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A puppy stands on a truck carrying people to be evacuated from the area in preparation for the approach of Hurricane Gustav in Batabano, on the southern coast of Cuba, August 30, 2008. Powerful Hurricane Gustav roared toward western Cuba on Saturday with 125 mph (205 kph) winds on its way to the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico after a deadly pass through the Caribbean.
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BANGKOK, THAILAND - AUGUST 30: A member of Anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stands behind barbed wire outside Government on August 30, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. The protesters want to unseat the seven-month old coalition government lead by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
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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.
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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.
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Medics treat a wounded Iraqi policeman, centre, at al-Kindi hospital after a roadside bomb attack on his patrol in east Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. The attack wounded three police and two civilians, police said.
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Australian rider Robbie Maddison performs at the Red Bull X-Fighters competition in Warsaw September 6, 2008.
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Indian flood-affected villagers collect relief material dropped by the Indian Air Force in Madhepura district in India's northeastern state of Bihar on September 7, 2008. India was grappling with the task of feeding and housing close to a million villagers displaced by huge floods in the eastern state of Bihar, as the rescue effort wound down. Some 900,000 people fled from their homes or were evacuated by boat since the Kosi river breached its defences three weeks ago on the Nepal border and changed course.
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Former astronaut Lisa Nowak (R) speaks to the press as her attorneys Cheney Mason (L) and Donald Lykkebak (C) stand with her after her pre-trial hearing at Orange County Court in Orlando, Florida August 24, 2007. Nowak is accused of stalking and attacking Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman at Orlando International Airport.
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Supporters of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari, widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, in the presidential election, in front of The Parliament House in Islamabad on September 6, 2008. Zardari secured a large win in Pakistan's presidential elections on September 6, capping a remarkable rise from jail, exile and his wife Benazir Bhutto's assassination just nine months ago. The controversial front-runner swept a poll among lawmakers to become the 14th president in Pakistan's short but turbulent history, taking power in the world's only nuclear-armed Islamic state and frontline "war on terror" ally.
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Supporters of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari, widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, in the presidential election, in front of The Parliament House in Islamabad on September 6, 2008. Zardari secured a large win in Pakistan's presidential elections on September 6, capping a remarkable rise from jail, exile and his wife Benazir Bhutto's assassination just nine months ago. The controversial front-runner swept a poll among lawmakers to become the 14th president in Pakistan's short but turbulent history, taking power in the world's only nuclear-armed Islamic state and frontline "war on terror" ally.
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Supporters of the ruling party, Pakistan People's Party, chant slogans as they celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari in the presidential election in Islamabad September 6, 2008. Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, swept to victory in a presidential election on Saturday, as a suicide bomber killed at least 10 people in the northwest.
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A man arranges newspapers carrying pictures of Pakistan's president-elect Asif Ali Zardari in Islamabad on September 7, 2008. Pakistan's president-elect Asif Ali Zardari must work quickly to remove all doubts about his chequered past and prove to the people that he can be trusted, local media said. Zardari won more than two-thirds of the votes in a secret ballot on September 6 to become the country's 14th president, succeeding Pervez Musharraf, the former army general whose resignation last month triggered the election.
Rescuers and villagers dig through through the rubble of a landslide in the southern Philippine mining town of Mako, in Compostella Valley on September 7, 2008. Two landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains hit the area at the weekend, killing nine and injuring 19 others, with another 16 still missing and were feared dead.
Rescuers and villagers dig through through the rubble of a landslide in the southern Philippine mining town of Mako, in Compostella Valley on September 7, 2008. Two landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains hit the area at the weekend, killing nine and injuring 19 others, with another 16 still missing and were feared dead.
Local rescuers emerge from the rubble of a house destroyed in a landslide in the southern Philippine mining town of Mako, in Compostella Valley on September 7, 2008. Two landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains hit the area at the weekend, killing nine and injuring 19 others, with another 16 still missing and were feared dead.
Villagers look at the rubble from a landslide in the southern Philippine mining town of Mako, in Compostella Valley on September 7, 2008. Two landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains hit the area at the weekend, killing nine and injuring 19 others, with another 16 still missing and were feared dead.
A man arranges newspapers carrying pictures of Pakistan's president-elect Asif Ali Zardari in Islamabad on September 7, 2008. Pakistan's president-elect Asif Ali Zardari must work quickly to remove all doubts about his chequered past and prove to the people that he can be trusted, local media said. Zardari won more than two-thirds of the votes in a secret ballot on September 6 to become the country's 14th president, succeeding Pervez Musharraf, the former army general whose resignation last month triggered the election.
