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Preparations are underway on Duomo square in Milan, as Italy prepares to bid farewell to former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who died on Monday, aged 86. Thousands of people are expected to attend the billionaire media mogul's state funeral which will be held in the city's Gothic Duomo cathedral and shown live on big screens on the square. IMAGES
The gates to Westminster Abbey open for guests ahead of the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. The event is expected to be the biggest gathering of foreign dignitaries and officials and will be attended by leaders from around the world. IMAGES
TIMELAPSE: People by Lambeth Bridge in London wait in a miles-long queue to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II. The late monarch is lying in state in London's Westminster Hall until her funeral on Monday September 19. IMAGES
View of Westminster Hall where Queen Elizabeth II's coffin will lie in state until her funeral on Monday. Hundreds of thousands of Britons are expected in London to pay their last respects to the Queen. IMAGES
The body of Archbishop Desmond Tutu is carried into a historic cathedral where he once railed against white rule, to allow South Africans to bid farewell before the weekend funeral. IMAGES
The casket of Greek Composer Mikis Theodorakis arrives to lie in state in a chapel of the Athens Cathedral for three days as the country mourns an icon of resistance to the former military junta. Theodorakis, who scored the 1964 classic film "Zorba the Greek", died in Athens on Thursday aged 96. IMAGES
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