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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 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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Villagers take their belongings as they flee from flood in Madhepura, India, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008. A rescue boat filled with panicked flood victims capsized and killed 20 people in northern India, where monsoon flooding grew worse because of heavy rain and water flowing from neighboring Nepal, officials said Saturday.
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South Ossetian residents sit in front of their damaged houses in Tskhinvali, August 30, 2008.
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Moenchengladbach's midfielder Marcel Ndjeng (top) celebrates with Canadian goal scorer Rob Friend during the German first division Bundesliga football match Borussia Moenchengladbach vs Werder Bremen at the Borussia-Park stadium in the western German city of Moenchengladbach on August 30, 2008.
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Pensacola Junior College cheerleaders rally the crowd before the arrival of Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., at a campaign rally at Pensacola Junior College in Pensacola, Fla., Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008.
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A Turkish soldier stands on a tank as it moves past a portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, during a military parade on the 86th anniversary of Victory Day in Ankara, August 30, 2008. Tensions between Turkey's government and its powerful generals will continue clouding the future of the European Union-applicant country, after the new military commander warned against the rising profile of Islam.
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Marion Bartoli of France returns to Lindsay Davenport of the US at the US Open tennis tournament August 29, 2008 in Flushing Meadows, NY. Bartoli won the match 6-1, 7-6(3).
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Sebastien Loeb from France and co-driver Daniel Elena in the Citroen Total world Rally team in their Citroen C4 WRC during day two of the WRC Rally of New Zealand, in Hamilton on August 30, 2008.
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WASHINGTON - JULY 15: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke (R) testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Capitol Hill July 15, 2008 in Washington, DC. In light of recent bank failures and the housing crisis, the financial leaders testified about the rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the nation's largest mortgage buyers, and proposed regulatory responses.
WASHINGTON - JULY 15: U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (L) shakes hands with Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke after they testified before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill July 15, 2008 in Washington, DC. In light of recent bank failures and the housing crisis, the financial leaders testified about the rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the nation's largest mortgage buyers, and proposed regulatory responses.
WASHINGTON - JULY 15: U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (L) and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke converse after testifying to the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill July 15, 2008 in Washington, DC. In light of recent bank failures and the housing crisis, the financial leaders testified about the rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the nation's largest mortgage buyers, and proposed regulatory responses.
WASHINGTON - JULY 15: U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (L) and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke testify before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill July 15, 2008 in Washington, DC. In light of recent bank failures and the housing crisis, the financial leaders testified about the rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the nation's largest mortgage buyers, and proposed regulatory responses.
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