Photos of the Day

Friday, May 7, 2010

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In this image obtained from the US Department of Defense (DoD) on May 7, 2010, smoke and fire emerge as oil burns during a controlled fire in the Gulf of Mexico on May 6. The US Coast Guard working in partnership with BP PLC, local residents, and other federal agencies conducted the "in situ burn" to aid in preventing the spread of oil following the April 20 explosion on Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Deepwater Horizon.

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France's Sebastien Loeb drives his car during super stage 6 at the Rally of New Zealand in Northland, New Zealand, Friday, May 7, 2010.

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Maoist supporters flee as Nepal policemen fire tear gas to disperse the crowd in Kathmandu on May 7, 2010. The United States called on Nepal's Maoists to end a strike that has shut down much of the country, voicing fear that the standoff could spiral into violence. Assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs, Robert Blake encouraged all sides to try to resolve differences peacefully as hopes fade that Nepal will meet a May 28 deadline to complete a new constitution.

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A group of poodles belonging to Russian poodle trainer Irina Markova perform near the World War II Memorial, Friday, May 7, 2010, in Washington.

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A passenger exits a bus after a bomb threat aboard halted it in downtown Portsmouth, N.H. on Thursday May 6, 2010.

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A teenage Afghan boy looks back as he passes U.S. Army Pvt. Deonte Person, of Bloomington, Ill., who was manning a checkpoint set up by members of 1st Platoon, Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment of the 5th Stryker Brigade Friday, May 7, 2010, in Afghanistan's Kandahar province.

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A young girl withstands the crush as people rush forward to reach for promotional items distributed by presidential candidates during election campaigning Friday, May 7, 2010 in Manila's urban poor area of Tondo, Philippines. Sen. Benigno Aquino III, the son of Philippine democracy icons and a campaigner against corruption, has cemented his lead in an independent survey published Friday ahead of next week's presidential vote.

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The sailing ships Sagres (right) of Portugal and Gloria of Colombia arrival at the port of Guayaquil, Ecuador, during the Bicentennial Race, on May 7, 2010.

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A 9-month-old koala clings to his mother at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in Cleveland, on Friday, May 7, 2010. The zoo's other adult koala also has a baby in her pouch.

Tình hình là cái dome hãng BP hạ xuống dưới biển để chặn dầu trào ra coi bộ không xong. Đúng là khiếp thật ...

Nhưng đó cũng chỉ là giải quyết tạm thời chứ đâu có thể dùng mãi được. Hay là họ dùng cách để đắp những cái giếng dầu đã cạn?

Vì khoan dầu ở đâu cũng vậy, chỉ bơm được 1 thời gian thì dầu sẽ hết, hoặc là còn rất ít vì sức ép của những mỏ dầu đó không còn mạnh như lúc mới khoan. Tất nhiên những công ty dầu hỏa có cách lấp lại.

Hoặc giả họ lấp tạm thời rồi khoan 1 cái giếng khác gần đấy để tiếp tục bơm dầu lên và cũng để làm giảm sức ép.

Tình hình là kỹ sư dầu hỏa của hãng BP hiện thời chưa có biện pháp nào để giải quyết hết :frown1: :frown1:

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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Rescue teams search the site of the Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane crash in Tripoli, Libya Wednesday, May 12, 2010. A Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane with 104 people on board crashed on landing Wednesday at the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli. There was only one survivor, a child.

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An unidentified Dutch child the sole survivor of plane crash in Libya receives medical treatment in a hospital in Tripoli in this image taken from TV Wednesday May 12, 2010. A Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane crashed Wednesday on approach to Tripoli's airport, killing at least 96 people and leaving a field scattered with smoldering debris.

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Britain's new Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha meet Cabinet Secretary Gus O'Donnell, right, in the Cabinet Room of 10 Downing Street, London, Tuesday May 11, 2010. Conservative leader David Cameron became Britain's youngest prime minister in almost 200 years Tuesday after Gordon Brown stepped down and ended 13 years of Labour government.

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Louisiana National Guard work to build a barrier across an inlet along the Louisiana coastline near Grand Isle, Louisiana, on Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Attempts are underway to try and prevent an oil slick from entering marshlands along the Mississippi Delta.

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A dolphin lies dead on a beach on Horn Island,Miss., in the Gulf of Mexico, Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Officials say that at least six dead dolphins have been found on the Gulf Coast since May 2. Authorities don't know whether the animals died from the Oil in the Gulf.

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Lamar McKay (L), president and chairman of BP America, Steven Newman (C), president and chief executive of Transocean, and Tim Probert (R) president of global business lines and chief health, safety and environmental officer for Halliburton, participate in a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on May 11, 2010 in Washington, DC. The committee is gathering testimony on the accident in the Gulf of Mexico involving the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon.

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A Palestinian woman whose house has been occupied by Jewish settlers argue with Israelis who came to celebrate Jerusalem Day on May 12, 2010 in front of her disputed house in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Israel is celebrating the anniversary of the "unification" of Jerusalem, marking 43 years since it captured mainly Arab east Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East war. Thousands of people, mostly nationalist-religious Jews, were expected to take part in an annual march through Jerusalem later Wednesday that culminates in the Old City at the Wailing Wall, one of the holiest sites in Judaism.

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President Barack Obama, left, and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, right, shake hands following their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington Wednesday, May 12, 2010.

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Pakistani security officials stand guard near a burning oil tanker in Chaman near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border on Wednesday, May 12, 2010, in Pakistan. A bomb ripped through the oil tanker carrying supplies for NATO forces based in Afghanistan, killing a passer-by, Pakistani border guard Fazal Bari said.

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Police officers escort Pakistan's Mohammed Saif-ur-Rehman Khan, 28, center, as he arrives to a hospital for a medical check-up in Santiago, Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Traces of explosives were found on Khan, who was summoned to the U.S. Embassy because his U.S. visa had been revoked, State Department officials in Washington said.

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Ali Larijani, Speaker of Iran's parliament and his country's former chief nuclear negotiator, speaks during a news conference in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Iran says Brazil and Turkey have offered a new joint proposal for a nuclear fuel deal. Tuesday's remarks by Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast come as Tehran seeks to stave off new U.N. sanctions for its defiance of Security Council demands that it curb nuclear activities that could be used to make weapons.

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This handout picture captured by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the Terra satellite on May 11, 2010 shows Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano continuing to emit a dense plume of ash and steam. The volcanic ash cloud forced the shutdown Tuesday of airports for the first time in north Africa and the Canaries and southern Spain, as it drifted as far as Turkish airspace. While most European air travel was "close to normal" on Tuesday, the continent's air traffic agency Eurocontrol said, restrictions and airport closures caused flight cancellations as winds pushed volcanic ash in the atmosphere into new territory. Eight airports on Morocco's north and west coasts, including Rabat and Casablanca, were shut down, the first time the cloud of ash that has caused air traffic chaos in Europe over the past month has affected north Africa's airspace.

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Actress Cate Blanchett appears for a photo call for the film "Robin Hood", at the 63rd international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 12, 2010.

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Standing on a fallen tree, Caden Bolles looks over damage to his family's home in Little Axe, Okla., Tuesday, May 11, 2010.

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Pensioners participate in a protest outside the Romanian Presidency headquarters in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Hundreds of pensioners protested and briefly scuffled with riot police after Romania announced last week it will cut pensions by 15 percent and salaries in the state sector by 25 percent to meet an IMF (International Monetary Fund) deficit target.

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Germany's fans celebrate Germany's second goal during the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship match Denmark vs Germany in the western German city of Cologne on May 12, 2010. The 2010 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships are taking place in Germany from May 7 to 23, 2010.

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A mosaic image of Vincent van Gogh's self-portrait made from 2,070 polo shirts in 24 colors, is displayed at a lobby in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, May 12, 2010.

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Employees of a prostheses manufacturer stand on an exhibition stand during the International Trade Show for Prosthetics, Orthotics and Orthopaedic footwear technology "Orthopaedie und Reha-Technik 2010" in Leipzig, eastern Germany on May 12, 2010. The trade fair takes place from May 12 to May 15, 2010 and presents the latest innovations in orthopaedics.

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Workers walk through open sewage in the "Red Shirt" controlled area on the way to work in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Thailand's deputy prime minister met with police investigators Tuesday in a bow to demands by protestors that he could face possible criminal charges before they end their two-month-old occupation of prime commercial district. Demonstrators have yet to call a date for the end of their occupation.

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Hugo Parisi and Rui Carlos Marino of Brazil dive during the Men's Synchronized 10 Meter Platform Final at the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center during Day 4 of the AT&T USA Diving Grand Prix on May 9, 2010 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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Bill Simpson, collections manager of fossil vertebrates at Chicago's Field Museum, dusts the Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton known as Sue on display at museum Wednesday, May 12, 2010 in Chicago. The skeleton was being cleaned in anticipation of her 10th anniversary at the museum.

ahhh, poor dolphin :(

Thursday, May 13, 2010

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In this photo made from video taken by BP PLC on Tuesday, May 11, 2010, oil leaks into the Gulf of Mexico from the end of the pipe that was supposed to pump oil from the sea floor before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sunk last month.

