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Discovery's last Mission
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Space shuttle Discovery lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, February 24, 2011. Six astronauts are aboard on a mission to the International Space Station.
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Crew members of the STS-133 space shuttle Discovery gather together on the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center before boarding the orbiter for the final space flight, February 24, 2011.
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Space shuttle Discovery crew members depart their quarters for the launch pad in the astronaut van as guests look on at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, February 24, 2011.
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Space shuttle Discovery crewmembers (L-R) Mission Specialist Nicole Stott, Mission Specialist Michael Barratt, Benjamin Drew Jr., Mission Specialist Steve Bowen, Pilot Eric A. Boe and Mission Commander Steven Lindsey wave before boarding the astronaut van for the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, February 24, 2011.
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Space shuttle Discovery lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral
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Survival School
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Participants in the annual "School of Survival" endurance and rescue competition walk in a field during the competition near the village of Starye Diatlovichi, some 320 km (199 miles) southeast of Minsk, Belarus February 24, 2011.
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Competitors prepare to carry a fellow participant on a stretcher from an abandoned industrial building during the annual "School of Survival" endurance and rescue competition near the village of Starye Diatlovichi, some 320 km (200 miles) southeast of Minsk, February 23, 2011.
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A policeman uses a stick to move men back into a queue for tickets for the India and England Group B cricket World Cup match at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore February 24, 2011.
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An owl perches in front of Greenpeace activists who were arrested for raising an inflatable model of a wind turbine in front of Congress in Brasilia February 24, 2011.
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Sporting Braga's Mossoro (R) battles for the ball with Lech Poznan's Manuel Arboleda during their Europa League round of 32, second leg match in Braga, northern Portugal February 24, 2011.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addresses the media outside Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in London February 24, 2011.
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South Africa's Robin Peterson throws the ball during their ICC Cricket World Cup group B match against the West Indies in New Delhi February 24, 2011.
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Members of the al Qaeda-linked insurgents al Shabaab display the body of one of the seven suspected Burundian peacekeepers from the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) who were killed during clashes in Somalia's capital Mogadishu February 24, 2011.
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Police use a water canon to disperse members of India's main opposition Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during a protest in New Delhi February 24, 2011.
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Three seal hunters drag dead grey seal carcasses across the snow during the first day of the hunt on Hay Island, Nova Scotia, February 24, 2011.
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Tunisians hold Tunisian and Kingdom of Libya flags during an anti-Gaddafi protest at the Tunisian Libyan border crossing of Ras Jdir February 24, 2011.
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Liverpool's Dirk Kuyt (L) celebrates his goal against Sparta Prague during their Europa League round of 32, second leg soccer match in Liverpool, Northern England February 24, 2011.
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Firebrand Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir smiles inside a temporary cell at the South Jakarta court before his trial February 24, 2011.
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A resident walks along an earthquake memorial at Pelluhue beach, about 416 km (258 miles) south of Santiago, February 23, 2011.
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U.S. Marines from the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company climb a hill to an outpost near the town of Nabuk in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, February 24, 2011.
