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BASRA, IRAQ - OCTOBER 18: People gather around a Land Rover as it arrives at the village Al Houta on October 18 2008 near Basra, Iraq. The trip by the 51 Sqn Royal Air Force Regiment Force Protection Wing was part of a 'key leader engagement' (KLE) visit to the village close to the Basra Airbase to recruit local labour and engage with the village shiek. Visits of this type are seen as key in efforts to continue winning the support of the local Iraqi population. Although improved security in the region has brought some benefits such as improved trade and commerce, much of the infrastructure remains in a poor state of repair. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has indicated that the number of UK troops could be scaled down - especially as the security situation in the south of the country continues to improve.
Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a campaign rally in the rain at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 27, 2008.
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.
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.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, second left, Turkish President Abdullah Gul, second right, and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, right, pose before a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. The leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan are in Istanbul for talks aimed at boosting cooperation between the neighbors. Afghanistan has in the past accused Pakistan of failing to take action against, or even colluding with, Taliban militants.
Islamic demonstrators shout anti-Israel slogans during a protest against the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip in Amman December 5, 2008.
NEW YORK - DECEMBER 04: Actor Harold Pirraneau attends the 2008 Stockings with Care celebrity bartending night at Bar 13 on December 4, 2008 in New York City.
A memorial tribute to shoe mogul Thomas Bata is shown at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto September 3, 2008. Bata died earlier this week at the age of 93.
A visitor takes a close look at a photo by French photographer Bettina Rheims during the inauguration of her exhibition "Can You Find Happiness?" on March 7, 2008 at the c/o-Gallery in Berlin. The exhibition runs from March 8 to May 11, 2008.
Forty-five euro coins, worth 500 Slovak Crowns or 16,60 euros, are seen in Bratislava where Slovakian banks and post offices started selling them on December 1,2008 before Slovakia joins the euro zone on January 1, 2009.
People walk behind the European Union's flag during the annual gay parade in Budapest July 5, 2008. Several hundreds of demonstrators clashed with the police in the center of Hungarian capital as police tried to separate them from the participants of the Gay Pride march.
When I originally described the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, over 20 years ago, I was only joking ... I didn't see myself as a predictive kind of science fiction writer, like Arthur C. Clarke who more or less single-handedly invented the communications satellite... But it turns out that I, inadvertently, had a terribly good idea. I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. 
2001 raised science fiction cinema to a new level ... The unfolding four-million-year filmic story brilliantly portrays Arthur C. Clarke's disturbing man-machine encounter with HAL, a computer turned murderer. This unsettling scenario is not something we would ever want to imagine happening in reality, but it is not beyond the realms of possibility that artificial intelligence could turn on its creators.
The Orbiter Hilton Hotel is now ready. One of its first guests is Arthur C Clarke, who celebrates his 100th birthday orbiting in space
Coincidently, the passing of Arthur C. Clarke seems to have set the universe ablaze with gamma-ray bursts
