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Water vapour surrounds the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour during liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, its sixth bid in recent weeks to launch toward the orbiting International Space Station.
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Protesters clash with National Guard soldiers in Curiepe, Venezuela, after troops seized control of a police station controlled by an opposition governor, sparking clashes that police said left six injured.
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Georgian coast guard members holding full-scale blue plastic toy M-16 machine guns participate in training exercises with crew members of the USS Stout in Batumi. The U.S. warship began joint exercises with Georgian vessels in the Black Sea in the first such manoeuvres since the former Soviet republic's war with Russia.
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Iranians gather at the edge of a crater at the crash site of a Caspian Airlines plane, which fell into farmland near the city of Qazvin, northwest of Tehran. All 168 people on board were killed in the worst air disaster in Iran in recent years.
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A one-month-old cub tiger lies next to its mother Canela at Santiago, Chile's zoo. Three baby tigers were born in captivity one month ago from a white and a common tiger and the zoo has launched a contest to find names for them.
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Angelo Furlan of Italy grimaces as a doctor treats his wounds after crashing during the 11th stage of the Tour de France cycling race.
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The pack rides in the 192-kilometre 11th stage of the 2009 Tour de France cycling race, between Vatan and Saint-Fargeau.
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Greg Norman of Australia hits out of a bunker on the sixth hole during a practice round ahead of the British Open Golf Championship at the Turnberry Golf Club in Scotland. The Turnberry Lighthouse built on the ruins of Turnberry Castle is seen in the background.
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A farmer collects salt during a harvest in Benowo village in Indonesia's East Java province.
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Actors perform during a royal ancestral rite in the Jongmyo, the main ancestral shrine of the Chosun Dynasty, in Seoul. Forty royal tombs belonging to the dynasty's ruling family have been designated as UNESCO World Heritage sites.
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A Pakistani family, internally displaced from Swat, wait at a checkpoint near Takht Bai, Pakistan. Approximately 3 million internally displaced persons have been created as a result of an on-going military operation against the Taliban and thousands of families have been urged by the government to return to their homes.
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Paul McCartney responds to cheers from people on Broadway in New York after he came out to preform with his band atop the marquee of the Ed Sullivan Theater while appearing on the Late Show with David Letterman.
