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| Death toll in China may breach 50,... A man cries on the debris in Hongguang village in Qingchuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 15, 2008. Three of his family members are still missing three days after the earthquake. Qingchuan County is one of the worst-hit areas in Sichuan Province. Rescue operation is still going on in the county. View Imageset |
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| Victor Yushchenko Speech. The Ukrainian President,Victor Yushchenko made a speech at Chatham House in London after he had visited the Prime Minister in Downing Street.today. Date: 15.05.2008 View Imageset |
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California repeals ban on gay marr... Alice Heimsoth and Christmas Leubrie, right, from San Francisco, kiss at the front entrance of the state federal building in San Francisco, Thursday, May 15, 2008, after the positive news on gay marriage. California's Supreme Court decidedto strike down the ban on gay marriage. The court ruled four to three that same-sex couples had a constitutional right to marry regardless of sexual orientation. View Imageset |
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Sweden's giant Pinnochio A giant statue of Pinocchio by sculptor Jim Dine was unveiled today in the Swedish town of Boras. View Imageset |
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Bomb in Colombo kills 7 Sri Lankan police officials conduct investigations at the site of a suicide attack in Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka, May 16, 2008. Nine people including seven police officers were killed and over 80 people were injured when a suicide bomber of Tamil Tiger rebels attacked a bus in Sri Lankan capital Colombo around 12 noon time (0630 GMT) on Friday. View Imageset |
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Palestinians remember the Naqba Palestinians burn an American flag during a rally marking the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba in the West Bank city of Nablus, May 15, 2008. While the Israelis are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the birth of their nation, Palestinians are marking the Nakba, (literally "Catastrophe"), of the expulsion of more than 700,000 from homes as fighting raged at Israel's founding in 1948. View Imageset |
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Aid for Myanmar UNICEF workers, a member of the Myanmar Red Cross Society and several other health workers travel by boat to a remote village in Kawhmu Township in the south-western Irrawaddy Division. They are bringing basic medical supplies, as well as birthing kits for the village midwife. Of 400 households in the village, the cyclone destroyed all but eight, but no deaths were reported. View Imageset |
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Painful fall in German equestrian ... Shadow Lady, without rider Anna Katharina Bromann, somersaults due to a loose saddle, during the 2008 Hanover Langehagen Equestrian event. View Imageset |
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Lebanese Army separates warring fa... Beirut.09.05.2008: Lebanese army tanks secure streets in Beirut, following tense clashes between rival political groups. A general strike and demonstration, called by opposition labour unions, was cancelled.09/05/2008. View Imageset |
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Sarkozy Canadian Army Tribute 63th commemorate the armistice of May 8, 1945 with French President Nicolas Sarkozy & the first minister Francois Fillon View Imageset |
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Airshow marks Israel's independence Israeli Air Force aircraft perform an aerobatic show to mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish state, over Tel Aviv, on May 8, 2008. Israel declared statehood on May 14, 1948. But it traditionally celebrates the National Day according to the Hebrew calendar, which started from sunset on May 7 to dusk on May 8 this year. View Imageset |
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Olympic torch in Shenzhen Torchbearer Wang Jinyun gestures with the torch during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, on May 8, 2008. View Imageset |
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World's most expensive shirt Eton ,Men's shirt brand launches the 'world's most expensive shirt', encrusted with 30,000 euros worth of diamonds. Michael Redda and his team design it. London - 8 May 2008 View Imageset |
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Israel remembers its war dead Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert addresses the state Memorial Day ceremony at the Mount Herzl military cemetery 07 May 2008 in Jerusalem. View Imageset |
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Japan in bloom Visitors view carpets of moss phlox at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Yamanashi Prefecture on May 7. View Imageset |
