World Expo opens to public in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China - Armed policemen check visitors' tickets at gates to the Shanghai World Exp site on May 1, 2010, as the world fair opened to the public the same day. Up to 70 million people, 95 percent of them from within China, are expected to visit over the next six months to see the sometimes curious architecture of national pavilions and different cultural performances.

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