Children play cricket against the backdrop of monsoon clouds in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad in this June 17, 2007 file photo. Some experts in India's thriving advertising industry are sceptical about whether the cricket board's multi-million dollar Twenty20 league will be an unqualified financial success. Picture taken June 17, 2007. Reuters Pictures 20 months ago

Children play cricket against the backdrop of monsoon clouds in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad in this June 17, 2007 file photo. Some experts in India's thriving advertising industry are sceptical about whether the cricket board's multi-million dollar Twenty20 league will be an unqualified financial success. Picture taken June 17, 2007.

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  3. French schooner La Boudeuse captained by Patrice Franceschi leaves the port of Brest, western France, on November 09, 2009. The three mats Goelette leaves for a two-year scientific expedition entitled 'Terre Ocean' (Earth Ocean) from South America to Pacific Ocean, directed by French Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo as part of the 'Grenelle de l'Environnement', a governemental commitment on environmental measures signed on December 2007.
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  10. Crowds tear down a mock-up of the Berlin Wall at an event commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, on Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles on November 9, 2009. On the night of November 9, 1989, following weeks of pro-democracy protests, the Stalinist state's authorities suddenly opened the East German border. After 28 years as prisoners of their own country, euphoric East Germans streamed to checkpoints and rushed past bewildered guards, many falling tearfully into the arms of West Germans welcoming them on the other side.
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  13. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. Clinton is in Berlin to attend the commemoration ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, later Monday. In background photos of former German chancellors Konrad Adenauer, left, and Ludwig Erhard, right.
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