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Added on the 07/12/2012 19:22:59 - Copyright : France 24 FR
Japanese fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa's reports to Russia's Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin before heading to the launchpad along with his production assistant Yozo Hirano. The launch will take place at Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Their journey aboard the three-person Soyuz spacecraft piloted by cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin will take just over six hours, capping a banner year that many have seen as a turning point for private space travel. IMAGES
Japanese director and actor Takeshi Kitano walks the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival before the projection of his latest feature film "Broken rage". IMAGES
Images from the town of Yufuin, in Japan's Oita Prefecture, as Typhoon Shanshan hits the country with torrential rain and strong winds. The typhoon is Japan's most powerful this year and one of the strongest at landfall in recent decades. IMAGES
People gather in front of the Danish parliament in Copenhagen to call for the release of anti-whaling activist Paul Watson. Watson founded Sea Shepherd and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation (CPWF) and is known for radical tactics, including confrontations with whaling ships at sea. He was arrested on July 21 on the basis of an Interpol "Red Notice" after Japan accused him of causing damage to one of its whaling ships in the Antarctic two years earlier and causing injury. IMAGES
Images of Nikkei index numbers and the Tokyo Stock Exchange building as Tokyo stocks sank more than 12 percent Monday, battered by weak US jobs data that fuelled fears of a recession in the world's top economy. IMAGES
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