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Havana, Cuba: Members of the Cuban dissident group Ladies in White hold images of Orlando Zapata Tamayo on the first anniversary of his death. The political activist went on hunger strike in prison after being jailed in a crackdown on dissidents
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A rooster awaits the start of a cockfight, a sport that rivals football in popularity in the country
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Kabul, Afghanistan: Children carry water to their homes
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Managua, Nicaragua: A waiter cleans a chair in front of a street mural depicting Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro, left, and Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega
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Sana'a, Yemen: Anti-government protesters are seen through a shattered car windshield
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Srinagar, India: A boy sits in front of chickens loaded on to a truck at a wholesale market
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Children run after white doves as crowds greet the convoy transporting King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz after his return after three months of treatment for a back injury in America
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Garmser, Afghanistan: A child looks on as an elderly resident carries a woman on a wheel barrow
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Arizona, USA: A marshal holds up his hands to quieten spectators during the Match Play Championship golf tournament in Marana
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Libya unrest
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Members of Libya's internal security forces wave their old national flag as they parade in support of dissident forces
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An anti-government demonstrator fixes his scarf as he passes by anti-government graffiti and a cartoon that depicts Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
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Anti-government demonstrators pray next to a tent where they are camped at as it rains in Benghazi
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An anti-government demonstrator, who is a civilian dressed in army uniform, walks in front of a gutted military compound in Benghazi
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An armed man walks through traffic in the eastern Libyan town of Shahat
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Hyderabad, India: A commuter's child sleeps in a hammock at a railway station
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Guatemala City, Guatemala: Demonstrators gather in front of the congress during a protest by human rights activists
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Paris, France: Forensic police search a Japanese restaurant
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Tobruk, Libya: Goats walk past a surface-to-air missile at an abandoned air force base
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Kathmandu, Nepal: A Hindu holy man looks out from Pashupatinath Temple
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Sana'a, Yemen: Anti-government protesters chant slogans during a demonstration
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Piendamó Cauca, Colombia: Guambiano women eat pork during celebrations to mark 40 years of the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca
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Shanghai, China: Investors consult an electronic board at a brokerage house
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Ohio, USA: An American Eagle passenger plane is seen through snow and ice on the windows at Cleveland Hopkins airport
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Peshawar, Pakistan: Pakistani firefighters attempt to extinguish burning Nato oil tankers
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Arab Street Rage
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Protesters climb on a military vehicle as smoke rises from the headquarters of the Mosul governorate during a demonstration in Mosul, north of Baghdad, February 25, 2011.
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Supporters of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh perform the weekly Friday prayers during a rally held to show support to him in Sanaa, February 25, 2011.
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Protesters throw rocks and bricks towards riot police during a demonstration in central Baghdad, February 25, 2011.
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Anti-Gaddafi protesters take part in a demonstration in Benghazi, February 25, 2011.
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Anti-riot forces members hit a protester during a demonstration in Kerbala, southwest of Baghdad, February 25, 2011.
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Men watch the thousands of Shi'ite Bahrainis as they march in an anti-government demonstration headed towards Pearl Square in Bahraini capital of Manama, February 25, 2011.
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Policemen prevent a protester from entering the headquarters of Basra governorate during a demonstration in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, February 25, 2011.
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Egyptian soldiers and a cleric stand on top of an armored personnel carrier (APC) as they pray together with pro-democracy supporters at Tahrir Square in Cairo, February 25, 2011.
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A protester shouts slogans during a demonstration against the Tunisian government, in front of the prime minister's office in Tunis, February 25, 2011.
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Anti-Gaddafi protesters chant slogans during a protest in Benghazi, February 25, 2011.
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Protesters pull down concrete blast walls during a demonstration in central Baghdad, February 25, 2011.
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A protester plays his guitar among Kurdish security forces during a demonstration in Sulaimaniya, northeast of Baghdad, February 25, 2011.
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Mourners carry coffins containing the bodies of Libyans who were killed in the recent clashes in Benghazi, February 25, 2011.
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Riot policemen try to calm a protester down during a demonstration in central Baghdad, February 25, 2011.
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Protesters from Jordanian opposition parties shout anti-government slogans during a demonstration against what they say are worsening economic conditions, after Friday prayers in Amman, February 25, 2011
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Anti-government protesters attend a rally in Taiz, Yemen, February 25, 2011
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Police dressed in riot gear stand guard in front of protesters during a demonstration in central Baghdad, February 25, 2011.
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A child holds a flag of the "Kindgom of Libya" as anti-government demonstrators listen to a Friday prayers speech in Benghazi, February 25, 2011.
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An Iraqi helicopter flies over protesters occupying a watch tower belonging to the Iraqi army during a demonstration in central Baghdad, February 25, 2011.
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A protester shouts slogans during an anti-government rally outside Sanaa University, February 25, 2011
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Demonstrators gather at Pearl Square in Manama, Bahrain, February 25, 2011.
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Protesters shout slogans during an anti-government rally outside Sanaa University, February 25, 2011.
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A protester takes a picture of bullet holes in a street light pole during a demonstration in Manama, Bahrain, February 25, 2011.
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Riot policemen shield themselves from rocks thrown by protesters during a demonstration in central Baghdad, February 25, 2011.
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Supporters of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh perform the weekly Friday prayers during a rally held to show support to him in Sanaa, February 25, 2011.
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Riot policemen take position during a demonstration in central Baghdad, February 25, 2011.
