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A gamer plays Tekken Tag Tournament 2 on the third day of the E3 videogame extravaganza in Los Angeles. Around 45,000 videogame industry professionals, investor analysts, retailers and journalists from more than 100 countries attended this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo Photograph: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images

They really should get out more … Gaming fans play Playstation 3's Hitman Absolution at E3 Photograph: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images

UFOs? No, it's President Obama, on board his helicopter Marine, returning to the White House in Washington after fundraising on the west coast Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP

Family and friends attend a memorial for triplets Lillie, Willsher and Jackson Weekes at the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul in New Zealand. The two-year-olds were killed in a fire at the Villaggio mall in Doha on 28 May that took the lives of 19 people, including 13 children Photograph: Getty Images

The music business, Japanese style: members of Japan's girl pop group AKB48 and its affiliated groups attend the annual popularity 'election' event at Tokyo's Budokan gymnasium. In a three-hour show broadcast live, 23-year-old Yuko Oshima was selected as leader and face of AKB48, which has been recognised by Guinness as the world's biggest girl pop group Photograph: Yuriko Nakao/REUTERS

Meanwhile, Madonna has been in concert at the Turk Telekom Arena in Istanbul, Turkey Photograph: EPA

The Chinese president, Hu Jintao, and Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, review the honour guard during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images

Hang on, here we go again. Next on the red carpet with Hu is the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images

Does this taste as bad as cod liver oil? 'Fish medicine' is given to a patient at the Katedan stadium in Hyderabad. The treatment, which has been offered by a family from the southern Indian city for the past 161 years as a cure for asthma and other breathing disorders, is placed in the mouth of a live murrel fish and then slipped into the mouth of the patient Photograph: Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images

The first train with Russian fans on board arrives at the border crossing in Terespol, Poland, for the Euro 2012 tournament. Russia plays the Czech Republic in Wroclaw on Friday Photograph: Wojciech Pacewicz/EPA

A poignant image of Barry Gibb kissing a rose during the funeral of his brother Robin at St Mary's church in Thame. Barry is the last surviving Bee Gee, his brother Maurice died in 2003 Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA

Bemused football fans look on as a member of feminist action group, Femen demonstrates against prostitution near the National Stadium in Warsaw which is hosting the opening match of Euro 2012 Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

A man carries a wounded child following an explosion that targeted a military bus in the Qudssaya suburb of Damascus Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

A rueful smile from 27-year-old Briton Sarah Outen after she was fished from the sea by members of the Japanese coastguard. Her boat, Gulliver was damaged by a tropical storm during her solo attempt to row across the Pacific Photograph: EPA

Eh? The, not entirely, successful attempt to spell out 'Uefa Euro 2012' by performers at the tournament's opening cermony in Warsaw. This image is not doing the picture editor's eye strain any good Photograph: Leonhard Foeger/Reuters