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Photos of the day | Friday, Sept. 10, 2010
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A massive fire burned homes as it roared through a mostly residential neighborhood in the hills south of San Francisco following a loud explosion Thursday evening, Sept. 9, 2010, that shot a fireball more than 1,000 feet into the air and sent frightened residents fleeing for safety, witnesses said.
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Jeremy Tharp of Fountain Head Management Inc. cleans out insulation from Andrew Diggs' apartment on Thursday, September 9, 2010, after a tornado tore off the roof the day before at May Road Apartments in Seagoville, Texas.
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A brick chimney on Terrabella Lane in Heath, Texas, is shown Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010, crumbled in the strong winds of Wednesday night's storm.
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Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos picks up Edward Nino Hernandez, 24, at the presidential palace in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday Sept. 9, 2010. Nino has been recognized as the world's shortest man in the new Guinness World Records 2011.
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Photos of the day | Monday, Sept. 13, 2010
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Hurricane Igor churns east of the northern Leeward Islands Sept. 13, 2010 in the Atlantic Ocean. It has become the Atlantic seasons most powerful hurricane but forecasters predict it will turn north and bypass the mainland U.S.
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A boy's face is covered in flour after competing in the traditional "Las Chamcacas" game of blowing into bowls of flour during celebrations honoring the town's patron saint "Santa Cruz de Roma," or "The Holy Cross of Rome," in Panchimalco, El Salvador.
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The Tribute in Lights glow skyward near the World Trade Center site, Sept. 11, in New York.
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A slurry bomber drops retardant on a burning ridge as a wildfire burns at sunset west of Loveland, Colo., on Sunday.
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A competitor tries to solve the Rubik cube on the final day of the 2010 Rubik's Cube German Championships in the 3x3x3 cube "Classical category."
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Pakistani flood victims, desperate for aid, swim towards a building where the army is dropping aid from a helicopter onto the rooftop in Sindh province on Sept.13. Some 21 million people have been affected by the floods that began more than six weeks ago. Advancing floodwaters continue to threaten parts of Sindh province, with 19 of its 23 districts deluged and 2.8 million people displaced, according to provincial authorities.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy (second from right) and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (right) look at prehistoric paintings of extinct bulls during a visit with scientists at the Lascaux Cave in southwestern France. The Lascaux cave has been closed to the public since 1963 to prevent deterioration of the art caused by humidity and warmth from visitors.
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Chinese babies accompanied by their parents take part in a baby swimming contest, which the organizer hopes will break the Guinness World Record for the most babies swimming together.
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Photos of the day | Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
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Fog blankets the Space Needle and downtown early Tuesday morning.
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Fermin Salomon Morales, from central Peru, tends a band of 1,000 sheep on the range land east of Moxee in Yakima County.
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Photos of the day | Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010
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Abandoned puppies roam a village in Tanah Karo near the erupting Mount Sinabung, seen emitting volcanic ash in North Sumatra province on September 15, 2010. More than 20,000 people have fled their homes since the volcano first erupted late August and remain in emergency shelters. Volcanologists said Sinabung's long dormant period had made it highly unpredictable.
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A Chinese doctor checks a bacteria sample at a hospital in Beijing on September 14, 2010. Health authorities in China are scrambling to allay public fears about a tick-borne disease that has killed more than 30 people since 2007, but admitted they do not know how many have been infected.
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A narrow strip of land serves as refuge near Khairpur Nathan Shah in Sindh province, Pakistan, as flooding continues Thursday, September 14, 2010. A US official is quoted saying the United Nations will raise an emergency appeal to support flood-ravaged Pakistan, despite concerns that an initial call to donors has fallen short.
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Connie Culp, who underwent the first face transplant surgery in the U.S., talks at the Cleveland Clinic on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010 in Cleveland. The woman who had the nation's first face transplant is asking Ohioans to register as organ donors.
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Fishermen try to secure their boats as tropical storm Karl arrives in the town of Mahahual in southern Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. Karl is expected to quickly weaken into a tropical depression as it slogs across the flat peninsula before heading back out over the Gulf of Mexico, where it could turn into a hurricane by the end of the week and threaten the central Mexican coast.
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A woman walks at sunset in El Alto, Bolivia, Monday Sept. 13, 2010.
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Foreign women sunbathe at the Dubai Marina in the Gulf emirate on September 15, 2010.
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Photos of the Day | Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010
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A girl carries firewood in a Pakistani army-run relief camp in Sehwan, in the Sindh province, on September 15, 2010. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food Programme (WFP) have announced that they are to join forces to address Pakistan's food shortage emergency following floods that ravaged 10 percent of the country's crops. Pakistan's worst-ever floods have left 10 million people without shelter nationwide and vulnerable to hunger and malnutrition. Some 21 million people have been affected by the floods, which began more than six weeks ago, leaving more than eight million reliant on aid handouts for survival.
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In this Sept. 14, 2010 photo, 9-year-old Ethan White feeds cereal to his four month old miniature pot-bellied pig "Roger" at his home in Midland, Mich. The Midland City Council has unanimously denied a request that would have allowed the animal to remain with Ethan White. Ethan is allergic to animals with long hair and fur. Local ordinances do not allow residents to own pigs.
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An Afghan boy escorts a donkey carrying ballot materials in Dara, Panjshir province, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. Afghanistan will go to parliamentary elections on Sept. 18.
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Photos of the Day | Friday, Sept. 17, 2010
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In this handout satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Hurricanes Karl, Julia, and Igor are seen in the Atlantic Ocean September 16, 2010 as seen from space. Igor is moving slowly northwestward, Julia is weakening as it moves quickly northwestward over open waters of the eastern Atlantic and Karl has become a hurricane.
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Residents in the Park Slope neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York circle around a car crushed by a fallen tree, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. A brief but severe storm has swept through New York City, uprooting trees and damaging cars.
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Children cross a flooded area on empty oil drums, near an army run relief camp in Sehwan, Sindh province, Pakistan, on September 16, 2010. Antonio Guterres of the UN refugee agency on Thursday urged the world to do far more to help Pakistan recover from catastrophic floods that hit millions, on the eve of a major new UN appeal in New York. Some 21 million people have been affected by the floods, which began more than six weeks ago, leaving more than eight million reliant on aid handouts for survival.
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A plume of volcanic ash is emitted by Mount Sinabung, seen under moon light from Tanah Karo district in North Sumatra province in this time exposure taken late September 16, 2010. Authorities still maintain alert status after the volcano erupted late August after lying dormant for some four centuries. About 20,000 people have fled their homes and sought refuge at evacuation centers following series of powerful eruption. The sprawling Indonesian archipelago has 69 active volcanoes with histories of eruptions and straddles major seismic fault-lines in a region known as the "Pacific Ring of Fire".
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A man searches for reusable items as an idol of elephant headed Hindu god Ganesh peeks above the waters of the Sabarmati river along with flowers and prayer material floating in the river in Ahmadabad, India, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. Every year millions of devout Hindus immerse idols of god Ganesh into oceans and rivers in the 10-day long festival that celebrates the birth of the Hindu god.
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Photos of the Day | Monday, Sept. 20, 2010
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Philllipe Croizon, a Frenchman whose arms and legs were amputated, holds a French flag during a press conference in Wissant, northern France, Monday, Sept. 20, 2010, after crossing the English Channel this weekend using leg prostheses that have flippers attached. Croizon, 42, had expected the tough crossing to take up to 24 hours and instead, he finished in only 13 and a half.
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Waves crash onto the beach at John Smith's Bay in Smith's Parish as Hurricane Igor approaches in Bermuda, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010.
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Women polling agents wait for voters at a polling station during the parliamentary elections in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010.
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Participants walk through the coals during a gathering of witches in Vilnius, Lithuaniaon September 18, 2010.
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A rescuer carries a woman through flood waters in the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung on September 20, 2010 after Typhoon Fanapi crossed the island the day before dumping up to a metre of water of rain in some places. Schools and offices were closed in typhoon-hit parts of Taiwan as residents started clearing up after their homes were flooded by the storm.
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Smoke covers the sun during a fire at Brasilia's National Park, on September 19, 2010. A forest fire was burning out of control Sunday across a big swath of national park very near Brazil's capital Brasilia, management of the park told AFP. More than 140 firefighters were battling the blaze, which was suspected to have been deliberately started in the dry brushland of the park, popularly known as Agua Mineral. The number of fires caused by droughts or the extensive burning of grasslands has increased by 85 percent this year so far in Brazil compared to 2009.
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A man lights a candle in the street in front a the flat of a woman who killed three people, near St. Elisabethen hospital in Loerrach, soutwestern Germany, on September 20, 2010. German investigators said Monday they believe a domestic row drove a woman to murder and torch her estranged husband and small son and kill a hospital employee before being shot dead by police.
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A silhouetted Indian youth takes a look inside the 'Mother Express' exhibition train, dedicated to Mother Teresa on her 100th birth anniversary, at Siliguri Junction Station in Siliguri on September 20, 2010. Mother Teresa began her missionary work with the poor in Kolkata in 1948 and the teeming east Indian metropolis remained her base until her death in September 1997.
