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  • South Africa's own 'royal wedding'

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    South African President Jacob Zuma performs during the traditional wedding ceremony for his daughter Duduzile Zuma and Lonwabo Sambudla, former head of Lembede Investment Holdings, on April 23 near Mthatha, Eastern Cape.

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    President Jacob Zuma's daughters Duduzile Zuma, right, and Phumzile Zuma attend their uMemulo (coming of age) ceremony at the Zuma homestead on April 21 in Nkandla in Kwa-Zulu Natal.

    Duduzile Zuma, daughter of South African President Jacob Zuma, married businessman Lonwabo Sambudla at the weekend in what has been dubbed the "royal wedding" of South Africa.

    The organization of the party was entrusted to Kenny Kunene, who PhotoBlog readers may remember for his controversial sushi parties.

    According to South Africa's Independent newspaper, club owner Kunene promised the couple "the mother of all parties", though he made a point of adding that "there will be no sushi. The groom and bride have asked that no sushi should be served."

  • 49ers great Joe Perry dies at 84

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    Fullback Joe Perry of the San Francisco 49ers runs upfield during a 34 to 23 loss to the Chicago Bears on October 23, 1955 at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, California. One of American football's fastest ever fullbacks, Joe "The Jet" Perry was the first African-American to play for the 49ers and the first pro-footballer to rush 1000 yards in two consecutive seasons (1953 and 1954). Perry died from complications related to dementia, aged 84 years, on April 25, 2011 in Chandler, Arizona.

    Hall of Fame fullback Joe Perry, the first player with back-to-back 1,000-yard rushing seasons and nicknamed "The Jet" for his sensational speed, died Monday. He was 84.

    Perry was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1969 following a 16-year NFL career, 14 years with the San Francisco 49ers and the other two for the Baltimore Colts. Continue reading.

  • Is that a yawn or a roar?

    Marko Djurica / Reuters

    A lion cub, right, is pictured next to a seven-day-old rare white lion cub in their enclosure at the Belgrade Zoo in Serbia on April 26.

    See more great animal pictures in our Animal Tracks slideshow.

    Four newborn white lion cubs make their debut at the Belgrade Zoo where the addition of the quadruplets now make 10 rare white lions in the zoo's breeding program. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports.

  • President: Colombia hit by 'worst national disaster'

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    A boy plays in the middle of a landslide in Sabaneta, a town in the north west of Colombia, on April 25. Close to three million people have been affected and 418 people have been killed by the rains in the country during the last year, according to the Red Cross National Relief director, Cesar Urueña.

    Months of heavy rains, flooding and mudslides have caused "the worst natural disaster that we can remember," Colombia's president said Monday night.

    President Juan Manuel Santos said three million Colombians have been badly affected by heavy rains since the middle of last year. "It is as if our entire territory has been affected by a hurricane that came in halfway through last year and hasn't wanted to leave," he said. Continue reading.

  • Ukrainians grieve at Chernobyl victims' monument in Slavutich

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    A man grieves at the monument to Chernobyl victims in Slavutich, some 30 miles away from the accident site, and where many of the power station's personnel used to live, during a memorial ceremony early on April 26, 2011.

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    A boy points to his grandmother's portrait in the Chernobyl victims' monument in Slavutich, some 30 miles away from the accident's site, and where many of the power station's personnel used to live, during a memorial ceremony on the night on Monday, April 25, 2011.

    The world’s worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl took place 25 years ago when a blast at the power plant spewed a cloud of radioactive fallout over much of Europe and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes in Ukraine, Belarus and western Russia. Today, a 19-mile exclusion zone around the plant remains in place because of contamination from the plant. See more images from Chernobyl here.

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  • LUONG THAI LINH / EPA

    Laborers work on a salt field in Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam on April 14. Salt has been an important source of national revenue in Vietnam for centuries. In recent years, Vietnam's salt industry has experienced some ups and downs that have resulted in redundancies and losses to the state budget. Due to falling domestic salt output and value, the country has to import salt to meet demand. In 2011, an expected 182,000 tons of salt will have to be imported despite inventories of salt in 2010. Khanh Hoa Province is a coastal province located in the South Central Coast. It is also known for its agarwood production.

    Laborers harvest salt in Vietnam

    If this cool picture sparks your interest in Vietnam's salt industry, here's an article with more information.

