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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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A boy takes a look at an artwork named: Cosmetic Cow, created by Kengo Kuma, during the public art festival entitled "Cow Parade" Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008 in Tokyo's Marunouchi business district. The 65 life-sized glass fiber statues of cow were on exhibition in the Metropolitan district.
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France's Prime Minister Francois Fillon waves to supporters at the end of the summer meeting of his UMP political Party in Royan, Southwestern France, September 7, 2008.
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Performers realease balloons into the air in central Moscow on September 7, 2008 during celebrations for the 861st anniversary of the founding of Moscow.
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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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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks in Moscow on September 7, 2008, the day on which Moscow celebrated "City Day." The defence Moscow mounted during World War II should serve as a warning to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and the United States, Moscow's mayor said following last month's war in Georgia. Let that be a stern and appropriate reminder to those who surround Russia with their missiles and bases. "In the tough times of war, Moscow's defence against the enemy was crushing," Yury Luzhkov said during celebrations for the 861st anniversary of the founding of Moscow, standing alongside Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
US director Jonathan Levine waves during the photocall of his movie "The Wackness", starring English actor Sir Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Netherland's actress Famke Janssen, and US actress Olivia Thirlby and presented out of competition on September 7, 2008, at the 34th US Film Festival, in Deauville, on the French northwestern coast. Eleven movies are presented this year in competition during the Festival held from 5 to 14 September.
Egyptians seach for survivors at the site of a massive rock slide off Moqattam hill in northern Cairo on September 7, 2008. Hopes of finding survivors trapped under giant boulders began to fade, a day after a massive rockslide flattened homes in the north Cairo shantytown, burying whole families under the rubble. Residents had been ordered to vacate the area in order to tear down some of the homes to make way for cranes and heavy lifting machinery which had been unable to access the scene of yesterday's accident.
US director Jonathan Levine poses during the photocall of his movie "The Wackness", starring English actor Sir Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Netherland's actress Famke Janssen, and US actress Olivia Thirlby and presented out of competition on September 7, 2008, at the 34th US Film Festival, in Deauville, on the French northwestern coast. Eleven movies are presented this year in competition during the Festival held from 5 to 14 September.