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A surfer rides a wave as a low pressure system creates large swell on the east coast of Australia at Bronte Beach on September 18, 2010 in Sydney, Australia. Swells of around 3 metres have been occurring off the coast of Sydney, causing hazardous conditions along parts of the East Coast. A new record was set off of Tasmania on September 16 one wave 18.4m, a new national record.
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Photos of the Day | Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010
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Space shuttle Discovery begins its 3.4-mile journey to Launch Pad 39A after leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. Discovery is schedule to launch Nov. 1. and will be the last launch of shuttle Discovery before the shuttle program ends.
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After posing for the formal photos of the DeAnna Hunter and Matthew Fink wedding, the bride's maids and groom's men, chase geese at Gasworks Park in Seattle, Friday September 17, 2010. The wedding party includes, from left, Caitlin Wollaston, Kyle Bressler, Tabi Adkins, Chris Corey, Keirstein Wilson, Tia Papropalous, Megan Murray, Kyle Tait, Ashley Johnson and Adam Cochr
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A Pakistani man displaced by floods grabs his opponent during a traditional game of Kabaddi, a team contact sport, outside their camps in Sukkur, southern Pakistan on Wednesday Sept. 21, 2010. Government officials organized the event to entertain flood affected people and help them temporarily forget life at the camps.
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Commuters walk across a floating boat bridge on the Buriganga river in Dhaka on September 21, 2010. Water hyacinth has hampered the movement of boats on the river so boats are tied together to form a temporary bridge.
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Tiny water drops from a recent rain magnify the hairs on a leaf of Sage, in Omaha, Neb., Monday, Sept. 20, 2010.
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Photos of the Day | Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010
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A hawk perched on a tree at the edge of Randleman Lake is framed by the harvest moon, near Branson Davis Road in Randolph County, N.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010. The moonrise was a rare full moon rising on the first day of fall.
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Seattle Police investigators and medical team leave the scene at 9445 14th Ave SW. Police found four people dead from gunshot wounds inside the West Seattle home after a wounded woman ran from inside yelling, "my mother has gone crazy." Among the dead was the woman believed to have been the shooter, described as an Asian woman in her 50s, said Seattle police spokesman Sean Whitcomb. She apparently took her own life as police were outside the home.
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Indian officials and villagers crowd around the carcass of an elephant, one of seven killed by a train over a railroad track, at Moraghat Tea Garden near Binnaguri in Jalpaiguri district of India's West Bengal state on September 23, 2010. Seven elephants were killed and one injured when a speeding train hit the animals overnight September 22. The elephants were hit when they were trying to help two baby elephants that were trapped on the tracks, a forestry official said in a report.
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In this photo released by Vandenberg Air Force Base on Tuesday Sept.21,2010 showing the Atlas 5 rocket launch Monday Sept. 20,2010. The rocket carried a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office.
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A Somali fisherman carries a shark on his shoulders to take to the market in Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday, Sept, 23, 2010.
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Newly trained female officers of Afghan National Army take front seats as a new batch of officers attend their graduation ceremony at National Army's training center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010.
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Men clear timber from the rubble of their collapsed family home at the Akhel Payan refugee camp near Nowshera, northwest Pakistan, on September 23, 2010. China is to give another 200 million USD in emergency flood aid to Pakistan, Premier Wen Jiabao announced during a visit to New York for a UN anti-poverty summit.
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Two men sit on an inverted boat by the Chenab river as it rains in Jammu, India, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010. India is experiencing an excessive rainfall this season after a drought last year. The annual monsoon season from June to October brings rains that are vital to agriculture in India.
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Photos of the Day | Friday, Sept. 24, 2010
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Edeilson Manoel do Nascimento holds an X-ray showing a knife that was inside his head at the Hospital das Clinicas in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. Nascimento is recovering nicely after a team of surgeons removed the 4-inch knife that had remained stuck in his head for three years after a bar fight.
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Two Komodo Dragon hatchlings that were part of group of 22 that recently hatched last month at the Los Angeles Zoo, on September 23, 2010. Hatchlings are 14 to 20 inches long and weigh about three to four ounces. Komodos, the world s largest lizard, can grow to approximately nine feet, weighing up to 200 pounds or more. Because Komodos are cannibalistic, readily eating the young and eggs of their own species, hatchlings are on their own from the start. In the wild, just after hatching the young scurry up nearby trees to avoid being eaten by the adults and remain in the trees, feeding on insects and small lizards, until they are too heavy to forage successfully up above.
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Residents flee a house through the window while trying to save belongings during a fire at Real Parque shantytown in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. No casualties were reported at the site where, according to authorities, about 1,500 people live.
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Young people play on a bandura, a Ukrainian national musical instrument, to earn money in central Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010.
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Foreign inmates wait their turn to perform in a circus, inspired by Cirque du Soleil, at the Santa Monica Prison for women in Lima, Peru, Thursday Sept. 23, 2010. Cirque du Soleil is currently performing in Peru.
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An Indian worker carries sand on her head outside Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the main venue for the Commonwealth Games, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. Frantic last-minute preparations for the Commonwealth Games were paying off, international sports officials said Friday, with armies of cleaners making progress at the fetid athletes' village and foreign teams announcing they planned to attend the troubled competition.
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Gale force winds crash waves from the North Sea into the Seaham Lighthouse in Sunderland northeast England Friday Sept. 24, 2010.
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Photos of the Day | Monday, Sept. 27, 2010
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A Minotaur 4 rocket carrying the Space Based Space Surveillance satellite blasts off and heads toward orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The satellite is designed to detect and monitor debris, satellites and other space objects that could be a threat to national security, communications and weather satellites.
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A mother and her child sleep on the pavement in Manila on Sept. 27.
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Tuaregs take part in the Cure Salee, or "Festival of the Nomads" in Ingall, northern Niger, on Sept. 25, 2010.
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North Korean villagers travel through fields near a village in the foothills of the Baekdu Mountains. China, the North's economic lifeline and sole major ally, has pressed it to follow its example in freeing up the economy, but Kim Jong-il's regime appears so far to be fearful of relaxing its grip.
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Nepalese devotees peer down as devotees pull the chariot of Kumari on the last day of the Indra Jatra Festival on Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu on September 27, 2010. The eight-day long Indra Jatra festival celebrates Indra, the king of gods and god of rains. Kumari, the prepubescent girl worshipped as a living goddess, is taken around parts of the capital city in religious procession during the festival.
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Afghan worker rests on a roof top of a hotel in the old part of Kabul on September 27, 2010. Hundreds of Afghan police joined a key military offensive against the Taliban in their heartland in southern Afghanistan, officials said. NATO forces are leading a new push against insurgents in Kandahar city and surrounding areas, dubbed Operation Dragon Strike, officials said.
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Photos of the Day | Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010
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Students gather on the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas, Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010 after a shooting. A gunman opened fire Tuesday inside a University of Texas campus library then fatally shot himself. Police are searching for a possible second suspect, university police said.
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A girl dressed up as Kumari, the prepubescent girl traditionally worshiped as a living goddess in Nepal, is carried to her golden chariot on the last day of the Indra Jatra Festival on Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu on September 27, 2010. The eight-day long Indra Jatra festival celebrates Indra, the king of gods and god of rains. Kumari is taken around parts of the capital city in religious procession during the festival.
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A man dressed up as the super hero character Spider Man performs during a parade in celebration of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in downtown Jerusalem, on September 28, 2010. Thousands of Israelis and Christian Evangelical supporters of the Jewish state marched today during their annual parade marking the Jewish holiday of Sukkot or the Feast of the Tabernacles.
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A man walks through a flooded street after it rained in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday Sept. 27, 2010.
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Aerial view of a car driving on a partially flooded road in Kleiunkugel in eastern Germany, on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. Heavy rainfalls overnight caused flooding in the area near the Polish border.
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A worker uses the lift in the Lloyds of London building in London's financial district on September 28, 2010 in London, England. The British insurance group has reported a 53 percent fall in profits, which has been attributed largely to the impact of major catastrophes such as the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, and the earthquake in Chile. Lloyds' pre-tax profits are down from 1.32bn GBP to 628m GBP for the first six months of 2010.
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Photos of the Day | Monday, Oct. 4, 2010
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A handout photo shows a leafy Seadragon, Phycodurus eques, which resembles a piece of drifting seaweed. Results of the first-ever global marine life census were unveiled on October 4, 2010 in London revealing an unprecedented view of life beneath the waves after a decade-long trawl through the murky depths. The Census of Marine Life estimated there are one million-plus species in the oceans, with at least three-quarters of them yet to be discovered.
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Photos of the Day | Thursday, Oct. 7
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EIghty-six-year-old Gloria LeBlanc from Irondale, Ala., gets a flu shot, from nurse Lisa Shannon at Costco in Hoover, Ala., where a flu shot clinic was held on Tuesday.