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Dutch boy 9 Year-old Ruben van Assouw is seen in his hospital bed in Tripoli's El Khadra hospital, Libya Thusday, May 13, 2010. Ruben is the only survivor of a Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane with 104 people on board that crashed on landing Wednesday, May 12 at the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli.

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Pope Benedict XVI prays in front of the statue of Our Lady of Fatima during the blessing of the candles at Fatima's Sanctuary, Portugal, on Wednesday, May 12, 2010.

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Reporters record the voice of a woman speaking through the door of a house in Centerreach, N.Y., Thursday, May 13, 2010, where earlier in the day a Pakistani couple who rent a basement apartment there were reportedly questioned in connection with the Times Square bombing investigation, according to the home's owner, Ashim Chakraborty. A series of raids that are part of the ongoing investigation took place across the Northeast on Thursday. A law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press homes were searched in Centerreach and Shirley, both on Long Island.

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Solicitor General and Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, rides the Senate Subway during her day of meetings on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2010.

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This image obtained May 13, 2010 and taken with NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, features one of the bright stars in the constellation Perseus, named Menkhib (at upper left near the red dust cloud), surrounded by the large star-forming California Nebula, running diagonally through the image. Menkhib is one of the hottest stars visible in the night sky; its surface temperature is about 37,000 Kelvin (about 66,000 degrees Fahrenheit, or more than six times hotter than the sun). Because of its high temperature, it appears blue-white to the human eye. It has about 40 times the mass of our sun and gives off 330,000 times the amount of light. Menkhib is a runaway star, and the fast stellar wind it blows is piling up in front of it to create a shock wave. This shock wave is heating up dust, which WISE sees as the red cloud in the upper left of the image. Menkhib and the California Nebula are about 1,800 light-years away from Earth and are located within the same spur of the Orion spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy as Earth. All four infrared detectors aboard WISE were used to make this image.

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People peep to watch the Sony Corp.'s 3-D Bravia flat-screen TVs showing promotional images of the upcoming World Cup in South Africa as part of the Japanese electronics maker's countdown of the world's biggest soccer event in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, May 13, 2010. Sony, which has an official contract with FIFA to show world's first World Cup games in 3-D, stayed in the red last business year but shrank losses through cost cuts and better sales of consumer electronics.

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Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai (C) visits Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery with Commander U.S. Forces Afghanistan, Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal (L), and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (not pictured) May 13, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia. Section 60 is where the majority of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq are buried, including 140 casualties from Afghanistan.

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Palestinian boys watch from inside a bus a rally marking the 62nd anniversary of the "Nakba," Arabic for catastrophe, in Gaza City, on May 13, 2010. The rally marked the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who either fled or were driven out of their homes during the 1948 war over Israel's creation.

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A Chinese bride and groom react for a photo shoot by a photographer, unseen, at the Temple of Heaven, in Beijing, China, Thursday, May 13, 2010.

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A supporter of Fulham attends the final football match of the UEFA Europa League Fulham FC vs Aletico Madrid in Hamburg, northern Germany on May 12, 2010.

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An injured child holds a paper bird while being transferred from intensive care unit to a room for further treatment at a hospital in Hanzhong, north China's Shaanxi Province Thursday, May 13, 2010. The child is one of the survivors after a man charged into a kindergarten in northwestern China with a cleaver Wednesday and hacked to death seven children and two adults, the fifth such rampage in less than two months. The attacker then went home and killed himself.

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An Afghan woman clad in a burqa walks past a graffiti painted wall, in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, May 13, 2010.

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A dragonfly on a branch near Pad 39A May 13, 2010 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch of Atlantis is scheduled for May 14. During the 12-day mission, Atlantis and the mission's six astronauts are delivering an Integrated Cargo Carrier and a Russian-built Mini Research Module to the International Space Station.

Friday, May 14, 2010

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Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off of launch pad 39-a at Kennedy Space Center for its final scheduled launch May 14, 2010 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Atlantis is scheduled for a 13-day mission to the International Space Station.

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A Sri Lankan man walks through heavy rain along a street in Colombo on May 14, 2010. The capital city was lashed by heavy rains causing majot traffic jams throughout the city.

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An Indian saleswoman holds two bars of Emirates - Hallmark 995, 24 carat gold, weighing a kilogramme each at Forever Precious Jewellery and Diamonds Ltd. in Ahmedabad on May 14, 2010. Gold traders across India are gearing up for the most auspicious day in the Hindu calendar, Akshaya Tritiya, which falls on May 16. Owing to surges in gold prices prevailing currently the demand for gold on Akshaya Tritiya is likely to remain low this year.

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A police officer approaches a water pipe in a forest on May 14, 2010 to look for the trace of the wife of a banker, kidnapped in Heidenheim, southern Germany on May 12, 21010, the local police announced.

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A gust of wind blows part of Pope Benedict XVI's vestment on his face prior to his departure from Sa Carneiro Airport, in Porto, Portugal ,Friday, May 14, 2010 after celebrating a mass closing his four-day visit to Portugal. Pope Benedict XVI wrapped up a trip to Portugal on Friday with an appeal to spread the faith, capping a pilgrimage marked by an explicit admission of church guilt in the clerical abuse scandal with a fresh bid to move beyond the crisis.

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Riders take the start of the fifth stage of the 93rd Giro d'Italia, from Novara to Novi Ligure on May 13, 2010.

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Crab trap builder Shawn Platt stands with his idle traps in on May 13, 2010 in Hopedale, Louisiana. The traps were all pulled from the Gulf waters last week after the federal government banned all fishing in the area due to the BP oil spill. The Deepwater Horizon oil rig operated by BP continues leaking an estimated 1,000-5,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf. Efforts to contain the spill have done little to slow its flow.

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African Union soldiers in an armored personnel carrier passes in the background as a Somali boy carry fish on his head to take to the market in Mogadishu, Somalia, Friday, May 14, 2010.

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Visitors use umbrellas as they wait for the beginning of the "All you need is love" event at the second Oecumenic Church Congress on May 14, 2010 in Munich, southern Germany. According to organisers, the event running until May 16, 2010 aims to be "an occasion for openness, for looking beyond our boundaries, for reflecting, for listening to others, for raising our spirits".

Monday, May 17, 2010

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This photo released by The Boeing Company shows the new 787 Dreamliner flying alongside its ancestor, a Boeing Model 40, in the skies over Mount Rainier south of Seattle. The fully restored 1928 vintage Boeing Model 40, owned and flown by Addison Pemberton of Spokane, Wash., is the only flyable Model 40 in the world and the oldest flying Boeing aircraft of any kind. The Model 40 not only is notable as Boeing's first production commercial airplane, but its innovation and efficiency were the deciding factor in Boeing Air Transport (the airline subsidiary of the Boeing Airplane Company) winning the lucrative Oakland-to-Chicago air mail route in 1927.

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An anti-government protester 'Red Shirt' throws a tire into a burning truck as the violence in central Bangkok continues on May 16, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. At least 154 have been injured and over 20 killed in the clashes as the military and the government launched an operation to disperse anti-government protesters who have closed parts of the city for two months. A state of emergency is in effect that spreads to 17 provinces in the country. The Thai army declared certain protest areas where clashes are taking place as a "Live Fire Zone."

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A tow truck operator tries to figure out how to remove a Jeep Liberty after its driver drove through the back wall of his own garage, falling one story to the ground Monday, May 17, 2010, in Lancaster, Pa. According to officials, the driver said as he was returning home, the vehicle's accelerator stuck and he couldn't stop before hitting the house. The driver was not hurt, a fire official said.

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Sri Lankan army soldiers take cover from rain as they wait for the start of the rehearsal of a Victory Day parade scheduled for Thursday, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, May 17, 2010. Ethnic Tamil leaders called for a day of mourning for civilians killed during Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war, as the government prepared to celebrate the one-year anniversary of its victory over Tamil Tiger rebels.

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The planet Venus is visible on top of the Moon over Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines on Sunday, May 16, 2010. The rare occurrence is called the Venus planetary occultation by the thin crescent Moon.

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Local residents try to rescue a car from flooding water near the village of Alsovadasz, northeastern Hungary, Monday, May 17, 2010. Officials in Hungary and Serbia say that three people have died as a result of flooding caused by heavy rainfall.

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Competition was intense during the start of The Seattle Trike Race which raced from 7th Ave. W. and W. Blaine Street on Queen Anne Hill, racing pretty much downhill all the way to a tavern on lower Queen Anne. at Western Ave., basically from one tavern to another. To win the race the trike must roll into a 36" x 36" chalked box and be human powered. Those are the only rules. Money from the entry fee will be donated to the seattle Riders biker down fund.

