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An illustration of the Sleipner natural gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea which pumps natural gas (green) to the surface and then reinjects excess carbon dioxide (blue) back into porous rocks for burial as part of a plan to slow global warming. The field, the longest-running commercial greenhouse gas burial project in the world, has pumped 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the subsea reservoir since it started in 1996, equivalent to about a fifth of Norway's annual carbon dioxide output.
1 day ago
from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS
Real Madrid football club players celebrate their 31st league title win in Madrid on May 4, 2008. Thousands of Real Madrid fans converged on the famous Cibeles fountain in the Spanish capital on May 4 to celebrate their team's 31st league title after a 2-1 win over Osasuna.
4 days ago
from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images
People watch cockfighting during May Day holidays in Tongguan county, Yunnan province May 3, 2008.
6 days ago
from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS
Press Freedom campaigners cover their mouths with white towels during a press conference in Hong Kong on April 30, 2008 ahead of the World Press Freedom Day event May 1 to 3. In the run up to the 100-day countdown of the Beijing Olympics, renowned writers and artists are gathering in the territory for a two-day seminar and an arts fair to send a message to the Chinese government of making Freedom of Expression Dream a reality in China.
1 week ago
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James Blake of the United States falls during a men's quarter-final match against Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka, at the Rome Master tennis tournament, in Rome, Friday, May 9, 2008. Wawrinka won 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 6-1.
29 mins ago
from AP Photo by LUCA BRUNO
A girl paints a danger sign next to railway track outside the Kaliyakadu camp for internally displaced Tamil people in Batticaloa, eastern Sri Lanka May 9, 2008. Residents in Sri Lanka's war-ravaged east vote in local elections for the first time in two decades on Saturday, and the government hopes the result will endorse its war to defeat Tamil Tiger rebels.
26 mins ago
from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS
This photo montage, supplied by the Italian Carabinieri on May 9, 2008, shows alleged members of warring mafia clans behind a bloody execution which killed six at a pizza restaurant in Germany last year. (From top L), Gianfranco Cocilovo, Giuseppe Pelle, Domenico Mammoliti, Maria Pelle, Giovanni Marrapodi, (from bottom L) Antonio Romano, Liana Benas, Francesco Barbaro, and Antonella Vottari, all from the San Luca village in Italy's deep-south Calabria region, the home of the six 'Ndrangheta gangland figures gunned down in Duisburg, western Germany. Officials contacted by AFP were unable to say if any had been arrested since the warrants were issued by prosecutors in Reggio di Calabria, a short boat hop from the Sicilian port of Messina.
26 mins ago
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Pictures of Majority leader Saad al-Hariri and assassinated former Prime Minister Rafic al-Hariri are seen on a glass shattered by a bullet inside the building of al-Mustaqbal newspaper after clashes in Beirut May 9, 2008. Hezbollah gunmen took control of large areas of Beirut on Friday in a third day of fighting between the pro-Iranian group and fighters loyal to the U.S.- backed governing coalition.
8 hours ago
from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS
A Shi'ite opposition gunman takes position in a street in Beirut May 8, 2008. Iranian-backed Hezbollah tightened its grip on Beirut airport on Thursday, pilling pressure on Lebanon's U.S. -backed government on the second day of a protest campaign that has triggered gun battles in the capital.
1 day ago
from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS
A masked Shiite gunman smokes a water pipe as he rests in a Beirut street, Lebanon, Friday May 9, 2008. Shiite opposition gunmen seized control of large areas of Beirut's Muslim sector from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday, in street battles that left 11 dead, security officials said.
1 hour ago
from AP Photo by HUSSEIN MALLA
An illustration of the Sleipner natural gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea which pumps natural gas (green) to the surface and then reinjects excess carbon dioxide (blue) back into porous rocks for burial as part of a plan to slow global warming. The field, the longest-running commercial greenhouse gas burial project in the world, has pumped 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the subsea reservoir since it started in 1996, equivalent to about a fifth of Norway's annual carbon dioxide output.
1 day ago
from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS