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A gondola to be used at the Winter Olympics in 2014 to ferry passengers to the media village and events is seen through fog on the "Mountain carousel" downhill skiing complex in Krasnaya Polyana outside Sochi on October 6, 2010.
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The setting sun sinks into a fog bank over the jetty as seen from Crescent City, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010.
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Photos of the Day | Friday, Oct. 8
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A Palestinian woman prepares tea on an open fire as she takes a break from harvesting olives with her family in the village of Qabatiya, near the West Bank city of Jenin, on October 8, 2010.
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Polluted waters of Marcal river, top, mixes with Raba river in Gyor, Hungary, Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. The mighty Danube apparently absorbed Hungary's massive red sludge spill with little immediate damage Friday but laboratory tests heightened concerns about possible longer-term harm caused by toxic heavy metals in the slurry.
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Workers harvest cranberries at a state farm in the village of Selishche, some 200 miles southwest of Minsk, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. While crossing the flooded fields, machines dislodge the berries allowing them to float to the surface so that employees can gather them.
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Photos of the Day | Monday, Oct. 11
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An aerial view shows the cracked northern wall of the dyke of the reservoir containing red mud of an alumina factory near Ajka, 156 kms southwest of Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. Five days ago the reservoir released about 800,000 cubic metres of caustic red sludge, which flooded villages in the area. The building of a ten meters high and 600 meters long protective barrier is under way, but a second spill can't be prevented according to experts. The recently-detected new crack appears to be widening.
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This photo shows a blue anole (Anolis gorgonae), a highly threatened lizard that is found only on the island of Gorgona, about 50 km off the Colombian Pacific coast. The island functioned as a prison until 1985 when it became a National Natural Reservation turning into an ecological paradise and an ideal place for observing humpback whales.
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Afghan children play around a house destroyed during the 1990s civil war in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010.
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Sail boats participate in the 42nd edition of the traditional "Barcolana" regatta in the gulf of Trieste, north-eastern Italy, Sunday. The Barcolana is an annual sailing race in the Gulf of Trieste with hundreds of participants which is described by the organizers as "Everybody's Regatta." In foreground at right, is the "Faro della Vittoria" (victory lighthouse).
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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010
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Sarah Stalder comforts her son, Marcus, 6, as a Wenatchee, Wash., firefighter extinguishes a brush fire that burned outside their home in Wenatchee Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010. The home is owned by Sarah's mother, Ellie Youngman. No one was injured in the fire.
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People light candles at the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida in the town of Aparecida, Brazil, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010. Thousands of pilgrims flocked to this town to celebrate the day of Our Lady of Aparecida, the patron saint of all Catholic Brazilians.
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A frog floats with cranberries awaiting harvest on a cranberry bog in Wareham, Mass., Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010.
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LuAnne Armstrong of Seattle took the day off from work to take advantage of a photographers only early morning shoot at the Japanese Garden -- one of four offered in the month of October to allow photographers to use all their gear to capture the turning colors of the leaves.
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Photos of the Day | Friday, Oct. 15, 2010
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An ultra light aircraft flies against the backdrop of the the Himalayan mountain range, including Mount Machhapuchhre, center, that has a height of 6993 meters, in the popular tourist destination of Pokhara, some of 200 kms west of Kathmandu on October 14, 2010.
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Cayden Peterson raises his hand during class on Sept. 16 at St. Edward's Catholic School in Jerome, Idaho. Cayden has Apert syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that affects one in 200,000 newborns. The disorder causes the skull and facial bones to fuse together prematurely, creating a rigid cage around a child's growing brain.
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Federal Councilor Moriz Leuenberger, center, hugs former Federal Councilor Adolf Ogi, left, after a giant drilling machine completed the world's longest tunnel beneath the Swiss Alps during a ceremony on October 15, 2010, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from one end and 2,000 meters below the mountains near Sedrun. By the time it opens for service in 2017, the 57-kilometer (35.4-mile) long Gotthard tunnel will exceed Seikan rail tunnel linking the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido and the world's longest road tunnel of Laerdal in Norway, paving the way for continuous high-speed rail travel between northern and southeastern Europe.
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This image obtained from NASA shows the first snapshots of a suspected asteroid collision captured by the Hubble Space telescope. The images, taken from January to May with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, show a bizarre X-shaped object, the likes of which astronomers have never seen before, at the head of a comet-like trail of material. The 400-foot-wide (122 meters) object in the image is thought to be a remnant of a larger body that collided at about 11,000 miles per hour (17,700 kilometers per hour) with a smaller rock that the scientists think measured 10 to 15 feet across. The crash released an explosion with the force of a small atomic bomb and is believed by astronomer David Jewitt of the University of California, Los Angeles, to have happened in February or March 2009.
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A two-month-old male Francois Langur monkey is held tight while being groomed by his mother, Lynn, at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Neb., Friday, Oct. 15, 2010. Francois Langur's are leaf-eating monkeys found in tropical Asia. They are born bright orange, and darken as they mature.
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Hanna Klebansky, right, of Jerusalem, and Linda Coppleson, left, of New Jersey, both scribes for the Women's Torah Project, turn over a section to be stitched together at Hillel UW on Wednesday, October 13, 2010.
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The top of a tree rises above the fog in a valley in Jasper, Ind., Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010.
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In this image released by the San Diego Zoo in California, a one-month-old giraffe calf named Machaleo made his debut alongside his mother, Shani, at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park on October 13, 2010. The male calf is the 115th Uganda giraffe born at the Safari Park.
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Photos of the Day | Monday, Oct. 18, 2010
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This image showing super Typhoon Megi over the Northern Philippines was provided by the NASA MODIS Rapid Response team website and was taken by Terra Satellite on October 18, 2010 at 2.30 UTC. Forecasters said Megi was the strongest storm to hit the Philippines since Typhoon Durian unleashed mudslides that buried entire towns and killed over 1,000 in 2006, and was likely the most powerful in the world this year. It pummelled remote coastal areas of the northern Philippines with gusts of up to 260 kilometres (161 miles) an hour on Monday morning as it made landfall, tearing roofs off houses and bringing down power lines.
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Residents brave the strong winds and heavy rains to retrieve fuel at the onslaught of typhoon Megi (local name "Juan") Monday in Cauayan, in northeastern Philippines. The strongest cyclone in years to buffet the Philippines knocked out communications and power as residents took shelter Monday.
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A sea lion "smiles" during a show at Kamogawa Sea Wolrd in Kamogawa, east of Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010.
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Iranian refugee Mohsen Abdolhoseini, 34, is seen with her lips sewn together during a press conference in Athens on Monday, Oct. 18, 2010. A group of six Iranians have sewn their lips together to demand that the Greek government grants them asylum, and have been camped in the city center since Sept. 1. The United Nations refugee agency and human rights groups have repeatedly criticized Greece for its tiny acceptance rate for asylum applications - less than 1 percent.
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School children react as they stare at an animatronic dinosaur during a preview for the Walking with Dinosaurs arena spectacular in Sydney, Monday, Oct. 18, 2010. Australia's most successful entertainment export, the life-sized dinosaurs have played to six and half million people worldwide and generated more than 350 million Australian dollars (US $344 million) in ticket sales.
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In this image made available by the Ministry of Defence in London, Monday Oct. 18, 2010, the sun rises over the Royal Navy nuclear attack submarine HMS Triumph, as she comes into a naval base on the River Clyde in Scotland, early Sunday Oct. 17, 2010. The vessel had been taking part in Exercise Joint Warrior, in which thirty ships, three submarines, seven helicopter units, 14 land-based air units and eleven seperate ground forces from, Britain, The US, Canada, Italy, France, Estonia, Spain, Poland Belgium, Turkey, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark took part, primarily around Scotland's coastline.
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Đa tạ bạn Itsholiday :)
Bây giờ ở HCMC coi truyền hình cáp các chương trình NatGeo (National Geographic Mỹ) hay Disscovery cũng... tạm :biggrin: "Tạm" là tại mình nghe... tạm :biggrin:
- danh hoạ Hoà Lan Vincent Van Gogh những năm cuối đời tự nhiên... tưng tửng, tự coi kiếng cắt 1 bên tai máu me lênh láng
- cái bông bự "thúi" là giống ăn thịt (côn trùng, ruồi, muỗi ...) côn trùng "nghe" mùi bu vô, các cánh hoa khép lại .... khỏi mong ngày về :biggrin: có nhiều trong rừng già Amazon Nam Mỹ.
.... có cả hình chụp từ không gian của NASA, xác tàu Titanic dưới bển sâu ...
:):)
À Ban Quản Trị cho hỏi chút :
- gõ xong click Preview Post coi lại trước khi post cũng phải log in lại ? Mắc công wớ :biggrin:
Hoặc thêm, bớt cũng phải log in mới "coi lại" được
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Chào bạn vào ĐN chơi :)
Thông thường thì bạn không nên gặp phải vấn đề "log in lại" này.... Bạn thử chọn check box Remember me gần nơi log in xem có giúp được gì không.