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Hazel Soares, 94, right, gets ready before the start of commencement exercises at Mills College, as her son Matthew Soares, 59, looks on in Oakland, Calif., Saturday, May 15, 2010. Hazel received a degree of Bachelor of Arts in Art History.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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In this handout from NASA, an oil slick from the sunken Deepwater Horizon drilling platform is seen off the coast of Louisiana with a portion flowing south from the accident site May 17, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will face lawmakers May 18, 2010 over the spill that could potentially reach Florida in the coming days.


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The eye of a frog is reflected on the surface of a pond located at the Spring River Golf Course in Roswell, N.M., Tuesday, May 18, 2010.


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In this May 17, 2010 photo provided by NASA, astronaut Garrett Reisman, STS-132 mission spet, takes a self portrait into his helmet visor while participating in the first of three spacewalks scheduled for the space shuttle Atlantis crew and their Expedition 23 hosts.


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A pair of swans sit on their nest at Abbotsbury Swannery - the only publically accessible colony of nesting mute swans in the world - on May 18, 2010 in Dorset, England. The arrival of the cygnets is traditionally seen as the start of summer and local traditions claim the Benedictine Monks who owned the swannery between 1000 AD and the 1540s believed the first cygnet signalled the season's first day. Abbotsbury Swannery's mute swans - up to 1,000 in total - are all free flying, and are not kept in cages.


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Members of the "501st Legion," an international group of Star Wars fans who own and wear realistic costumes from the movie saga, wait in Houston's City Council chamber before Mayor Annise Parker declared Tuesday, May 18, 2010, "Star Wars: The Clone Wars at Space Center Houston Day."


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A local sailboat, known as faluka, sails in the River Nile on the outskirts of Cairo on May 18, 2010. Four African countries signed on May 14 a new treaty on the equitable sharing of the Nile waters despite strong opposition from Egypt and Sudan who have the lion's share of the river waters.


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A Hummingbird flies by a feeder at the home of Chris Caviezel, on May 11, 2010 in Hyak, Wash. Each year, Caviezel buys between 150 and 200 pounds of sugar and uses it to create the nectar, that draws the tiny birds to the dozen bright red feeders that hang outside his home.

Nếp sưu tầm được nhiều tấm hình hay quá nhỉ :-)

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Smoke billows from a commercial area of Bangkok where Red Shirt demonstrators had their camp in downtown Bangkok on May 19, 2010. Thai protest leaders surrendered and told thousands of "Red Shirt" supporters to end their weeks-long rally after an army assault on their fortified encampment left at least five people dead. Thai fire authorities said that arsonists have set 20 locations ablaze in Bangkok, including a massive shopping mall and bank branches.


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"La barre 220", a building in the neighborhood "La Duchere" in Lyon, central France, is brought down by controlled explosions, part of a renovation program in the city, Wednesday, May 19, 2010. The building also known as "barre des 1000" will be replaced by new social housing.


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An Indian motorcyclist is assisted by youths as he uses a wagon to move his vehicle through flood waters in Chennai on May 19, 2010, during heavy rain ahead of the arrival of Cyclone Laila. A "severe" cyclone packing winds of up to 125 kilometres an hour closed in on India's southeast coast as thousands of residents evacuated their homes fearing major storm damage. Cyclone Laila was set to slam into the state of Andhra Pradesh early May 20, with forecasters warning of a sea surge and disrupted power and communication lines.


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A grey egret feeds her newborn chicks in Panbazar area, on the banks of the Brahmaputra River in Guwahati, on May 19, 2010. Scores of egrets build their nests among trees in the populated Panbazar area, a major business centre of Guwahati, this time of the year. But the city's urban expansion threatens to reduce the number of nesting egrets as trees are cut down to make way for buildings.


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Pensioners enjoy keep-fit equipment in London's first pensioners' playground in Hyde Park, London, Wednesday, May 19, 2010. The outdoor facility features keep-fit equipment to help adults in their later years to keep fit and improve strength and flexibility.


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Buddhists devotees enjoy a sunset visit at the Kyeikhtiyoe Pagoda in Kyeikhto, about 125 mile northeast of Yangon, Myanmar, on Tuesday, May 18, 2010.


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The Dalai Lama speaks to students, faculty, and guests at the University of Northern Iowa, Tuesday, May 18, 2010, in Cedar Falls, Iowa.


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A polar bear lays in his new enclosure at the zoo in Hanover on May 19, 2010. The zoo inaugurates its new theme world "Yukon Bay", which is one of seven so-called zoo worlds.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

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Cyclist Lance Armstrong is helped up after crashing during the fifth stage of the Tour of California cycling race in the outskirts of Visalia, Calif., Thursday, May 20, 2010.


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Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser and La. Gov. Bobby Jindal tour Roseau Grasses that mark the coastline of Southeast Louisiana at Pass a Loutre at the mouth of the Mississippi River where oil has washed ashore, Wednesday.


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A Police officer searches for clues among the frames of a stolen paintings outside the Paris Museum of Modern Art, following the report of five paintings having been stolen, Thursday May 20, 2010. Police and prosecutors say a lone thief has stolen five paintings worth a total of Euros 500 million ($613 million), including works by Picasso and Matisse and Modigliani.


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Fire brigade officers help to evacuate people from a flooded street on the outskirts of the town of Sandomierz, south east Poland, Wednesday, May 19, 2010. Massive flooding has hit southern Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic after heavy rainfall.


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A man holds a child on his shoulders to watch firemen tackling a rooftop blaze on a roof above an apartment in London on May 19, 2010. The building was extensively damaged but no one was injured.


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A robot balances on one leg during a show titled "better living with robots"at the Japanese pavilion at the site of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai on May 18, 2010. Organisers expect 70 million visitors -- most of them Chinese -- to attend the biggest-ever World's Fair, with an average of 380,000 people expected to visit the site daily.


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Blind Ukranian fashion designer Sergey Ermakov feels one of his dresses while fitting a model in Dallas, Thursday, April 15, 2010. Ermakov, who opened his own design studio in Kiev at the age of 24, has lost about 95 percent of his vision but can still see fabric colors if he gets very close.


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This picture taking from a helicopter shows an aerial view of a lake caused by a landslide in the Hunza district of northern Pakistan on May 20, 2010. Flooding from a lake in northern Pakistan risks affecting 40,000 people with residents from up to 34 villages already evacuated to safety, a top disaster management official warned. The artificial lake emerged on January 4 as a result of a massive landslide that killed 20, left about 25,000 people stranded and blocked the Hunza river in a remote Himalayan region about 750 kilometres (450 miles) north of Islamabad.


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A young woman pauses while selling charcoal at the Telele market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, May 20, 2010.

Friday, May 21, 2010

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A tornado touches down just north of Hennessey, Okla., Wednesday, May 19, 2010 along US Highway 81.


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A Tricolored Heron catches a fish after plucking it from clean waters near Venice, La. Thurday, May 20, 2010. Coastal birds like the heron are at risk as oil from last month's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico has started drifting ashore along the Louisiana coast.


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This NASA image obtained May 21, 2010 shows the Seagull nebula, seen in this infrared mosaic from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, drawing its common name from it resemblance to a gull in flight. The image spans an area about seven times as wide as the full moon, and three times as high (3.55 by 1.37 degrees), straddling the border between the constellations Monoceros and Canis Major (the Big Dog). Astronomers catalog the nebula as IC 2177. This cosmic cloud is one of many sites of star formation within the Milky Way galaxy. It is located 3,800 light-years away from Earth, inside the Orion spur -- the same partial spiral arm of the Milky Way where our solar system is located. The nebula is nearly 240 light-years across.


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Nepalese devotees hang onto the chariot of Rato Machhendranath being pulled through the narrow streets of Patan, on the outskirts of Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, as part of a month long festival. The sixty-feet tall chariot of Rato Machhendranath, the rain bringing deity, is pulled around the streets of Patan in a plea for prosperity and good crops.


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A rescuer hands a loaf of bread to residents of a flooded area in the village of Trzesn, south east Poland, Friday. Polish authorities said that flooding in the country had killed nine people this week. A national police spokesman said the victims drowned in flooding that submerged some farms and residential areas in the south of the country following heavy rains since last weekend.


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Japan's H-IIA rocket takes off from the launching pad at Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima island, Kagoshima Prefecture, on May 21, 2010. The rocket blasted off and successfully released a Venus probe and a kite-shaped "space yacht" designed to float through the cosmos using only the power of the sun.


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A Sri Lankan fisherman carries his catch along the sea front in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, May 21, 2010.


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This undated handout photo provided by the National Geographic shows a long-nosed tree frog, Litoria sp. nov., a new species of frog discovered by Paul Oliver of Australia with funding from the National Geographic Society.


