Friday, December 31, 2010

Dec 10

Top Pictures of 2010 Part 2

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01. Marooned flood victims reach for food supplies thrown down from an Army helicopter in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab province August 7, 2010. Pakistanis desperate to get out of flooded villages threw themselves at helicopters on Saturday as more heavy rain was expected to intensify both suffering and anger with the government. The disaster killed more than 1,600 people and disrupted the lives of 12 million. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
As promised. This is Part 2 of our Pictures Of The Year 2010 review. If you’ve missed Part 1, make sure you check it out for some amazing photography by photographers who often put themselves in harms way to get that perfect shot which makes us think, wonder , cry or smile. Part 2 is much of the same as Part 1. That means more images of anguish, pain, death, conflict, joy and hope. There are some really cool shots in this review and we’re sure you will enjoy them. Let us know in the comments which are your favorites. Check back next week for a very special review we’re making. Warning: some images display graphic content.

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02. Marooned flood victims looking to escape grab the side bars of a hovering Army helicopter which arrived to distribute food supplies in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab province August 7, 2010. Pakistanis desperate to get out of flooded villages threw themselves at helicopters on Saturday as more heavy rain was expected to intensify both suffering and anger with the government. The disaster killed more than 1,600 people and disrupted the lives of 12 million. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
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03. A family member of an Airblue plane crash victim weeps after recovering the body at a hospital in Islamabad July 29, 2010. The Pakistani passenger plane, an Airbus 321 belonging to a private airline, crashed in heavy rain near Islamabad, killing all 152 people on board, officials said, in the worst aviation accident in Pakistan. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
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04. A museum assistant poses for photographers by a front cloth designed by Pablo Picasso at the V&A galleries, in London August 5, 2010. The front cloth, which appeared in the Ballet Russes performance of Le Train Bleu in 1924, is the largest known canvas designed by Picasso in the world. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett
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05. The skulls and bones of Rwandan victims rest on shelves at a genocide memorial inside the church at Ntarama just outside the capital Kigali August 6, 2010. Some 5,000 people, mostly women and children, sought refuge near the church in April 1994, but were massacred by Hutu extremists who used grenades, clubs and machetes to kill their victims. Rwandan voters go to the polls on Monday for the second presidential election since the genocide 16 years ago. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly
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06. A social activist participates in a rally to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, in Mumbai August 6, 2010. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
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07. People attend a religious service, asking God for rains to prevent new wildfires, in the village of Kriusha, which is shrouded in heavy smog, some 250 km (155 miles) southeast of Moscow in Ryazan region, August 7, 2010. Forest and peat fires by the highest temperatures ever registered in Russia have killed at least 52 people, made more than 4,000 homeless, diverted many flights and forced Muscovites to wear surgical masks to filter out foul air. Picture taken August 7, 2010. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov
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08. A Honduran migrant waits outside of a shelter in Lecheria, Tultitlan, state of Mexico on the way to the border with the United States July 28, 2010. A U.S. judge on Wednesday blocked key parts of Arizona's tough new immigration law hours before it was to take effect, handing a victory to the Obama administration as it tries to take control of the issue. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte
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09. Policemen and soldiers raise their hands while shouting God is great, to lift their spirits as the team worked through heavy rain to search for bodies and a flight data recorder at the site of the Airblue plane crash in Islamabad's Margalla Hills July 29, 2010. Heavy monsoon rains in Islamabad hampered recovery efforts at the site of a Pakistani plane crash that killed all 152 people on board a day earlier, a senior police officer said. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
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10. A soldier walks past birches, which are damaged by fire, on the outskirts of the Russian city of Voronezh July 30, 2010. Forest fires swept across central Russia on Friday, killing at least eight people and forcing the evacuation of thousands during the hottest summer since records began 130 years ago. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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11. Canadian soldiers play table football under flashlights at a military outpost near the village of Bazaar e Panjwaii, in the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province August 8, 2010. REUTERS/Bob Strong
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12. Residents pass a bag out of a window of their house, which was damaged by flash floods in Bogatynia August 9, 2010. Flash floods triggered by days of heavy rain have killed at least six people, forced mass evacuations and cut off power to thousands in central Europe. REUTERS/David W Cerny
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13. Riot police spray water on a high school student during a protest in Valparaiso city, about 121 km (75 miles) northwest of Santiago August 18, 2010. Students protested against changes to the public state education and are demanding that government increase their budget to fund universities, according to local media. REUTERS/Eliseo Fernandez