Động Nhím, cũng như những website khác, dùng cookies để lưu trữ nickname và password của thành viên trong khi đang log in và dùng website, khi bạn log out Động Nhím sẽ tự động xóa những cookies này. Tùy vào cách bạn chỉnh cookies của máy, nếu bạn chặn không cho Động Nhím dùng cookies trong máy bạn thì lần nào cái trang web refresh bạn cũng cần phải điền vào log in vì không có cookies thì website không thể nào chứng minh được là bạn đang log in. Thông thường thì sẽ không gặp vấn đề này, trừ khi là bạn đã chỉnh cookies settings...nhưng bạn thử chọn "Remember me" xem có giúp được gì không.
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Đa tạ ban. Chiện nhỏ :g:
Hình như nhiều bạn trên đây đang định cử ở nước ngoài ?
Sắp tới Thanksgiving + Noel rùi các bạn thấy người Tây có chuẩn bị gì chưa ? Còn các bạn thì sao kể nghe đi có hình càng tốt :)
Các hình thời sự báo chí bạn post rất cô đọng, lượng thông tin phong phú, nhiều hình mang đầy tính nghệ thuật :) Không những chú thích cho hình mà bài viết còn giải thích về vùng đó :)
Người Tây có "con mắt", cảm nhận khác người VN về các sự việc chung quanh
Có lần mình cùng 1 chú Phóng viên Italy lơn tơn Ca ti na SG (Đồng Khởi) chiều Chủ nhật : có gia đình nọ 2 vợ chồng + 2 con nhỏ chất nhau trên cái Dream 100cc dạo mát rất hào hứng.... chú Italy liền đưa máy lên bấm lia lịa... mình cũng chẳng ngạc nhiên vì nghĩ rằng nó ở bển qua nên thấy gì cũng lạ...
Nhưng không phải vậy....
.... khi cái Dream xa dần.... chú Italy mới hỏi mình với ánh mắt... kỳ kỳ :
- VN mày ngộ quá
- ?!?
- chở con trẻ bằng 2 bánh mà chẳng đứa nào đội helmet
-... ặc !!!
Tất nhiên nó nói bằng Anh ngữ chứ tiếng mẹ đẻ của nó ma nào hiểu :yea2:
Hùi mới học Anh ngữ cũng dzui : trong lớp thì vô tư :g:
Chừng ra kiếm cơm ... mới.... bật ngửa !
- du nâu (quái ? You no là gì ?) lát sau mới hỉu = You know :g:
- oi eo, hấy bờ à, oa tơ à (Oil, Habour, Water) nó đọc luôn âm l (Oil) âm r chót ( 2 chữ kia) :g:
- ever : có đứa đọc í vờ, đứa đọc ế vờ
- giọng New Zealand : "tu đai" (today) mới nghe cứ tưởng... To Die :g:
- do rai = You're right hoặc Your Eye
- eo lây = LA (Los Angeles)
Nghĩ lại tụi nó học tiếng Việt thì cũng ... lên bờ xuống ruộng như mình học tiếng nó hehehe :yea2:
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... sorrry ở trển gõ thiếu : Harbour :biggrin:
@ Bạn Itsholiday :
- Tango có bài này là kinh điển dân Tango ai cũng phải biết :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpLqCth7DrY
Còn Valse (Waltz) thì đây :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4rUa...eature=related :):)
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Trong này có nhiều bạn ở nước ngoài, cũng có nhiều bạn ở bên Việt Nam. :D
2 ngày lễ lớn nhất ở Mỹ là ngày Thanksgiving và Christmas (Noel), trong 2 ngày lễ này thì con cháu ở xa hay về thăm cha mẹ họ. Khác với người Việt mình là người Mỹ 1 khi dọn ra rồi thì ít về thăm lắm, không phải là họ không về được mà là ít khi nào về thăm cha mẹ hoặc ông bà của họ. Cha mẹ và ông bà cũng vậy, ít khi nào tới thăm con cháu lắm. Người Việt mình nếu ở rất xa thì vài ba tháng về thăm 1 lần, nếu ở xa thì vài ba tuần, còn ở gần thì hầu như ngày nào cũng gặp. Ở Mỹ bây giờ thì đa số nhà nào cũng chuẩn bị cho ngày lễ Halloween. Thanksgiving thì chưa chuẩn bị đâu. Tới Thanksgiving thì hầu như nhà nào cũng ăn gà Tây và khoai Tây (người Việt mình cũng vậy). Người Mỹ thấy ngày này là ngày lễ để Tạ Ơn, còn người Việt mình thì hầu như coi ngày này là 1 cái cớ đễ thăm viếng nhau và ăn nhậu thôi...hehehe Ngày Christmas cũng tương tự như vậy, người Tây coi trọng lắm còn người Việt mình thì hầu như thêm 1 lý do để ăn tiệc và thăm viếng bà còn và bạn bè. Ngày Christnmas thì thường có quà cáp nhiều hơn ngày Thanksgiving. 1 phần đông nhà nào cũng có cây Noel trong những ngày Christmas (Mỹ hay dùng cây thật còn người Việt mình hay dùng cây bằng nhựa). Không phải vì lý do tiền bạc mà dùng cây thật dọn dẹp mệt hơn cho nên người Việt mình làm cho có và dùng cây nhựa, người Mỹ thì họ làm đúng lệ hơn 1 chút (cây thật có mùi thơm). :D Mà cũng tùy vào tôn giáo nào nữa, nếu là Công Giáo và Tin Lành thì coi ngày Christmas rất quan trọng (kể cả người Việt mình). Nhà Nếp không theo đạo nào hết cho nên có lễ cũng ăn mừng mà không có lễ cũng tìm cớ để ăn mừng. :lol:
Nếu mà nói về tiếng Anh của người Anh thì họ phát ấm đúng lắm, nhưng nếu mà nói về tiếng Anh của người Mỹ thì có nhiều cách phát âm. Tuy không ai phát âm giống ai khi dùng tiếng Anh của Mỹ nhưng phần đồng có thể hiểu được nhau. Nếu nói mà không hiểu thì dùng tay để diễn tả và chỉ. :lol: Cũng như chữ "Harbour", chữ này viết theo tiếng Anh bên Anh, còn tiếng Anh bên Mỹ viết là "Harbor"...hehe...colour là color...vv... Có thể nói tiếng Anh của Mỹ dễ phổ biến vì phát âm kiểu nào cũng dễ hiểu hơn...vì Mỹ có quá nhiều dân tộc cho nên không ai nói giống ai. :D Ở Việt Nam thì giọng nói khác với miền (Nam, Tây, Trung, Bắc, vv...), còn ở Mỹ không những khác về miền mà còn khác do người nói thuộc về dân tộc nào nữa. :)
Nếp cứ nghĩ 1 ngày nào đó sẽ ghé thăm Vienna để nghe nhạc Waltz... :lol:
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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010
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Chariots race around Sydney Olympic Stadium during a full dress rehearsal for Ben Hur The Stadium Spectacular in Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010.
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Riot police officers fire teargas on students in Nanterre, near Paris, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010. People are taking to the streets in many cities across France to protest against the proposed raising of the retirement age to 62.
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Firefighting crews from Seatac and Bellingham Airports do live fire training at the Washington State Fire Training Academy in North Bend, part of a three-day annual certification. The state of the art facility is the only one of its kind in the northwest, and airport fire crews train with the intent of eliminating 90 percent of a fire's intensity within the first minute of the first crew arriving on the scene. Real jet fuel is used to simulate an emergency, and burns between 400-800 gallons per minute.
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A Strike Eagle tops off its tanks with jet fuel provided by a Fairchild Air Force Base 92nd Air Refuling Wing KC-135R Stratotanker on deployment at the Manas Transit Center in Kyrgyzstan on Oct. 16, 2010. The extra fuel extends the range and versatility of the fighter jets, which provide critical air support for U.S. ground forces battling insurgents.
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Volunteers help roll up a giant banner printed with the Preamble to the United States Constitution during a demonstration against the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall October 20, 2010 in Washington, DC. The rally at the memorial was organized by brothers Laird and Robin Monahan who spent the last five months walking from San Francisco, California, to Washington to protest the court decision, which overturned the provision of the McCain-Feingold law barring corporations and unions from paying for political ads made independently of candidate campaigns.
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Photo taken on October 6, 2010 shows an elderly Bhutanese woman outside her home in a village near the town of Haa. The Haa valley lies along the western border of the country and to the north it is bounded by the Tibet autonomous region of China. The valley was off-limits to tourists until 2002.
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Photos of the Day | Friday, Oct. 22, 2010
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Patients with cholera receive medical attention at St. Nicholas hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. An outbreak of cholera in rural central Haiti has killed at least 142 people and sickened hundreds more who overwhelmed the hospital in Saint Marc seeking treatment.
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A woman walks on the beach as stationary oil and gas tankers wait off Fos sur Mer, southern France, Friday Oct. 22, 2010. French President Nicolas Sarkozy ordered regional authorities to intervene and force open fuel depots, accusing the strikers of holding ordinary people and the French economy "hostage." French riot police forced open a strategic fuel refinery Friday that had been a bastion of resistance to President Nicolas Sarkozy's bid to raise the retirement age to 62, in a bid to end gasoline shortages.