  • Murad Sezer / Reuters

    Residents' belongings are seen among the collapsed portion of a building in Diyarbakir, Turkey on April 25, 2011. Authorities evacuated 28 families living in the building last week after cracks began to form in the structure. A part of the building collapsed a day after the evacuation. The reason of the collapse is not clear, but shoddy construction, lack of building regulation and corruption have been blamed for past cases of building collapse in Turkey, according to local media.

    Early warning saves 28 families in building collapse in Turkey

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  • Drought conditions cause the Dutch government to ban campfires and outdoor smoking in response to wildfires

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    A transport helicopter combats a fire at Fochteloerveen in Drenthe Bovensmilde on April 25, 2011. The Dutch banned barbecues, campfires and outdoor smoking this Easter, and the Swiss are forecasting potentially the worst drought in Europe for more than a century.

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    A firefighter works the fire at Fochteloerveen in Drenthe Bovensmilde.

  • Mohammad Sajjad / AP

    A Pakistani girl, one of a group who fled the Pakistani tribal areas of Bajur and Mohmand with their families due to fighting between Pakistani security forces and militants, attends a makeshift school organized by UNICEF with the help of local government, in Jalozai camp near Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday, April 25.

    Pakistani girl attends makeshift school near Peshawar

    For more images from Pakistan view our slideshow: Pakistan: A Nation in Turmoil

  • Anti-nuclear protesters demonstrate in Germany on eve of Chernobyl disaster anniversary

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    Anti-nuclear protesters march towards the Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant near the southern German city of Bergrheinfeld on Monday, April 25. Several Easter Monday protests took place throughout the country on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and after Japan's nuclear accident at Fukushima.

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    Anti-nuclear activists sit in front of a nuclear power plant during an Easter protest march in Grohnde, Germany, on Monday. Tomorrow, April 26, 2011, marks the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster - a date that sparks anti-nuclear protests all over Germany.

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    Anti-nuclear protesters take part in a march near in the northern German city of Kleinensiel on Monday.

    For more on the anti-nuclear protests in Europe click here. See Chernobyl-related images on PhotoBlog here.

  • White House Easter Egg Roll hosted by the Obamas

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    Miranda Husband, 11, center, and Issac Husband, 9, third left, of Greencastle, Pa., roll Easter eggs on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, on Monday, April 25, at the White House Easter Egg Roll hosted by President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. Thousands of children will participate in the event, which dates back to 1878, and is named for races where children push colored eggs across the grass using wooden spoons.

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    First Lady Michelle Obama watches as TV personalities Kelly Ripa and Al Roker share a crepe at the annual Easter Egg Roll on Monday.

    Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

    President Barack Obama, left, and first lady Michelle Obama read a book titled "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" to children during the annual Easter Egg Roll on Monday. Daughters Sasha, second right, and Malia, right, are seen on the right as they listen on with their dog Bo.

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    The White House Easter Egg Roll takes place on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday.

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    President Barack Obama greets children during the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday.

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    Thousands of kids and their parents packed the White House grounds for the annual tradition of rolling Easter eggs across the South Lawn. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.

  • Fayaz Aziz / Reuters

    Rescue workers survey the site after an explosion at a police station in Peshawar on Monday, April 25.

    Explosion at police station in Pakistan

    According to Reuters photographer Fayaz Aziz:

    The explosion occurred at the police station in Pakistan's northwest on Monday, wounding five people, police officials at the site said. The cause of the explosion is not immediately known.

  • Anti-government protesters clash with police in Yemen

    Khaled Abdullah / Reuters

    Police use a water cannon to disperse anti-government protesters during a demonstration demanding the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz on April 25.

    Khaled Abdullah / Reuters

    Anti-government protesters flee after police opened fire in the air to disperse them during a demonstration demanding the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz on April 25.

    Khaled Abdullah / Reuters

    Anti-government protesters carry a fellow protester wounded during clashes with police during a demonstration demanding the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz on April 25.

     It looks like they are at least trying to use non-lethal methods of suppressing the protests. Although Reuters reports that two Yemeni anti-government protesters were killed in separate clashes Monday, including one shot dead in Ibb after plainclothes security men opened fire to halt a protest march, medical sources said.

     For the latest on the crisis click here.

  • Reuters TV

    A combination photo shows a man throwing a rock at a passing tank in a location given as Deraa in still images taken from an amateur video on April 25. Syrian troops in tanks and armoured vehicles poured into the southern town Deraa and opened fire on Monday, residents said, in the latest bloodshed in a crackdown on protests that has escalated sharply in recent days.