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Imtiaz Zainule, right, of New York, looks up as he poses for a picture with Nicole Dhillon, of New York, under the sculpture "Unconditional Surrender," on Friday, May 21, 2010 in San Diego. The sculpture, by J. Seward Johnson, commemorates the iconic image by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on Aug. 14, 1945, during the celebration to mark V-J Day, the end of World War II.


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A couple sits on the rail in front of the re-designed fountain on the plaza at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, Thursday, May 20, 2010.

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Monday, May 24, 2010

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An oil-covered pelican flaps its wings on an island in Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana, Sunday, May 23, 2010. The island is home to hundreds of brown pelican nests as well at terns, gulls and roseate spoonbills and is being impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.


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Indian firefighters carry a child, reportedly a survivor, out of the debris of an Air India plane that crashed in Mangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, Saturday, May 22, 2010. The plane arriving from Dubai crashed Saturday morning after it overshot a runway while trying to land in southern India, and officials feared as many as 160 people on board were killed.


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Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., celebrate Saturday, May 22, 2010.


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A child watches a video on a handheld device while he gets his body painted during the 5th International Fonambules Body Paint Festival in Mexico City, Friday, May 21, 2010. More than 300 people attended the festival, which 2010 edition focused on painting pre-hispanic motifs on the participants bodies, according to organizers.


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British environmental campaigner Lewis Pugh celebrates after completing his swim in Lake Pumori at an altitude of 5,300 metres, below the summit of Mount Everest, on May 22, 2010. Everest Ridge, Mount Everest and Mount Nuptse (L to R) can be seen in the background. The environmental campaigner swam across the glacial lake on Mount Everest to highlight the impact of global warming, a report said.


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Spanish matador Julio Aparicio is gored by a bull during a bullfight during the San Isidro Feria at the Las Ventas bullring in Madrid. Aparicio underwent surgery and is out of critical danger.


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An Indian from the northern Chaco province of Argentina, watches a parade of civilians representing all the Argentine provinces along 9 de Julio Avenue in Buenos Aires, Saturday, May 22, 2010. The parade is part of the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the May revolution, that opened the road to the independence of Argentina from Spain in 1816.


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A dog competes during the 5th annual Loews Coronado bay resort surf dog competition in Imperial Beach, south of San Diego, California on Saturday, May 22, 2010.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

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This US Coast Guard photo distributed May 25, 2010 shows the crew of a Basler BT-67 fixed wing aircraft as they release oil dispersant over an oil discharge from the mobile offshore drilling unit, Deepwater Horizon, off the shore of Louisiana, May 5, 2010. More than 7000,000 gallons of chemicals have been used to break up the oil spill. Fresh waves of crude oil swept onto Gulf of Mexico shores May 25, 2010 as energy giant BP readied for a desperate effort to plug a massive leak that is threatening an environmental disaster.


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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, is driven in a horse drawn carriage, to the Houses of Parliament, for the State Opening of Parliament, in central London on May 25, 2010. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II set out the new coalition government's legislative program on Tuesday in a ceremony of pomp and history following the closest general election in decades.


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Farmers try to help a horse to jump into an amphibious vehicle in flooded Juliszew village along the Wisla River in central Poland Monday. Flash floods caused by days of heavy rainfall have hit parts of central Europe, killing at least 14 people, disrupting power supplies and forcing thousands of people from their homes.


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Tourists on a boat visit the former Soviet underground submarine base of Balaklava in southern Ukraine, near Sevastopol. Although the base has been turned into a museum, it has not yielded all its secrets. Built at the height of the Cold War, the secret base housed the Soviet fleet's arsenal, including nuclear warheads, as well as repair areas for nuclear submarines.


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An image released by Nasa shows the Heart and Soul nebulae in an infrared mosaic from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The image covers an area of the sky in the constellation Cassiopeia over ten times as wide as the full moon and eight times as high. Located about 6,000 light-years from Earth, the Heart and Soul nebulae form a vast star-forming complex that makes up part of the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. The nebula to the left is the Heart, designated IC 1805 and named after its resemblance to a human heart. To the right is the Soul nebula, also known as the Embryo nebula, IC 1848 or W5. Also visible near the bottom of this image are two galaxies, Maffei 1 and Maffei 2. Maffei 1 is the bluish elliptical object and Maffei 2 is the spiral galaxy.


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Scavengers look for recyclable items at a garbage dump in Medan Marelan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 25, 2010.


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A Giraffe eats a branch of leaves given by a visitor at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur on May 23, 2010. The 47 years-old National Zoo, locally known as Zoo Negara, consist of around 5137 animals from 459 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish covers 110 acres of land.

Photos of the Day | Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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Costa Rica's Arenal volcano spews geysers of lava, ash and toxic gases from its crater on Monday in the Arenal National Park, 80 km northeast of San Jose. The 1,633-metre-tall cone-shaped mountain shuddered into activity at midday, issuing eight successive rivers of lava that flowed down its steep slopes and forcing the evacuation of the national park in northern Costa Rica where it is located, authorities said.

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Space Shuttle Atlantis lands on May 26, 2010 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth Wednesday, wrapping up the final mission of its 25-year career. Once the shuttle program ends, the United States will rely on Russian Soyuz rockets to carry its astronauts to the space station until a commercial US launcher can be developed. That is scheduled for 2015.

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A man armed with a locally-made gun waits in Tembura to receive shelter items from the International Organization for Migration on May 24, 2010. Thousands of residents from the area have fled their homes in fear of attacks by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels near the southwestern Southern Sudan town of Yambio. US President Barack Obama has signed legislation ordering his administration to develop a strategy for battling the LRA. It recognises that the United States must strengthen its ability to "protect and assist civilians caught in the LRA's wake, to receive those that surrender, and to support efforts to bring the LRA leadership to justice." The LRA took up arms against the government in northern Uganda in 1988 but since 2005 moved into remote outlying areas in neighboring countries after coming under pressure from the Ugandan army.

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Mushtaq Wahab slumps on the grave of his son, who was killed in a bombing in Baghdad in 2009, during a visit to the Shiite cemetery in Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq. The cemetery, which stretches off into the horizon, is a kind of map to Iraq's history, at least that of its majority Shiites. The country's natural disasters, wars and tragedies are etched across the tomb stones that fill every square foot of its dusty, sun-blasted expanse.

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This photo released Aug. 4, 2008 by NASA shows the Phoenix Mars Lander's solar panel and the lander's Robotic Arm with a sample in the scoop on Mars. NASA declared the three-legged spacecraft officially dead Monday, May 24, 2010 after repeated failed attempts to regain contact. A recent image taken by an orbiting spacecraft appeared to show one of Phoenix's solar panels had collapsed from ice buildup. Phoenix landed near the Martian north pole on May 25, 2008, and successfully operated for five months _ two months longer than planned _ until sunlight at its far northern location waned.

Photos of the Day | Thursday, May 27, 2010

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Residents of a village near Kunduz walk past a soldier of the German armed forces Bundeswehr, left, securing a road on May 25, 2010. The German contingent in Afghanistan, based mostly in the north of the unstable country, is the third largest after those of the United States and Britain.

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A flotilla of 'little ships' arrive in off Dunkirk, France Thursday to mark the 70th anniversary of Operation Dynamo. The ships sailed from England in a reenactment of the massive operation in May 1940, when hundreds of vessels, made up of mostly fishing vessels and privately owned boats set sail across the English Channel enabling the evacuation of 225,000 British troops and 125,000 French from the Dunkirk beaches early in World War Two.

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An Afghan man walks during a dust storm in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, May 27, 2010.

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The Sydney Opera House is lit with vibrant colors during the launch of the annual Vivid festival in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, May 27, 2010. Landmarks across the city will be illuminated, street performers and musicians will entertain during the month-long festival.

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People kiss under an umbrella after rain stopped play in the French Open tennis championship at the Roland Garros stadium, on May 26, 2010, in Paris.

Photos of the Day | Friday, May 28, 2010

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A full moon, seen through a telephoto lens, rises over a farm in Ashland, Neb., Thursday, May 27, 2010.

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Buddhist monks gather for the commemoration of Vesak or Buddha's birthday at Borobudur temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, Friday, May 28, 2010.

Photos of the Day | Monday, June 1, 2010

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Mary Margaret Avelleyra grieves as she looks at the inscribed name of her brother John William Avelleyra, who was killed in Vietnam in 1967, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Monday, Memorial Day, in Washington. The wall is inscribed with the names of servicemen who were killed or are missing in action from the war in Vietnam.

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A huge crater believed to be due to tropical storm Agatha, swallowed this intersection in Guatemala City. A violent storm that whalloped Central America over the weekend killed more than 100 people and left a swath of destruction, officials said Monday. Tropical Storm Agatha, the first in a season of tempests that annually strikes the region, was especially brutal in Guatemala, where mudslides proved deadly.