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Protesters display a giant Yemeni flag during an anti-government rally outside Sanaa University, February 25, 2011.
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An armoured military vehicle blocks a street during an anti-government demonstration in Aden, February 25, 2011.
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Anti-government protesters perform the weekly Friday prayers during a rally in Sanaa, Yemen, February 25, 2011.
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Oscar Countdown
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Danish director Susanne Bier (2nd L) with editor Pernelle Bech Christensen (L), cinematographer Morten Soeborg (C), co-writer Anders Thomas Jensen (2nd R) and producer Sisse Graum Joergensen (R) attend a reception for their film "In a Better World", nominated for Best Foreign Language film in the 83rd annual Academy Awards in Beverly Hills, California
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Lee Unkrich, director of 'Toy Story 3' which is nominated for an Academy Award for best animated feature film, is interviewed by 10-year-old radio talk show host and film critic Perry S. Chen at a reception honoring the animated feature nominees at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Beverly Hills, California
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Actor Armie Hammer arrives with Elizabeth Chambers at the The Hollywood Reporter Academy Awards nominee party in Los Angeles
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Environment Watch
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Australian Institute Of Marine Science (AIMS) divers examine cores of large Porites coral at Clerke Reef, Western Australia, in this handout photo released to Reuters February 10, 2011. Flood and storm-battered northern Australia is likely to suffer more frequent weather extremes, according to a study of coral cores that reveal a centuries-old climate record for the region.
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Brazilian fisherman Jose Benedito, 39, searches for crabs in the mud surrounding mangrove roots on the coast of Para State where the fresh water from the Amazon River mixes with the Atlantic Ocean, in Braganca February 16, 2011. Benedito and others like him harvest around 150 crabs per day to sell for around $11 per 100 along a nearby highway as the main source of income for their families, even though the legal season ended at the end of January.
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An interior view of a building in the abandoned city of Prypiat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine February 24, 2011. Belarus, Ukraine and Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the nuclear reactor explosion in Chernobyl, the place where the world's worst civil nuclear accident took place, on April 26.
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A water tower covered with ice is seen in a field near the village of Stakhovtsy, some 150 km (93 miles) north of Minsk, Belarus February 18, 2011. Unusual cold weather hits Belarus, with air temperature in the northern villages dropping to -22 degrees Celsius (-7,6 degrees Fahrenheit) on Friday.
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A man watches as large chunks of ice crash into the break wall at the Milwaukee Marina in Wisconsin February 2, 2011. A colossal winter storm stretching from New Mexico to Maine hit the heartland of the United States with snow, high winds and freezing rain, and experts said the worst was still to come as the storm moved northeast and temperatures were set to plunge
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Villagers wait at their flooded house in Segamat, 200 km (124 miles) south of Kuala Lumpur, February 1, 2011
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A tourist takes a picture of the Matterhorn mountain at Schwarzsee in the ski resort of Zermatt, Switzerland February 21, 2011
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An iceberg, broken off from the glacier after Tuesday's earthquake, is seen in the Tasman Lake, 200km (124 miles) southeast of Christchurch in this handout photograph released February 23, 2011.
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Farm worker, Solomon Motsi, harvests tobacco leaves at Nyamzura Farm in Odzi, about 200km (124 miles) east of the capital Harare February 18, 2011. Zimbabwe's tobacco output will increase at least 40 percent this year after a boost in funding to farmers from banks and firms, many of which are Chinese, and due to good weather, an industry official said.
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Windmills are seen at a wind farm in Palm Springs, California, February 9, 2011. California aims to slow climate change by putting a price on carbon -- a low, low starting price. The program is the last, keystone step in a controversial half-decade push to green the state's business for the good of the planet and the economy.
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Farmer Zhu Zhengping watches over his herd of cattle in the dried-up bed of the Miyun reservoir near the village of Zhuanghuyu, located 80 kilometers north of Beijing, China February 23, 2011. The coming precipitation in China's northern wheat areas will be "very favorable" to wheat growth and will relieve the ongoing drought, the Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement published on its website on Wednesday. The drought-hit wheat areas also declined to 5.91 million hectares from the earlier amount of 6.06 million hectares, said the ministry.
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A large wave crashes over a lighthouse in the northern Spanish village of Viavelez, northern Spain, February 15, 2011.
