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Picture this: The week's top stories in charts


It’s been quite a week in the world of news. Here are five charts that put the week’s happenings into perspective:

1: The death at 74 of one of the world's most notable athletes, boxer Muhammad Ali, brought tears and tributes from around the world.

2: Hillary Clinton became the presumptive 2016 Democratic presidential candidate when she clinched the number of delegates needed for an uncontested convention.

3: Outrage erupted after a California judge sentenced a former Stanford student-athlete, Brock Turner, to a light sentence for raping a young woman.

4: Four people were killed when gunmen posing as diners opened fire at a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Israel.

5: Tennis star Maria Sharapova was banned from competing for two years after testing positive for a banned medication.