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Residents try to move a tree trunk from El Jute river to prevent it from damaging a bridge in La Libertad, south El Salvador , Sunday, May 30 ,2010. Torrential rains brought by the first tropical storm of the 2010 season, Tropical Storm Agatha, pounded Central America and southern Mexico, triggering flooding and deadly landslides.

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Mike Conway, of England, crashes into the fencing in the third turn during the closing laps of the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Sunday, May 30, 2010. Dario Franchitti, of Scotland, won the race.

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The Tungurahua volcano erupts on May 29, 2010. The Tungurahua, in the central Andes Mountains of Ecuador, started erupting May 28, forcing the evacuation of at least seven villages and closing down the airport and public schools in Guayaquil, the country's largest and most populated city.

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North Korean farmers work the land on the outskirts of Sinuiju in North Korea seen from the Hushan Great Wall near the Chinese border town of Dandong in northeastern China's Liaoning province on Monday, May 31, 2010. China held back from joining the chorus of nations condemning North Korea over the sinking of a South Korean warship, making quick international sanctions unlikely but perhaps buying time while China quietly leans on its unpredictable, nuclear-armed neighbor.

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Oil floats around a rig at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana, Monday, May 31, 2010.

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An Indian Muslim bride with bangles and henna-decorated hands takes part in a mass marriage ceremony in Mumbai on May 29, 2010. Mass marriages generally organised by social organisations to cut ceremony costs are common in India with its billion plus population where the custom of dowry and expensive gifts from the bride's family still prevails among certain segments of society.

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Pakistani mentally disabled youth Gilli asks for food as other inhabitants eat in the corridor of The Edhi Home in Karachi on February 24, 2010. Eight-year old Gilli is known by his single name to all the staff and inhabitants of the home. He is mentally retarded and luckier than two other children - Khalid and Bakhshi - who are physically crippled as well. The three children usually are tied with a string of cloth and the other end of the cloth is fastened to the grille of a window in the corridor. The Edhi Home is home to hundreds of people addicted to drugs, a few dozen abandoned elderly people and at least three children, who are physically and mentally retarded.

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Four brave knights are seated on the back of the 'Ros Beiaard', a mythical horse everybody feared greatly, during the historical 'Ros Beiaard' parade in Dendermonde, Belgium, Sunday May 30, 2010. The 'Ros Beiaard' is riden by the four 'Heemskinderen', 4 brothers. The myth dates back to medieval literature.

Photos of the Day | Wednesday, June 2, 2010

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This image provided by NASA shows the International Space Station as it was photographed by an STS-132 crew member on space shuttle Atlantis after the shuttle separated from the space station Sunday May 23, 2010.

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Bystanders and police search the burning wreckage of a Cessna 206 plane for survivors shortly after it crashed in a busy business district near downtown Anchorage during rush-hour Tuesday, June 1, 2010. A small child was killed and four other people on board were injured.

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Baby eels wriggle in a bucket prior to their release into the river Elbe near Bleckede, Germany, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Up to 130,000 young eels were released by the regional chamber for preservation of the countryside to increase the number of fish in that river.

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A delegate watches Afghan President Hamid Karzai deliver his speech to the National Consultive Peace Jirga in Kabul on June 2, 2010. The Taliban claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on the landmark gathering in the Afghan capital, where hundreds of delegates are meeting to discuss peace talks. "We have four suicide attackers placed on the top of a tall building near the jirga tent. They are threatening the jirga tent," Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, told AFP by telephone.

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The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineers T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. NASA Astronaut Creamer, Russian Cosmonaut Kotov and Japanese Astronaut Noguchi are returning from six months on board the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 22 and 23 crews.

Photos of the Day | Friday, June 4, 2010

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Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano spews out incandescent materials during powerful explosions Thursday night. The renewed activity came after the volcano experienced one of its biggest eruptions last week. It forced the evacuation of at least seven villages and closing the airport and schools in Guayaquil, the country's largest and most populated city.

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A halo forms around the top of the Space X Falcon 9 test rocket as it goes through a cloud after lifting off from complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, June 4, 2010. The rocket is carrying a mock-up of the company's spacecraft, named Dragon. The goal is to put the capsule into orbit. NASA hopes to use the Falcon-Dragon combo for hauling cargo and possibly astronauts to the International Space Station, once the shuttles stop flying. SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies, was founded eight years ago by Elon Musk, a South African-born entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal.

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Tens of thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park Friday, June 4, 2010, to mark the 21st anniversary of the June 4th China military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing.

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Rosalba Urrego looks at the remains of charred homes in Medellin, Colombia, Thursday, June 3, 2010. A fire broke out in the Comuna 13 slum neighborhood leaving dozens of homes destroyed or badly damaged. No deaths have been reported.

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The peleton of riders ride throught the countryside during the second race of the Tour de Luxembourg in Garnich, Luxembourg, Friday June 4, 2010.

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Two blue tarp covered tent cities are seen amid destroyed houses in Leogane, south of Port-au-Prince, on June 2, 2010. Haiti faces an "immense challenge" in rebuilding after January's earthquake, President Rene Preval told a donors' conference June 2 called to speed payment of billions of dollars in pledges.

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An Indian mahout feeds his elephant during a dust storm on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Thursday, June 3, 2010. Temperatures have soared above 104 degrees Fahrenheit in Northern India in recent weeks as parts of the country have been enduring a heat wave that has left a number of people dead.

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The tip of the Golden Gate bridge is seen above a blanket of fog in a view from Crissy Field in San Francisco Thursday, June 3, 2010.

Photos of the Day | Wednesday, June 9, 2010

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APTN photographer Rich Matthews emerges from an oil slick after videotaping oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, in the Gulf of Mexico south of Venice, La.

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An Artic fox runs on the snow in Ny-Alesund in the Svalbard archipelago of arctic Norway.

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Local kids play football in the Khayelitsha Township on June 9, 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa. The World Cup competition being hosted by South Africa begins on Friday.

Photos of the Day | Thursday, June 10, 2010

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Washington State Patrol trooper Michael Conroy gives a citation to a driver for using her cellphone while driving Thursday, the day the the law makes cellphone infractions a primary offense. The driver was using the phone on a ramp to the Highway 520 floating bridge when observed and being pulled over by Conroy. The fine for the offense is $124.

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A clown going by the name of Ivan performs a fire-breathing act during a protest by professional clowns against the common practice of armed bandits who pose as clowns and rob people on buses and other forms of public transport, in San Salvador, Thursday June 10 , 2010. The protest was held after two clown impostors killed a passenger last Monday on a public bus during a robbery.

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This June 10, 2010 NOAA handout image shows view from NASA's Terra satellite June 9, 2010 as it passed over the Gulf of Mexico. Oil can be seen as a shimmering area reflecting light more vividly than the normal reflectance of water. There are other natural features of the Gulf, such as plankton blooms, that may also create such a reflectance. Multiple satellite passes are required for accurate assessments of the surface oil extents, as are performed by the NOAA Satellite Analysis Branch. The image is at full resolution, showing detail at 250 meters per pixel.

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This image provided by NASA shows the west-facing side of an impact crater in the mid-latitudes of Mars' northern hemisphere. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took the image on April 13, 2010. It is one of 600 recent HiRISE observations newly released to NASA's Planetary Data System.

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White pelicans try to catch fish with wide open beaks during the feeding at the bird park Marlow, northern Germany on June 9, 2010. When living in the wild, pelicans catch fish in their huge beak pouches while swimming on the surface.

Photos of the Day | Friday, June 11, 2010

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A washer man beats clothes on a rock in the Daya River as monsoon clouds hover over Bhubaneswar, India, Friday, June 11, 2010. The monsoon season in India begins in June. Last year India's summer monsoon, vital for agriculture because of the rainfall it brings, was the weakest since 1972.

Photos of the Day | Wednesday, June 16, 2010

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Oil is burned on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico a few miles from the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Oil is still leaking from the wellhead at a rate now believed to be 60,000 gallons per day.

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The river Artuby floods Draguignan, France, Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Regional authorities in southeastern France say at least a dozen people have been killed and many are missing in the aftermath of flash floods that followed powerful rainstorms. Unusually heavy rains recently in the Var region have transformed streets into muddy rivers that swept up trees, cars and other objects.

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A secretary bird is pictured in his enclosure at the Tierpark Friedrichsfelde zoo in Berlin on June 15, 2010. The raptor birds are native to open landscapes of Africa.

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Gelson Fernandes of Switzerland scores the first and only goal during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Group H match between Spain and Switzerland at Durban Stadium on June 16, 2010 in Durban, South Africa. Switzerland upset the tournament favorite Spain 1-0.

