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Police block a street in Aubervilliers, a Paris suburb, where a young man died after the scooter he was riding collided with a police car. A parked van also bears marks from the violent impact.. IMAGES
Fabien Accidini couldn't believe his ears when 17-year-old Alex Batty told him he'd been "kidnapped". "I had to ask him to repeat" what he was saying, chiropractic student Fabien Accidini tells AFP during a game of pétanque with a friend in the village of Gréasque, 30 km from Marseille. The British teenager who had been missing for six years was picked up by Accidini in the middle of the night on a remote road in a mountainous area of southern France. SOUNDBITE
Images of the area near Chalabre, in southern France, where a UK teenager was found on Wednesday after disappearing in Spain six years ago when he was 11. Alex Batty, originally from the northern English city of Oldham, was picked up by a driver in a mountainous area. IMAGES
Images of the wood near Challans in western France, where the body of Karine Esquivillon, a mother who had been missing for two and a half months, was found by investigators after her husband, Michel Pialle, confessed to the murder during the night. IMAGES
Images outside the Russian embassy in Bucharest where a man died after ramming his car into the gates of the building and setting himself on fire inside the vehicle. Romanian media said the driver headed an NGO for fathers' rights and was on Tuesday sentenced to 15 years in prison for molesting his underage daughter. IMAGES
Forensic scientists work at the crime scene in a Kiev park where a missing Belarusian dissident was found hanged. The police have opened a murder probe into the death of 26-year-old Vitaly Shishov. Opposition supporters are accusing Alexander Lukashenko's government of killing the activist, who had helped his compatriots flee repression. Shishov was head of the Belarusian House in Ukraine, a non-governmental organisation, and was involved in helping Belarusians to settle in Ukraine and in staging anti-government protests. IMAGES