AFP - Tue Jul 25, 9:48 PM ET Waiting in the rain : Pakistan pedestrians wait for transport during heavy downpour in Islamabad. (AFP/Farooq Naeem)
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AFP - Tue Jul 25, 9:47 PM ET Securing Mistral : Lebanese soldiers secure the departure of foreign nationals fleeing Lebanon on board French warship "Mistral", at Beirut's port. (AFP/Nicolas Asfouri)
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AFP - Tue Jul 25, 9:47 PM ET Keeping watch : A rebel keeps watch as General Laurent Nkunda gives a press point near Kitchanga, Democratic Republic of Congo.
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AFP/DDP - Tue Jul 25, 9:46 PM ET Collecting pollen : A bee sits on a sunflower to collect pollen, on a field near Ransbach-Baumbach, southwestern Germany. (AFP/DDP/Torsten Silz)
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AFP - Tue Jul 25, 9:45 PM ET In line : A in-line skater at the XX Games for Central America and the Caribbean races against the clock in a 300-meter individual time trial. (AFP/Martin Bernetti)
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AFP - Tue Jul 25, 9:45 PM ET On the vault : Consuelo Canino of Puerto Rico performs on the pole vault during the XX Sport Games of Central America and the Caribbean in Cartagena, Colombia. (AFP/Rodrigo Arangua)
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AFP - Tue Jul 25, 4:23 PM ET Shadows of the displaced : A family's shadows can be seen on the side of a mud hut under a collection of campaign posters in a displaced camp on Lake Albert, in Tchomia. (AFP/Lionel Healing)
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AFP - Tue Jul 25, 4:17 PM ET Shelter for the displaced : A group of people stand behind some shelters in a displaced camp on Lake Albert in Tchomia, Ituri. (AFP/Lionel Healing)
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AFP - Tue Jul 25, 3:57 PM ET Blowing bubbles : "Cess," a short-beaked Echidna, blows a mucus bubble through his nose as he recovers from injuries at Taronga Zoo's wildlife clinic in Sydney. (AFP/Greg Wood)
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AFP - Tue Jul 25, 3:53 PM ET Young victim : The body of five-year old Khetam Taeh lays at the morgue while relatives and friends mourn during her funeral in Jabalia one day after she was killed by an Israeli artillery shell in the northern Gaza Strip. (AFP/Hrvoje Polan)
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AFP - Tue Jul 25, 3:46 PM ET Running from teargas : A congolese woman runs away from teargas fired by riot police during an anti election rally in Kinshasa. (AFP/Marco Longari)
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AP - Tue Jul 25, 6:47 AM ET A keeper measures a newly-born panda cub at the Wolong Giant Panda Protection Center in Wolong, in China's southwest Sichuan province, Monday, July 24, 2006. A 16-year-old panda named Bai Xue gave birth to the 160-gram female cub on July 22. The panda cub was the first to be born at the Wolong center this year. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
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AP - Tue Jul 25, 10:35 PM ET Members of the Costa Rican synchronized swimming team compete during the Central American and Caribbean Games in Cartagena, Colombia, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. (AP Photo/Inaldo Perez)
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AP - Tue Jul 25, 10:48 AM ET Dancer Fang-Yi Sheu from Taiwan performs sketches from 'Chronicle' in Cologne, Germany, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. It is the start of the US Martha Graham Dance Company's, NY, European tour. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz)
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Reuters - Wed Jul 19,11:34 PM ET A Chinese model presents a creation by designer Sun Xiuqin during her fashion show in Urumchi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 19, 2006. Picture taken July 19, 2006. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA)
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AP - Thu Jul 20, 12:48 PM ET Chris Piascik of Worcester, Mass., makes his way out onto the breakwater at Camp Ellis for some early morning fishing in Saco, Maine Thursday July 20, 2006 shortly before sunrise. Piascik's family has a vacation home in Old Orchard Beach and is spending some time in Maine this summer. (AP Photo/Shawn Patrick Ouellette)
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AFP - Wed Jul 26, 7:13 PM ET Reflected tears : The image of a Lebanese woman (L) who wipes her tears appears reflected on the sunglasses of another demonstrator, during a march in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, toward the National Assembly to demand a cease-fire in Lebanon, peace talks and the shipment of humanitarian aid. (AFP/Antonio Scorza)
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AFP - Wed Jul 26, 7:12 PM ET Viewing the wreckage : Lebanese people look at the wreckage of a building which belongs to Amal movement, after it was destroyed in an Israeli air strike along with a nearby mosque in the southern village of Zefta, some 10 kms north of Nabatieh. (AFP/Anwar Amro)
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AFP - Wed Jul 26, 7:09 PM ET Waiting on the bus : Two American-Lebanese women sit inside a bus as they arrive at Beirut's port to board the chartered Greek ferry "Orient Queen" to flee Lebanon. (AFP/Nicolas Asfouri)
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AFP - Wed Jul 26, 7:09 PM ET Fighting the fire : A Canadair firefighting plane dumps water on flames at a solvent factory at the port of Lavrio, southeast of Athens. (AFP/Takis Takatos)
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AFP - Wed Jul 26, 7:08 PM ET Environmental toll : A sea of oil disfigures the normal picturesque ancient Phoenician port of Byblos, ten days after an Egyptian vessel was hit and set ablaze during a deadly Hezbollah attack on an Israeli vessel. (AFP/Nicolas Asfouri)
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AFP - Wed Jul 26, 7:08 PM ET Wilting in the heat : Sunflower fields near Montpellier, southern France, as Europe baked again today in the grip of a deadly heatwave that has led to forest fires, forced water restrictions and damaged farmland across the continent. (AFP/Dominique Faget)
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AFP - Wed Jul 26, 7:08 PM ET Covered in camo : Israeli soldiers put camouflage paint on their faces moments before setting off on an operation into the southern Lebanese village of Bint Jbeil, at a location along the Lebanese Israeli border. (AFP/David Furst)
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AFP - Wed Jul 26, 7:08 PM ET Roses for her funeral : A wreath of imitation white roses frames the face of three-year-old Palestinian girl Baraa Habib during her funeral in Gaza City. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
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AFP - Wed Jul 26, 7:07 PM ET Displaced in Beirut : An elderly Lebanese woman rests at a Beirut University campus turned into a center for destitute displaced people. (AFP/Laura Boushnak)