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14. A police officer aims his weapon as the body of former police officer Rolando Mendoza slumps from the door of a bus in Manila August 23, 2010. Police shot and killed Mendoza who was holding 15 Hong Kong tourists aboard a bus in downturn Manila on Monday and TV images showed some hostages leaving the vehicle alive. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
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15. A U.S. Army medevac crew member attempts to revive a Marine mortally wounded in an IED (improvised explosion device) blast near the town of Marjah in Helmand province in this picture taken August 22, 2010. Picture taken August 22, 2010. REUTERS/Bob Strong
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16. Members of the New York Police Department join in prayer at the Islamic Cultural Center of New York in the Manhattan borough of New York August 26, 2010. The Islamic Cultural Center was the first mosque built in New York City and was completed in 1991. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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17. Cowboys pray during the opening ceremony of a rodeo festival in Diamantino in midwesten Brazil August 26, 2010. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
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18. Labourers hold their colleague to install underground electric cables on a roadside at Noida in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh August 27, 2010. India's economy probably grew an annual 8.7 percent in the June quarter, its strongest pace since the December quarter of 2007, the median forecast of 21 economists showed. Forecasts ranged between 7.7 and 9.4 percent. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma
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19. A computer screen shows one of the miners trapped underground in a copper and gold mine, inside the mine at Copiapo, some 725 km (450 miles) north of Santiago August 26, 2010. Thirty-three miners trapped for 21 days in a Chilean mine may get videos of Maradona and other soccer greats to beat boredom as they face several months deep underground until they are dug out. Picture taken August 26, 2010. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado
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20. A Lebanese soldier wounded by an Israeli tank lies on a street at Adaisseh village, southern Lebanon August 3, 2010. An Israeli helicopter on Tuesday fired two missiles at a Lebanese army post near the southern border village of Adaisseh, destroying an armoured personnel carrier, a security source said. A Lebanese journalist and three Lebanese soldiers died after the Israeli and Lebanese armies exchanged fire in the border area, a security source said. REUTERS/ Ali Hashisho
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21. A woman mourns her missing relatives in the landslide-hit Zhouqu County of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province August 10, 2010. Engineers battled on Tuesday to drain an unstable lake created by the country's deadliest landslide in decades, threatening new misery for a devastated northwestern China town if it bursts its banks. REUTERS/Aly Song
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22. A helicopter carries water before releasing it over a forest fire near the settlement of Kustarevka in Ryazan region, some 340 km (211 miles) southeast of Moscow, August 10, 2010. Russia's deadly summer heatwave would weaken a recovery from last year's slump, economists predicted, as wildfires raged on in several provinces. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov
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23. Young gymnasts, in a class consisting of four to seven-year-olds, stretch themselves on wooden bars at the gymnastics hall of a sports school in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province August 10, 2010. Chinese officials insist tough new eligibility rules will put a stop to the type of age cheat scandal that saw a gymnast stripped of her Olympic medal. REUTERS/Stringer
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24. Residents being evacuated through flood waters dodge an army truck carrying relief supplies for flood victims in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district in Punjab province August 11, 2010. The floods have ploughed a swathe of destruction more than 1,000 km (600 miles) long from northern Pakistan to the south, killing more than 1,600 people. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
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25. U.S. President Barack Obama walks down Cross Hall with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to make joint statements in the East Room of the White House in Washington September 1, 2010. REUTERS/Jason Reed
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26. A woman sits in front of a shop in central Yangon in this September 1, 2010 picture. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
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27. Isabel Carcamo, daughter of Miguel Carcamo, faints during the funeral of her father in El Guante September 2, 2010. Miguel Carcamo, 43, the father of four children, travelled illegally for the first time to the U.S. on August 3. According to Honduras' Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Carcamo was one of 21 Honduran immigrants murdered and identified so far at Tamaulipas, Mexico, where a series of firefights with drug gang members have occurred. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
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28. Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez greets supporters during a campaign rally with local candidates for the national assembly in the state of Tachira September 5, 2010. Venezuelans are going to the polls September 26 to elect a new national assembly. REUTERS/Miraflores Palace/Handout
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29. Actress Angelina Jolie (C) arrives at the Jalozai flood victim relief camp during her visit to flood affected areas and relief camps supported by the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province September 7, 2010. Jolie called on Tuesday for constant and long-term assistance for Pakistan to help it cope with its worst ever floods that have wreaked havoc on the impoverished country. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl
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30. A helicopter is used by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to gather wild horses in the Conger Mountains near Border in Utah September 7, 2010. The BLM plans to round-up approximately 480 wild horses for placement in the BLM's adoption program or long-term pastures. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart
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31. A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky over Stonehenge in Salisbury Plain, southern England August 12, 2010. The Perseid meteor shower is sparked every August when the Earth passes through a stream of space debris left by comet Swift-Tuttle. Picture taken using a long exposure. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty
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32. Dove World Outreach Center church pastor Terry Jones announces the burning of the korans will continue as planned during a news conference in Gainesville, Florida September 8, 2010. Jones, leader of a tiny, little-known Protestant church in Gainesville, Florida, which openly campaigns against what it calls radical Islam, is facing a barrage of calls from U.S. government, military and religious leaders, and from abroad, to cancel his plans to publicly burn Islam's holy book. REUTERS/Scott Audette
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33. Policemen detain an opposition activist during a protest rally in central Moscow September 12, 2010. Opposition supporters on Sunday held an unauthorized rally dubbed the Day of Wrath and demanded the resignation of Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov. REUTERS/Mikhail Voskresenski
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34. Residents mourn as they wait to claim bodies of bomb attack victims outside a morgue in Baghdad August 17, 2010. REUTERS/Saad Shalash
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35. Co-owner Christian Petersen looks out of a window as he poses for the media at his bicycle shop in Altlandsberg, north-east of Berlin August 17, 2010. The owners attached about 120 bicycles on the facade to advertise their shop. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
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36. A worker waits as goods are unloaded from his vehicle next to a street in Kabul September 17, 2010. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj
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37. Pope Benedict XVI enters a building during his visit to Lambeth Palace in London September 17, 2010. The Pope is on a four day visit to England and Scotland. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
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38. A Congolese soldier and guard for Virunga National Park looks down into a lava lake boiling in the crater of Nyiragongo volcano near Goma in eastern Congo August 30, 2010. Congo's army and park rangers are conducting joint operations to secure large swathes of Virunga Park, which has for more than a decade been home to various armed groups relying on poaching and banditry to survive while using the park's wild terrain to hide during Congo's civil conflict. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly
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39. Somalis drag the body of a government soldier killed during fighting between Islamist and government forces along a street in Hodan district, Mogadishu August 30, 2010. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
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40. People attending a joint burial ceremony of ethnic Albanians who went missing during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war are seen in a reflection as they mark the International Day of the Disappeared in Kosovo Polje near Pristina August 30, 2010. REUTERS/Stringer
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41. Rescuers come to the aide of a woman in the flooded Ghaghar river after heavy rains in Punchkula, in the northern Indian state of Haryana, September 8, 2010. REUTERS/Ajay Verma
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42. U.S. President Barack Obama is joined by former U.S. Presidents George W. Bush (L) and Bill Clinton (R) in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington while speaking about disaster aid to Haiti January 16, 2010. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)
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43. A reflection can be seen on a glass barrier in the Top Of The Rock observation deck in front of the Tribute in Light memorial shining behind the Empire State Building marking the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York September 11, 2010. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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44. Russian rescuers take Senvilo Ovri, 11, a victim of the earthquake, out of the remains of a house in Port-au-Prince January 16, 2010. Thousands of Haitians flocked out of Port-au-Prince on Saturday in a swelling exodus from the earthquake-shattered city where aid is not reaching the streets fast enough for the homeless, hurt and hungry. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva
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45. A looter holds a knife as he fights for products after Tuesday's earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 16, 2010. Four days after a massive quake killed up to 200,000 people and wrecked most of the capital Port-au-Prince, hundreds of thousands of Haitians were still desperately waiting for assistance as scavengers and looters preyed on shattered buildings in the widespread absence of authority and order. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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46. A woman raises her arms for products as people loot from a destroyed shop after Tuesday's earthquake in Port-au-Prince, January 16, 2010. Four days after a massive quake killed up to 200,000 people and wrecked most of the capital Port-au-Prince, hundreds of thousands of Haitians were still desperately waiting for assistance as scavengers and looters preyed on shattered buildings in the widespread absence of authority and order. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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47. Homeless children use blankets to protect themselves from the cold under a flyover in New Delhi January 21, 2010. The Supreme Court chided the Delhi government to provide night shelters with blankets, water and mobile toilets to all homeless in the capital, local media reported. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause
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48. A Palestinian woman puts her hand in the face of an Israeli Border police officer during scuffles in the West Bank village of Nabi Salih, near Ramallah January 22, 2010. The scuffles erupted between Israeli forces and about 20 Palestinians near a violent protest staged by Palestinian, Israeli and international activists over a land dispute with Jewish settlers in the area, witnesses said on Friday. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside
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49. A balloon flies during the International Hot Air Balloon Week in Chateau-d'Oex January 23, 2010. Over 80 balloons from 15 countries are participating in the ballooning event in the Swiss mountain resort famous for ideal flight conditions due to an exceptional microclimate. REUTERS/Valentin Flauraud
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50. An Afghan girl stands in line with her mother to get food package on the outskirts of Kabul September 14, 2010. A hundred food packages were distributed to flood hit families by the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) led-Turkish troops on the outskirts of Kabul. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
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51. South Korean Marine Corps' amphibious vehicles and the Navy's Landing Platform Helicopter (LPH) ship 'Dokdo' (behind) take part in a mock landing operation in the sea off Incheon, west of Seoul, September 15, 2010. The operation marked the 60th anniversary of the U.S.-led United Nations troops' Incheon Landing Operations during the 1950-1953 Korean War. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak
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52. International Space Station (ISS) crew members Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka (R) and U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly prepare for an examination session at the Star City space centre outside Moscow, September 15, 2010. Skripochka and Kelly travelled by Soyuz space craft to the International Space Station in October. REUTERS/Sergei Remezov
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53. Therese Albrecht of the U.S., a member of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), holds a photograph of herself a child during a protest outside Saint Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland September 15, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Scotland on Thursday for a four day visit to Britain. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
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54. An airplane is silhouetted against a full moon in the sky over London January 1, 2010. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett
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55. The family of Nick Rizzuto leaves the church after his funeral in Montreal, January 2, 2010. Rizzuto, eldest son of Vito Rizzuto, the reputed head of the Montreal Mafia according to media reports, on Monday was gunned down in Montreal's Notre-dame-de-Grace neighborhood. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
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56. A injured child receives medical treatment after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010. The 7.0 magnitude quake rocked Haiti, killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike and leaving the poor Caribbean nation appealing for international help. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
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57. Remains of seats from an Ethiopian Airlines plane which crashed into the Mediterranean sea on Monday morning, are seen on the shore at Khaldeh, south of Beirut, January 25, 2010, as a helicopter flies above the crash site searching for survivors. The plane with 90 people on board crashed shortly after taking off from Beirut in stormy weather. Ethiopian Airlines CEO Girma Wake has said he had no word of any survivors from the crash. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
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58. A woman puts her hand near a crack on a wall as she waits for food distribution in Port-au-Prince Haiti January 27, 2010. A shallow 4.9 magnitude aftershock rattled western Haiti on Tuesday, two weeks after a killer 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Service said. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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59. A gold miner smiles as he climbs down into a mine shaft in Manica Province, near the Zimbabwe border, September 18, 2010. Hundreds of miners work in individual claims rented from local landowners. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
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60. A flight of spectacled teals fly over the Lake of Geumgang in Gunsan, about 270 km (168 miles) south of Seoul, in this photo released on February 8, 2010. REUTERS/Office of Gunsan City/Handout
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61. U.S. soldiers kneel during a memorial ceremony for Captain Daniel Whitten and Private First Class Zachary Lovejoy from Charlie Company, 4th Brigade combat team,1-508, 82nd Parachute Infantry Regiment at the Remote Sweeney FOB in Zabul province, southern Afghanistan February 8, 2010. CPT Whitten from Grimes, Iowa, and PFC Lovejoy from Albuquerque, New Mexico, were killed by an IED on February 2. when on patrol in southern Afghanistan. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
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62. Flood victims raise their hands to receive food at Karamdad Qureshi village in Dera Ghazi Khan district of Punjab province August 21, 2010. More tents and plastic sheets have been secured to help 4.6 million shelterless Pakistanis, a U.N. spokesman said on Saturday, easing pressure on aid workers hoping to stop diseases spreading in the country's flood crisis. REUTERS/Asim Tanveer
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63. A general view shows a Precision Drilling machine (L), a T130 drill (C) and a Xtrata 950 (R), which were being used to dig holes to rescue the 33 miners trapped at the San Jose mine in Copiapo, about 725 km (450 miles) north of Santiago, September 23, 2010. Picture taken September 23, 2010. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado
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64. Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband (L) greets his brother David onstage during the Labour Party conference in Manchester, northern England September 27, 2010. Strong trade union support helped Ed Miliband, a 40-year-old former cabinet minister, beat his older brother David by a whisker in a dramatic Labour Party leadership election on Saturday. REUTERS/David Moir