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Tugs move in to assist the Royal Navy nuclear submarine HMS Astute, after it ran aground in shallow water off the Isle of Skye, Scotland, Friday Oct. 22, 2010. The Ministry of Defence insisted that the accident was not a nuclear incident, that the submarine remained watertight, and that there is no indication of any environmental problems as a result of the accident. The Astute is biggest and most powerful attack submarine ever built for the Royal Navy, and measures nearly one hundred meters from bow to stern, and is longer than ten London buses.
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Sebastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia of France driving a Citroen C4 in action during a Rally of Catalonia in La Ribera d'Ebre, Spain, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010.
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Amish school children walk with their baseball bats and gloves to a neighboring school for a softball game in Middlefield, Ohio on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. Normally the students play the game at recess at their own school, but on this day they were taking a field trip to the next school over to play.
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President Barack Obama reaches to high-five someone in the crowd as he leaves a rally at the University of Washington in Seattle, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Obama spoke earlier at a private home about women and the economy Thursday morning before headlining the rally for Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.
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A model shows a creation by Romona Keveza during Toronto Fashion Week in Toronto Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010.
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An Afghan villager walks among US soldiers from L Trp 4/25CR at a check point in Kandahar City, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010.
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A train has to stop at a portion of North-South railway that was destroyed by recent floods in Vu Quang district, central province of Ha Tinh on October 22, 2010. The floods which killed at least 74 people, destroyed also many infrastructure facilities in central Vietnam.
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Photos of the Day | Monday, Oct. 25, 2010
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A full moon rises behind the art deco spire of the old Kansas City and Light building in downtown Kansas City, Mo. Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010.
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Phila, a five year old critically endangered Black Rhino, after being released at the Johannesburg Zoo, Monday Oct. 25. 2010. Phila has been moved to the zoo where she will be kept in safety, away from poachers, before being returned to her original herd. Although she had been dehorned she has been the target of poachers who have shot her twice in the wild and seven times in captivity.
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Philipp Schoerghofer, of Austria, speeds down the course during the first run of an alpine ski men's World Cup giant slalom race race in Soelden, Austria, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010.
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Photos of the Day | Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010
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Pedestrians laugh as they fight high winds and rain along South Wabash Avenue at East Jackson Boulevard in Chicago's Loop on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. Strong wind and torrential rain buffeted the Midwest Tuesday as forecasters predicted the giant storm could be the most powerful to hit Illinois in over seven decades.
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Two Red Cross workers walk away from a barn that was lifted off its foundation by a tornado Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010, in Mount Pleasant, Wis. Wisconsin is one of eleven states in the Midwest under a high wind warning.
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An employee of Haiti's Ministry of Health shows a device that measures the level of chlorine in the water stored in plastic tanks that is consumed by earthquake survivors at a refugee camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. The Haitian government is conducting tests in the camps around the capital and purifying the water with chlorine tablets in order to avoid the spread of the cholera outbreak that killed more than 250 people in rural Haiti.
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Indonesian rescuers evacuate victims of Merapi volcano at Kinahrejo village, Sleman, Yogyakarta on October 26, 2010. Indonesia's Mount Merapi erupted three times on October 26, causing thousands to flee and claiming the life of a three-month-old baby as it emitted searing clouds and volcanic ash.
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An Indian woman gets her hand decorated with traditional design using henna paste as part of "Karwa Chauth" festivities, in Allahabad, India, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. Married Hindu women observe a day long fast for the health and long life of their husbands during this festival which is celebrated in northern India.
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St George's Hall is seen during a banquet held during the state visit of Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and his wife Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned at Windsor Castle on October 26, 2010 in Windsor, United Kingdom. The Sheikh is on a two day State visit to the UK, the first since his last in 1985, which is seen as important in strengthening already strongly established business links with one of the Gulf States most financially powerful nations.
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A worker rides a bike in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. Iran began loading fuel into the core of its first atomic power plant on Tuesday, moving closer to the start up of a facility that leaders have touted as defying of international efforts to curtail the country's nuclear ambitions.
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A man drives his bicycle taxi, decorated with an image of Cuban revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara, past vintage cars in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. Cuba has made official the economic changes it announced last month, publishing nearly 100 pages of rules and regulations for small businesses in the government Gazette, raising hopes that eagerly anticipated licenses for the newly self-employed could be issued soon.
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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010
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A rescuer works in a village hit by the eruption of Mount Merapi in Indonesia. The eruption and a tsunami killed people hundreds of miles apart.
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Dana Maragos heads to the train station as winds whipped throughout the Midwest Tuesday.
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Water splashes over the 57-foot tall Ludington Lighthouse in Michigan as wind gusts reached 64 mph. The storm packed wind gusts of up to 81 mph Tuesday as it howled across the Midwest and South, snapping trees and power lines, ripping off roofs and delaying flights.
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Seattle Police remove the suspect in Tuesday night's shooting death at 2nd Avenue and Pike Street. The suspect, Tomas Afeworki, was under the supervision of the state Department of Corrections for a second-degree assault conviction, according to law-enforcement officials.
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Cattle walk through a foggy field on Wednesday near Hopkinsville, Ky.
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China unveils new bullet trains linking Shanghai with Hangzhou.
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Windy Leu, who lives at Stevens Pass, snowshoes under the Hogsback Express lift with her dog Cedar.
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A Pakistani girl mourns the death of relative at a blast site in Quetta on Oct, 27. The bomb killed at least two people and wounded 11.
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Afghan children run in front of the ruined Darlaman Palace Oct. 27. More than 300 Afghan Kuchi tribal nomads settled into the palace several months ago under the protection of Afghan paramilitary police who use the ruins as a makeshift patrol base.
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Kittens sit in a bucket before meeting the Duchess of Cornwall, during a visit to the Battersea Dog and Cat's Home in London, Wednesday. It was the Duchess' first visit to the home, which offers refuge to lost and abandoned cats and kittens.
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A para-glider soars near Rosenheim, southern Germany, on Wednesday.
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Photos of the Day | Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010
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A Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Ministry of Health employee administers a polio vaccination to a Congolese child during the first day of a national polio mass immunization campaign in Lubumbashi located in the southern part of the DRC on October 28, 2010. Fifteen countries in Africa are undertaking a mass polio immunization campaign for 72 million children this week, the World Health Organization said earlier in the week. Polio has spread again in recent years with cases imported from some of the four endemic nations in Asia and Africa, mainly Nigeria, in a setback to global attempts to eradicate the crippling and sometimes lethal disease.
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A Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, his face smeared with turmeric and vermilion paste, looks on at the Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010.
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Protesting Culture Ministry contract workers, left, display a banner reading "No Firings" on the roof of the Propylaea, the monumental gate of the ancient Acropolis and in front of the Parthenon temple, right, on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. Tens of thousands of government workers on short-term contracts are facing redundancy in crisis-hit Greece. Thursday's protest occurred on a Greek national holiday to honor veterans of World War II.
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Paul Beales and Billy-Joe Whenman of Great Britain ride the London 2012 Olympic Mountain Bike venue at Hadleigh Farm on October 28, 2010 in Southend, England. The London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) and Essex County Council invited media to visit Hadleigh Farm, the London 2012 Olympic Mountain Bike venue, for a first look at how the course is taking shape. Excellent progress has been made since construction started in July 2010, with some key features now complete. Work is on schedule to be completed in advance of a test event in Summer 2011.
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A woman coming from Ounamenthe, in Haiti, crosses into the Dominican Republic through the bordering Masacre river, on October 27, 2010. The death toll in an outbreak of cholera in Haiti rose by eight to 292 on Wednesday, but officials said 500 more people had been hospitalized suffering from the virulent illness. More than 3,600 people have been infected in the sudden cholera outbreak in the impoverished Caribbean nation since last week, and the WHO's cholera experts remain mystified by the origins of the epidemic. Some 1.3 million people displaced by a January earthquake are still crammed into thousands of makeshift camps dotted around the capital, and aid agencies had voiced fears that cholera could spread like wildfire in such conditions.
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Photos of the Day | Friday, Oct. 29, 2010
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Investigators are seen inspecting a United Parcel Service jet near the company's facility at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. Law enforcement officials are investigating reports of suspicious packages on cargo planes in Philadelphia and Newark, N.J.
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Mount Merapi spews pyroclastic smoke and ash Friday near Yogyakarta, Indonesia. At least 36 people were killed in earlier eruptions this week, with authorities evacuating villagers within a 10km zone after warning more eruptions are imminent. Mount Merapi, the 'Mountain of Fire', is the most active volcano in Indonesia.
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Medical workers take care of wounded victims from the village of Munte Baru-Baru hamlet on North Pagai island after a 7.7-magnitude quake-triggered tsunami hit the Mentawai islands, West Sumatra on October 28, 2010. The death toll from the tsunami which struck western Indonesia rose to 311 with another 379 still listed as missing more than two days after the disaster, an official said on October 28.