    Syrian protesters throw rocks as tanks roll into Deraa

    For the latest on the crisis in Syria click here.

  • Kyodo / Reuters

    The Shinkansen, or bullet train, is seen speeding past temporary houses for survivors of the earthquake and tsunami, in this photo taken by Kyodo in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture April 25. Bullet train services on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line resumed between Tokyo and Sendai on Monday for the first time since the Miyagi Prefecture capital was severely hit by the March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami, Kyodo news reported.

    Tohoku Shinkansen Line service restored between Tokyo and Sendai

    The East Japan Railway Company has predicted the entire line will be open in late April.

  • Mohamed Messara / EPA

    A Libyan fireman walks near a damaged building at Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli, Libya, on April 25. NATO forces flattened a building inside Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziyah compound early on Monday, in what a press official from Gaddafi's government said was an attempt on the Libyan leader's life.

    Gadhafi compound hit by NATO; dozens hurt

  • Baz Ratner / Reuters

    People carry the body of Ben-Yosef Livnat during his funeral at Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem April 24. A Palestinian policeman shot dead an Israeli and wounded four others after they entered a holy site in a West Bank city without permission on Sunday, the Israeli military said. The group of ultra-Orthodox Jewish worshippers were shot at Joseph's Tomb, which some Jews believe to be the burial place of the biblical patriarch, in the Palestinian city of Nablus.

    Israeli shot by police in West Bank, army says

    Full story.

  • Ricardo Moraes / Reuters

    A baby from Kayapo tribe receives medical attention during the fourth day of a medical expedition of the "Expedicionarios da Saude" (Brazilian Health Expeditions) in Kikretum community in Sao Felix, northern Brazil April 24. The "Expedicionarios da Saude" organization is currently on a medical expedition to the area with volunteer doctors that twice a year build a mobile hospital to provide clinical and surgical treatment for indigenous tribes and residents from different parts of the Amazonian Rainforest.

    Volunteer doctors bring mobile hospital to Amazon rainforest

    See a Reuters slideshow for more on the work of Brazilian Health Expeditions.

  • Akhtar Soomro / Reuters

    Pakistani Hindu devotees climb a mud volcano to perform a ritual offering of coconuts before visiting Shri Hinglaj Mata Temple located in Balochistan province province April 24. Every year thousands of Hindus from Pakistan and India gather to attend a four-day ritual at the Hinglaj Mata Temple in Balochistan.

    Hindu devotees climb a mud volcano to perform a ritual offering

    Read more about these mud volcanoes.

  • Andrea De Silva / Reuters

    Cowboys try to hold down a cow to milk it as they participate in the wild cow milking competition of the El Dorado Rupinini Rodeo in Lethem, southeastern Guyana, April 23. The origins of the Rupinini Rodeo go back to the middle of the last century when Guyanese cowboys competed against each other at their separate ranches in the various skills.

    Rupinini Rodeo tests Guyanese cowboys

    I have photographed many rodeos in the Midwest, but wild cow milking is new to me.

  • London's Denmark Street endures as rock's Tin Pan Alley

    Long before there was Abbey Road, Denmark Street was home to London's musicians.

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    Guitars hang in a shop on Denmark Street on April 20 in London, England. Denmark Street, in the Soho area of central London, traces its musical connections back to the 1890s and is famous for its connection to contemporary British music after recording studios started setting up there in the 1960s. Many world-renowned recording artists, including: Jimi Hendrix, The Sex Pistols and Elton John have played and recorded in the street. The Rolling Stones recorded their first album in 1964 at the street's Regent Sounds Studio's. Known as London's 'Tin Pan Alley' Denmark Street is regarded as one of, if not the, best music streets in Europe and contains numerous specialist music shops, with many boasting of a long and prestigious musical history.

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    A general view of Denmark Street on April 20, 2011 in London, England. Denmark Street, in the Soho area of central London, traces its musical connections back to the 1890s and is famous for its connection to contemporary British music after recording studios started setting up there in the 1960s.

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    A Gibson guitar hangs besides a poster with signatures from the many famous musicians and bands that have visited, in the Rare and Vintage Guitar shop on Denmark Street

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    A man opens the doors to Regent Sounds Studio on Denmark Street on April 20, 2011 in London, England. The Rolling Stones recorded their first album in 1964 at the street's Regent Sounds Studio's.

