Joint Terminal Attack Controller SSgt Clinton J. Herbison, a U.S. Airman from the 817 Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron (EASOS) takes a break during a night mission near Honaker Miracle camp at the Pesh valley of Kunar Province August 12, 2009.
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Empress Michiko tries to get a bee out of the hair of Japan's Emperor Akihito during a tour at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Victoria, British Columbia, July 12, 2009.
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A mob of internally displaced men, complaining of not receiving food and supply rations, ransack the administrative offices of the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) Yar Hussain camp in Swabi district, located about 120 km (75 miles) northwest of Pakistan's capital Islamabad July 13, 2009.
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American university student Amanda Knox's mother Edda (L) and her sister Deanna (L) take pictures in the courtroom during Knox's murder trial in Perugia December 3, 2009. Defendants Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are on trial for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in November 2007.
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Shop owner Gong Chui Zhen, 47, fixes trousers at the entrance to her shop in an old quarter of Shanghai August 12, 2009.
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A Camp for Climate Change demonstrator sits on a tent frame as they set up their protest site at Blackheath in south London August 26, 2009.
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Wolfsburg's Obafemi Martins performs a somersault to celebrate a goal against FC Cologne during the German Bundesliga soccer match in Cologne August 15, 2009.
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Antonia Adebambo (R) and Rebecca Wynn react after opening their A-level exam results at Withington Girls School in Manchester, northern England August 20, 2009.
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Aston Villa's John Carew heads the ball clear during their English Premier League soccer match against Liverpool at Villa Park in Birmingham, central England, December 29, 2009.
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Covaughn Billington, 9, plays in a pool at the Rancho Bernardo Inn, a luxury golf resort in the northern part of San Diego, California August 16, 2009. The Billingtons took advantage of a deal the inn is offering where visitors can reserve rooms for $19-per-night with no bed, toilet paper, towels, air-conditioning or "honor bar," and only a single light bulb in the bathroom for safety. The room comes with a tent where the beds normally would be.
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An elderly woman walks in front of a forest fire in Varnava village, northeast of Athens, August 22, 2009. A large wildfire raged out of control on the outskirts of Athens on Saturday, burning several homes and thousands of acres of forest.
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A Muslim prays in a mosque in Makassar in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province August 31, 2009.
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Albino siblings Esthefany Caroline (L) and Kauan Fernandes (R) play with their cousin Taina (C) outside their home in the V9 slum of Olinda, in the northeastern state of Pernambuco, August 25, 2009. Three of five of the Fernandes family's children are albinos, which according to genetics professor Valdir Balbino of the Federal University of Pernambuco is a very rare occurrence considering the parents and two children are dark-skinned Afro-Brazilians.
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Brianna Glenn of the U.S. competes in the women's long jump final during the world athletics championships in Berlin August 23, 2009.
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A worker cleans a glass window in the Eden Garden stadium as Sri Lankan cricket players train in the ground in Kolkata December 23, 2009.
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Men watch a demonstration against the British National Party's Red, White and Blue event in Denby, central England August 15, 2009.
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Caster Semenya of South Africa celebrates after winning the women's 800 metres final during the world athletics championships at the Olympic stadium in Berlin August 19, 2009.
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Eric Lipps, 52, waits in line to enter the NYCHires Job Fair in New York December 9, 2009.
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People enjoy a steam in the mobile Russian baths in the village of Bobrovka, about 400 km (249 miles) north of the Siberian city of Omsk December 27, 2009.
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The Mitsubishi car driven by Federico Villagra hits a horse during one of the stages of the Argentine Rally in General Roca, in the Patagonia August 16, 2009.
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Visitors watch the sunrise from Mount Moses in the Sinai Peninsula August 10, 2009. According to the Bible, this was where Moses received the ten commandments from God.
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A cemetery is seen during a hot air balloon flight near Bristol in western England August 7, 2009.
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Members of a mortar team attached to the U.S. Army's Dagger Company, 2-12 Infantry, 4th Brigade return fire with a 120mm mortar during an attack by militants on Michigan Base in the Pesh Valley in Afghanistan's Kunar Province August 7, 2009.
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Lyvonne Lightfoot (R), mother of U.S. Army SPC Anthony M. Lightfoot of Riverdale, Ga., looks up as she holds the folded flag that draped her 20-year-old son's casket after it was presented to her during his funeral at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia August 4, 2009. He was killed while in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
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Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rides a horse in southern Siberia's Tuva region August 3, 2009. Putin, a judo black belt who has flown in a fighter aircraft and shot a Siberian tiger in the wild, plunged into the depths of Lake Baikal aboard a mini-submersible in a mission that added a new dimension to his macho image.
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The casket (L) of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy is carried out of the family complex by members of a United States military honor guard in Hyannisport, Massachusetts August 27, 2009. Kennedy died August 25 at the age of 77 after a year-long battle with brain cancer.