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A snow covered Mount St. Helens is shown in Ridgefield, Wash. on Oct. 27, 2010.
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Firefighters fight the flames of the Dome Fire on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 in Boulder, Colo. The fires are burning on about 20 acres on public open space land. Authorities have ordered evacuations for a portion of Boulder's west side, where approximately 1,700 people live. Two medical buildings are also being evacuated.
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One of two driverless vehicles, equipped with laser scanners and cameras to detect and help avoid obstacles, travels on the Shanghai Expo site to attend the official celebration of their arrival in Shanghai, China, Thursday Oct. 28, 2010. A team of Italian engineers launched the longest-ever test drive of driverless vehicles, a 13,000-kilometer (8,000-mile), three-month road trip from Italy to China.
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Janette Johnson jumps through a shattered wall of her rental home after searching for some papers Thursday, October 28, 2010. The home, which she lives in with her mother and son in Roxboro, North Carolina, was destroyed by strong storms early Thursday morning.
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This NASA Earth Observatory released on October 29, 2010 and taken by the GOES satellite on October 26, shows a storm system circling around the area of extreme low pressure in the upper Midwest of the United States. Such extratropical cyclones form over the United States in the spring and fall, when the temperature difference from north to south is large. Warm, high-pressure air rushes toward the cooler, low-pressure air in the north. Because the Earth is rotating, the air moving in ends up circling the area of low pressure, creating the cyclone shown in the image. The intensity of the storm is determined by the pressure difference between the center and the outer edges. Extreme low pressure in the center of the storm, therefore, is an indicator that the storm was very intense.The storm that swept across the center of the United States on October 26 and October 27, 2010, was memorable to those who experienced it because of its strong winds, rain, hail, and widespread tornadoes.
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A flock of birds that were feeding on grass near the runway, swarm upwards as a U.S. Air Force plane makes touch-and-go landings Friday Oct. 29, 2010 at the Fort Smith Regional Airport in Fort Smith, Ark.
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Photos of the Day | Monday, Nov. 1, 2010
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Residents evacuate the danger zone as the Merapi volcano explodes in Indonesia on Nov. 1. An eruption killed at least 36 people last week. In addition to Merapi, 21 other volcanoes in Indonesia have begun to rumble, seismologists say.
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A crater appears in the German town of of Schmalkalden on Nov. 1. Twenty five residents were evacuated.
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A heron walks in shallow water in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge Oct. 31, in Titusville, Florida.
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A woman wipes a tear as she prays next to the tomb of her relatives on the eve of All Saints Day in a cemetery in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday.
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A Pakistani boy smiles after catching a fish next to a refugee camp in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan, Monday.
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A couple enjoys the sunset on the outskirts of Belarus's capital Minsk, Sunday.
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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010
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U.S. President Barack Obama holds a news conference, the day after Republicans gained 60 seats in the House of Representatives in midterm elections, in the East Room of the White House November 3, 2010 in Washington, DC. As of Tuesday morning, the Republican party had won 239 seats in the House, giving the GOP control of the chamber for the first time since 2006. The power shift could jeopardize Obama's legislative plans for the next two years.
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An elderly Afghan man rests inside a public park as fighter jets, unseen, leave trails in the sky over Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010.
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South Korean Min Soon-Gi (not pictured), 83, grasps a hand of his North Korean older sister Min Soon-Bi, 86, during a separated family reunion meeting at the Mount Kumgang resort on the North's southeastern coast, near the border, on November 3, 2010. South and North Korea resumed the reunions of families separated by the Korean War six decades ago, contrasting with the heightening tension along their border after a series of incidents involving gunfire.
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Octopus Paul II, successor to the tentacled tipster that wowed the world with his uncanny knack of correctly predicting World Cup football games, swims in his aquarium as he is presented to the media on November 3, 2010 in at the Sea Life aquarium in Oberhausen, western Germany. The new cephalopod, also named Paul in honour of his world-famous predecessor who passed away last week, was lowered gently into his tank in a ceremony carried live on national television.
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Thai villagers wade through floodwater during floods in the southern Thai city of Hat Yai on November 3, 2010. Thai troops scrambled to reach thousands of people stranded after flash floods swept through a major southern city, as the government expressed optimism it could reach all those trapped.
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An Indonesian man watches as Mount Merapi erupts in Kepuharjo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010. Indonesia's most dangerous volcano is once again sending searing gas clouds and burning rocks down its scorched flanks.
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Pakistani floods displaced women sit on a bench outside the hospital in Basira village, Punjab Province, Pakistan, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010.
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A man puts flowers on the lid of a wall tomb at the General Cemetery in San Salvador, El Salvador, on the Day of the Dead on November 2, 2010. The Day of the Dead is celebrated by Catholics is some countries and occurs in connection with the Catholic holidays of All Saints' Day on November 1 and All Souls' Day on November 2nd.
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A baby Guanaco is nursed by her mother Hannah, right, in their enclosure at the zoo in Berlin, November 2, 2010. The South America native Lama female calf was born in the zoo on last October 17.
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People walk past a heart made of autumnally coloured leaves on the grass in Berlin's Tiergarten park on November 2, 2010, as temperatures fell to around ten degrees Celsius.
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Photos of the Day | Friday, Nov. 5, 2010
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Swiss pilot Yves Rossy, the first man in the world to fly under a jet-fitted wing, speeds through the air to perform a looping in Bercher, western Switzerland, Friday, Nov 5, 2010. Rossy has completed two aerial loops using his custom-made jet-propelled wingsuit. Rossy jumped from a hot-air balloon above Lake Geneva and performed the daredevil stunt before landing safely with a parachute.
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A little girl is carried into a U.N. as earthquake survivors are evacuated from the Corail-Cesselesse tent refugee camp before the arrival of tropical storm Tomas in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010. Fear and confusion set in among more than 1 million Haitians advised to leave earthquake homeless camps in the country's capital.
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This National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite image captured by the GOES-13 satellite shows a visible image of Tropical Storm Tomas on November 5, 2010 at 1331 UTC (9:31 am EDT) centered over the southwestern tip of Haiti. The clouds to the north of Tomas are associated with a cold front off the eastern US coast. Flooding sparked by heavy rain from Hurriance Tomas killed another two people in Haiti Friday, bringing the island's death toll to three."Two people were killed in the town of Leogane, which is completely flooded," said an official with Haitian civil defense agency.
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This undated combination of photos released by the Canada Border Services Agency, shows left, a young man who boarded an Air Canada flight in Hong Kong while elaborately disguised as an elderly male, center and right, the disguise he was wearing while on board the flight bound for Canada. The man is seeking refugee status in Canada in what border officials are calling an "unbelievable case of concealment."
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A view from a domestic flight from Denpasar to Yogyakarta that was subsequently diverted to Surabaya airport shows a plume of gas and ash billowing some 10 km (six miles) high from the Mount Merapi volcano during an eruption on November 4, 2010. Volcanologists said the "high intensity" eruption was the strongest yet from the 2,914-metre (9,616-foot) Mount Merapi. Indonesia's most active volcano Merapi, located in Central Java province is a sacred landmark in Javanese culture whose name translates as "Mountain of Fire."
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Villager flee their home ride motorcycles following another eruption Mount Merapi in Klaten ,Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. A new eruption at Indonesia's volcano has forced authorities to widen the "danger zone" to 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the fiery crater.
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Matt Heuer, of Seattle, holds a sign before an NBA basketball game between the Portland Trail Blazers and the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010, in Portland, Ore. The Seattle SuperSonics left Seattle and became the Thunder in 2008.
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A man prays in front of a destroyed house in San Antonio de Escazu in the outskirts of San Jose on November 4, 2010. At least eight people died and 15 others were missing when a mudslide triggered by heavy rain crashed into the village.
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High wire artist Freddy Nock walks on a hire wire between a castle and a church in Thun, Switzerland, Thursday, Nov 4, 2010.
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Tourists feed pigeons on November 5, 2010 at the landmark Gateway of India across the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai where US President Barack Obama will stay during the Mumbai leg of his India visit. US President Barack Obama is scheduled to arrive in India's financial capital along with his wife Michelle on November 6, for a two day visit of his Mumbai leg of the India trip. Obama's visit will be heavy on events focusing on economic synergies between India and the United States, and appears less likely to emphasize diplomatic issues, like the Indo-Pakistani row over Kashmir.
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Photos of the Day | Monday, Nov. 8, 2010
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A farmer walks in his corn field covered after an eruption from Mount Merapi covered it with ash Monday.
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Pope Benedict XVI, center, leads a mass at Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday. He consecrated the Barcelona landmark designed by Antoni Gaudi.
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Perry Watkins sits in his mini car on a street in Essen, Germany, Monday. The car is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's smallest car with a license to drive on public streets. Just 41 inches high, 51 inches long and 26 inches wide, the mini always finds a parking space.
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A Myanmar activist holds a portrait of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest against their home country's election, in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010. Voters in Myanmar's first election in 20 years cast their ballots Sunday amid both a barrage of criticism that the balloting was rigged in favor of the ruling military and hope that some change toward democratic reform might nonetheless follow.
