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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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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.
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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.
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A yellow-cheeked crested gibbon sits in a cage at Cambodia's Phnom Tamau Zoo in Takeo province, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. The New-York-based Wildlife Conservation Society announced its findings in a statement Friday. The group says its researchers, working with Cambodian wildlife officials, have counted 42,000 black-shanked douc langurs along with 2,500 yellow-cheeked crested gibbons in the Seima Biodiversity Conservation area in a remote northeastern corner of the country.
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Singers Jesse McCartney (C) and Katy Perry (L) pose with members of the Pussy Cat Dolls (2nd L-R) Melody Thornton, Kimberly Wyatt, Ashley Roberts, Jessica Sutta, Nicole Scherzinger after performing on NBC's "Today" show in New York August 29, 2008.
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French Socialist Member of European Parliament, former Minister and Socialist Party leadership runner Pierre Moscovici (R) gestures, flanked by (From L) the leader of New Socialist Party (NSP), Benoit Hamon, French former Socialist Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and French Socialist Member of European Parliament Bernard Poignant, as he participates in a workshop, on August 29, 2008, focused on 2009 Party for European Socialists (PES) manifesto, on the first day of France's opposition Socialist Party's summer conference held in the Atlantic coastal city of La Rochelle, western France.
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Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson drinks what he says is biofuel from a coconut alongside Captain Geoff Andreasen before the world's first commercial biofuel flight to Amsterdam from Heathrow Airport in London February 24, 2008. Nuts picked from Amazon rainforests helped fuel the world's first commercial airliner flight powered by renewable energy on Sunday.
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DENVER - AUGUST 28: Democratic U.S. Presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) reacts to the crowd on day four of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at Invesco Field at Mile High August 28, 2008 in Denver, Colorado. U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is the first African-American to be officially nominated as a candidate for U.S. president by a major party.
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PHOENIX, AZ - AUGUST 25: Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) speaks during a news conference at Central High School August 25, 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona. Sen. McCain made an appearance with Puerto Rican reggaeton musician Daddy Yankee.
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SIERRA MADRE, CA - MAY 29: Seventieth anniversary cans of Spam, the often-maligned classic canned lunch meat made by Hormel Foods, are seen on a grocery store shelf May 29, 2008 in Sierra Madre, California. With the rise in food prices, sales of Spam are increasing as consumers look for ways to cut their food bills. According to the US Agriculture Department, the price of food is rising at the fastest rate since 1990. Increasingly expensive staples include such items as white bread, up 13 percent over last year, butter, up nine percent, and bacon at seven percent. The increasing sales have translated to 14 percent higher profits for Hormel. Spam was created in 1937 and was popularized as a staple food for World War II Western allied forces.
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Supporters of Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf hold placards during a demonstration in Lahore held to show solidarity with U.S.-trained neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui August 29, 2008. U.S.-trained neuroscientist and al Qaeda suspect Aafia Siddiqui, 36, was arrested in Afghanistan in mid-July and flown to New York earlier this month to be charged with attempting to kill and assault U.S. soldiers.