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A railway sign stands at an angle next to a cyclone-damaged sugarcane field near the northern Australian town of Cowley Beach February 3, 2011. One of the most powerful cyclones on record, Yasi slammed into Australia's northeast coast on Thursday, tearing off roofs and bringing down power lines but there were no reports of deaths as first light broke.
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A rainbow is seen after heavy rain over the Aurelia high road in Gavorrano near Grosseto in Tuscany, 200 km (124 miles) north of Rome, Italy February 14, 2011.
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Great shots as always Lick. Thanks for the effort. World sure is a sad ass place......
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Thanks for the comments DK
Luke Donald through as Graeme McDowell exits Match Play
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Third-round results:
Bubba Watson (US) bt Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) 6&4
Matt Kuchar (US) bt Rickie Fowler (US) 2&1
YE Yang (SKor) bt Graeme McDowell (NI) 3&2
Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) bt Ben Crane (US) 8&6
Luke Donald (Eng) bt Matteo Manassero (Ita) 3&2
JB Holmes (US) bt Jason Day (Aus) one up
Martin Kaymer (Ger) bt Hunter Mahan (US) 2&1
Ryan Moore (US) bt Nick Watney (US) 19th hole
Quarter-finals:
Donald v Moore (1410 GMT)
Yang v Kuchar (1422 GMT)
Jimenez v Kaymer (1434 GMT)
Watson v Holmes (1446 GMT)
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Homes teeter on the edge of a landslide in Sumner, a suburb of Christchurch, after an earthquake measuring 6.3 devastated the city on Tuesday. More than 220 people remain missing and rescuers believe multiple bodies lie beneath three collapsed structures.
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Sido Bizinungu, a close associate of Lt Col Mutuare Daniel Kibibi, smokes a cigarette after being convicted of crimes against humanity in DR Congo. Some 49 women came to testify in the court in Baraka.
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Parties in the Irish Republic have been battling for votes on the last day of campaigning in an election dominated by the euro state's massive bail-out. Party leaders spread out across the country, with Fine Gael's Enda Kenny, tipped as the next prime minister, focusing on the north and west.
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Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam
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A Brazilian judge has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns.
Federal judge Ronaldo Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met.
He also barred the national development bank, BNDES, from funding the project.
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For many years Libya has been a transit country for sub-Saharan migrants trying to reach Europe - but for many it has been the end of the line. Unable to cross the sea they remain stuck, with no way back and no way forward having lost their savings to smugglers on their way to Libya. They live out of sight, trying to evade the police and an indefinite stay in prison. Whether the current unrest and possible regime change will have any affect remains to be seen.
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The Sahara in Libya starts in Sabha, a trading town in the south. Some migrants like Uche and Ike were dropped off here on their way to the coast where they were supposed to cross over to Europe, but with all their money taken, they often could not even get to Tripoli
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Uche has been in Sabha for two and a half years. He left his native village in Nigeria after he met a man who told him he could make much more money in Europe. The man promised to take Uche and his cousin Ike to Europe for $1,800 (£1,115)
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Uche's father died when he was seven and he has been working from a young age to take care of his family. On arrival in Agades in Niger they realised the man who was taking them was a smuggler. It was too late to turn back from the journey that turned out to be a nightmare. The smuggler left them in Sabha after collecting the entire amount they paid to get to Europe.
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Philippines politician Singson to lose seat over drugs
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A Philippines congressman sentenced to 18 months in a Hong Kong jail on drugs charges is set to resign his seat.
Ronald Singson holds his family's long-held seat in the northern province of Ilocos Sur.
His father, elder statesman Luis Singson, claimed the drugs charge was a set-up but said his son would quit.
Singson pleaded guilty to possession after a vial of cocaine was found in his underpants, at the airport last July.
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Sixty-six years after the bombing of Dresden - one of the most controversial allied operations of World War II which killed around 25,000 civilians - a debate about who was to blame for the conflict still rages.
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The far-right see former British prime minister Winston Churchill as a criminal
''Hitler wanted peace - Just because you fire the first shot, doesn't mean you start the war'' Olaf Rose
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Russian jailed for selling fighter jets for £3
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A Russian court on Friday jailed a former official for 11 years over the sale of four fighter jets for just £3 each.
