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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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South Korean Army soldiers participate in a South Korea-U.S. military exercise in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. South Korea and the United States kicked off annual joint military drills Monday with a focus on preparing for Seoul's plans to retake wartime command of its forces.
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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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In a handout picture released by the Lebanese photo agency Dalati and Nohra on August 20, 2008, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora (L) stands with his Iraqi counterpart Nuri al-Maliki (R) during a welcome ceremony in Baghdad on August 20, 2008. Siniora was in Baghdad today for trade and policy talks, the first Lebanese leader to visit Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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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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Chinese President Hu Jintao (C) talks to rescuers as he visits a collapsed chemical factory in Shifang, one of the worst-hit areas in China's southwest Sichuan province on May 18, 2008. Hundreds of aftershocks have rattled Sichuan province following the devastating 7.9 magnitude quake, and officials are concerned the tremors could bring down more unstable buildings and rupture already leaky dams, as the death toll rose to nearly 32,500.
Chinese President Hu Jintao (C) greets a rescuer as he visits a collapsed chemical factory in Shifang, one of the worst-hit areas in China's southwest Sichuan province on May 18, 2008. Hundreds of aftershocks have rattled Sichuan province following the devastating 7.9 magnitude quake, and officials are concerned the tremors could bring down more unstable buildings and rupture already leaky dams, as the death toll rose to nearly 32,500.
Chinese President Hu Jintao (C) gestures to the rescuers as he visits a collapsed chemical factory in Shifang, one of the worst-hit areas in China's southwest Sichuan province on May 18, 2008. Hundreds of aftershocks have rattled Sichuan province following the devastating 7.9 magnitude quake, and officials are concerned the tremors could bring down more unstable buildings and rupture already leaky dams, as the death toll rose to nearly 32,500.
Chinese President Hu Jintao (C) gestures as he visits a collapsed chemical factory in Shifang, one of the worst-hit areas in China's southwest Sichuan province on May 18, 2008. Hundreds of aftershocks have rattled Sichuan province following the devastating 7.9 magnitude quake, and officials are concerned the tremors could bring down more unstable buildings and rupture already leaky dams, as the death toll rose to nearly 32,500.
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, asks soldiers about the development of the rescue work at severely-damaged Xuankou Town in Wenchuan County, the epicenter of Monday's 7.8-magnitude quake in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Saturday, May 17, 2008. Hu on Saturday came to Wenchuan County to inspect the damaged situation and direct the rescue and relief work.
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Hu Jintao, center right, inspects the earthquake-affected Beichuan Middle School in Mianyang city, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 16, 2008. President Hu Jintao made his first trip to the disaster zone, rallying troops among the massive relief operation of some 130,000 soldiers and police.
BEICHUAN, CHINA - MAY 16: Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) makes his first trip to the disaster zone, visiting the earthquake-ravaged town where thousands are dead or missing May 16, 2008 in Beichuan, Sichuan province, China. Tens of thousands of people remained buried in collapsed buildings from the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck May 12, and the death toll of over 22,00 was expected to climb as relief operations spread into the mountains of Sichuan province with well over 130,000 military troops and relief workers mobilized. Caring for tens of thousands of people made homeless across the disaster zone has stretched the government's resources thin. State media reported that 10 million people have been directly affected by the quake.
BEICHUAN, CHINA - MAY 16: Chinese President Hu Jintao (C) makes his first trip to the disaster zone, visiting the earthquake-ravaged town where thousands are dead or missing May 16, 2008 in Beichuan, Sichuan province, China. Tens of thousands of people remained buried in collapsed buildings from the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck May 12, and the death toll of over 22,00 was expected to climb as relief operations spread into the mountains of Sichuan province with well over 130,000 military troops and relief workers mobilized. Caring for tens of thousands of people made homeless across the disaster zone has stretched the government's resources thin. State media reported that 10 million people have been directly affected by the quake.
BEICHUAN, CHINA - MAY 16: Chinese President Hu Jintao (C) makes his first trip to the disaster zone, visiting the earthquake-ravaged town where thousands are dead or missing May 16, 2008 in Beichuan, Sichuan province, China. Tens of thousands of people remained buried in collapsed buildings from the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck May 12, and the death toll of over 22,00 was expected to climb as relief operations spread into the mountains of Sichuan province with well over 130,000 military troops and relief workers mobilized. Caring for tens of thousands of people made homeless across the disaster zone has stretched the government's resources thin. State media reported that 10 million people have been directly affected by the quake.
BEICHUAN, CHINA - MAY 16: Chinese President Hu Jintao (C) makes his first trip to the disaster zone, visiting the earthquake-ravaged town where thousands are dead or missing May 16, 2008 in Beichuan, Sichuan province, China. Tens of thousands of people remained buried in collapsed buildings from the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck May 12, and the death toll of over 22,00 was expected to climb as relief operations spread into the mountains of Sichuan province with well over 130,000 military troops and relief workers mobilized. Caring for tens of thousands of people made homeless across the disaster zone has stretched the government's resources thin. State media reported that 10 million people have been directly affected by the quake.
Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) chats with Chinese student Zhang Zheng Yi, from a scholarship programme granted by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, during a visit to the company headquarters in Kadoma city in Osaka on May 10, 2008. Hu Jintao said his five-day visit to Japan, which has seen the traditional rivals commit to closer ties but also met protests over Beijing's rule in Tibet, was a success.
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