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A busrider waits for a bus during a snow storm in Albany, on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010.
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A woman, who was displaced by floods, bathes using a hand pump at a camp in Basira village, Punjab Province, Pakistan. The floods that hit Pakistan in the summer of 2010 took 2,000 lives and affected 20 million people, of whom 7 million remain homeless.
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Photos of the Day | Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010
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Search and rescue team members from Yogyakarta put a victim of Merapi volcano's eruption into a body bag taken at the village of Ngancar in Sleman on November 8, 2010. International flights to Indonesia's capital Jakarta returned to normal on November 8, officials said, a day ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama, after volcanic ash caused a weekend of travel chaos.
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Designer Dian Pelangi (L) walk on the runway with models following his collection show as part of the APPMI show on the second day of Jakarta Fashion Week 2010 at Pacific Place on November 9, 2010 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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A Sand Tiger Shark swims in its aquarium at the Zoo-Aquarium in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010.
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A picture taken on November 8, 2010 shows officials standing among pink bags marking the location of unexploded cluster bombs before their demolition in Nasom village, Paxay district, Xieng Khuang province of Laos. Bomb disposal technicians uncovered the 56 cluster bomb submunitions, each about the size of a tennis ball, lying just below the surface of the earth in Xieng Khuang province. Laos is the most heavily bombed nation per capita, and Xieng Khuang was among the most severely hit of all, according to officials. In the province's Paxay district alone there were 13,500 bombing missions which released more than six million cluster bomblets, according to Laos's National Regulatory Authority (NRA), which coordinates work on unexploded ordnance (UXOs).
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A man bathes with water collected from a puddle in a street of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday Nov. 8, 2010.
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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010
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From end to end, the newly discovered gamma-ray bubbles extend 50,000 light-years, or about half of the Milky Way’s diameter, as shown in this illustration.
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Marine Corporal Erik Bjelke kisses his girlfriend Felicia Lam before boarding a bus at the Armed Forces Reserve Center at Ellington Field and engaging in pre-deployment training at Camp Pendleton in California Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010, in Houston.
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A farmer gathers grass to feed livestock as Mount Merapi spews ash and dust in the background at Wonololo village in Magelang, central Java on November 10, 2010. Ash from the eruption of Indonesia's most active volcano, which has killed 151 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more, caused more disruption to flights November 10. Mount Merapi, which means "Mountain of Fire", has been spewing ash and heat clouds since late October, killing people with torrents of boiling hot gas and rock and forcing 320,000 people to flee to makeshift camps.
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Tuesday morning's sunrise illuminates the clouds over the Cascade Mountain Range in this view from the Horizon View neighborhood of Lake Forest Park. The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and showers the rest of the week.
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A Pakistani woman carries fire wood on her head past a man with his goat in a slum area of Lahore on November 10, 2010. Pakistan's cabinet decided to raise the income tax by 10 percent for next six months to raise 40 billion rupees (470 million dollars) for nearly two million people hit by massive floods. Unprecedented monsoon rains triggered catastrophic flooding across Pakistan in July and August, ravaging an area roughly the size of England and affecting 21 million people in the poverty-stricken country's worst natural disaster.
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Tourists walk on wooden boards set up as walk ways as high water floods St. Mark's Square, in Venice, Italy. The tidal surge peaked at 106 centimeters, high enough to flood the city's landmarks. Heavy rainfall has been hitting north-eastern Italy the past week, causing severe damage to the region following mudslides and flooding.
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A statue salutes as the sun rises at Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery in Rittman, Ohio on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Veteran's Day will be observed on Thursday. The first Armistice Day was marked on November 11, 1919.
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Giant waves hit "Le Rocher de la Vierge" off the coast of Biarritz, southwestern France, on November 9, 2010.
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Photos of the Day | Thursday, November 11, 2010
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A landscape of ash is seen as Merapi volcano is seen in the background at the village of Glagaharjo in Sleman on November 11, 2010. Indonesia's most active volcano sent clouds of ash high into the sky on November 11, after a series of major eruptions, with an alert status remaining in force, an official said.
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Pigeons fly in front of camels as they stroll in Liwa, a western region of Abu Dhabi, on November 11, 2010.
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A Burmese girl looks on as she holds flowers at a vegetable market downtown following the country's first election in 20 years, on November 8, 2010 in Yangon, Burma. Burma's top court has rejected Aung San Suu Kyi's appeal against her house arrest. Her current detention order expires on November 13th, prompting speculation that she could be freed on Saturday.
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The silhouette of Dresden's skyline reflects in the Elbe river as sun sets on November 10, 2010 in Dresden, eastern Germany. Meteorologists forecast for the region unsettled weather with temperatures around 10 degrees Celsius.
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The first lady of the United States Michelle Obama, left, serves food for US airmen and their relatives at Ramstein Airbase in Ramstein, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010. Michelle Obama makes a series of stops within the Kaiserslautern Military Community on Veterans Day to thank US servicemen and women for their work.
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Yemeni boys react as a team wins the game while playing table football in an alley of a neighborhood in San'a, Yemen, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010.
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A Muslim pilgrim prays at the top of Noor Mountain near where the Hiraa cave is located, on the outskirts of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010. The annual Islamic pilgrimage draws three million visitors each year, making it the largest yearly gathering of people in the world.
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Photos of the Day | Friday, November 12, 2010
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A farmer walks across the paddy field as heat clouds of ash continues to spew out of the Mount Merapi eruption (background) in Sleman on November 12, 2010. Indonesia's most active volcano sent clouds of ash high into the sky after a series of major eruptions, with an alert status remaining in force, an official said yesterday. Since Mount Merapi began erupting in late October, a total of 194 people have died, according to yesterday's updated toll, and more than 360,000 people have been forced to live in makeshift camps outside the danger zone.
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Camels are seen at a sacrificial livestock market ahead of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha in Lahore on November 12 2010. Eid al-Adha, which commemorates biblical patriarch Ibrahim's (or Abraham's) acceptance of God's command to sacrifice his son Ismail (or Ishmael), falls on the 10th of Dhul al-Hijja on the Islamic calendar. As Ibrahim was allowed to sacrifice a ram instead, Muslim families mark the day by ritually sacrificing sheep, goats, cows and other livestock, the meat of which is also shared with the needy.
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An Indian Hindu devotee hands over a traditional oil lamp as they prepare for prayers to the sun during the Chhat Festival while standing in a water body, in Bangalore on November 12, 2010. Chhat festival is dedicated to Lord Surya (Sun), Agni (fire) and Lord Kartikeya or Muruga. People undertake this prayer for the wellbeing of the family. It is believed that people get their wishes fulfilled if they observe Chhat Puja. People fast for the whole day and in the evening they offer Chhat to the setting sun at the banks of water body normally a river or sea.
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A woman walks with her umbrella on Monastiraki square central Athens during rainfall on Friday, Nov. 12, 2010.
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The sunrise seen from Sunset Hill park in Ballard on Wednesday morning November 10, 2010.
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Photos of the Day | Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010
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Two polar bears swim in their enclosure at the Moscow Zoo, on November 18, 2010.
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Justin Lynn helps demonstrate the PowerFoot BiOM at Brooke Army Medical Center, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 in San Antonio. The PowerFoot BiOM is a bionic lower leg system to restore lost function of the lower limb for service members. The bionic technology system replaces the action of the foot, ankle and calf muscles that work together to propel people forward while walking.
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Residents use bricks and stones to cross a street in a flooded neighborhood in southern Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. Meteorologists attribute the rise in precipitation over Colombia to the "La Nina" climatic phenomenon, which is caused by a cooling of waters in the Pacific Ocean and is expected to persist into early 2011.
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A woman walks in her flooded house, on November 17, 2010, in Jamundi, department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia. The Jamundi river overflowed its banks due to heavy rains. According to authorities, 136 people have died, 205 have been injured, 20 are missing and 1,203,000 have been affected by the rains in Colombia.
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Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi shakes hands with supporters as she arrives at a shelter for HIV/AIDS patients, on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010.
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Tibetan Spiritual leader the Dalai Lama gestures upon receiving the Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice in New Delhi on November 18, 2010. The Tibetan spiritual leader received the award in honor of his commitments to human values, fostering inter-religious dialogue, and the welfare of the Tibetan people.
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Photos of the Day | Monday, Nov. 22, 2010
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People are pushed onto a bridge on the last day of celebrations of a water festival in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday. Many people were killed.
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A street magician swallows a snake in Antananarivo, Madagascar Monday.
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Villagers walk past destroyed houses after the eruption of Mount Merapi in Indonesia, Sunday. Thousands of villagers have returned to their homes on the slopes of the volcano.
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A baby olive ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacae) makes its way to the water at San Diego Beach, 40km south of San Salvador, on November 20,2010. More than 1,000 baby turtles were freed into the sea by villagers who work for the conservation of the sea turtle on the Salvadorean coast.