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Chaiten volcano dumps ash on surro... An inhabitant from Esquel city in Chubut province, Argentina on 05 May 2008, wearing a mask while riding his bike because of the ash fall left by the eruption of the Chaiten volcano in Chile, near the border between both countries. Argentinean National Meteorological Service announced today that the ash column reaches about 8,000 meters height and the wind is going to the north of the nearest province of Santa Cruz. View Imageset |
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Intestinal virus still a problem i... A child infected with a kind of intestinal virus, identified as enterovirus 71, or EV71, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Fuyang, east China\'a Anhui province on May 2, 2008. The number of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) cases reported in China this year has risen to 11,905 by Monday, resulting in 26 deaths, according to Xinhua counting of local official figures. View Imageset |
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Olympic Torch in Hong Kong Torchbearer Leung Kar Ming holds the torch during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay in Hong Kong, south China, on May 2, 2008. View Imageset |
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Protestors greet the Olympic Torch... A pro-democracy protester is restrained by security he attempts to get close to the Olympic torch at the torch relay ceremony in Hong Kong Friday, May 2, 2008. View Imageset |
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World's longest sea bridge opens The Hangzhou Bay Bridge is illuminated in Cixi, east China's Zhejiang Province, April 29, 2008. The 36-kilometer bridge, the world's longest sea-spanning structure, will be opened to traffic on May 1. View Imageset |
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May Day protest becomes violent in... Anarchist protesters light a car with a German flag on fire during May demonstrations in Hamburg, Germany, 1 May 2008. Thousands of people participated in a protest against a march of the extreme right in Hamburg. On the sidelines of the relatively peaceful demontration radical leftists clashed with the police and lit cars on fire. View Imageset |
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May Day riots in Leipzig Riots break out on the evening of May Day, in Lepizig. View Imageset |
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Olympic Torch arrives in Hong Kong Two team members of Chinese Olympic flame attendant look at the Beijing 2008 Olympic flame during the flame receiving ceremony at Hong Kong Cultural Centre in Hong Kong, the first stop of Chinese territory, Wednesday, 30 April, 2008. The Olympic torch has arrived in Hong Kong at the start of its journey through China. It was flown in from Vietnam. The Hong Kong leg of the torch relay will take place on Friday. A marching band and flag-waving children in red and white tracksuits greeted the torch when it arrived at the airport from Vietnam. The torch was carried by Yang Shu'an, an executive vice president of the Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee. Home Affairs Secretary Tsang Tak-sing, Hong Kong Olympic Committee President Timothy Fok, and Liasion office director Gao Ziren held a brief reception at the airport. About 3,000 police will be deployed to guard the torch on Friday during its relay through Hong Kong. The mainland is today staging a series of events to mark the beginning of the final 100 days leading up to the Games. Local radio said. View Imageset |
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China tries to confine lethal EV71... A woman takes care of her child suffering from the lethal Enterovirus 71 (EV 71) in a hospital in Fuyang City, east China's Anhui Province, April 30, 2008. The outbreak of the EV 71 that started in March in Fuyang City has befallen 1,884 children and killed 20 by Wednesday noon, according to the provincial health department. View Imageset |
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Children killed in Gaza The bodies of children killed in an Israeli military operation are seen in the morgue of Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza Strip, April 28, 2008. Seven Palestinians, including a mother and her four children, were killed and 20 wounded on Monday during an Israeli shelling on the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, medics and witnesses said. View Imageset |
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World Record Aerial car stunt Liu Suozhu from China's Henan Province drives a car on two steel ropes above the Minluo River in Pingjiang, central China's Hunan Province, April. 27, 2008. Liu spent half an hour driving past the 230-metre-long ropes, 45 metres above the Minluo River on Sunday, entering the Guinness Book of Records. View Imageset |
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Taliban attempt assassination of H... Afghan soldiers runs to the scene after an attack happens at the military parade in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, on April 27, 2008. Gunfiring and explosions rocked a celebration gathering in the capital Kabul marking the 16th anniversary of Afghan nation Sunday morning, Afghan President Hamid Karzai under the protection of his guards left the scene safe after an assassination attempt by Taliban fighters during the celebration. View Imageset |
