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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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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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Thai Buddhist monks wait for offerings early Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008, near Government House in Bangkok, Thailand. Thousands continue to illegally occupy Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's office complex as the political standoff continues into its second week. The standoff stems from a campaign by the People's Alliance for Democracy, a loose-knit group of royalists, wealthy and middle-class urban residents, and union activists, to oust Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and his government, accusing it of corruption and violating the constitution.
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Australia's Rebecca Keat celebrates winning the women's elite division of the Aviva Ironman 70.3 triathlon in Singapore September 7, 2008. Over 1,400 athletes took part in the event.
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Hong Kong's Chief Executive Donald Tsang addresses a press conference after casting his vote in the territory's Legislative Council election in Hong Kong on September 7, 2008. Hong Kong's bedraggled democracy camp could suffer a bloody nose, as pro-Beijing parties bathe in a post-Olympic glow, politicians and analysts said.
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Former astronaut Lisa Nowak (R) speaks to the press as her attorneys Cheney Mason (L) and Donald Lykkebak (C) stand with her after her pre-trial hearing at Orange County Court in Orlando, Florida August 24, 2007. Nowak is accused of stalking and attacking Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman at Orlando International Airport.
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Supporters of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari, widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, in the presidential election, in front of The Parliament House in Islamabad on September 6, 2008. Zardari secured a large win in Pakistan's presidential elections on September 6, capping a remarkable rise from jail, exile and his wife Benazir Bhutto's assassination just nine months ago. The controversial front-runner swept a poll among lawmakers to become the 14th president in Pakistan's short but turbulent history, taking power in the world's only nuclear-armed Islamic state and frontline "war on terror" ally.
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Supporters of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari, widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, in the presidential election, in front of The Parliament House in Islamabad on September 6, 2008. Zardari secured a large win in Pakistan's presidential elections on September 6, capping a remarkable rise from jail, exile and his wife Benazir Bhutto's assassination just nine months ago. The controversial front-runner swept a poll among lawmakers to become the 14th president in Pakistan's short but turbulent history, taking power in the world's only nuclear-armed Islamic state and frontline "war on terror" ally.
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Supporters of the ruling party, Pakistan People's Party, chant slogans as they celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari in the presidential election in Islamabad September 6, 2008. Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, swept to victory in a presidential election on Saturday, as a suicide bomber killed at least 10 people in the northwest.
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US Democratic Party volunteer Ariel Edwards-Levy (L), Oliva Garland (C) and her grandmother Judith Glickman (R) hold signs welcoming people attending the Democratic National Congress (DNC) at the arrival area in Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado, on August 23, 2008. The convention runs from August 25-28.
A supporter of Democratic presidential hopeful New York Senator Hillary Clinton holds up her hands with the message "We Love HRC" written on them, as Clinton speaks at her election night event on the day of the Montana and South Dakota Democratic presidential primary, at Baruch College in New York, NY on June 3, 2008. Clinton said she had made no decision yet on the future of her candidacy for president after her rival Barack Obama clinched the Democratic party nomination.
This photographic series shows Democratic presidential candidate US Senator Barack Obama and his wife Michelle reacting during their final election night rally at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota as the 2008 Democratic party primaries end June 3, 2008. Obama captured the Democratic White House nomination and became the first black candidate atop a major-party ticket after a giant-slaying win over Hillary Clinton.
U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, the head of Philadelphia's Democratic party, speaks to members of the press in Philadelphia, Friday, March 7, 2008. Philadelphia's Democratic ward leaders heard from representatives of Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., on Friday, but did not make an endorsement.
A woman pick up posters of Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) at the end of the Virginia Democratic Party Jefferson Jackson dinner in Richmond, Virginia February 9, 2008. Obama swept Democratic presidential contests in three states on Saturday, striking the latest blows in a bruising back-and-forth battle with Hillary Clinton for the party's nomination.
RICHMOND, VA - FEBRUARY 9: A supporter of Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) holds a poster as he casts his shadow on a banner during the Democratic Party of Virginia's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner at the Alltel Pavilion of Virginia Commonwealth University February 9, 2008 in Richmond, Virginia. Both Clinton and Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) were scheduled to address the dinner as they continued to campaign for the upcoming Potomac Primary on February 12, when voters will go to the polls in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC.
Supporters of US Democratic Party hopeful Barack Obama, Roberta McLaughlin (L) and Wayne Weightman (C), a US immigration lawyer, wave as they ride in a three-wheeled motorised "tuk-tuk" during a campaign ride in front of the Independence Monument in Phnom Penh for the US Democratic Party primary on February 6, 2008. The group Democrats Abroad will hold a real poll for US voters living in Cambodia on February 9, at the aptly-named USA Donuts shop in the capital.
Supporters of US Democratic Party hopeful Barack Obama, Roberta McLaughlin (L) and Wayne Weightman (C), a US immigration lawyer, wave as they ride in a three-wheeled motorised "tuk-tuk" during a campaign ride in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh for the US Democratic Party primary on February 6, 2008. The group Democrats Abroad will hold a real poll for US voters living in Cambodia on February 9, at the aptly-named USA Donuts shop in the capital.
Supporters of US Democratic Party hopeful Barack Obama, Robert McLaughlin (L) and Wayne Weightman (C), a US immigration lawyer, wave as they ride in a three-wheeled motorised "tuk-tuk" during a campaign ride in front of the Independence Monument in Phnom Penh for the US Democratic Party primary on February 6, 2008. The group Democrats Abroad will hold a real poll for US voters living in Cambodia on February 9, at the aptly-named USA Donuts shop in the capital.
A US high school student in Phnom Penh casts a mock vote for the US Democratic Party primary on February 6, 2008 as part of an educational exercise about the US presidential elections. The group Democrats Abroad will hold a real poll for US voters living in Cambodia on February 9, at the aptly-named USA Donuts shop in the capital.
In this file photo, Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., takes the microphone from former Vice President Walter Mondale, a Minnesota superdelegate, after he introduced her at a rally at Augsburg College in Minneapolis Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008. With presidential candidates Barack Obama and Clinton in a neck-and-neck race, their campaigns are lobbying DFL Party insiders known as superdelegates who could help determine the Democratic Party's nominee.
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