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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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Italy's Alex Schwazer reacts after winning the men's 50-kilomter walk during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Friday, Aug. 22, 2008.
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Eddy Riva of France rests after competing in the in the men's 50km walk of the athletics competition in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 22, 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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Workers labour in the fields of an organic farm at Dezevci, eastern Croatia, May 27, 2008. Farm owners hope their organic products will fare well on the markets of the European Union, which Croatia hopes to join around 2011.
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LYNCHBURG, VA - AUGUST 20: Presumptive Democratic Presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) waits to speak during a Town Hall event at EC Glass High School August 20, 2008 in Lynchburg, Virginia. Reports indicate that Obama will announce his Vice Presidential candidate on Friday and they will campaign together on Saturday.
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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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Marty Markowitz, president of the Brooklyn borough of New York, breaks a bottle of egg cream, a traditional Brooklyn drink, on the first car of the Cyclone roller coaster to mark the opening of the season for Astroland amusement park in New York, Sunday, April 1, 2007. Astroland is opening for its last season; Thor Equities has bought the amusement park and intends to develop the area into a year-round destination with amusements, a hotel, and residential units.
The family of slain New York City Police Detective Dillon Stewart pose for photographs with New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, center, during an indoor dedication of a Brooklyn playground in memory of Stewart in New York, Monday, Nov. 26, 2007. From left are Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Stewart's widow Leslyn, his daughter Samantha, 2, New York Police Commissioner Kelly, Stewart's mother Winifred Flemming, and his daughter Alexis, 8.
Brooklyn Borough president Marty Markowitz, left, applauds as New Jersey Nets chairman and principal owner Bruce Ratner, also president and CEO of Forest City Ratner Companies, is introduced during a news conference in New York, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007, announcing that Barclays PLC will spend as much as $400 million over the next 20 years to put its name on a new pro-basketball arena that is the centerpiece of Ratner's Atlantic Yards development project. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Brooklyn Borough president Marty Markowitz, left, gestures to NBA commissioner David Stern as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, center, looks on during a news conference announcing that British bank Barclays PLC will spend as much as $400 million in the next 20 years to put its name on a planned pro-basketball arena in New York, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007. Barclays PLC President Robert Diamond Jr, watches, second from left. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
BROOKLYN, NY - JANUARY 18: Marty Markowitz Brooklyn Borough President speaks to the media at a press conference announcing a 20-year naming rights deal of the Barclay Center January 18, 2007 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The new Barclay Center designed by world famous architect Frank Gehry will be the new home of the Nets and will be the centerpiece of the Atlantic Yards development. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Marty Markowitz
Barclays President Robert E. Diamond Jr., right, congratulates Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz during a press conference announcing a multi-facted marketing partnership including the 20-year naming rights to the Barclays Center, the planned centerpiece of the Brooklyn-based Atlantic Yards development in New York, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007. The arena will be the new home of the New Jersey Nets.(AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Barclays Bank President Robert E. Diamond Jr., right, congratulates Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz during a press conference announcing a multi-facted marketing partnership including the 20-year naming rights to the Barclays Center, the planned centerpiece of the Brooklyn-based Atlantic Yards development in New York, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007. The arena will be the home of the New Jersey Nets.(AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