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An Indian youth jumps into the Arabian sea during high tide while the landmark Gateway of India monument is seen in the background in Mumbai on June 16, 2010. India's monsoon, the annual downpour crucial to farmers and national economic growth, hit the western Indian city of Mumbai this week with hopes high for better rains than last year. The Indian government is hoping for a good monsoon to tame soaring food prices after last year's drought, the worst in 37 years, brought poor harvests and despair to farmers.

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Visitors to Pathfinder Reservoir, west of Alcova, Wyo., walk around the spillway where the North Platte River just recently overflowed on Tuesday afternoon, June 15, 2010. This is the first time it has overflowed since 1984. Residents battled record flooding Tuesday in southern Wyoming, where area reservoirs were full to the brim, while the central part of the state braced for more flooding that could rival last week's levels.

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A Buddhist devotee offers prayers near a wall defaced by vandals at Swayambhunath Buddhist Stupa, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Buddhism, which has about 325 million followers, teaches that every soul is reincarnated after death in another bodily form.

Photos of the Day | Friday, June 18, 2010

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A large funnel cloud touches down west of Albert Lea, Minn., early evening Thursday, June 16, 2010. The tornado was traveling northeast. Several tornadoes were reported in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa Thursday evening, some causing major damage.

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Cindy Wood, far right, stands in front of her tornado-damaged home in Wadena, Minn., on Thursday June 17, 2010. At least three people were killed and dozens injured as a series of tornadoes tore through Minnesota on Thursday, flattening homes and toppling power lines.

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Kobe Bryant #24 of the Los Angeles Lakers passes under pressure from Kevin Garnett #5 and Paul Pierce #34 of the Boston Celtics in Game Seven of the 2010 NBA Finals at Staples Center on June 17, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. The LAkers won the game and the NBA Championship, 83-79.

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People attend the funeral of victims of a coal mine explosion in Amaga, northwestern Colombia, Friday, June 18, 2010. Dozens of miners were trapped and feared dead after a fiery blast tore through a tunnel in a Colombian coal mine during a shift change, killing at least 16 workers.

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Ethnic Uzbek men seen during a Friday prayer in mosque in Suzak, in the Uzbek neighborhood near the southern Kyrgyz city of Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations announced Thursday, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful refugees without enough food and water in grim camps along the Uzbek border.

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A wounded Iraqi woman and her daughter are treated at a hospital after a car bombing in Tuz Khormato, in northern Iraq, Friday, June 18, 2010. Car bombs, meanwhile, tore through two neighborhoods in restive cities north of Baghdad in separate attacks targeting a police captain and a provincial council member. The deadliest attack was in the northern city of Tuz Khormato when an explosives-laden car blew up about 50 yards from the house of Niazi Mohammed, a Turkomen member of the Salahuddin provincial council, according to police.

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A visitor stands in front of paintings by Georg Baselitz during the reopening of the Albertinum, a museum of the Dresden State Art Collection (SKD), on Friday, June 18, 2010. Originally built in 1559, the Albertinum was badly damaged by bombs in 1945 and again by flooding in 2002. The 51 million Euros renovation took more than five years to complete. The new exhibition halls are shared by the Galerie Neue Meister and the Skulpturensammlung. The holdings of both museums, with paintings ranging from Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter and sculptures ranging from Rodin to the 21st century, have an outstanding worldwide reputation.

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A Hindu holy man performs yoga on a hilltop at Kamakhya temple in Gauhati, India, Friday, June 18, 2010. The annual Ambubasi festival will begin Tuesday where hundreds of Tantric Sadhus, or holy men from an esoteric form of Hinduism, gather to perform rituals at the temple.

Photos of the Day | Monday, June 21, 2010

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Papua New Guinea's Manam Volcano releases a thin, faint plume, as clouds cluster near the volcano's summit. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite took this image. The clouds may result from water vapor from the volcano, but may also have formed independent of volcanic activity. The volcanic plume appears as a thin, blue-gray veil extending toward the northwest over the Bismarck Sea.

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Smoke billows from fires on a mountainside of the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, after midnight, in the earliest hours of Sunday, June 20, 2010.

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James McGee vacuums oil from the BP Oil spill in Barataria Bay on the coast of Louisiana, Sunday, June 20, 2010.

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The Schultz Fire burns behind homes on Monday, June 21, 2010 in Flagstaff, Ariz. More than 300 firefighters are battling the Northern Arizona blaze.

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Miranda Perkins helps her daughter Catelynn, 2, through the flooded street at 6th Avenue South and South 28th Street near South Park after a storm moved through Billings, Mont. Sunday, June 20, 2010.

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The "Aliens" team competes during Red Bull Flugtag 2010 in Kiev on June 19, 2010. Some 39 teams are participating in the competition being held in the in the Ukrainian capital to fly the longest distance in home-built funny aircraft.

Photos of the Day | Wednesday, June 23, 2010

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U.S. General David Petraeus stands with U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in the Rose Garden at the White House on June 23, 2010 in Washington, DC. President Obama announced that he is replacing Gen. Stanley McChrystal as top commander of the U.S. Force in Afghanistan with General Petraeus, after an article quoting Gen. McChrystal disparaging the Obama Administration was published in Rolling Stone magazine.

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Dong Han, a worker for Seattle Parks and Recreation installs one of two signs warning people to stay out of the creek running through Golden Gardens Park in Seattle. A study by the Surfrider Foundation shows high levels of fecal-contaminated water in the creek at Golden Gardens.

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This image from video provided by BP PLC early Wednesday, June 23, 2010 shows oil continuing to gush from the broken wellhead, at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The Coast Guard said Wednesday that BP has been forced to remove a cap that was containing some of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.

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A Bangladeshi man looks out from a window at a garments factory in Ashulia, Bangladesh on June 23, 2010. Hundreds of factories in Bangladesh that make clothes for Western brands reopened under a heavy police presence after riots by workers forced their closure. Tens of thousands of people who stitch garments for the leading names in US and European retail have been on strike since June 19 to protest their pay in a major industrial zone outside Dhaka.

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Fires burn around the site of the BP Deepwater Horizon rig site in the Gulf of Mexico, June 19, 2010. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's flight to the Development Driller II earlier this month was in many ways a dramatization of the challenges facing the Obama administration as it responds to the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

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Alicia Engleman, 10, of Garland, Texas, cools off at a misting station during a visit to the Saint Louis Zoo Wednesday, June 23, 2010, in St. Louis. An excessive heat warning remains in effect through this evening in the St. Louis area with temperatures in the mid-90's and the head index over 100 degrees.

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A Chinese farmer stands with his pigs on a roof as floodwater surrounds his house in Luozhen township of Fuzhou city in central China's Jiangxi province Wednesday June 23, 2010. Torrential rains burst a dike in southern China, sending 88,000 people fleeing their homes and prompting China's top leaders to call Tuesday for stepped-up rescue operations.

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A Hindu holy man blows a buffalo horn during prayers at Kamakhya temple in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Hundreds of tantric Sadhus, or holy men from an esoteric form of Hinduism, gather to perform rituals at the temple during the annual Ambubasi festival that began Tuesday.

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An Amish girl roller blades with her groceries along a road in Middlefield, Ohio on Wednesday, June 23, 2010.

Photos of the Day | Thursday, June 24, 2010

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Bryan Jones, of Elko, Nev., holds on as a bucking horse flips over Tuesday, June 22, 2010, during the Reno Rodeo in Reno, Nev. The horse flipped over, slamming the cowboy against the ground, got up, and fell on him again. Jones suffered bruising to his hip and back but no serious injuries.

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Lightning streams across the sky towards downtown Chicago, on Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Tornado sirens were heard in the Chicago Loop as a severe weather system moved through central Cook County.

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A man walks through a garbage dump in search of items of value to sell at the Truitier municipal dump in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Haitians unable to afford basic items resort to scavenging at the municipal dump, selling metal and plastic to recyclers for a few cents a pound.

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A woman sits on a bus in the town of Osh, Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday June 23, 2010. Authorities in Kyrgyzstan said that more than half of those who fled to neighboring Uzbekistan during recent ethnic clashes had returned to the country in a mass influx across the border.

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Joe Matuza of Shakopee, Minn., holds his sons Marc, 8, center, and Joe, 11, as they wait to be rescued from a rock in the St. Louis River, Wednesday in Carlton, Minn.. Joe Matuza and his sons, ages 8 and 11, were trying to cross the river Wednesday by hopping rocks when the boys could go no farther. Matuza swam about 30 feet, climbed a steep bank and was able to reach a phone to call 911, then swam and waded back to where the boys sat on a rock in the fast current.

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A Health Ministry's worker sprays insecticides against the Aedes Aegypti mosquito (dengue fever vector) inside a house in Guatemala City on June 23, 2010. The Guatemalan government launched Tuesday a strategic plan for the prevention and control of dengue fever, due to the increase in the number of cases in the last days, after tropical storm Agatha. In Guatemala, 2700 cases of mild and 289 of severe dengue fever have been registered, of which six people have died.