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    Graham Noden works on a Gibson J200 guitar belonging to Chris Martin from Coldplay in his shop on Denmark Street on April 20 in London, England.

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    An employee sorts a display of guitars in a shop on Denmark Street on April 20in London, England.

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    Guitars awaiting repair stack up at Graham Noden's workshop on Denmark Street on April 20 in London, England.

  • Photographers recall Chernobyl's first days

    AP published a fascinating story about the photographers who were allowed to photograph the Chernobyl disaster in its early days. Talk about a dangerous job.

    Volodymyr Repik / AP

    In this 1986 photo shows the sarcophagus under construction over the 4th destroyed reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. On May 12, 1986, more than two weeks after the explosion, the leading Soviet daily newspaper Pravda published its first photograph from the site for the first time, shot three days earlier from a helicopter by Repik. "If I had been ordered now to get aboard and go, I would not have gone — you might have easily died there for nothing," said the 65-year-old Repik.

    Volodymyr Repik / AP

    In this 1986 photo, a helicopter throwing chemicals to suppress radiation approaches the 4th destroyed reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in. On May 12, 1986, more than two weeks after the explosion, the leading Soviet daily newspaper Pravda published its first photograph from the site for the first time, shot three days earlier from a helicopter by Repik.

    AP

    This 1986 photo, shows photographer Volodymyr Repik inside a helicopter as he covers the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. On May 12, 1986, more than two weeks after the explosion, the leading Soviet daily newspaper Pravda published its first photograph from the site for the first time, shot three days earlier from a helicopter by Repik. "If I had been ordered now to get aboard and go, I would not have gone — you might have easily died there for nothing," said the 65-year-old Repik.

    Volodymyr Repik / AP

    In this 1986 photo, a Chernobyl nuclear power plant worker holding a dosimeter to measure radiation level is seen against the background of a sarcophagus under construction over the 4th destroyed reactor on this file photo taken in 1986. On May 12, 1986, more than two weeks after the explosion, the leading Soviet daily newspaper Pravda published its first photograph from the site for the first time, shot three days earlier from a helicopter by Repik. "If I had been ordered now to get aboard and go, I would not have gone — you might have easily died there for nothing," said the 65-year-old Repik.

    AP

    This 1986 photo shows photographers Volodymyr Repik, right, and Valery Zufarov in Chernobyl area after the explosion in the 4th reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. On May 12, 1986, more than two weeks after the explosion, the leading Soviet daily newspaper Pravda published its first photograph from the site for the first time, shot three days earlier from a helicopter by Repik."If I had been ordered now to get aboard and go, I would not have gone — you might have easily died there for nothing," said the 65-year-old Repik. Zufarov died in 1993, aged 52, of Chernobyl-related disease. His first pictures were made from a helicopter 25 meters above the plant.

    AP

    This 1986 photo shows photographer Igor Kostin taking photographs after the explosion in the 4th reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Wearing a lead protective suit and placing his cameras in lead boxes, photographer Igor Kostin made a terrifying and unauthorized trip to the Chernobyl danger zone just a few days after a nuclear power plant reactor exploded in the world's worst atomic accident. He came back home with nothing to show for his determination to document the crisis — the radiation was so high that all his shots turned out black.

    Efrem Lukatsky / AP

    In this April 4, 2011 photo taken at his home in Kiev, Ukraine, photographer Igor Kostin shows a photograph taken in the first days after the explosion of the 4th reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The photo shows cleanup operations on the roof of the neighboring 3rd reactor. Wearing a lead protective suit and placing his cameras in lead boxes, photographer Igor Kostin made a terrifying and unauthorized trip to the Chernobyl danger zone just a few days after a nuclear power plant reactor exploded in the world's worst atomic accident. He came back home with nothing to show for his determination to document the crisis — the radiation was so high that all his shots turned out black.

    AP

    Chernobyl nuclear power plant photographer Anatoly Rasskazov two months before the April 26, 1986 explosion. Anatoly Rasskazov was the first photographer to take photographs of the Chernobyl disaster. As a staff photographer for the plant, he was allowed in on the day of the explosion. On April 26, at noon — hours after the blast — he made a video of the destroyed reactor and submitted it to a special commission working in a bunker close to the plant, said Anna Korolevska, deputy director of Chernobyl museum in Kiev. Rasskazov died last year, aged 66, after suffering for years from cancer and blood diseases that he blamed on the radiation.

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