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• World

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• Celebrity

  • Matt Damon's wife gives birth to girl
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• Politics

  • Did Obama drop a big VP hint?.
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  • Cold front?

• Science

  • Cervical cancer shot not always cost-effective
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  • Hospital death rates for key conditions unveiled

• Tech

  • Microsoft planning IE privacy mode
  • Intel to build Yahoo widgets into new TV chips
  • Hillcrest Labs sues Nintendo over Wii controller patents

• Sports

  • Bolt back for potential third Olympic gold medal
  • Rams' RB Steven Jackson will end holdout
  • Bolt breaks world record, takes gold in 200 meters

Selected and fresh photos from around the web.

• Editor's pick

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    Georgian soldiers run near a blazing building after a Russian bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town.

    1 week ago

    from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS

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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.

    2 weeks 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.

    3 weeks 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.

    3 weeks ago

    from Getty Images

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    Croatia's Blanka Vlasic makes an attempt in the qualification for the women's high jump during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008.

    9 hours ago

    from AP Photo by Thomas Kienzle

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    Gabor Balogh of Hungary celebrates a point against Michal Michalik of the Czech Republic during the fencing event of the men's modern pentathlon competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, August 21, 2008.

    9 hours ago

    from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS

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    Soldiers secure the site of a blast on the facade of a hotel in Zamboanga city in the violence-rocked southern Philippines on August 20, 2008. Attackers on a motorcycle hurled a grenade that wounded four people outside a hotel, a military official said. Authorities are still investigating the motive of the attack following stepped up attacks by Muslim separatist rebels, leaving 38 dead in their latest August 18 offensive.

    17 hours ago

    from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images

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    Eighty-four year-old Georgian Shalva Khutsenashvili and his South Ossetian wife Misurat Khutayeva sit in a hospital room on August 16, 2008 in Tskhinvali. Russian troops have the right to patrol "a few kilometres" deeper inside Georgia beyond the conflict zone South Ossetia, Georgian and French officials said. This allowance was stipulated in a confidential letter from French President Nicolas Sarkozy to his Georgian counterpart shown to AFP here by a high-level Georgian source and later released in Paris by the Elysee Palace.

    5 days ago

    from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images

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    A South Ossetian man holds an axe as he stands in his house on August 16, 2008 in Tskhinvali. Dozens of haggard Georgian captives were marched through the rebel city of South Ossetia, as separatists called on Tbilisi to recover the rotting corpses of its soldiers. The mostly elderly men -- apparently all civilians -- walked with their heads bowed and their hands behind their backs, escorted by armed guards. Locals stopped to take pictures on their mobile phones. Some pointed and laughed as the detainees marched through Tskhinvali. One woman said: "Those are the prisoners? But they're just old men!".

    5 days ago

    from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images

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    TBILISI, GEORGIA - AUGUST 16: A man smokes in a corridor as Georgian refugees, many of them from the breakaway province of South Ossetia, settle into a refugee shelter August 16, 2008 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Tens of thousands of Georgians and others have fled the areas of north Georgia affected by the stand off with Russian forces, and hundreds of them are taking shelter in this old Communist-era ministry building. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Tblisi yesterday to show support for Georgia and to try to firm up the recent peace initiative with the Russians instigated by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

    5 days ago

    from Getty Images

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    Manya Pleeva, a 76-year-old South Ossetian sits on the bed in her house on August 16, 2008 in Tskhinvali. Dozens of haggard Georgian captives were marched through the rebel city of South Ossetia, as separatists called on Tbilisi to recover the rotting corpses of its soldiers. The mostly elderly men -- apparently all civilians -- walked with their heads bowed and their hands behind their backs, escorted by armed guards. Locals stopped to take pictures on their mobile phones. Some pointed and laughed as the detainees marched through Tskhinvali. One woman said: "Those are the prisoners? But they're just old men!".

    5 days ago

    from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images

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

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  2008 Summer Olympics
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  John McCain
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  Steven Jackson
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  Jacques Rogge

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