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BASRA, IRAQ - OCTOBER 18: People gather around a Land Rover as it arrives at the village Al Houta on October 18 2008 near Basra, Iraq. The trip by the 51 Sqn Royal Air Force Regiment Force Protection Wing was part of a 'key leader engagement' (KLE) visit to the village close to the Basra Airbase to recruit local labour and engage with the village shiek. Visits of this type are seen as key in efforts to continue winning the support of the local Iraqi population. Although improved security in the region has brought some benefits such as improved trade and commerce, much of the infrastructure remains in a poor state of repair. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has indicated that the number of UK troops could be scaled down - especially as the security situation in the south of the country continues to improve.
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Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a campaign rally in the rain at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 27, 2008.
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A puppy stands on a truck carrying people to be evacuated from the area in preparation for the approach of Hurricane Gustav in Batabano, on the southern coast of Cuba, August 30, 2008. Powerful Hurricane Gustav roared toward western Cuba on Saturday with 125 mph (205 kph) winds on its way to the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico after a deadly pass through the Caribbean.
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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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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, gestures during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. French President Nicolas Sarkozy hit out Thursday at financial speculators for having "perverted" capitalism, which he said should be overhauled with a new role for governments and moral values. Speaking alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at a conference on the future of global finances in Paris, Sarkozy criticized "an immoral system where the logic of the markets excuses everything, where money follows money."
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Children hold placards during a protest outside the French embassy in Amman January 8, 2009 against the Israeli attacks on Gaza. The sign (L) reads: "One will become angry."
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International Cycling Union (UCI) President Pat McQuaid (L) gestures with UCI ProTour manager Alain Rumpf during a press conference on January 8, 2009 in Geneva. Cycling's world governing body the UCI unveiled a provisional united world calendar for 2009, thus ending a rift which had threatened to permanently split the sport. The Tour de France, Italy's Giro and the Vuelta in Spain, as well as one day races like Paris-Roubaix and Liege-Bastogne-Liege have joined a line-up of 24 races for the coming year modelled around the 2005 to 2007 Pro Tour.
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WASHINGTON - JANUARY 07: U.S. President George W. Bush (C) meets with President-elect Barack Obama (2nd-L), former President Bill Clinton (2nd-R), former President Jimmy Carter (R) and former President George H.W. Bush (L) in the Oval Office January 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. On January 20, 2009 Barack Obama will be sworn in as the nations�s 44th president.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (2nd R in the front row) visits the Chollima Steel Complex at an undisclosed location in North Korea, in this undated picture released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) December 25, 2008.
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Balloons with anti-North Korea leaflets released by former North Korean defectors and anti-North Korea activists fly towards the North in Imjinkak pavilion, near the demilitarised zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas in Paju, about 55 km (34 miles) north of Seoul, December 3, 2008. Dozens of activists, who demanded improvements of North Korea's human rights and the release of South Koreans abducted by the North, launched about 90,000 anti-Pyongyang leaflets in helium-filled balloons near DMZ on Wednesday.
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An Israeli woman and her two children take cover during a rocket attack near Kfar Aza, just outside the northern Gaza Strip January 7, 2009. The woman came to meet her husband, an Israeli army officer currently serving on the Gaza border. Rockets exploded as they were waiting for him. Israel postponed on Wednesday a decision on whether to order its armed forces to storm the Gaza Strip's urban centres, an Israeli official said, citing Egyptian- and French-led efforts to secure a truce with Hamas.
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LAS VEGAS - JULY 19: Caesars Palace President Gary Selesner (C) speaks as (L-R) Roman characters Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, President of Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. Western Division Tom Jenkin, and Caesars general manager John Unwin, look on during a news conference at Caesars July 19, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Harrah's announced a USD 1 billion expansion at Caesars that will include building a 665-room, 23-story tower to be named the Octavius Tower, and a 263,00-square-foot convention area.
LAS VEGAS - JULY 19: (L-R) Roman characters Cleopatra and Julius Caesar look on as President of Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. Western Division Tom Jenkin speaks during a news conference at Caesars Palace July 19, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Harrah's announced a USD 1 billion expansion at Caesars that will include building a 665-room, 23-story tower to be named the Octavius Tower, and a 263,00-square-foot convention area.