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A hat belonging to a tourist lies on the spot of a traffic accident near Hurghada December 14, 2009.
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The body of a stranded pilot whale is seen on a beach in the coastal region of Bustamante Bay in the Argentine Patagonian province of Chubut September 14, 2009.
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Kanye West (L) interrupts the acceptance speech from best female video winner Taylor Swift (R) at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards in New York, September 13, 2009.
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A woman sits between carriages as the train travels to Mymensing from Dhaka September 20, 2009.
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Martin Fortunato, the son of slain Italian captain Antonio Fortunato, cries he touches a coffin of one of the six Italian soldiers killed in Afghanistan during a funeral service at Saint Paul Basilica in Rome September 21, 2009.
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Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is helped by police after he was attacked in downtown Milan December 13, 2009. Berlusconi was taken to hospital with blood smeared over his face after Massimo Tartaglia hurled a small model of Milan cathedral at him at a political rally, police said.
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John Casas, 15, prepares to go for an athletics training session in Medellin September 17, 2009. Casas, who lives in the violent Comuna 13 neighborhood in Medellin, lost his legs in a car accident. The Casas family were displaced by civil war from their home in Uraba, Antioquia province. John is being helped by a rehabilitation center and dreams of participating in the Paralympics in London 2012.
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Abdel Basset al-Megrahi sits in a wheelchair in his room at a hospital in Tripoli September 9, 2009. The dying Libyan convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and freed on compassionate grounds despite U.S. objections was met by African parliamentary deputies in an apparent public show of support.
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A victim is taken away from the site of a bomb blast in Kabul December 15, 2009.
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A man on a partially submerged bus waits to be evacuated on a highway in Istanbul September 9, 2009.
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A man takes a photo of his wife in the area opposite Tiananmen Square in Beijing on an early morning visit September 30, 2009. China will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding on October 1.
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Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya sleeps inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa September 22, 2009.
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A campsite at a homeless tent city in Sacramento California March 15, 2009. Sacramento's tent city has seen an increase in population as unemployment numbers grow in the US.
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Belgian milk producers pour about 3 million litres (793,000 gallons) of milk on a field near the Belgian city of Ciney September 16, 2009 in protest over a growing industrial dispute over low prices.
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A horse from the Kings Troop, the Royal Horse Artillery, swims in the sea near Blackpool, northern England, September 16, 2009. The regiment have brought the horses to the Lancashire seaside resort as a break from their usual ceremonial duties in London.
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Mohamed Ibrahim, 48, testifies before being stoned by militants from Hizbul Islam for illicit sexual intercourse with a woman in the Afgoye district, December 13, 2009. Ibrahim was sentenced to death by a local Islamic court after he was found guilty of infidelity.
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Police officials detain a suspected militant from the site of a shooting at a police training centre in Lahore March 30, 2009.
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Villagers react as a helicopter landed for aid distribution at Lima Koto Timur district in Padang Pariaman, Indonesia's West Sumatra province, October 7, 2009.
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Ground crew members assist Canadian circus billionaire Guy Laliberte after he returned in the Russian Soyuz space capsule near the town of Arkalyk, in northern Kazakhstan, October 11, 2009.
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A woman peers out from a car window as she is driven past the earthquake-destroyed Ambacang Hotel in Padang, Indonesia's West Sumatra province October 9, 2009.
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A delegate sleeps during a break in an all-night plenary meeting at the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen December 19, 2009.
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A television sits at the water's edge at the tsunami destroyed village of Saleapaga on Samoa's southern coast October 2, 2009.
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An illegal immigrant boy from Myanmar collects plastic at a rubbish dump site near Mae Sot December 22, 2009. Despite terrible living conditions and the fear of being sent back to their country, several hundred illegal immigrants from Myanmar live and earn an average of $1 per day collecting plastic at the rubbish dump near the border town of Mae Sot. Myanmar's long-standing political crisis has forced millions of people to cross the border for a better and safer life. The first refugees arrived and set up camps in the Myanmar-Thailand border in 1984. Now, there are over 140,000 refugees in nine official camps along Thailand's western border. Many more are expected to be in unofficial settlements.
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Pro-democracy protesters carrying a mock coffin try to cross a police line during a demonstration demanding China improve its human rights record, outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong October 1, 2009 as China celebrates the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie checks the living conditions of an Iraqi refugee family living in Jaramana, a suburb in southern Damascus October 2, 2009.
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A woman screams for help from police as she gets crushed against a metal barrier at Sri Lanka former army chief General Sarath Fonseka's first political rally for his presidential campaign in Kandy, 72 miles (116 km) from Colombo, December 18, 2009.
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Undercover Israeli police officers scuffle with a Palestinian as his son is being detained during clashes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud October 9, 2009.
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