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People watch fireworks during the first edition of 'Golden Nights' International Pyrotechnic Festival in Bucharest July 5, 2008.
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Australian singer Kylie Minogue smiles as she poses for photographers with the OBE she received from Britain's Prince Charles for her services to music at Buckingham Palace in London July 3, 2008.
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Serena (L) and Venus Williams of the U.S. talk to each other during their quarter-finals doubles match against Bethanie Mattek of the U.S. and Sania Mirza of India at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London July 2, 2008.
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Acrobats perform during the presentation of A400M military aircraft in Seville, southern Spain June 26, 2008. Europe unveiled the A400M military aircraft on Thursday, giving the public a first glimpse of a powerful turboprop plane built to supply seven NATO countries with urgently needed strategic airlift capacity.
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Revelers are seen during the 'Chupinazo,' the official opening of the San Fermin festivities in Pamplona, northern Spain, Sunday, July 6, 2008. The San Fermin festival, held since 1591, attract tens of thousands of people each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights.
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Chris McCormack of Australia reacts as he wins the Ironman European Championship Triathlon in Frankfurt July 6, 2008.
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This handout picture taken on July 6, 2008 and received from Taiwan For Tibet shows members of the International Tibet Support Network holding Tibetan flags and banners on the peak of Taiwan's highest peak, the 3952-metre-high Jade mountain in Yushan National Park near Chiayi. A 21-member group climbed the mountain and lit a "Tibetan Freedom Torch" to mark the Olympic torch relay and called for a free Tibet.
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A visitor places her hands on a "Tangible Earth", a digital globe which real time global metrological data is fed through the Internet from about 300 places in the world, is displayed at an exhibition pavillion inside the media centre for G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit in Rusustu town, on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido July 6, 2008.
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LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 12: Actor Dustin Diamond (R) poses with a fan as he walks through the Adult Video News Adult Entertainment Expo at the Sands Expo Center January 12, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The three-day AVN expo is the largest adult entertainment trade show in the world, drawing over 29,000 people and featuring close to 340 vendors. The show runs through tomorrow. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Dustin Diamond
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PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 20: Actor Dustin Diamond poses for a portrait during the 2007 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2007 in Park City, Utah.
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In this image released by Universal Studios, the Hulk is shown in a scene from, "The Incredible Hulk. " Now producing its own film adaptations for all but a few previously licensed superheroes, Marvel Studios unveils "The Incredible Hulk" on the heels of blockbuster "Iron Man," whose 2010 sequel will be followed by an ambitious Marvel lineup. With an estimated 5,000 characters and a wealth of stories dating back nearly 70 years, Marvel could spin an endless web of big-screen yarns.
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Myanmar student Buddhist Monks, hold pictures of the country's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, and her late father Gen. Aung San, who led the country's independence war, chant during a protest in front of Myanmar's Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, May 27, 2008. The protestors demanded that the military junta accept international aid for cyclone victims and release all political prisoners.
A poster of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) stands outside the head quarters of the National League for Democracy in Yangonon May 10, 2008. Polling stations opened on May 10 in parts of cyclone-hit Myanmar, as the military regime asked voters to approve a new constitution just one week after tens of thousands of people died in the storm. The military delayed the vote for two weeks in the areas hardest-hit by Cyclone Nargis, including in the main city and former capital of Yangon.
Myanmar's Labor Minister Aung Kyi (R) meets with emocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon, 11 January 2008. Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met for one hour with a junta official, in what her party described as a positive sign nearly two months after her last contact with the regime. The Nobel Peace Prize winner was taken from her rambling lakeside home in Yangon, where she has been held under house arrest for a total of 12 years, to meet Labour Minister Aung Kyi at a nearby military facility.
In this Myanmar News Agency photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, meets with Myanmar Liaison Minister U Aung Kyi at the State Guest House in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Nov. 19, 2007. Suu Kyi met Monday for third time with the cabinet minister designated to handle relations with her in the latest effort to nudge along political reconciliation in Myanmar.
Two Myanmar activists chant slogans and hold the pictures of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, and her father Gen. Aung San, right, during a protest outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007. About 30 activists took part in the protest against the ruling military government and demanded the release of Aung San Suu Kyi who still under house arrest.
Two Myanmar activists chant slogans and hold the pictures of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, and her father Gen. Aung San, right, during a protest outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007. About 30 activists took part in the protest against the ruling military government and demanded the release of Aung San Suu Kyi who still under house arrest.
Myanmar activists chant slogans and hold the pictures of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, and her father Gen. Aung San, right, during a protest outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007. About 30 activists took part in the protest against the ruling military government and demanded the release of Suu Kyi who still under house arrest.
Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) meets with UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari during a meeting in Yangon, 08 November 2007. Gambari met Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi after warning the junta against a return to the status quo before mass pro-democracy protests shook the nation. The meeting took about an hour at a government guest house in the main city of Yangon.
Supporters of the National League for Democracy gather beneath the portraits of slain leader Aung San, center, and others at party headquarters Monday, May 6, 2002. The party of Aung San Suu Kyi is calling for talks with Myanmar's military regime following a bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters but urges the junta not to set conditions of any meetings.
Buddhist monks pray under a poster of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) hangs in Rome's Capitol hill during a protest, 27 September 2007. Nine people, including eight protesters and a Japanese man, were killed in Myanmar Thursday in a crackdown on anti-government protests, Myanmar's state media said
Buddhist monks pray under a poster of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) hangs in Rome's Capitol hill during a protest, 27 September 2007. Nine people, including eight protesters and a Japanese man, were killed in Myanmar Thursday in a crackdown on anti-government protests, Myanmar's state media said
Myanmar soldiers stand guard as Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, left in the background, pays respects to monks at the gate of her home in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday afternoon, Sept. 22, 2007. Hundreds of demonstrating Buddhist monks and sympathizers had been allowed past barricades to walk to the house where democracy leader Suu Kyi is being detained. She greeted them from her gate in her first public appearance in more than four years.
A protester wearing a mask of Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi stands outside the British Trade and Cultural Office in Taipei June 19, 2008. Pro-Aung San Suu Kyi activists gathered on Thursday to send a letter of appeal to the British Trade and Cultural Office in Taipei, for Britain to halt financial ties with Myanmar and to ask the military junta to end Aung San Suu Kyi's latest stretch of detention.
A protester wearing a mask of Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi stands outside the British Trade and Cultural Office in Taipei June 19, 2008. Pro-Aung San Suu Kyi activists gathered on Thursday to send a letter of appeal to the British Trade and Cultural Office in Taipei, for Britain to halt financial ties with Myanmar and to ask the military junta to end Aung San Suu Kyi's latest stretch of detention.
Protesters carry a huge portrait of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a march through a Tokyo street Thursday, June 19, 2008, marking her 63rd birthday. More than 100 protesters called for the Myanmar government to immediately release Suu Kyi who was extended her house arrest by the country's ruling junta last month.
Supporters of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi prepare to release birds as they make an offering for her 63rd birthday, outside the Yangon headquarters of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party on 19 June 2008. Supporters of Myanmar's detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi made solemn offerings to Buddhist monks early Thursday as they marked her 63rd birthday, which she is spending under house arrest. Dozens of people gathered outside the Yangon headquarters of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party, giving food to monks who were making their daily rounds to collect alms. "Later, we will release nine doves to bring peace and freedom to Daw Suu Kyi," said Lai Lai, one of the party members.
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