LAS VEGAS - JULY 19: (L-R) Roman characters Cleopatra and Julius Caesar look on as Caesars Palace President Gary Selesner speaks during a news conference at Caesars in Las Vegas July 19, 2007. Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. announced a USD 1 billion expansion at Caesars that will include building a 665-room tower to be named the Octavius Tower, and a 263,00-square-foot convention area.
Members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church attend the launching ceremony of the Ethiopian new millenium festival 05 June 2007 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Horn of Africa nation follows the Julian calender set up by Roman emperor Julius Caesar in 46 BC, around seven years behind the more widely-used Gregorian calender
Addis Ababa's mayor, Berhane Deressa, plants a tree during the launching ceremony of the Ethiopian new millenium festival 05 June 2007 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Horn of Africa nation follows the Julian calender set up by Roman emperor Julius Caesar in 46 BC, around seven years behind the more widely-used Gregorian calender
Children wave Ethiopian flags during the launching ceremony of the Ethiopian new millenium festival 05 June 2007 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Horn of Africa nation follows the Julian calender set up by Roman emperor Julius Caesar in 46 BC, around seven years behind the more widely-used Gregorian calender
A band of Ethiopian musicians play during the launching ceremony of the Ethiopian new millenium festival 05 June 2007 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Horn of Africa nation follows the Julian calender set up by Roman emperor Julius Caesar in 46 BC, around seven years behind the more widely-used Gregorian calender
President of Ethiopia, Girma Wolde-Giorgis, attends the launching ceremony of the Ethiopian new millenium festival 05 June 2007 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Horn of Africa nation follows the Julian calender set up by Roman emperor Julius Caesar in 46 BC, around seven years behind the more widely-used Gregorian calender
Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Abune Paulos, attends the launching ceremony of the Ethiopian new millenium festival 05 June 2007 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Horn of Africa nation follows the Julian calender set up by Roman emperor Julius Caesar in 46 BC, around seven years behind the more widely-used Gregorian calender
Actor Christopher Plummer poses at the Lyceum Theatre on May 17, 2007 in New York. The Stratford Festival of Canada will present Plummer starring as Julius Caesar in a revival of Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra," according to an announcement Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2007. The theater's name change from the Stratford Shakespeare Festival becomes official in November.
Rows of wine barrels are seen in the Mozaga vineyard in Lanzarote, Spain, Feb 15, 2007. Clinging to black volcanic soil atop wind-swept hillsides, the grapevines of the Canary Islands are rare and precious survivors of an ecological disaster that forever changed the nature of winemaking in Europe. No one could have predicted that the arrival in 1860 of an American louse would irreparably damage Europe's wine industry. Yet the bug's accidental introduction wiped out thousands of grape varieties, an incalculable loss to wine's history and diversity. But here, ancient grape varieties survived, providing a tantalizing window into a vanished world. The vineyards maintain unbroken links with ancient wine growing that Julius Caesar would have recognized.
A man smells a glas of wine at the Mozaga vineyard in in Lanzarote, Spain, Feb 15, 2007. Clinging to black volcanic soil atop wind-swept hillsides, the grapevines of the Canary Islands are rare and precious survivors of an ecological disaster that forever changed the nature of winemaking in Europe. No one could have predicted that the arrival in 1860 of an American louse would irreparably damage Europe's wine industry. Yet the bug's accidental introduction wiped out thousands of grape varieties, an incalculable loss to wine's history and diversity. But here, ancient grape varieties survived, providing a tantalizing window into a vanished world. The vineyards maintain unbroken links with ancient wine growing that Julius Caesar would have recognized.
A man smells a glas of wine at the Mozaga vineyard in in Lanzarote, Spain, Feb 15, 2007. Clinging to black volcanic soil atop wind-swept hillsides, the grapevines of the Canary Islands are rare and precious survivors of an ecological disaster that forever changed the nature of winemaking in Europe. No one could have predicted that the arrival in 1860 of an American louse would irreparably damage Europe's wine industry. Yet the bug's accidental introduction wiped out thousands of grape varieties, an incalculable loss to wine's history and diversity. But here, ancient grape varieties survived, providing a tantalizing window into a vanished world. The vineyards maintain unbroken links with ancient wine growing that Julius Caesar would have recognized.