Although the jets were sold stripped of engines and weapons, each was in fact worth about $4 million. The planes were appraised as scrap metal and sold to a shell company that had no authority to trade weapons or military hardware, the statement said.
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Ron Hickman - RIP
Stylist of the Lotus Elan sports car whose Workmate proved highly popular for DIY
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The prolific designer and inventor Ron Hickman has died aged 78 after a long illness
In 1956, Hickman met the founder of Lotus, Colin Chapman, at the motor show in Earls Court. Brought in as a production engineer with Lotus in north London, Hickman became a general manager and director, while moonlighting as a designer for a furniture manufacturer.
The Elan, introduced in 1962, is arguably the finest of Chapman's road cars, and it was Hickman, working alongside John Frayling, who got it into production
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Nearly 70 million Workmates have been sold since Black & Decker put Hickman's design into mass production in 1973.
Ronald Price Hickman, inventor and car designer, born 21 October 1932; died 17 February 2011
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Mercenaries exposed
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A suspected African mercenary sits in a room within a courthouse as he is held by anti-government protesters in Benghazi February 25, 2011. Libya's rebellious city of Benghazi has filled a political void with a coalition which is cleaning up, providing food, building defences, reassuring foreign oil firms and telling Tripoli it believes in one nation. Weapons used in bloody clashes with pro-Gaddafi forces were collected and African mercenaries the coalition says the Libyan leader used to fire on protesters were in jail awaiting trial. The city paid a high price for the revolt with up to 250 dead.
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A suspected African mercenary (L) walks escorted by anti-government protesters as he is being held within a courthouse in Benghazi February 25, 2011
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protesters stand in a room at a courthouse in Benghazi February 25, 2011.
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Workers at the hospital show off a body of who they say is a mercenary used by pro-Libyan troops to shoot anti-government demonstrators in recent clashes in Benghazi, Libya, February 25, 2011.
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Libya Protests
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Anti-government demonstrators listen to a Friday prayers speech in Benghazi, Libya February 25, 2011.
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Anti-government demonstrators pray in front of coffins containing the bodies of Libyans who were killed in the recent clashes in Benghazi February 25, 2011.
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An anti-government demonstrator who was injured after being shot by pro-Libyan leaders in recent clashes receives treatment at a hospital in Benghazi, Libya, February 25, 2011.
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Former military officers are welcomed by the anti-Gaddafi protesters in Benghazi February 25, 2011.
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People skate on Lac de Joux at Le Pont, Switzerland. When completely frozen, the lake is among the largest natural ice rinks of Europe.
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Boys in Islamabad gather round a vendor selling tropical fish
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US marines from 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, fire at alleged Taliban fighters as their dog, Miely, runs around outside new Mirage base on the south of Musa Qala District, Helmand province
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A designer decorates a giant chandelier for the opera ball at the Prague State Opera, Czech Republic
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A ringed seal comes up for air in Admiralty Inlet, Nanavut, in northern Canada.
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A woman poses for pictures during an event to elect carnival characters in La Paz, Bolivia
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Eduardo Pedroza rides Rolling Home, far left, to victory in the Grand Prix Christoffel Bau Trophy during the White Turf horseracing festival on a frozen Lake St Moritz in Switzerland
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Thousands of starlings form a mushroom-shaped cloud over Shapwick Heath, Somerset, as they prepare to roost at dusk. Flocks such as these are known as murmurations
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The carnival in Nice, one of the world's biggest, begins with a parade led by the king's float. Two weeks of celebrations attended by a million people end on 8 March
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Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, three years overdue after a succession of delays, takes shape on one of the company’s assembly lines in Washington state. The first delivery of the $200m plane, which will be more fuel-efficient than the similar-size 767, is expected to be in the third quarter of this year. So far, 56 airlines have placed a total of 847 firm orders
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Former Wolves and Tottenham defender Dean Richards dies
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The former Tottenham and Wolverhampton Wanderers defender Dean Richards, whose £8.1m transfer to Spurs set a record for the highest amount paid for a player with no senior international caps, has died after a long-term illness.
Richards, who also played for Bradford and Southampton, was forced to retire from the game in March 2005 after suffering from dizzy spells and headaches while at White Hart Lane. The 36 year-old had been working as a coach at Bradford City since 2007, the club where he had begun his career