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Ruben Daniels, left, and Dylan Gabriel react differently to their refreshing shower during Twilight Time at Adventure Quest in Enid, Okla. As Oklahoma temperatures climbed to 96, children and their parents search for ways to keep cool.

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The severely damaged tracks are visible at an area devastated by the overflowing of the Mandau river, in Branquinho, Alagoas state, northeastern Brazil, Wednesday. Rescue teams pressed a grim search Wednesday for hundreds of people missing in raging floods that swept through towns in northeastern Brazil, killing at least 44 people.

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Frank Wallace, who has been unemployed since May 2009, holds a sign during a rally organized by the Philadelphia Unemployment Project, in Philadelphia, Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Initial claims for jobless benefits fell by the most in two months last week, but remain above levels consistent with healthy job growth.

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A butterfly rests atop a flower on a farm near Glencoe, Ky., Wednesday, June 23, 2010.

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People walk past a sand sculpture of US performer Michael Jackson created to mark the first anniversary of his death, at the Bay of Bengal coast, in Puri, Orissa state, India, Thursday, June 24, 2010.

Photos of the Day | Friday, June 25, 2010

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Sichuan Pandas rest on a wood play structure at a zoo in Shanghai, China. The Pandas, which were moved from Sichuan specially for the Shanghai World Expo, were to be transferred to Shanghai Safari Park for better living on Monday.

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A school of Angelfish swim in a tank during at the Council of Agriculture in Taipei. They have been modified so they glow in a dark tank.

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A long barrier guards a portion of the Louisiana coast from oil oozing ashore rom the Deepwater Horizon well.

Photos of the Day | Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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Priests perform rituals for the arrival of monsoon rains in Ahmadabad, India, Tuesday. Northern India has experienced above normal temperatures in recent weeks, Many residents eagerly await the annual monsoon rains, which bring cooler temperatures vital for the farm-dependent economy.

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A striker drinks water in front of tied up ships at the port of Piraeus on Tuesday. Public services shut down across Greece as workers walked off the job in a new nationwide general strike.

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A makeshift encampment on London's Parliament Square entitled 'Democracy Village.' Mayor Boris Johnson has won a court order allowing him to evict the protesters who have been camping in the square since May 1.

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Blue crabs walk along the main seaside avenue of Cancun, Mexico. More than 200 crabs were rescued and another one thousand more were also on the streets after having their nest disrupted during public works projects.

Photos of the Day | Wednesday, June 30, 2010

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Sea lions swim in their pool at a Frankfurt, Germany zoo.

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A boy controls the ball during a soccer game on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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A Palestinian boy plays with bubbles as a vendor sells toys at Damascus Gate, outside Jerusalem.

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David Neal, 1, of Leeton, Mo., tries to get a closer look at three puppies being given away at the Sedalia Area Farmers' Market.

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A journalist has her nails painted with the colors of the South African flag as she attends a workshop at the Queens High School in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Photos of the day | Tuesday, July 6, 2010

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A nurse works in a ward for patients affected with dengue fever at the hospital Alonso Suazo in Tegucigalpa on July 05, 2010. The dengue epidemic has collapsed all the hospitals in Honduras.

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Storm clouds clear over Cook Inlet about 27 miles south of Anchorage, Alaska Tuesday, July 6, 2010. The photo was taken around 9:48 pm Alaska Daylight Savings Time with the sun still high on the horizon.

2 con panda nhìn dễ sương :D

Photos of the Day | Monday, July 12, 2010

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Colton Harris-Moore arrives barefoot, handcuffed and shackled as he is escorted by police to Nassau, Bahamas, Sunday July 11, 2010. Harris-Moore was arrested before dawn in northern Eleuthera island, according to police. Island police had been searching for the fugitive since he allegedly crash-landed a stolen plane a week ago on nearby Great Abaco Island, where he was blamed for a string of at least seven break-ins and has been running from U.S. law enforcement since escaping from a Washington state halfway house in 2008.

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A calf jumps over revelers after the fifth run of the bulls in the bullring during the San Fermin fiesta in Pamplona northern Spain, Sunday July 11, 2010.

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The sun is covered by the moon on Easter Island, 3700 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean, on July 11, 2010. A total solar eclipse began its 11,000 kilometer (6,800 mile) arc over the Pacific Sunday, plunging remote islands into darkness in a heavenly display set to climax on Easter Island.

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A woman swings her hair in a swimming pool in the village Velka Mana southern Slovakia on July 11, 2010. Temperatures reached 30 degrees Celsius and more in many parts of Slovakia.

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Spain's goalkeeper Iker Casillas holds the trophy during the award ceremony following the 2010 FIFA football World Cup between the Netherlands and Spain on July 11, 2010 at Soccer City stadium in Soweto, suburban Johannesburg.

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Workers remove the giant banner of former Cleveland Cavaliers NBA basketball star LeBron James in downtown Cleveland on Sunday, July 11, 2010. On Thursday night, James announced in a televised special that he would be signing a contract for the upcoming season to join the Miami Heat.

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A controlled oil burn is seen near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Sunday, July 11, 2010.

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Police walk among boots and debris thrown by milk producers during a milk producer's demonstration on July 12, 2010 beside an EU Agriculture and Fisheries council meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels. Milk producers from around Europe have been protesting to the EU about the fall in the price of milk and are asking for help.

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A tanker drops retardant on the fire burning in Swakane Canyon early Saturday evening, July 11, 2010, just west of Highway 97A, three miles south of Entiat, Wash.

nhưng chắc không dữ bằng con người :D

Photos of the Day | Tuesday, July 13, 2010

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A large storm cell moves over farmland between the towns of Ross and Stanley, N.D. Rough weather was reported in the western part of North Dakota through Tuesday morning.

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Women walk next to the Qalai Khater cemetery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday.

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A young Chinese boy plays snooker in an alley in Beijing, China on Tuesday.

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Hannah Lyons, of Portland, Ore., smells the roses Tuesday in the International Rose Test Garden. The Portland garden was founded in 1917 and is the oldest official and continuously operated public rose test garden in the United States.

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A vessel monitors an oil burn in the area of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico, Tuesday.

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The nectar of a flowering plant along the Rock River in Watertown, Wis. attracts a moth.

Photos of the Day | Friday, July 16, 2010

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People salvage what they can from a capsized fishing vessel in Mariveles, Bataan, Thursday. Troops today scoured jagged coastlines on the Philippines' eastern seaboard in search of dozens of fishermen who went missing after a ferocious typhoon battered the country, killing 23 people. Using rubber boats and small fishing vessels, hundreds of soldiers raced against time to look for the 59 missing fishermen amid fears those still alive could succumb to hypothermia, regional military spokesman Major Harold Cabunoc said.

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Indian schoolchildren sit in formation to create the shape of the new symbol for The Indian Rupee at a school in Chennai on July 16, 2010. India unveiled a symbol for its rupee currency that it hopes will become as globally recognised as signs for the dollar, the yen, the pound and the euro. Ministers made their final decision at a cabinet meeting after examining a shortlist of five designs inspired by the letter "R" in the Roman alphabet and "Ra" from the ancient Devanagari script used in Hindi.

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A field of corn, hemp and sunflowers displays the map of the United States and a portrait of an Indian near Utting Am Ammersee, southern Germany. Farmers Corinne and Uli Ernst created the 12,000 square meter labyrinth with straw paths of a totaling of 2.3 kilometers in length. Visitors are invited to come to the "Wild West Calling" venue from July 22 to September 26, 2010.

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A tourist cools off his head in a fountain in Rome's People square, Friday, July 16, 2010, as temperatures are expected to reach 38 Celsius degrees (100.4 Fahrenheit) in central and northern Italy.

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A woman stands under a car that a man tried to drive off the 12th floor of the parking garage Friday morning in Houston. The Houston Chronicle reports that a man jumped to his death from the downtown parking garage after he tried but failed to drive his car off the 12th floor according to Patrick Trahan, spokesman for the Houston Fire Department.

RIP!!!

Photos of the Day | Monday, July 19, 2010

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Motorcycle racer Aleix Espargaro, of Spain, left, flies through the air after crashing with racer Randy de Puniet, right, of France, during the Moto GP race of the Grand Prix of Germany.Espargaro suffered a broken vertebrae and Puniet broke his leg.

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A Lockheed Martin F-22 flies in a display during Farnborough International Airshow, in Farnborough, England, Monday.

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A car leaves an evacuated area near a wildfire west of downtown Yakima, Wash. Fire officials say the 10,000 acre blaze burned at least three homes and several outbuildings.

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Tourists stand at Berlin's Holocaust Memorial on Sunday. The memorial, designed by US architect Peter Eisenman, is in the heart of the capital.

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A United States Marine helicopter door gunner aims during a flight near Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan on Saturday.