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Airshow crash kills 1 in Germany Policemen examine a propeller plane that crashed into the crowd at an air show in Eisenach, Germany, 26 April 2008. The plane lost control during takeoff, at least one person was killed in the accident, 15 were injured. View Imageset |
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Ukrainians mark 22nd anniversary o... Pupils commemorate the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in Kiev, capital of Ukraine, April 26, 2008. Kiev citizens marked on Saturday the 22nd anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. View Imageset |
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" Forever Games" the work of Leza ... Visitors view the exhibits on an exhibition in the Hubei Museum of Art in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, April 25, 2008. Forever Games, exhibiting the works of contemporary Russian artist Leza Lidow, opens on Friday here displaying nearly 50 pieces of her paintings and installation art works. View Imageset |
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Anzac memorial in France Anzac Day commemoration in Villers Bretonneux : French people pay tribute to Australian and New Zealand soldiers who died during the first wold war. View Imageset |
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Kassam strikes cememtery Families of the dead whose graves were destroyed inspect the damage caused from a rocket fired from Gaza Strip which landed in the southern cemetery in Ashkelon city, Israel on April 25, 2008. The Palestinian al-Quds brigades, Islamic Jhad's military wing, claimed responsibiity for the rocket fire. View Imageset |
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3rd Anniversary of Pope's election Pope Benedict XVI (L) and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano leave the Nervi-Paul VI Hall, in the Vatican, at the end of a concert offered by Napolitano to celebrate the third anniversary of the election of German cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to the pontificate, Vatican, 24 April 2008. View Imageset |
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World Record Coke Fountains More then 1300 students from Leuven in collaboration with the guys from EepyBird.com and Mentos broke the world record Mentos fountains Coke fountains View Imageset |
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Protest against Canada's seal hunt Spanish activists of a group for animal protection called Equanimal protest against the seal hunt in Canada in front of the European commission headquaters in Brussels, Belgium, 24 April 2008. The rally was held against the hunt of 275,000 young seals that will be carried out on the next days on the western coasts of Canada View Imageset |
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Scotland braces for petrol crunch Few petrol stations are running out of petrol ahead of the announced strike at the only oil refinery in Scoltand and despite the Scottish Government announce that there will be no shortage. View Imageset |
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Teachers Protest march through Lon... Teachers Protest march through London: Up to a third of schools have been hit by strikes as teachers demand a higher pay rise than the government is willing to offer. The NUT balloted all their active members of which 32% replied. Of that 75% voted in favour of the strike. Thursday April 24th 2008. View Imageset |
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| Jack Straw attends the Cabinet mee... Jack Straw attends the Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, Westminster, London Tuesday May 13th View Imageset |
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| Former Mayor of London, Ken Living... Former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, at a meeting with Boris Johnson in the GLA. 09/05/08 View Imageset |
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| Burma Cyclone Disaster A Burmese man tries to rebuild his home which was destroyed by the devastating cyclone Nargis four days ago, on the outskirts of the capital Rangoon, Burma, 08 May 2008. Burmese officials have not yet engaged themselves in further correcting the number of deaths (23,000) and missing people (42,000). Observers, however, assume that a few tens of thousands were killed. About one million people are homeless, 60 per cent of which are women and children. Germany's Relief Coalition 'Aktion Deutschland Hilft' (ADH) reported that 1,000 local helpers are currently on duty in Burma's disaster area. ADH also talked about 80,000 people being placed at 71 refugee camps outside of Rangoon, where they receive clothes, food and medicine. ADH is composed of approximately ten accredited German aid organisations View Imageset |
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| Egg Street Art LEEUWARDEN - Giant sized fried eggs as art. Artist Henk Hofstra from Drachten has created egg art on the Wilhelmina Square in Leeuwarden. A Date: 07.05.2008 View Imageset |
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