Vines are seen in the El Grifo vineyard in San Bartolome in Lanzarote, Spain, Feb 15, 2007. Clinging to black volcanic soil atop wind-swept hillsides, the grapevines of the Canary Islands are rare and precious survivors of an ecological disaster that forever changed the nature of winemaking in Europe. No one could have predicted that the arrival in 1860 of an American louse would irreparably damage Europe's wine industry. Yet the bug's accidental introduction wiped out thousands of grape varieties, an incalculable loss to wine's history and diversity. But here, ancient grape varieties survived, providing a tantalizing window into a vanished world. The vineyards maintain unbroken links with ancient wine growing that Julius Caesar would have recognized.
A worker works on the El Grifo vineyard in San Bartolome in Lanzarote, Spain, Feb 15, 2007. Clinging to black volcanic soil atop wind-swept hillsides, the grapevines of the Canary Islands are rare and precious survivors of an ecological disaster that forever changed the nature of winemaking in Europe. No one could have predicted that the arrival in 1860 of an American louse would irreparably damage Europe's wine industry. Yet the bug's accidental introduction wiped out thousands of grape varieties, an incalculable loss to wine's history and diversity. But here, ancient grape varieties survived, providing a tantalizing window into a vanished world. The vineyards maintain unbroken links with ancient wine growing that Julius Caesar would have recognized.
A worker works on the El Grifo vineyard in San Bartolome in Lanzarote, Spain, Feb 15, 2007. Clinging to black volcanic soil atop wind-swept hillsides, the grapevines of the Canary Islands are rare and precious survivors of an ecological disaster that forever changed the nature of winemaking in Europe. No one could have predicted that the arrival in 1860 of an American louse would irreparably damage Europe's wine industry. Yet the bug's accidental introduction wiped out thousands of grape varieties, an incalculable loss to wine's history and diversity. But here, ancient grape varieties survived, providing a tantalizing window into a vanished world. The vineyards maintain unbroken links with ancient wine growing that Julius Caesar would have recognized.
A hand holds scoria in La Geria, on the Canary island of Lanzarote, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007. Clinging to black volcanic soil atop wind-swept hillsides, the grapevines of the Canary Islands are rare and precious survivors of an ecological disaster that forever changed the nature of winemaking in Europe. No one could have predicted that the arrival in 1860 of an American louse would irreparably damage Europe's wine industry. Yet the bug's accidental introduction wiped out thousands of grape varieties, an incalculable loss to wine's history and diversity. But here, ancient grape varieties survived, providing a tantalizing window into a vanished world. The vineyards maintain unbroken links with ancient wine growing that Julius Caesar would have recognized.
Grapevines in La Geria, on the Canary island of Lanzarote, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007. Clinging to black volcanic soil atop wind-swept hillsides, the grapevines of the Canary Islands are rare and precious survivors of an ecological disaster that forever changed the nature of winemaking in Europe. No one could have predicted that the arrival in 1860 of an American louse would irreparably damage Europe's wine industry. Yet the bug's accidental introduction wiped out thousands of grape varieties, an incalculable loss to wine's history and diversity. But here, ancient grape varieties survived, providing a tantalizing window into a vanished world. The vineyards maintain unbroken links with ancient wine growing that Julius Caesar would have recognized.
People wearing Roman centurion costumes march in front of the Colosseum on the occasion of Ides of March, in Rome, Thursday, March 15, 2007. Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated in the 44 B.C. by a group of Roman senators including Cassius and his friend Brutus. Caesar had been forewarned of the 'Ides of March.'
People wearing Roman centurions costumes lay a wreath in front of Julius Ceasar Statue for Ides of March, in Rome, Thursday, March 15, 2007. Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated in the 44 B.C. by a group of Roman senators including Cassius and his friend Brutus. Caesar had been forewarned of the 'Ides of March.'
This photo of a Playbill for benefit performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, on November 25, 1864, was released in New York by The Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Friday, Nov. 17, 2006. The production was the only one that all three of the Booth brothers, including President Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth, performed together. The item is part of an exhibit entitled "Stars and Treasures: 75 Years of Collecting Theatre," an exhibit of theatrical artifacts collected over the division's 75 year history. The exhibit runs from Nov. 21, 2006 to May 5, 2007. (AP Photo/NY Public Library, HO)