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Lightning illuminates a windmill near Bad Saarow, eastern Germany on July 17.

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Santa takes in his surroundings in the Dyrehavsbakken amusement park, north of Copenhagen, Denmark, Monday and as others gather for the World Santa Claus Congress.

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A man passes by the graves of Greek and Cypriot soldiers who were killed in the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus at the Tymvos Macedonitissas military cemetery in the divided capital of Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday, July 19, 2010. Greek and Cypriot soldiers were killed 34 years ago during the Turkish invasion and subsequent occupation of the northern part of the island of Cyprus. Sunday July 20, is 36th anniversary of Turkish invasion. Cyprus was split into Greek Cypriot south and Turkish Cypriot north in 1974 when Turkey invaded in response to a coup by supporters of union with Greece.

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A girl is sillouetted as she reaches toward the image of a whale shark while watching the high definition movie of Okinawa Chraumi Aquarium shown at the Ginza Sony building in central Tokyo on July 19, 2010, to mark the Marine Day national holiday. Marine Day is a national holiday celebrated each summer to give thanks to the ocean.

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A photographer takes pictures in front of high waves during the passage of tropical storm Conson at the northern coastal city of Hai Phong. At least one person was killed and a dozen others reported missing in Vietnam as tropical storm Conson hit after leaving 68 dead in the Philippines when it struck as a typhoon.

Những người này gan thật :rose4: :grin3:

Photos of the Day | Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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A two-year-old South American sea lion opens its mouth after eating a fish at the Manila Ocean Park in Manila on July 19, 2010.

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Members of an Indian farming family plow a field in preparation for sowing cotton seeds in Kayla village some 70 km from Ahmedabad on July 19, 2010. The family previously used three bullock to plow their agricultural land but due to crop uncertainty related to less predictable rains, and the price of the animal now between 25,000 and 40,000 Indian rupees (530-850 USD) a piece, the farming family says buying and maintaining them is no longer affordable.

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A firefighter rushes to aid his colleague who ran into trouble amid thick oil cover as they attempted to fix an underwater pump in Dalian, China on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Crude oil started pouring into the Yellow Sea off a busy northeastern port after a pipeline exploded late last week, sparking a massive 15-hour fire. The government says the slick has spread across a 70-square-mile stretch of ocean.

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Indian rescue personnel conduct recovery operations on the mangled wreckage of train coaches following a railway accident in Sainthia, India, Monday. A speeding express rammed into the back of a stationary passenger train in eastern India, killing at least 57 people and trapping others in several badly mangled carriages. The standing train was waiting to leave Sainthia station when the express slammed into its rear.

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A child plays with water in a fountain at a park in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, July 20, 2010.

Photos of the Day | Wednesday, July 21, 2010

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An Indian farmer works in a paddy field in Kokrajhar, about 140 miles west of Gauhati, India, Wednesday, July 21, 2010. With the arrival of monsoon rains, farming activity has resumed in the paddy fields.

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Osman dives for a ball as he plays beach volleyball on July 21, 2010 in Eckernfoerde, northern Germany.

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This photo taken on July 20, 2010 shows a view of the flood waters in southwest China's Chongqing municipality, after torrential rains hit Yangtze River areas. Thirteen people were missing after a landslide on July 20 in southwestern China, where flooding caused by relentless torrential rains has triggered a series of deadly disasters, state media said.Rivers throughout rain-hit regions have risen to or beyond their warning levels, flooding numerous towns and cities.

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Cirque Du Soleil performer Jing Han, of Jiangsu, China, center, uses her feet to juggle a prop in the shape of a giant kiwi fruit along with other performers during a rehearsal for the show named "Ovo," in Boston, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. The show, meant to depict the world of insects, and featuring acrobats, jugglers, and aerial performers, is to open July 22, 2010, and runs through Aug. 29, 2010.

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Novices sit in lines in front of the Maha Chedi during a mass ordination at Dhamagaya Temple in Pathumthani province, central Thailand Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Ten of thousands men ordained monkhood in a dawn ceremony to mark the three-month long Buddhist Lent or the rainy season when Buddhist monks remain in the monasteries to study the teachings of Lord Buddha which this year starts on Tuesday, July 27, 2010.

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Schoolgirls react as a car splashes water from a puddle formed after rainfall in Amritsar, India, Wednesday, July 21, 2010.

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A U.S. soldier watches an Afghan movie on TV while relaxing at Combat Outpost Nolen, an outlying base for the 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wednesday, July 21, 2010.

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Richard Kruse (right) of Britain vies with Poland's Radoslaw Glonek in the men's epee team competition of the European Fencing Championships 2010 in Leipzig, eastern Germany, on July 21, 2010. Britain took place three, Poland place four.

Photos of the Day | Thursday, July 22, 2010

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A man sells hot dogs with a view of the commercial center of Port au Prince behind him on July 22, 2010 in the aftermath of the January 12 2010 earthquake.

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Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu reacts during a press conference in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, July 22, 2010. Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu announced Thursday he is retiring from public life later this year when he turns 79, saying "the time has come to slow down" and spend more time with his family. The former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town said after his birthday on Oct. 7 he will limit his time in the office to one day per week until February 2011.

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A child lies playfully in a hammock as his family works at a construction site in the commercial Connaught Place area of New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 22, 2010. The city looks like a messy construction site as many parts are under renovation ahead of the Commonwealth Games which are scheduled to start Oct. 3, 2010.

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A sports fishermen tries his luck on a flooded old road after sunset at Liptovska Mara dam, near the city of Liptovsky Mikulas on June 21, 2010. Liptovska Mara is Slovakia's popular summer destination visited by many local Polish and Czech sports fishermen.

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California Highway Patrol officers investigate a Greyhound bus crash on Highway 99 in Fresno, Calif., that killed at least six people and injured many others Thursday, July 22, 2010.

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Southeast Asian clouded leopards, (Neofelis Nebulosa) are seen at Jardin des Plantes Zoological in Paris, Thursday, July 22, 2010. The two female cubs, named Pati and Jaya, born on May 14, 2010, recently made their first appearance in public.

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Children look at a giant Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) which started to bloom, at the botanic gardens in Tokyo on July 22, 2010. The Indonesian plant has the world's largest blossom, standing 1.5m in height and smelling like decaying flesh to attract beetles.

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Garth Bauman dressed as Batman waits in line to get into the preview night at Comic-Con International Wednesday, July 21, 2010 in San Diego.

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Penguins walk in a basin of the zoological garden in Dresden, Germany, Wednesday, July 21, 2010.

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Cái greenhouse ở trường UW cũng có 1 cây như vậy. Mấy năm trước nó trổ bông có quá chừng người tới xem.

Bông nhìn ngộ quá, chưa bao giờ thấy!

cây bông nhìn ngộ ghê

Photos of the Day | Friday, July 23, 2010

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Robert Stabbert and his wife Sasha Stabbert captured a male peacock that was roaming around their neighborhood for the last several months in South Seattle. The bird was heard yelping and squawking throughout the night. There is still a female peacock on the loose. The male peacock was held in their garage until animal control could pick it up.

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Gustavus Adolphus professor Scott Bur works in his aluminized office in St. Peter, Minn. Students slipped into the chemistry professor's office while he was on vacation and as a prank, covered everything right down to pens and even his coffee pot cord with aluminum foil. "It's sort of become a tradition in my research group," said Bur, who'd only managed to unwrap his coffee pot and a few other essentials by Thursday morning. "When I go on vacation and come back, I always find something,".

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A hot air balloon flies in the early morning Friday, July 23, 2010, at the Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning in Readington, N.J. The festival runs through Sunday, July 25, 2010.

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Royal Collection worker Caroline de Guitaut poses for photographs with a collection of hats Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has worn to the Royal Ascot horse race meeting over the years, during a media event held to preview 'The Queen's Year' exhibition at Buckingham Palace in London, Friday, July 23, 2010. The exhibition, which is part of the Summer Opening of the State Rooms at the palace, opens to the public on July 27 and includes displays of robes, gifts, uniforms, dresses and jewellery, giving visitors an insight into the principal national and ceremonial events in the royal year.

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Muscovites dance on the embankment of the Moskva river in central Moscow late evening on July 22, 2010, relaxing after midday 36 degree centigrade heat. The temperature in Moscow is expected to reach 38 degrees centigrade (about 100F) by the end of the week.

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Chinese workers clean up flood mud along a street by Jialing river in southwest China's Chongqing municipality. China, already reeling from deadly floods, braced for a potential new deluge on the Yangtze downstream from the huge Three Gorges Dam as its reservoir's level hit a high for the year.

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A fire fighter is looking at a damaged carriage of a Glacier Express passenger train at the accident site in Fiesch, Switzerland, Friday, July 23, 2010. A popular tourist train traveling between Lax and Fiesch in canton Valais derailed on Friday, leaving at least 15 people injured.

aww, cute :D :D