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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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Canadian singer Daniel Powter, left, and Taiwan's Executive Yuan Spokeswoman Vanessa Shih smile as they arrive at the 19th Golden Melody Awards, Saturday, July 5, 2008, in Taipei, Taiwan. Powter is a guest at this year's Golden Melody Awards-one of the Chinese-language pop music world's biggest annual events.
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KFOR soldiers repair a damaged bridge on the Ibar River in the northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica July 5, 2008.
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An Iraqi child works on components for irrigation water pumps in a workshop at the Sultan Syed Ali Market in Baghdad on July 5, 2008. With Iraq in the grip of a severe drought, many farmers are now dependent on irrigation pumps to supply water from the receding Tigris and Euphrates rivers for their crops.
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Charles Clark looks at the scoreboard after running to a second place finish in his first round men's 200m heat at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Oregon, July 4, 2008.
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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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File picture of late US actor Richard Widmark at a press conference in Rome on April 3, 1958 after the screening of the film "Time Limit". Widmark died at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut on March, 24 2008, his wife Susan Blanchard told the New York Times. Widmark made more than 60 films in a career that spanned five decades which saw him carve out a reputation for playing villains and tough guys.
Tourists walk past a memorial wreath left on Richard Widmark's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Wednesday March 26, 2008. Widmark, who made a sensational film debut as the giggling killer in "Kiss of Death" and became a leading man in "Broken Lance," "Two Rode Together" and 40 other films, died at his home in Roxbury after a long illness. He was 93.
In this 1962 image originally released by United Artists, Richard Widmark portrays Col. Tad Lawson, right, in a scene with Maximilian Schell in "Judgment at Nuremberg." Widmark died at his home in Roxbury after a long illness. He was 93. Widmark's wife, Susan Blanchard, said he died Monday, March 24, 2008.
In this 1984 photo released by Columbia Pictures, actor Richard Widmark appears in a scene from the film "Against All Odds, with actress Jane Greer. Widmark, who made a sensational film debut as the giggling killer in "Kiss of Death" and became a Hollywood leading man in "Broken Lance," "Two Rode Together" and 40 other films, died Monday, March 24, 2008, after a long illness. He was 93.
