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AFP - Thu Dec 8, 7:16 PM ET
Poster of Munir : A young girl holds a poster of Munir, who died of apparent arsenic poisoning on a Garuda Indonesia plane en route from Jakarta to Amsterdam last year, during a demonstration in Jakarta. (AFP/Jewel Samad) -
AFP - Thu Dec 8, 7:20 PM ET
Vabre competes : Cylia Vabre of France competes in the heats of the 200m women Individual Medley during the European Swmming Short Course Championships in Trieste. (AFP/Patrick Hertzog) -
AFP - Thu Dec 8, 7:24 PM ET
Searching houses : A blind Iraqi man smokes a cigarette as a US marine from 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines Regiment comes down the stairs after inspecting a rooftop during a house-to-house raid in a small village of Abu Qusayb, west of Baghdad. (AFP/Mauricio Lima) -
The railway tracks of the Auschwitz concentration camp are illuminated with fire in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
December 9, 2005
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Day in pictures: 9 December 2005
A baby giraffe born on 1 December at a zoo in Berlin, Germany, stands in front of its mother. -
Miss World contestants plant trees on China's southern resort island of Hainan, a day before the competition final. -
Thousands of poor urban dwellers rally in the Indian capital, Delhi, in protest at forced evictions. -
An Iraqi woman mourns the death of her two sons, shot in a market place in a town south of Baquba. -
A model of the Tardis from the UK television series Doctor Who is expected to raise thousands of pounds at auction. -
National Park Service workers clear snow in front of the West Wing of the White House, in Washington. -
The first atom bomb test at the Trinity site in Alamogordo, New Mexico -
A cow is roped in for an anti-globalisation protest outside the German Chancellery building in Berlin. -
The Routemaster was designed in the early 1950s specifically for London. It is to be replaced by buses made by the German firm Mercedes-Benz. -
Bend it like Beckenbauer: The last time Germany hosted the World Cup, German star Franz Beckenbauer went up against Holland's Johan Cruyff in 1974. -
Rebel leader Mujahid Dokubo-Asari of the Niger Delta People"s Volunteer Force. -
A gold miner in Bukavu in eastern Congo.
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Week in pictures: 3-9 December
Tens of thousands of people converged on the Parliament at Stormont for one of the biggest funerals ever seen in Northern Ireland - for footballer George Best. -
A 20-foot tall replica of King Kong sits in New York's Times Square to mark the premiere of the movie's remake. -
The shadow of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as she meets German leaders in Berlin for talks. -
Indian protesters mark the 13th anniversary of an attack on a mosque in Ayodhya that sparked one of the country's worst outbreaks of inter-communal violence. -
Supporters of the Venezuelan government say they have won a landslide victory in Sunday's congressional election. But only about 25% of registered voters cast a ballot. -
Originally posted by poon cho tang:
The shadow of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as she meets German leaders in Berlin for talks.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in Berlin on Tuesday to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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The Songhua river in China, scene of a recent pollution crisis, has frozen over in cold weather. -
The island of Diego Garcia. The Chagossians want it back. -
David Cameron was elected as the Britain's new Conservative leader by a margin of more than two to one over David Davis.