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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.
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In this picture provided on May 6, 2008 by the Peruvian Marine Forces, workers try to control an oil spill in Pisco, Peru, 300 km south of Lima. The US ship Cape Knox was damaged and dumped an estimated of 1,500 gallons of diesel fuel while docking at the San Martin port, some 40 km from the Paracas National Reserve.
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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.
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People watch cockfighting during May Day holidays in Tongguan county, Yunnan province May 3, 2008.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, tours Horyuji Buddhist Temple with Chief Priest Gensho Ohno, left, as a guide in Ikarugacho, Nara Prefecture (state), western Japan, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Horyuji, Japan's first World Cultural Heritage, houses the world's oldest surviving wooden structures, the temple said.
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Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) addresses supporters during a campaign stop in Louisville, Kentucky, May 9, 2008.
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SALT LAKE CITY - MAY 09: Luke Walton #4 of the Los Angeles Lakers goes up for a shot against Carlos Boozer #5 of the Utah Jazz in Game Three of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2008 NBA Playoffs on May 9, 2008 at Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement.
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Shown is the Benjamin Franklin Bridge through a broken window in an unoccupied condominium unit in Philadelphia , Friday, March 14, 2008. As America's housing market has foundered, homeowners who bought into newly rising projects at just the wrong time have found themselves marooned in stalled, abandoned or largely unoccupied developments with little place to turn, placing a strain on them and municipalities forced to pick up the pieces.
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Shown is the Benjamin Franklin Bridge through a broken window in an unoccupied condominium unit in Philadelphia , Friday, March 14, 2008. As America's housing market has foundered, homeowners who bought into newly rising projects at just the wrong time have found themselves marooned in stalled, abandoned or largely unoccupied developments with little place to turn, placing a strain on them and municipalities forced to pick up the pieces.
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Shown is the Benjamin Franklin Bridge through a broken window in an unoccupied condominium unit in Philadelphia , Friday, March 14, 2008. As America's housing market has foundered, homeowners who bought into newly rising projects at just the wrong time have found themselves marooned in stalled, abandoned or largely unoccupied developments with little place to turn, placing a strain on them and municipalities forced to pick up the pieces.
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The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, John Holmes (C), tours a camp where Kenyans who have been displaced by post election ethnic violence have sought refuge in Nairobi on February 10, 2008. More than 1,000 people have been killed and 300,000 displaced in rioting, tribal violence and police raids since the December 27, 2007 elections that President Mwai Kibaki officially won, but the opposition claims was rigged. Holmes is in a three-days mission to assess the humanitarian situation in the country.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, tours Horyuji Buddhist Temple with Chief Priest Gensho Ohno, left, as a guide in Ikarugacho, Nara Prefecture (state), western Japan, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Horyuji, Japan's first World Cultural Heritage, houses the world's oldest surviving wooden structures, the temple said.
Chinese President Hu Jintao waves during his visit to Horyuji Buddhist Temple with Chief Priest Gensho Ohno, right, as a guide in Ikarugacho, Nara Prefecture (state), western Japan, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Horyuji, Japan's first World Cultural Heritage, houses the world's oldest surviving wooden structures, the temple said.
Chinese President Hu Jintao, center, tours Horyuji Buddhist Temple with Chief Priest Gensho Ohno, holding a transparent umbrella, as a guide in Ikarugacho, Nara Prefecture (state), western Japan, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Horyuji, Japan's first World Cultural Heritage, houses the world's oldest surviving wooden structures, the temple said.
