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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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A group of people look at the sun, standing on the rocky crest filled with astronomical markers at the megalithic observatory of Kokino, soon after sunrise on June 21, 2008, on the day of the summer solstice. The ancient astronomic observatory, located about 80 km northeast of Skopje, dates more than 4.000 years back in time. It is ranked by NASA as the fourth ancient observatory in the world.
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A member from the international relief group Oxfam personates the likes of Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, center, as he leads other Oxfam members portrating other Group of Eight leaders, including President George Bush, to belt it out karaoke tunes at Sapporo, northern Japan, on Saturday, July 5, 2008. The G8 leaders, representing the U.S., Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy and Canada, will descend in this northern Japanese island of Hokkaido for the summit meeting to discuss global warming and food crisis, among others.
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Chaunte Howard clears the bar during the women's high jump competition at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Oregon, July 4, 2008.
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Fireworks are set off over the National Mall in Washington, DC July, 4, 2008, seen from the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington, VA.
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KIDLINGTON, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 27: Sir Richard Branson (C) attends a photocall to launch Virgin Media's new television channel Virgin 1, at his home in Kidlington on September 27, 2007 in Oxfordshire, England.
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LONDON - FEBRUARY 08: Dita Von-Teese is seen at the launch of Virgin Media at Convent Garden Market on February 8, 2007 in London, England. Branson will spend the day in a perspex box being visited by celebrities and with only virgin media to entertain him. At its launch today Virgin Media will become the largest Virgin branded company in the world as well as a new force in British media, entertainment and communications. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Dita Von-Teese
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LONDON - FEBRUARY 08: Dita Von-Teese launches Virgin Media at Convent Garden Market on February 8, 2007 in London, England. Branson will spend the day in a perspex box being visited by celebrities and with only virgin media to entertain him. At its launch today Virgin Media will become the largest Virgin branded company in the world as well as a new force in British media, entertainment and communications. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Dita Von-Teese
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LONDON - FEBRUARY 08: Richard Branson and Dita Von-Teese launches Virgin Media at Convent Garden Market on February 8, 2007 in London, England. Branson will spend the day in a perspex box being visited by celebrities and with only virgin media to entertain him. At its launch today Virgin Media will become the largest Virgin branded company in the world as well as a new force in British media, entertainment and communications. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Dita Von-Teese;Richard Branson
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Associated Press Beijing reporter Anita Chang, right, shares a laugh with retired AP special correspondent John Roderick, left, and AP CEO Tom Curley at The Associated Press headquarters in New York in this Sept. 17, 2006 photo. Roderick, a longtime AP correspondent who won renown for his reports on Mao Zedong and other Communist guerrilla leaders died Tuesday March 11, 2008. Roderick was 93.
John Roderick, a retired AP special correspondent, poses at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in 2004 by a photo of himself with Mao Zedong, taken in China, in 1946. Roderick, a longtime A.P. correspondent who won renown for his reports on Mao and other Communist guerrilla leaders died Tuesday March 11, 2008. Roderick was 93. (AP Photo/Kazuo Abiko.
Lim Tzu-Ham, Chairman of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Region Government, left, is shown with Associated Press correspondent John Roderick, Jan. 17, 1947, in Yenan, China. Roderick, a longtime A.P. correspondent who won renown for his reports on Mao Zedong and other Communist guerrilla leaders died Tuesday March 11, 2008. Roderick was 93. (AP Photo.
United States Army Observation Group members Maj. Kenneth Young, left, and Col. Ivan D. Yeaton right, stand with Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong, second from left, his 6-year-old daughter Nina, and Associated Press correspondent John Roderick in the Chinese communist capital of Yanan in February 1946. Roderick, a longtime A.P. correspondent who won renown for his reports on Mao Zedong and other Communist guerrilla leaders died Tuesday March 11, 2008. Roderick was 93. (AP Photo/Courtesy of John Roderick.
