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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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China's windsurfer Yin Jian, center, celebrates after the medal race of the RS:X women class sailing competition of the 2008 Beijing Olympics in Qingdao, about 720 kilometers southeast of Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. She won the gold medal.
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Tom Ashley of New Zealand sailing in RS:X Men reacts after winning gold at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Qingdao, Shandong province, August 20, 2008.
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Activists from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) jump over a police barricade during a protest demanding the resignation of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram as part of a 24-hour industrial strike all over India, in New Delhi on August 20, 2008. Millions of Indian airport, rail and bank workers went on strike to protest against soaring inflation and the government's "anti-worker" policies, officials and reports said. The nationwide action called by communist-backed trade unions was also to protest against an average 21 percent wage hike for government officials that the strikers say ignores junior staff, the Press Trust of India reported.
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Local residents fish in the Black Sea, 50 km south of Sukhumi in the town Ochavchara on August 19, 2008 in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region. Russia and Georgia have agreed to allow 20 Organisation for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) unarmed military observers into Georgia, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, the organisation's chairman said.
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In this image provided Kellogg Co., a prototype of a box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes with U.S. swimming star Michael Phelps is seen. The record-setting swimmer will soon be appearing on boxes of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes and Corn Flakes. The winner of eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics will be featured cereal boxes expected to be in stores by mid-September.
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Supporters of Pakistani Islamist party celebrate President Pervez Musharraf's resignation in Multan August 19, 2008. Leaders of Pakistan's coalition government set about tackling pressing economic and security problems on Tuesday as a bomb at a hospital in a northwestern town killed 20 people. Coalition leaders were also due to discuss a replacement for Musharraf, the former army chief and key ally of the United States in its campaign against terrorism, who resigned as president on Monday to avoid impeachment.
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Pakistani citizens congratulate each others after the announcement of President Pervez Musharraf's resignation in Karachi, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 87, 2008. Musharraf said he was handing in his resignation to avoid an impeachment battle that would harm the nation's interests.
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SAN FRANCISCO - JUNE 17: Same-sex couple Amber Weiss (R) and Sharon Papo (C) walk with Patty Weiss by an Abraham Lincoln statue after they were married at San Francisco City Hall June 17, 2008 in San Francisco, California. Same-sex couples throughout California are rushing to get married as counties begin issuing marriage licenses after a State Supreme Court ruling to allow same-sex marriage.
This photo provided by the Sons of Confederate Veterans shows a statue of Jefferson Davis near completion in a studio in Lexington Va. on Tuesday June 17, 2008. The Statue has been commissioned by the Sons of Confederate Veterans for the American Civil War Center in Richmond. The Southern heritage group, Sons of Confederate Veterans, that opposed a statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the American Civil War Center is offering to donate the $100,000 statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis for the same site.
Los Angeles Lakers assistant basketball coach Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is seen next to the the Larry O'Brien NBA championship trophy on display at the NBA Entertainment work room in Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 10, 2008. Abdul-Jabbar was NBA championship teams six times in his career. "For us, we're all about history, so you get someone like Kareem to come in, that's like our Abraham Lincoln," said Paul Hirschheimer, NBAE senior vice president of multimedia production.
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., visits the presidential carvings at the Mount Rushmore National Monument, near Keystone, S.D., Wednesday, May 28, 2008, as she campaigns in South Dakota. The presidents carved into the mountain are, left to right, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
In this 1908 file photo released by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, shows the home of Scott Burton, a black barber. Burton was beaten unconscious and his home was burned. The mob then dragged him to the corner of 12th and Madison where he was hanged from a tree in front of a saloon. The riot and lynching in Springfield helped inspire the creation of the NAACP.
In this 1908 file photo released by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, shows the home of Scott Burton, a black barber. Burton was beaten unconscious and his home was burned. The mob then dragged him to the corner of 12th and Madison where he was hanged from a tree in front of a saloon. The riot and lynching in Springfield helped inspire the creation of the NAACP.
Oprah Winfrey speaks before presenting the Lincoln Leadership Award to Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at the Ritz-Carton Hotel in Chicago. Tutu is the second recipient, after retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was honored in 2006. His portrait will hang on the second floor of Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, next to a painting of the 16th President.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa speaks after receiving the Lincoln Leadership Award from Oprah Winfrey, Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at the Ritz-Carton Hotel in Chicago. Tutu is the second recipient, after retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was honored in 2006. His portrait will hang on the second floor of Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, next to a painting of the 16th President.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa speaks after receiving the Lincoln Leadership Award from Oprah Winfrey, Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at the Ritz-Carton Hotel in Chicago. Tutu is the second recipient, after retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was honored in 2006. His portrait will hang on the second floor of Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, next to a painting of the 16th President.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa speaks after receiving the Lincoln Leadership Award from Oprah Winfrey, Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at the Ritz-Carton Hotel in Chicago. Tutu is the second recipient, after retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was honored in 2006. His portrait will hang on the second floor of Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, next to a painting of the 16th President.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu greets Oprah Winfrey during the Lincoln Leadership Award presentation to at the Ritz-Carton Hotel in Chicago, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Tutu is the second recipient, after retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was honored in 2006. His portrait will hang on the second floor of Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, next to a painting of the 16th President.
Human rights activist and Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu greets supporters in front of a portrait of himself at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill., Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Tutu is expected to accept the Lincoln Leadership Prize Tuesday from presenter Oprah Winfrey at an award dinner. Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 as the voice of peaceful resistance against apartheid in South Africa.
Human rights activist and Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu greets supporters under a watchful gaze from a portrait of Abraham Lincoln at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill., Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Tutu is expected to accept the Lincoln Leadership Prize Tuesday from presenter Oprah Winfrey at an award dinner. Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 as the voice of peaceful resistance against apartheid in South Africa.
Human rights activist and Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu greets supporters under a watchful gaze from a portrait of Abraham Lincoln at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill., Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Tutu is expected to accept the Lincoln Leadership Prize Tuesday from presenter Oprah Winfrey at an award dinner. Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 as the voice of peaceful resistance against apartheid in South Africa.
