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1 May 2012
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Day in pictures: 1 May 2012
Russian servicemen stretch before a rehearsal for the annual Victory Day parade in Red Square in Moscow.
UK champion Judd Trump suffered a shock 13-12 defeat after a great comeback by Ali Carter at the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible in Sheffield.
A new spy museum in Oberhausen in Germany explains the work of secret services, such as the Russian KGB, the CIA and the East German Stasi during the cold war.
Actor Sacha Baron Cohen is met by photographers as his film persona, The Dictator, at Sydney International Airport in Australia.
Pilgrim Morris Men dance on St Martha's Hill at dawn on 1 May in Chilworth, Surrey, England. Founded in 1972, the Pilgrim Morris Men perform traditional English folk dance with bells, handkerchiefs and sticks.
People rest near Tiananmen Gate in Beijing during the May Day holiday in China.
Armed North Korean soldiers joke with Chinese tourists as they keep guard at Hwanggumpyong Island, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju and the Chinese border city of Dandong.
Children play on the demolished site that was once home to Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad. The leader of Al Qaeda was killed a year ago.
Flood warnings are in place on rivers across England after heavy rain fell throughout the country at the end of the wettest April since records began.
Cinema operator Rassoul changes a film roll as he shows a Bollywood movie at the Cinema Park theatre in the Shar-e-Naw district of Kabul in Afghanistan.
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