A little over a month ago, we asked you to show us the world through photographs. With gratitude — and awe — we present our selection from “Picturing 7 Billion.”

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Lens Blog: Readers’ Photographs: Picturing 7 Billion

Still healing from the devastating terrorist attack just under a month ago, Norwegians are preparing for local elections. While all talk of and about politics was informally banned by the parties themselves until now, last weekend saw the first TV debates and campaign kick-offs in several major cities.

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Norway’s Elections: After the Terror

Survivors of a mass shooting attack in Norway returned Saturday for the first time to the island where a gunman went on a rampage a month ago, killing 69 people.

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Norway survivors return to island

A kebab house at the centre of an E. coli outbreak was inspected less than a month ago, a council confirms.

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E.coli probe takeaway ‘inspected’

South African photographer Anton Hammerl has been killed Libya, his family said on Facebook Thursday. Hammerl, who was reported missing over a month ago, was killed April 5 by Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s forces. Hammerl’s family said the photographer had…

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Photographer Killed in Libya

The bill’s in: Portugal is going to cost the European Union and the International Monetary Fund €78 billion, or $116 billion, in bailout cash. The country requested a bailout about a month ago, becoming the third member of the eurozone to need an…

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Portugal Reaches $116B Bailout Deal

Iraq says it has arrested 12 suspected militants in connection with a deadly church siege in Baghdad a month ago, which left at least 50 dead.

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Iraq arrests 12 over church siege