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65. Lead singer Bono of Irish rock band U2 performs during their 360 Degree Tour at King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels September 22, 2010. REUTERS/Thierry Roge
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66. A man carries a shark through the streets of Mogadishu September 23, 2010. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
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67. U.S. President Barack Obama speaks as former U.S. President Bill Clinton reacts during the Clinton Global Initiative in New York September 23, 2010. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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68. Britain's Prince Charles dances with villagers at Tolasar village near Jodhpur in India's state of Rajasthan October 5, 2010. REUTERS/Sunil Verma
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69. Fuel tankers, which were carrying supplies to foreign forces in Afghanistan, explode after they were attacked in the outskirts of Quetta October 6, 2010. Gunmen in Pakistan attacked and set fire to 20 trucks transporting supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan on Wednesday, police said. REUTERS/Stringer
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70. Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia pose in this undated photo released by his family on October 3, 2010. Imprisoned Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize on October 8, 2010, an announcement that Beijing had anticipated and bitterly criticised. REUTERS/Handout
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71. The last miner to be rescued, Luis Urzua, who is credited with organizing the miners to ration food and save themselves, gestures next to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera (R) at the end of the rescue operation at San Jose mine in Copiapo October 13, 2010. All of Chile's 33 trapped miners were rescued from the bowels of the earth in a special capsule as a extraordinary two-month survival story many call a miracle triggered wild celebrations. REUTERS/Alex Ibanez-Chilean Presidency/Handout
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72. The damaged reservoir near an alumina plant is seen from the air in Kolontar, 150 km (93.2 miles) west of Budapest October 9, 2010. Hungary's premier warned on Saturday that the wall of a damaged industrial reservoir was likely to collapse, threatening a second spill of toxic red sludge, and a nearby village was evacuated as a precaution. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh
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73. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (R) and his youngest son Kim Jong-un (L) watch a parade to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang October 10, 2010. Photo taken October 10, 2010. REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic
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74. Female North Korean soldiers march during a military parade to commemorate the 65th anniversary of founding of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang October 10, 2010. Secretive North Korea's leader-in-waiting, the youngest son of ailing ruler Kim Jong-il, took centre stage during a massive military parade on Sunday, appearing live for the first time in public. REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic
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75. A minor stands in front of the drill machine 'Sissi' after it broke through the rock at the final section Faido-Sedrun, at the construction site of the NEAT Gotthard Base Tunnel October 15, 2010. With a length of 57 km (35 miles) crossing the Alps, the world's longest train tunnel should become operational at the end of 2017. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
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76. A French high school student faces anti-riot gendarmes during a student demonstration at the Place de la Republique in Paris October 19, 2010. France faced its sixth day of nationwide strikes and protests in two months on Tuesday as trade unions sought to force French government to back down on an unpopular pension reform raising the retirement age. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
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77. A man works at the site of a rare earth metals mine at Nancheng county, Jiangxi province October 20, 2010. China on Wednesday denied a report that the government plans to slash export quotas of rare earth metals next year, seeking to ease international jitters about China's stranglehold on supplies. REUTERS/Stringer
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78. A man holds a placard which reads Listen to the public's rage during a demonstration in front of the French Senate in Paris October 20, 2010. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
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79. A boy with his face decorated with thanaka paste waits outside a local school, for children of migrant workers from Myanmar, near Mae Sot in northwest Thailand October 15, 2010. Myanmar's long standing political crisis has forced millions of people across the border for a better and safer life. Some 140,000 refugees live in official camps along the Myanmar-Thailand border, according to the U.N. refugee agency and there are concerns that hostilities in the hills of eastern Myanmar could intensify as a result of a refusal of several ethnic political groups to take part in an election next month. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
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80. WBC boxing champion Vitali Klitschko (R) of Ukraine lands a punch on Shannon Briggs of the U.S. during their WBC Heavyweight Championship boxing bout in Hamburg October 16, 2010. Klitschko won the fight by points after twelve rounds. REUTERS/Christian Charisius
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81. A supporter listens to U.S. President Barack Obama speak at a campaign rally for Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer at University of Southern California in Los Angeles October 22, 2010. Obama is on a four-day, five-state swing to support Democrats in the upcoming election. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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82. Rescue workers try to push a humpback whale that had became stranded back out to sea at Geriba beach in Buzios, 192 kilometers (119 miles) from Rio de Janeiro October 26, 2010. The whales migrate north from Antarctica to mate from July to November off the coast of Brazil. REUTERS/Sergio Moraes
