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BBC News - Day in pictures: 11 August 2011

Fireworks burst in the sky above the Japanese town of Otsuchi to remember the victims of the 11 March earthquake and tsunami, five months after the event.

A passenger bus lies half buried in rubble after a landslide due to heavy rainfall on the outskirts of Jammu in Indian-administered Kashmir. Landslides triggered by heavy rains have also affected the Jammu-Srinagar motorway, stranding several hundred vehicles, reports say.

Goldfish swimming in a spherical water tank feature in an art aquarium exhibition currently running in the Japanese capital, Tokyo.

A farmer takes part in a sit-in protest organised in Delhi, India, by the Janata Dal party, against what they said were illegal acquisitions of land to be given to private companies at a low price.

The Australian department of the environment displays hundreds of exotic illegal wildlife products, including orangutan, lion and bear skulls, seized in a raid in Sydney. Investigators netted close to 400 items, including the skins of a lynx and an Alaskan wolf.

An Iraqi man sells a traditional liquorice root drink in the early hours of Thursday in Baghdad as practicing Muslims have their late-night "suhur" meal before resuming their fast at dawn on the second week of the fasting month of Ramadan.

An ornithologist frees a long-eared owl in Hortobagy, east of Budapest, Hungary, which had been injured, but was rescued and marked with an identification ring before being released in the wild.

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