Latest news from around the web, updated 10 minutes ago.

• World

  • Conditions in Myanmar starker than portrayed
  • Iraqis: U.S. Troop Pullout Deal Is Close
  • 10 Years Since Kenya US Embassy Attack

• Business

  • Stocks Rise as Oil Continues Slide And Cisco Lifts Tech Sector
  • Former Refco owner given 10 years for fraud
  • June pending home sales up unexpectedly

• Celebrity

  • Lawyer: Morgan Freeman and wife are divorcing
  • Get High on the 'Pineapple Express'
  • Usher Hires His Mother as Manager – Again

• Politics

  • Clinton pledges to unify party for fall campaign
  • Paris Hilton strips down to reveal "hot" energy plan
  • Gasoline costs, energy rivet candidates' attention

• Science

  • Breaking the News About Breast Cancer
  • Map shows front lines of Arctic carve-up
  • Was mummy King Tut a daddy? - DNA tests for tomb foetuses

• Tech

  • Toyota reports 28% drop in fiscal first-quarter profit
  • IMAX loss deepens on digital technology costs
  • Microsoft releases SQL Server 2008

• Sports

  • Air pollution shrouds Beijing on eve of Olympics
  • Favre Finally Jetted Out of Green Bay
  • No smog, but plenty of clouds for U.S. women's soccer team

Selected and fresh photos from around the web.

• Editor's pick

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    CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.

    1 week ago

    from Getty Images

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    A woman collects drinking water from a tube well at the flooded village of Godadhar in Faridpur July 27, 2008. Several areas in north and northeastern Bangladesh remain inundated with floodwaters after the embankments of the rivers Jamuna and Padma collapsed due to heavy rainfall earlier this week.

    1 week ago

    from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS

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    LONDON - JULY 25: Reese Hoffa of United States competes in the Men's Shot Put Final during day 1 of the Norwich Union Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace Stadium on July 25, 2008 in London, England.

    1 week ago

    from Getty Images

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    Palestinian artist Walid Ayyoub poses with a drawing of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in his studio in the West Bank city of Ramallah July 22, 2008. Obama pledged on Tuesday to work to reach a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians from his first day in office but said it would be difficult.

    2 weeks ago

    from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS

• Hot off the wire

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    The Chinese national flag is raised in a dawn ceremony in Tiananmen Square in Beijing Friday, Aug. 8, 2008. The 2008 Olympic Games open later Friday in Beijing.

    21 mins ago

    from AP Photo by Greg Baker

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    People shout slogans praising China during a morning flag raising ceremony at Tiananmen Square in Beijing August 8, 2008.

    14 mins ago

    from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS

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    This hand out picture released by the Pakistan People's Party shows Pakistani former premier Nawaz Sharif (L) and his coalition partner Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of the ruling Pakistan People's Party addressing a press conference in Islamabad on August 7, 2008. Pakistan's ruling coalition said that it would impeach President Pervez Musharraf, posing the biggest threat to the key US ally in the "war on terror" since he seized power in a 1999 coup. Zardari and Sharif made the announcement after three days of marathon talks in Islamabad.

    3 hours ago

    from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images

• Recently starred

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    Italian photographer Rino Barillari, who calls himself "The King of Paparazzi", smiles at the opening of his street exhibition in Moscow August 7, 2008.

    1 hour ago

    from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS

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    A velo taxi, a cycle-powered people mover, is seen on the streets of Sapporo in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido July 4, 2008. How to get high oil prices down will top the agenda as leaders from the Group of Eight rich countries meet for a summit in Toyako, on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, from July 7-9.

    1 month ago

    from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS

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    Lawyers take a part in a protest rally in Lahore July 17, 2008. July 17, 2008. Lawyers and civil society members gathered to demand the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf and the reinstatement of 60 judges who were dismissed by Musharraf during his emergency rule in November 2007.

    3 weeks ago

    from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS

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    Yoav Ziv (14) of Beitar Jerusalem fights for the ball with Wisla Krakow's Pawel Brozek during their Champions League second qualifying round, second leg soccer match in Krakow August 6, 2008.

    1 day ago

    from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS

Our editor's pick, and topics with the most buzz in the last ten minutes.

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  Brett Favre
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  Barack Obama
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  George W. Bush
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  Morgan Freeman
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  John McCain

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