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Week in Pictures: July 2-8 2011
This week in pictures: Atlantis Launch, South Sudan, Casey Anthony trial, and more.
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July 5: Saxo Bank-Sungard's Alberto Contador (L) of Spain is followed up a climb by Omega Pharma-Lotto's Philippe Gilbert of Belgium during the fourth stage of the Tour de France 2011. REUTERS/Bernard Papon
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July 7: Casey Anthony smiled before the start of her sentencing hearing in Orlando, Fla. Anthony, though acquitted of abusing and killer her daughter, was sentenced to four years for lying to investigators in connection with the girls's disappearance. She
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July 8: The space shuttle Atlantis astronauts left to right, mission specialists Rex Walheim, Sandy Magnus, pilot Doug Hurley and commander Chris Ferguson, leave the operations and check-out building on the way to the pad at the Kennedy Space Center. (AP
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July 6: Children prepare for the Independence Day ceremony in Juba, South Sudan. South Sudan splits away from the north on July 9 to create Africa's newest nation after southerners voted for secession under terms of a peace deal reached in 2005 to end a n