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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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People listen to Jason Kay, of the British band Jamiroquai, during the Rock in Rio music festival in Arganda del Rey, on the outskirts of Madrid, Friday, July 4, 2008.
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Stewart Copeland, drummer with British group The Police, performs on the opening night of the three day Bilbao Live music festival, July 4 , 2008.
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WATKINS GLEN, NY - JULY 04: Hideki Mutoh drives the #27 Formula Dream Andretti Green Racing Dallara Honda during practice for the IRL IndyCar Series Camping World Grand Prix at The Glen on July 4, 2008 at the Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York.
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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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LONDON - FEBRUARY 08: Richard Branson and 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;Richard Branson
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Arab holiday makers film models of notable people, with late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, at the Hall of Fame in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, June 7, 2008. The Hall of Fame was founded in 2002 and houses more than 50 silicone statues of the world's famous people in the political, artistic and cultural fields.
Palestinian shop owners display a large poster featuring a combo of portraits of Hamas supremo in Gaza, former premier Ismail Haniya, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas, superimposed on a picture of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock mosque, on June 5, 2008 in Gaza City. Abbas called yesterday for a national dialogue toward reconciliation between his Fatah party and Hamas, which seized the Gaza Strip from forces loyal to him last June. Other posters hung on the sides show, late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R), and slain spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
Seated under the portraits of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, are German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, left, with Mahmoud Abbas during their talks at the Palestinian President's headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, June 2, 2008. Steinmeier is on an official visit to the region.
With a poster showing late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, a vendor prepares coffee for a customer, unseen, at the center of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, April 27, 2008. The Palestinian economy won't grow in 2008, largely due to continued Israeli restrictions on Palestinian movement, and despite massive foreign aid and Palestinian reform efforts, the World Bank predicted Sunday.
Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt speaks in front of portraits of former Palestinain leader Yasser Arafat (L) and current President Mahmud Abbas (R) during a press conference in the West Bank city of Nablus on April 9, 2008. The Israeli army arrested some 30 Palestinians from the rival Fatah and Hamas factions in the northern city of Nablus overnight, Palestinian security officials said today.
Under portraits of late leader Yasser Arafat, left and President Mahmoud Abbas, top right, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center right, walks with U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney following a press conference at Abbas' office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, March 23, 2008. Vice President Dick Cheney began Easter Sunday with a prayer and the singing of "Amazing Grace" at a tiny chapel in Jerusalem, then launched into a day of talks about conflict: the Mideast peace process and the rising influence of Iran in the region.
With the portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the background, the Quartet's Mideast envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair gestures as he speaks during a press conference with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, right, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, March 11, 2008. The lead Palestinian negotiator on Tuesday said a new Israeli plan to expand a West Bank settlement endangers the struggling peace process, and he promised to raise the issue with a key U.S. mediator later this week. The negotiator, Ahmed Qureia, said Israel must freeze construction in areas claimed by the Palestinians in order to get peace talks back on track.
Seated under the portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, top left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, speaks with Abbas during their meeting in the Palestinian presidential headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, March 4, 2008. Israeli aircraft sent missiles crashing into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, pressing an offensive against Palestinian rocket squads even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the region to try to rescue peace talks amid the latest outbreak of violence. Rice hoped in a meeting later Tuesday to persuade Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to return to negotiations he cut off Sunday after more than 120 Gazans were killed in an Israeli operation against militants who bombard southern Israel with rocket and mortar fire.
With the background of the portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East Quartet envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks at a press conference during his visit to the West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday Feb. 7, 2008. Israeli ground forces backed by warplanes exchanged fire with Hamas gunmen in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing a teacher and six militants.
With the background of portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East Quartet envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks at a press conference during his visit to the West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday Feb. 7, 2008. Israeli ground forces backed by warplanes exchanged fire with Hamas gunmen in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing a teacher and six militants in escalating violence that is hobbling peace efforts.
Moroccan people waving Moroccan flags, hold photos of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, right, and late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, rear center, march during a protest against Israeli economic sanctions against Palestinians in the Gaza strip, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008 in Casablanca, Morocco. Earlier this month, Israel tightened its already stringent restrictions on the movement of goods into Gaza in response to ongoing rocket fire at southern Israel from the territory, causing a severe shortage of fuel, electricity cutbacks and a lack of some basic foods. About 1,000 people marched through the streets of Casablanca to express their solidarity with the Palestinian people.
A Palestinian police officer stands by a mural painting of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, right, and late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, left, during a march against Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, in the West Bank town of Jenin, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. The international Red Cross issued a dire warning on the state of basic services in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, calling on Israel to lift a blockade it has imposed in response to rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.
Backdropped by U.S. and Palestinian flags and a photograph of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, top left, United States President George W. Bush talks during a joint news conference with Palestinian Presedent Mahmoud Abbas, unseen, after their meeting in Abbas's headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008. Bush on Thursday predicted that a Mideast peace treaty would be completed by the time he leaves office.
Palestinian Fatah supporters hold up flags with the picture of the popular Fatah leader jailed in Israel, Marwan Barghouti, as they celebrate at a rally marking the movement's 43rd anniversary in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008. On a banner in the background are the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right.
Palestinians hold torches next to portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (L) and current president Mahmud Abbas (R) during a rally marking the 43rd anniversary of the Fatah movment in Salem village near the West Bank city of Nablus 31 December 2007. Abbas said today that he was ready to "open a new page" with Hamas if the Islamist movement gave up its control of the Gaza Strip. Abbas's statement came at a gathering of Fatah officials marking 43 years since the secular party first declared itself an armed Palestinian resistance movement.
A Palestinian man recites poems while standing between posters of former slain Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein (L) and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) during a gathering marking the anniversary of Saddam's execution, 31 December 2007 in the southern West Bank village of Halhul. The gathering was called by the Arab Liberation Front and some 700 people attended it. Saddam was hanged for crimes against humanity on December 30, 2006 in Baghdad.
A Palestinian child sells pictures of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) with executed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein (C and L) outside a shop in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 30 December 2007. Saddam Hussein loyalists gathered at the ousted dictator's graveside today to mark the first anniversary of his execution, as former opponents expressed joy over the end of his rule.
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