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83. Afghan children stand together near the town of Kunjak in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province October 24, 2010. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly
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84. Residents watch television at their flooded house in Bangkok October 25, 2010. Floodwaters from northeast provinces, which have swamped thousands of acres of farmland, have spread to the Thai capital. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom
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85. Israeli riot police restrain a protester during clashes in Umm el-Fahm October 27, 2010. Israeli police fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse Arabs who were protesting against a rally by ultranationalist Jews in the Israeli-Arab city. Riot police charged about 200 Arabs who threw stones at them before retreating, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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86. Honduran immigrant Jose Humberto Castro, 26, clings to a freight train on his way to the border with the United States in Orizaba in the state of Veracruz November 3, 2010. Every day, hundreds of Central American immigrants try to cross from Mexico to the United States, according to National Migration Institute of Mexico. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte
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87. A North Korean man (R) on a bus waves his hand as a South Korean man weeps after a luncheon meeting during inter-Korean temporary family reunions at Mount Kumgang resort October 31, 2010. Four hundred and thirty-six South Koreans are visiting North Korea from Saturday to meet their 97 North Korean relatives, whom they have been separated from since the 1950-53 war, for three days. REUTERS/Kim Ho-Young/Korea Pool
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88. A general view of a large crater that appeared in the early hours in the central German town of Schmalkalden, November 1, 2010. A huge crater measuring 30 by 40 metres has opened up in the middle of a residential estate, according to local police. REUTERS/Alex Domanski
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89. Mount Merapi volcano spews smoke as seen from Sidorejo village in Klaten, near the ancient city of Yogyakarta November 1, 2010. Indonesia's Mount Merapi erupted again on Saturday morning, spewing ash into the sky, and prompting authorities to extend the danger radius by two kilometres (1.24 miles). REUTERS/Beawiharta
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90. A Muslim pilgrim prays at Mount Al-Noor during the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca November 11, 2010. The haj is one of the world's biggest displays of mass religious devotion and a duty for Muslims who can perform it. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
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91. An Afghan man is detained by U.S. Marines from the First Battalion, Eighth Marines Bravo Company at their base in Talibjan after a battle against Taliban insurgents in Musa Qala district in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province November 7, 2010. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly
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92. Hundreds of anti-nuclear activists sit or lay on the railway tracks in Harlingen near Dannenberg November 8, 2010. German police detained about 800 protesters who refused to leave the tracks after more than 3,000 protestors blocked the tracks on Sunday disrupting a shipment of eleven Castor rail containers of reprocessed German nuclear waste to the storage dump in Gorleben. REUTERS/Christian Charisius
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93. Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) is greeted by supporters at her National League for Democracy's party headquarters in Yangon November 15, 2010. Suu Kyi's re-emergence from seven years' incarceration thrusts Western sanctions back onto the agenda in Myanmar, adding a new dimension to the army-ruled country's fast-changing political landscape. REUTERS/Stringer
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94. Demonstrators break windows of the Conservative Party headquarters building during a protest in central London November 10, 2010. Students demonstrating against higher tuition fees burned placards, scuffled with riot police and smashed windows at the headquarters of Britain's governing Conservative party on Wednesday. REUTERS/Paul Hackett
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95. Britain's Emma Watson poses as she arrives for the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 at Leicester Square in London November 11, 2010. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
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96. A child receives medical attention during a Medevac mission in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province November 13, 2010. The child was injured in an explosion. REUTERS/Peter Andrews
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97. Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin hugs a Bulgarian shepherd dog, after receiving it as a present from Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boiko Borisov (not seen) in Sofia, November 13, 2010. REUTERS/Oleg Popov
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98. Britain's Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton (L) pose for a photograph in St. James's Palace, central London November 16, 2010. Britain's Prince William is to marry his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton next year, after an on-off courtship lasting nearly a decade, bringing months of speculation about his intentions to an end. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett
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99. People are crushed in a stampede on a bridge in Phnom Penh November 23, 2010. The stampede killed at least 339 people late on Monday and wounded nearly as many after thousands panicked on the last day of a water festival, authorities and state media said. REUTERS/Stringer
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100. Private First Class Brandon Voris, 19, of Lebanon, Ohio, from the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company stands in the middle of his camp as a sandstorm hits his remote outpost near Kunjak in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, October 28, 2010. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

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