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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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Adrian Dantley delivers his induction speech at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., Friday, Sept. 5, 2008.
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Sharon Osbourne, a cancer survivor, arrives at the Stand Up To Cancer broadcast event in Hollywood September 5, 2008. The three US television networks, ABC, CBS and NBC are broadcasting a TV special featuring celebrities to raise funds for cancer research.
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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 05: Singer Mary J. Blige and Martin Kendu attend the Conde Nast Media Group's Fifth Annual Fashion Rocks at Radio City Music Hall on September 5, 2008 in New York City.
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LANCASTER, PA - SEPTEMBER 4: Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a rally at Buchanan Park September 4, 2008 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Obama is campaigning through Pennsylvania as U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) accepts the Republican nomination for U.S. President tonight.
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Italy's Claudia Pettazzoni (L) and Peru's Fidel Rios kiss each other to win the IKE, the International underwater kissing event in Riccione on July 20, 2008. The couple won the world's longest underwater kiss title with a time of 1 minutes and 51 seconds.
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A model presents a creation by Belarussian designer Dmitry Prigozhaev during the International Festival of Vanguard Art, Mammoth, in Minsk November 17, 2007.
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Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) arrives to accept the nomination. at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 4, 2008.
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In this Feb. 21, 2008, file photo, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger, left, speaks with Holocaust hero Irena Sendler, right, during a meeting in Warsaw, Poland. The family of the Polish social worker sendler who is credited with rescuing 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis during the Holocaust says she has died. Sendler's daughter, Janina Zgrzembska, says her 98-year-old mother died Monday, May 12, 2008, morning in a Warsaw hospital. Sendler organized the rescue of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during Nazi Germany's brutal World War II occupation.
Cologne's Cardinal Joachim Meisner (2nd L) hands over the decoration for a Torah roll to Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar (R) as Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (L) looks on during a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed a Torah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis.
Cologne's Cardinal Joachim Meisner (2nd L) hands over the decoration for a Torah roll to Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar (4th L) as Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (L), Rabbi Natanel Teitelbaum (5th L) and cantor Chaim Adler (C, top) look on during a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed a Torah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis.
Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (L) decorates a Torah roll during a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed the Torah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis.
Israeli chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, left, and the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, right,stand together with other religious leaders at a lunch meeting in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Israel's chief rabbis issued a joint declaration Tuesday calling on religious communities worldwide to take responsibility for protecting all holy sites.
(L-R) Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, Rabbi Natanel Teitelbaum and member of Cologne's Jewish community bring a Torah roll to the synagogue of Cologne during a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed a Torah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis.
(L-R) Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, cantor Chaim Adler, Rabbi Natanel Teitelbaum and Chief Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar attend a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed aTorah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis.
Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (2nd L) decorates a Torah roll during a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed the Torah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis.
(L-R) Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, cantor Chaim Adler, Chief Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar and Rabbi Natanel Teitelbaum attend a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed aTorah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis.
Israeli chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, second from left, and the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, right, sit across from each other during a lunch meeting in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Israel's chief rabbis issued a joint declaration Tuesday calling on religious communities worldwide to take responsibility for protecting all holy sites.
Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger is seen before inaugurating the expansion of the Hungarian Jewish Cultural Center and its new Keren Or synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, June 22, 2008. Yona Metzger, the highest Jewish religious leader, is on a tour visiting nine European countries and arrived to Hungary Sunday to meet top politicians and Jewish leaders to get a line on the current situation of the Jewish education.
(R-L) Israel's President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger and Defence Minister Ehud Barak attend a ceremony marking Jerusalem Day at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem June 2, 2008. Jerusalem Day marks the anniversary of the capture of the eastern part of the city. Israel annexed East Jerusalem as part of its capital in the 1967 Middle East War in a move not recognized internationally.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, center, stands with President Shimon Peres, center right, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, left, and Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger, second from left, at Jerusalem Day ceremonies at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem, Monday, June 2, 2008. Thousands of Israelis marked the 41st anniversary of the annexation of the eastern part of Jerusalem by Israeli forces in the 1967 Six Day War.
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - JANUARY 09: President George W. Bush of the U.S.A. chats to Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger upon arrival at Ben Gurion Airport to start his land mark visit to the Middle East on January 9, 2008 in Tel Aviv, Israel. During his three day tour, Bush will visit Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Church of The Nativity in Bethlehem, and meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel vowed at a U.S. summit last year to aim for a two-state solution to the ongoing regional conflict by the end of 2008.
(L-R) Cologne's Cardinal Joachim Meisner, President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Charlotte Knobloch, North Rhine-Westphalia's State Premier Juergen Ruettgers and Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger attend a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed the Torah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis.
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