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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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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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McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain, center, the pole getter, Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen of Finland, right, second placed, and McLaren Mercedes driver Heikki Kovalainen of Finland, third placed, react after the qualifying session at the Fuji Speedway Formula One Grand Prix circuit in Oyama, Japan, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008. Formula One Japan Grand Prix is scheduled on Sunday on this circuit at the foot of Mont Fuji.
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McLaren Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain celebrates taking poll position with a team mate after the qualifying session for Sunday's Japanese F1 Grand Prix at Fuji Speedway in Oyama, central Japan, October 11, 2008.
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An Iraqi policeman isnspects the site of a car bomb explosion on October 11, 2008 at the Abu Dshir market in Baghdad's mainly Sunni quarter of Dora. Car bombs, roadside blasts and a shooting near the capital and the northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk killed at least 19 people and wounded at least another 66 yesterday, police and security officials said. The worst single attack was in the Iraqi capital's Dora district where a car bomb blast at a crowded market killed 13 people and wounded 27 on October 10, police and the defence ministry said.
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks at a meeting with Russia's Communist Party in Moscow, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Vladimir Putin said Thursday the wide-ranging financial crisis has irreparably damaged the image of the U.S. as the leader of the free world and the global economy.
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin smiles as he poses with a tiger cub on October 10, 2008 which was presented to him on his bithday on October 7, in Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow.
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U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) listens to questions from supporters as his vice presidential running mate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R) looks on during a town hall meeting in Waukesha, Wisconsin October 9, 2008.
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Director Ridley Scott and girlfriend Giannina Facio attend the world premiere of 'Body Of Lies' at the Rose Hall Theater on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008 in New York.
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This image released, on Sept 6, 2007 by the RPM Nautical Foundation, shows George Robb of the Key West, Fla.-based RPM Nautical Foundation measuring an amphora in the undersea work they made during a month-long survey, the first step in compiling an underwater cultural heritage map that could eventually plot the position of sunken fleets from ancient and mediaeval times believed to lie along Albania's 360-kilometer (220-mile) coastline.
George Robb of the Key West, Fla.-based RPM Nautical Foundation shows in computers the undersea work they made during a month-long survey, the first step in compiling an underwater cultural heritage map that could eventually plot the position of sunken fleets from ancient and mediaeval times believed to lie along Albania's 360-kilometer, 220-mile, coastline, at the RPM Hercules ship in the harbor of the Albanian southernmost town of Saranda, 300 kilometers, 186 miles, from capital Tirana, Aug. 14, 2007.
This image released, on Sept 6, 2007 by the RPM Nautical Foundation shows George Robb of the Key West, Fla.-based RPM Nautical Foundation measuring an amphora in the undersea work they made during a month-long survey, the first step in compiling an underwater cultural heritage map that could eventually plot the position of sunken fleets from ancient and mediaeval times believed to lie along Albania's 360-kilometer (220-mile) coastline.
George Robb of the Key West, Fla.-based RPM Nautical Foundation shows by computers the undersea work they made during a month-long survey, the first step in compiling an underwater cultural heritage map that could eventually plot the position of sunken fleets from ancient and mediaeval times believed to lie along Albania's 360-kilometer (220-mile) coastline. The image was taken on the RPM Hercules ship in the harbor of the Albanian southernmost town of Saranda, 300 kilometers (186 miles) from capital Tirana, Aug. 14, 2007.
Brady White as Santa, right, dances with models Brooke Tobolka, left, and Donny Boaz, back, during the unveiling of the 82nd edition of the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book in Irving, Texas, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. A 35-year collection of 45 RPM records is one of the featured wow gifts priced at $275,000., in the Christmas Book.
Brady White as Santa, right, dances with models Brooke Tobolka, left, and Donny Boaz, back, during the unveiling of the 82nd edition of the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book in Irving, Texas, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. A 35-year collection of 45 RPM records is one of the featured wow gifts priced at $275,000., in the Christmas Book.
U.S. archaeologist Jeffrey G. Royal of the Key West, Fla.-based RPM Nautical Foundation speaks on the alleged 2,400-year-old Greek jar, part of a sunken shipment of up to 60 ceramic vessels, in the harbor of the Albanian southernmost town of Saranda, 300 kilometers (186 miles) from capital Tirana, Aug. 14,2007. The jar was the top find from what organizers say is the first archaeological survey of Albania's seabed, conducted by U.S. and Albanian experts. The month-long survey was the first step in compiling an underwater cultural heritage map that could eventually plot the position of sunken fleets from ancient and mediaeval times believed to lie along Albania's 360-kilometer 220-mile) coastline.