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Photos of the Day | Tuesday, Nov., 23, 2010
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Car owners were returning to their abandoned cars, Tuesday, November 23, digging and pushing them out. 30-40 cars were left overnight on the Issaquah's Highlands Blvd. just past the I-90 flyover. Greater Puget Sound is starting to dig out of a freezing snow storm.
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Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, center left in orange, arrive to attend the ninth Inauguration of the General Synod at Westminster Abbey, London Nov. 23, 2010. Prince William and Kate Middleton will marry April 29 in Westminster Abbey, the historic London church where Princess Diana's funeral was held. Royal officials said Tuesday that the couple chose the venue for its beauty, intimacy and historic royal connections.
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University journalism students gather in Manila on November 23, 2010 to remember the 57 people killed in the November 23, 2009 massacre in Maguindanao province in the southern Philippines, more than 30 of them journalists. Relatives of 57 people killed in the Philippines' worst political massacre made emotional appeals for justice on November 23 as the nation marked the slaughter's first anniversary.
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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010
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Heritage turkeys roam Pitman Family Farms on November 19 2010. The farm has seen an increase in the demand for fresh turkeys.
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[IMG]A bridge to nowhere but the middle of the the Yalu River which separates the North Korean border town of Siniuju (opposite) from Dandong in northeast China's Liaoning province is lit up on November 24, 2010 in Dandong. Lit up every night is the Yalu River bridge, also known as the no-name bridge, which remains standing only halfway across the river after it was bombed by the US in 1950 during the Korean War and eventually dismantled from its own half by North Korea shortly after the Korean War armistice. Chinese state media coverage of the Korean peninsula shelling incident has avoided criticizing Beijing's close ally Pyongyang and even said the episode showed North Korea's "toughness" after the reclusive communist state fired a deadly barrage of artillery shells onto a South Korean island on November 23 in one of the most serious border incidents since the 1950-1953 war, sparking global condemnation of Pyongyang.[/IMG]
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Early morning light from Wednesday's sunrise streaks across the horizon over the Cascade Mountains in this view from Lake Forest Park on Wednesday.
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A man walks with his camels on a road near Suigam, about 200 (125 miles) kilometers Northwest of Ahmadabad, India, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010.
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Photos of the Day | Friday, Nov. 26, 2010
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, a herd of bison along the Bitterroot Valley's Eastside Highway north of Stevensville, Mont., are covered in snow following a blizzard, Nov. 23, 2010, that swept through the valley earlier this week.
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Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin smiles, center, as US astronauts Doug Wheelock, left, and Shannon Walker, right, sit alongside him inside the landing capsule of the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft after landing near the town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan, Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. The Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Americans and a Russian from the International Space Station touched down Friday in a landing that the Russian space program's chief described as ideal.
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A keeper walks past crocodiles at an enclosure in Mangho Pir, Karachi, on November 26, 2010. The crocodiles are owned by a local Sufi shrine and are used in ceremonies by the Sufi community.
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An Amish buggy turns onto U.S. Highway 2 in Fosston, Minn. as a winter storm begins on Wednesday, Nov. 24. The National Weather Service on Wednesday issued a batch of winter weather advisories, watches and warnings for North Dakota and South Dakota through Thursday morning and a storm is expected to drop 6 to 8 inches of snow in northern Minnesota by Wednesday night.
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Photos of the Day | Monday, Nov. 29, 2010
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A gaucho struggles to stay on his horse as he competes in a rodeo in Escobar, Argentina, Sunday.
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A fire damages Istanbul's historic Haydarpasa train station on Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010.
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A man makes his way home from shopping Monday in Auchterarder, Scotland.
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A steel worker handles molten steel in Islamabad, Pakistan on Nov. 29.
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Mount Bromo, as seen from an aircraft, spews ashes during an eruption on November 29, 2010. Indonesia closed Malang city's domestic airport as the volcano shot ash into the sky over eastern Java, posing a risk to planes, officials said.
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American flamingos stand in their snow-covered enclosure at the zoo in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, on November 29, 2010. In the wild, American flamingos live in Central and South America. Meteorologists forecast bitter cold with temperatures sinking down to minus ten degrees Celsius in the region.
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Photos of the Day | Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010
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An Arizona Cardinals fan shows his opinion of the team during the third quarter of the Cardinals' NFL football game against the San Francisco 49ers on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010, in Glendale, Ariz.
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This picture taken on November 29, 2010 in East Java shows a man looking on as Mount Bromo spews ash during an eruption. Bromo, a popular tourist attraction, began rumbling earlier this month and the government has raised the eruption threat warning to the maximum red alert.
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A one-horned rhinoceros at Pabitora wildlife sanctuary, some 60 kms south of Guwahati, on November 29, 2010. The sanctuary, which covers an area of 38.8 square kilometres, is home for the one horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) and thousands of migratory birds.
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US Army Spc. Nick Pollock of New Hampshire from First Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, prepares a SUAV to gain an information by flying over an area in Panjwai district in Afghanistan's Kandahar province Monday, Nov. 29, 2010.
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The sun illuminates the clouds with the Washington Monument below as seen from Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. Flash flood watches have been posted for the Washington metro area for the Tuesday and Wednesday as heavy rain is expected.
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Sam, 10, sleds down a snow covered hill in Linlithgow, in Scotland, on November 30, 2010. The earliest widespread snowfall of a British winter since 1993 blanketed Scotland and northeast England at the weekend and the freezing weather has started moving down England's east coast.
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Walking with the fishes--feels like we are underwater today....This mural at the corner of 2nd Ave. and Yesler Way in downtown Seattle was spray painted by Seattle artist Jeff Jacobson on a building that had been covered with plywood for 2 years because of a fire. It's 100-feet long by 17-feet high photo-realistic painting celebrating emerging artists in Seattle. When the building is renovated he hopes to relocate the painting to another location.
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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010
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A Sumatran Tiger is seen in Dublin Zoo as heavy snowfalls and freezing conditions continue in the Republic of Ireland, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010.
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Cars are partially covered by water at the flooded parking lot of a car importer in Palmira, southern Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. According to meteorologists the "La Nina" climatic phenomenon is causing an exceptionally wet rainy season that has caused floods and landslides, killing over 130 people throughout Colombia.
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People play dominos in a flooded street in Higuerote, Venezuela, Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010. Flooding and landslides unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 30 people in Venezuela and forced thousands from their homes.
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Women participate in the "A prayer for the Earth" event, held on November 30, 2010 during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-16), in the Mexican seaside resort of Cancun. Negotiators got down to the nitty-gritty on the second day of the world climate talks on Tuesday, grappling for a breakthrough on half a dozen issues that will revive the battered UN process.
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Children play with snowballs in front of a ferrywheel place Bellecour, on December 1, 2010 in Lyon, central eastern France. Snow and freezing temperatures forced French aviation authorities to cancel 116 flights from Lyon airport today and brought 10,000 trucks to a halt, officials said.
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Photos of the Day | Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010
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Ultra orthodox Jewish men watch as smoke from a wildfire rises into the sky on December 2, 2010 in Haifa, Israel. A large forest fire in northern Israel has reportedly killed at least 40 people, many of whom were prisoners who died when an evacuation bus went up in flames.
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Trucks are partially submerged in flood water in a parking lot in Palmira in southern Colombia, Wednesday Dec. 1, 2010. An exceptionally wet rainy season has caused floods and landslides that have killed more than 130 people throughout Colombia. Meteorologists attribute the rise in precipitation over the country to the "La Nina" climatic phenomenon, which is caused by a cooling of adjacent waters in the Pacific Ocean.
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Traffic sign is seen on a road flooded with water from the river Drina, in Gorazde, Bosnia, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. Authorities have declared a state of emergency and are evacuating people after heavy rainfall caused floods in several areas of Bosnia.
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Photos of the Day | Friday, Dec. 3, 2010
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Jana Laufer shovels out her car during a winter snow storm in South Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. The storm buried the southern neighborhoods of Buffalo and the city's southern and eastern suburbs under two feet of snow, but largely spared downtown.
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NO teasr, just curiosity as 8-month-old Mona Marrs of Bellevue make sher first visit to Santa at Bellevue Square. Arthur & Associates have been taking Santa photos for 50 years and Santa will be available at the mall for a photo -- or just a visit -- most days from 9 a.m. til 10 or 11 p.m. Wait times to see Santa were very short and many parents attributed it to the fact that it is still early in the season.
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A teenager jumps into an overflowing river in Barlovento, Miranda state, 150 Km northeast of Caracas, on December 2, 2010. Torrential rains have killed at least 31 people in recent days as Venezuela grapples with its worst flooding in 40 years, officials said Thursday. Authorities have set up 319 shelters across the country for those left homeless by rains that have impacted nearly 72,000 people.
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Tourists make their way in a flooded St. Mark square as high tides reached 1.36 meters above sea level, flooding more than half of Venice, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. Heavy rains have caused damage in the last days and are blamed for the recent collapses in ancient Pompeii, as many rivers swell, snow fell copiously on the Alps and high water is a constant presence in Venice.