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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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Bryan Clay of the United States, right, leads Liberia's Jangy Addy in the 110-meter hurdles in the men's Decathlon during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Friday, Aug. 22, 2008.
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New York Yankees' Jason Giambi (R) is out on force at second with the tag by Toronto Blue Jays' Joe Inglett (L) in the seventh inning of their American League MLB baseball game in Toronto August 21, 2008.
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NEW YORK - AUGUST 21: Tennis Player Andy Roddick celebrates Lacoste's 75 Anniversary at Macy's Herald Square on August 21, 2008 in New York City.
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RALEIGH, NC - AUGUST 19: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event August 19, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Democrats hold their national convention August 25-28 in Denver.
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RALEIGH, NC - AUGUST 19: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama listens to his introduction at a campaign event August 19, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Democrats hold their national convention August 25-28 in Denver.
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RALEIGH, NC - AUGUST 19: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event August 19, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Democrats hold their national convention August 25-28 in Denver.
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MARTINSVILLE, VA - AUGUST 20: Presumptive Democratic Presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) waits to speak during a campaign event at the Patrick Henry Community College August 20, 2008 in Martinsville, Virginia. Obama is expected to announce his Vice Presidential candidate before the start of the Democratic National Convention on August 25th.
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A cyclist rides past a billboard showing the portrait of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, right, and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, top, displayed along the road side in Rawalpindi, Pakistan Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008. Opposition parties dealt a crushing electoral blow to allies of President Pervez Musharraf, a private TV network reported Tuesday, winning enough seats to form a new government that could threaten the eight-year rule of America's close ally in its war on terror.
A cyclist rides past a billboard showing the portrait of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, right, and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, top, displayed along the road side in Rawalpindi, Pakistan Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008. Opposition parties dealt a crushing electoral blow to allies of President Pervez Musharraf, a private TV network reported Tuesday, winning enough seats to form a new government that could threaten the eight-year rule of America's close ally in its war on terror.
A cyclist rides past a billboard showing the portrait of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, right, and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, top, displayed along the road side in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Opposition parties dealt a crushing electoral blow to allies of President Pervez Musharraf, a private TV network reported Tuesday, winning enough seats to form a new government that could threaten the eight-year rule of America's close ally in its war on terror.
Asif Ali Zardari (C), widower of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, arrives to cast his vote at a polling station in Nawabshah, 320 km (200 miles) from Karachi February 18, 2008. Fears of violence kept many Pakistanis away from an election that could usher in a parliament set on driving President Pervez Musharraf from office, while Musharraf himself called for reconciliation after casting his vote.
A Pakistani commuter rides past an upcoming elections billboard showing slain former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto (R) and the candidate for the Pakistan People's Party (C), in Islamabad on February 8, 2008. British detectives said that Benazir Bhutto was killed by the force of a suicide bomb and not gunfire, backing the Pakistani government's version of how the opposition leader was assassinated.
Pakistani police inspector Chaudhry Abdul Majid, center, who is heading Pakistan's investigation of the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrives at a press conference in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Friday, Feb. 8, 2008. Scotland Yard said in a report released Friday that Bhutto died as a result of a suicide bomb blast, not a gunshot, findings that support the Pakistani government's version of the events. Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party immediately rejected the British conclusion and repeated its demand for a U.N. investigation.
A supporter of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, seen in poster in background, chants anti government slogans in Lahore, Pakistan on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2007. Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son was chosen Sunday to succeed her as chairman of her opposition party, extending Pakistan's most famous political dynasty but leaving the real power to her husband, who will serve as co-chariman.
Asif Ali Zardari, left, husband of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, seen in photo, addresses a news conference with his son Bilawal Bhutto who has been nominated Chairman of the party in Naudero, near Larkana, Pakistan on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2007. The party also decided to contest upcoming elections, apparently ending the threat of a wholesale boycott by Pakistan's political opposition as the key U.S. ally in its war on terror struggles to move to full democracy after years of military rule.
Ghinva Bhutto, center, estrange sister-in-law of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto arrives with her children Fatima Bhutto, left, and Zulfiqar to offer prayers at the grave of Bhutto in Gahri Khuda Bakhash near Larkana,Pakistan on Saturday,Dec. 29, 2007. Pakistan's government asserted Friday that al-Qaida was behind the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and offered the transcript of a conversation as proof.
Ghinwa Bhutto (C) sister-in-law of slain Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto, comforts crying party workers as Bhutto's niece, Fatima (R) sobs at Bhutto's ancestral mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Baksh, 29 December 2007. Pakistan's interior ministry said that 38 people have died in the unrest that has shaken the country since the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
Ghinwa Bhutto (L) sister-in-law of slain Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto, and Bhutto's niece, Fatima (2-L) pray at her grave at the Bhutto's ancestral mausolem in Garhi Khuda Baksh, 29 December 2007. Pakistan's interior ministry said that 38 people have died in the unrest that has shaken the country since the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
A Pakistani supporter of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrives to pay his condolences at her house in the Gulf emirate of Dubai, 28 December 2007. Supporters of slain Bhutto in Dubai, where she made her base through eight years of exile, were left in shock following her assassination two months after she returned home.
Sanam Bhutto (L) and Aseefa, the sister and daughter of assassinated Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, cry at her grave in Garhi Khuda Bukhsh near Naudero December 29, 2007. Pakistan accused al Qaeda of killing Bhutto, whose assassination has plunged the nuclear-armed country into crisis and triggered bloody protests.
Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of slain Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (L) talks with former premier Nawaz Sharif during a visit at Bhutto residence in Naudero, 29 December 2007. Pakistan indicated it would delay January elections because of turmoil caused by the death of Benazir Bhutto, as a bitter dispute erupted over how the opposition leader was killed.
