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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama waves to thecrowd at a rally in the rain at the University of Mary

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A general view shows a solucar solar park in Sanlucar La Mayor,near Seville, Spain on November 6, 2008. The solar thermal power

plant uses mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto the top of a100 meter (300 foot) tower where it

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Astronaut Karen Nyberg, STS-124 mission specialist, looks through awindow in the newly installed Kibo laboratory of the International Space

Station while Space Shuttle Discovery is docked with the station on June10th, 2008

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In this March 11, 2008 photo, a boy plays soccer at LaBoca neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina

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A Kosovo Albanian man in the Kosovo town of Stimlje, south of the

capital Pristina, tries to rescue his horse after it veered off the roadand fell into a river March 26, 2008

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Staff stand in a meeting room at the Lehman Brothers offices in

the financial district of Canary Wharf in London September 11,2008. Lehman Brothers eventually filed for bankruptcy.

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A U.S. Marine with aground combat elementassigned to DeltaCompany, 2nd LightArmoredReconnaissanceBattalion, Task ForceMechanized, Multi-National Force - Westwalks through the HatraRuins in the JazeerahDesert in Iraq on July20, 2008. The taskforce is conducting

disruption operations inthe area to deny theenemy sanctuary andprevent foreign fightersfrom accessing the

area

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A young sapphire miner holds on tight to a rope as he is lowered into a deephole in the ground in a field in Anzanakaro near Ilakaka, Madagascar on

September 14, 2008. Local miners and many of their family members workdeep narrow holes where they scrape gravel and sand in search of sapphires.

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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama (lower right) waves as hearrives at a rally of 100,000 supporters in St. Louis, Mo., Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008

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In this April 30, 2008 photo, a young Iraqi boyposes for a photo after graduating from

kindergarten in Baghdad, Iraq.

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Most of the homes in the Oakridge mobile home park, which reportedly had 600-800homes, lie in ruins after burning in the Sylmar Fire on November 15, 2008 in Sylmar,

California.

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The bodies of two Palestinian militants lay near their mortar launcher after an Israeli airstrike in GazaNovember 16, 2008. They had been firing mortar rounds into a neighbouring Israeli neighbourhood. An

Israeli air strike killed four Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Sunday and two rockets fired from theHamas-controlled territory hit Israel as a five-month-old ceasefire continued to unravel

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Mateja Robnik of Slovenia negotiates a track of the women's giant slalomFIS World Cup event in Maribor, Slovenia January 12, 2008.

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A military helicopter transporting soldiers and engineers prepares to land near the Tangjiashan quake lakearea at earthquake-hit Beichuan, Sichuan province, China on May 27, 2008. China had evacuated more

than 150,000 people living below a swollen lake formed by this month's devastating earthquake amid fearsit could burst and trigger massive flooding, state media said on Wednesday.

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21-year-old Ajmal Kasab, one of ten terrorists who attacked Mumbai, India on November 26th,2008 walks through the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station, carrying weapons and

duffel bags of ammunition. Kasab and his cohorts - all from Pakistan - killed over 170 peopleover the course of three days, until all except Kasab were killed by Indian forces.

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A competitor dives from the 14 meter-high bridge over Drina river during annual high diving competition in Bosnian town of Visegrad

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Men are caught in a dust storm while playing cricket at aplayground in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 31, 2008.

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Internally Displaced People leave Kibati heading north from the city to their villages, Kibumba and Rugari, northof the provincial capital of Goma, Congo, on November 2, 2008. Several thousand people displaced in the

fighting between rebels and government troops in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo began returning homeSunday as a ceasefire held, an AFP correspondent on the scene reported.

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An earthquake survivor tries to figure out where his home used to be at the DonghekouEarthquake Relics Park, which covers one town and five villages including DonghekouVillage, on November 11, 2008 in Qingchuan County of Sichuan Province, China. The

park, which is the first memorial site after the massive Wenchuan Earthquake, wasopened to the public on November 12, 2008.

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Casey Stoner of Australia and the Ducati Team in action on a wet track, duringa practice run for the Australian MotoGP at the Phillip Island Circuit on October

3, 2008 in Phillip Island, Australia.

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A man's hand drips blood as he stands in front of riot policemenduring a demonstration in Athens, part of a days-long series of

demonstrations throughout Greece on December 9, 2008.

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Soldiers maintain order amongst stranded passengers outside a railway stationin Guangzhou, Guangdong province, February 3, 2008. A stampede at

Guangzhou railway station killed one person when frustrated passengers

rushed to board trains after days of cancellations because of fierce cold andsnow, police confirmed on Sunday.

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An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas statepolicemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movementfrom a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon

March 11, 2008. The landless peasants tried in vain to resist the eviction with bows and arrowsagainst police using tear gas and trained dogs, and were evicted from the land

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A fire fighting airplane drops water on the burning Turkish shipUndadriyatik in the waters near town of Rovinj, Croatia in the

northern Adriatic Sea on Feb. 6, 2008

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Thousands of black clad Israeli Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Arieh LevishTeitelbaum, one of the Israeli victims of the Mumbai attacks, on December 2, 2008 in

Jerusalem. Wailing and chanting psalms, thousands of people bid a final farewell today

to the six Jews killed in last week's bloody Mumbai attacks and whose bodies were flownto Israel for burial.

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Pakistani men try to rescue a donkey buried during an earthquake in Ziarat, about 130kilometers (81 miles) south of Quetta, Pakistan on October 30th, 2008. Rescue workers

searched through the rubble of villages destroyed by a powerful earthquake insouthwestern Pakistan that killed at least 215 people.

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An Indian policeman holds a shield against stone-throwing Kashmiri Muslim protesters in Srinagar September 9,

2008. More than two dozen people including 10 policemen were injured in Kashmir on Tuesday when policeclashed with hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators in fresh protests against Indian rule in the area.

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People drop lines in holes on a frozen river at an event to fish trout in Hwacheon, SouthKorea, about 20 km (12 miles) south of the demilitarised zone separating two Koreas,

northeast of Seoul January 13, 2008. More than 1,000,000 people attend at the annualice festival which lasts for three weeks in January.

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Images of books on shelves are seen projected on the walls of the Tower of David inJerusalem's Old City - part of a show called "Or Shalem, Jerusalem Lights the Night",

staged by a group called Skertz on October 7, 2008. The Tower of David is a massive

citadel that, over the centuries, has served as a fortress, military barracks and cannonposition. These days, the Tower serves as a popular tourist site.

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Austrian pilot Hannes Arch flies during the Red Bull Air RaceWorld Series, with the Hungarian Parliament Building in the

background in Budapest Hungary on August 20 2008