slightly charred re-entry capsule Photograph: Wang Jianmin/Xinhua Press/Corbis

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks to the media as she arrives for a second day of the EU summit in Brussels. Germany has apparently relented and allowed European banks direct access to sovereign bailout funds Photograph: John Thys/AFP/Getty Images

Back to work! Refreshed after a good night's sleep, David Cameron arrives for the second day of the European Union leaders summit in Brussels on Friday morning Photograph: John Thys/AFP/Getty Images

And not to be outdone by the Chinese, more hardware goes into space: a Delta IV-Heavy rocket lifts off from Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The rocket is carrying a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office Photograph: Craig Bailey/AP

Lurid blazers seem to be the fashion choice for a group of spectators during the third day of the 2012 Henley Royal Regatta Photograph: Ben Hoskins/Getty Images

Police passing out parade: one of the 567 graduates is taken ill during the passing out ceremony for the newly graduated police officers at the Hendon police academy, London, in the biggest ever passing out parade for trainee police officers Photograph: Max Nash/PA

It's very changeable in London today: spectators brave the rain prior to the third round matches at Wimbledon Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, speaks with Vera Smolnikova as they meet in the Kremlin in Moscow. The 4-year-old girl received a heart transplant from Italian doctors in 2011 Photograph: Alexei Nikolsky/AFP/Getty Images

Her Wimbledon hopes dashed, a dejected Heather Watson of Great Britain walks off court after being defeated by Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images

British-Australian swimmer Penny Palfrey dives in at the Hemingway International Yacht Club in western Havana. Palfrey will launch a historic attempt to swim across the shark-infested waters from Cuba to the United States. The journey is expected to take three days Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images