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Michelle and Barack Obama look out over the 9/11 Memorial as they visit the World Trade Centre site for a briefing on construction progress in New York Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP

Looking like a yard sale, furniture and personal belongings sit in front of a house that appears to be abandoned in Antioch, California. May foreclosure filings surged 9% to 205,990, including default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions. The spike is the first monthly increase since January Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Stylish even when he's walking off the 17th green, here is Tiger Woods during the first round of the US Open golf tournament in San Francisco Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP

Like a bat out of hell? Meat Loaf performs at the Songwriters Hall of Fame annual induction and awards ceremony in New York Photograph: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images

Bat out of hell No 2: looking like he's going to whack something very hard, Jim Thome of the Philadelphia Phillies prepares to bat against the Minnesota Twins in Minneapolis Photograph: Eric Miller/Reuters

No, it's not a still from the film Inner Space, it's a model of the Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft (right) docking with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab module (left) and three Chinese astronauts, displayed during a press conference at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in north-west China's Gansu province Photograph: Jason Lee/Reuters

Heavy traffic in Hong Kong. The World Health Organisation recently announced that diesel exhaust fumes may increase the risk of lung and bladder cancer, and there are about 130,000 diesel vehicles registered in Hong Kong. Activists say the government has been slow in tightening environmental standards Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images

A fire truck arrives at burning houses in Sittwe, capital of the western state of Rakhine in Burma. More than 30,000 people have been displaced by deadly sectarian clashes, a senior local official says, and at least 29 people have been killed since 8 June Photograph: AFP/AFP/Getty Images

Meanwhile, the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi gets a standing ovation in the Swiss parliament. She will visit Switzerland, Norway, Britain, France and Ireland on her two-week tour, which will also include a speech in Oslo to formally accept the Nobel peace prize Photograph: Sebastien Feval/AFP/Getty Images

The Dalai Lama during a press conference at the Lowry hotel in Manchester as he begins a tour of the UK, which will include an appearance alongside the comedian Russell Brand Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA

Marion Marechal-Le Pen, a National Front party candidate in the French legislative elections, does some touchy-feely campaigning in Carpentras. The second round of the elections takes place on Sunday Photograph: Claude Paris/AP

Protesters show their anger at the Egyptian military council after Friday prayers in Tahrir Square, Cairo Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

Des-res? Workers put the final touches to 'Le monte meubles l'ultime déménagement' art installation by Leandro Erlich in Nantes, France Photograph: Salom-gomis Sebastien/SIPA / Rex

Regent Street in London goes global, decorated with flags 'as it welcomes the world to celebrate the London 2012 Games' and spend a bit of cash while it's here, presumably Photograph: John Phillips/PA

More colour in London. People walk past decorated replica traditional phoneboxes on display in Trafalgar Square, central London. The BT ArtBox campaign has brought together more than 80 artists, and the boxes will eventually be auctioned to raise money for the 25th anniversary of the children's protection charity ChildLine Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images

An icily formal setting in St Petersburg today as Russia's prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, his Belarus counterpart, Mikhail Myasnikovich, and Kazakhstan's premier, Karim Masimov, hold talks Photograph: Yekaterina Shtukina/AFP/Getty Images

A Palestinian hurls a rock at an Israeli Defence Force bulldozer during clashes at a demonstration against the nearby Jewish settlement of Kdumim, in the West Bank village of Kfar Kadum, near Nablus Photograph: Mohamad Torokman/Reuters

Eugenia Timoshenko, the daughter of Ukraine's imprisoned former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, with some of the images in a photo exhibition of the trial of her mother. The show at the city hall of the 6th district of Paris is the work of photographer Mustafa Nayem Photograph: Francois Mori/AP

Justin Bieber takes an intimate portrait of himself and a fan while he performs on NBC's Today programme at the Rockefeller Plaza in New York this morning Photograph: Kevin Mazur/WireImage

Sodden Flodden: riders make their way through the mist to the summit of the Three Brethren, Selkirk as they take part in the town's Common Riding, one of the oldest Borders festivals, in Scotland. The event dating from the Battle of Flodden in 1513, remembers the story of Flodden, when Selkirk sent 80 men into battle with the Scottish King. One man returned, bearing a blood stained English flag Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

On the beach in Sopot, Poland, Republic of Ireland fans sleep off the disappointment of their team being knocked out of the Euro 2012 finals Photograph: Niall Carson/PA