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Electronic Arts has announced that it will showcase five Xbox 360 launch titles at Microsoft's X05 event in Amsterdam today and tomorrow, and has named thre...

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AFP - Wed Sep 28, 1:07 PM ET
A Vietnamese farmer tries to get into her flooded house to save some belongings in Hai Hoa commune. Typhoon Damrey blew itself out after killing at least 71 people and carving out a swathe of destruction in a week-long sweep through East Asia.(AFP/Hoang Dinh)

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AFP - Wed Sep 28, 1:07 PM ET
A pig is tied up to an empty fuel tank after it was evacuated from floods in Hai Hoa commune, in the northern province of Nam Dinh. Typhoon Damrey blew itself out after killing at least 71 people and carving out a swathe of destruction in a week-long sweep through East Asia.(AFP)

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AFP/HO - Wed Sep 28, 1:08 PM ET
A handout photo taken in August 2005 of a new biodiesel fuel pump. Minnesota will from Thursday demand that all diesel fuel sold in the US state be partly distilled from soybeans in a bid to take a bite out of the nation's appetite for crude oil(AFP/HO)

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AFP - Wed Sep 28, 1:10 PM ET
Nuna 3 Solar Car from the Netherlands powers to victory in the outskirts of Adelaide, crossing the line in 29hrs 11min and beating its own 2003 World Record by 1 hr 44 min, in the World Solar Challenge finishing in Adelaide.(AFP/Jamie McDonald)

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AFP/File - Wed Sep 28, 1:18 PM ET
A young boy looks at a dugong at Sea World in Jakarta. Dugongs living in the waters off Malaysia's south coast will be fitted with electronic tags as part of efforts to create sanctuaries for the endangered species, a UN official said.(AFP/File/Choo Youn-Kong)

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AFP/File - Wed Sep 28, 1:19 PM ET
The rocket launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi desert in Jiuquan. China's state-run press named the likely astronauts to pilot the nation's second manned space flight tenatively scheduled to be launched during the first 20-days of October.(AFP/File/Frederic Brown)

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Reuters - Wed Sep 28,10:04 AM ET
Japanese researcher Dr Tsunemi Kubodera shows on his laptop picture taken for the first time of a giant squid, the eight-metre (26-foot) Architeuthis, at the National Science Museum in Tokyo September 28, 2005. The images, taken in the deep sea at 900 meters (about 3,000 ft) off Japan's Ogasawara islands September 30, 2004, are appearing in the journal Proceedings B of the Royal Society this week. (Eriko Sugita/Reuters)

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Reuters - Wed Sep 28, 1:47 PM ET
Japanese researcher Dr Tsunemi Kubodera smiles as he shows a giant squid on display at the National Science museum in Tokyo September 28, 2005, the same size as the giant eight-metre (26-foot) Architeuthis he has captured in the wild for the first time on camera, in Tokyo September 28, 2005. The images, taken in the deep sea at 900 meters (about 3,000 ft) off Japan's Ogasawara islands September 30, 2004, are appearing in the journal Proceedings B of the Royal Society this week. (Eriko Sugita/Reuters)

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Reuters - Wed Sep 28, 7:35 AM ET
An undated handout combination image released September 27, 2005 by the Royal Society shows the first photographs of a live giant squid in its natural environment, taken by Japanese scientists in the Pacific Ocean. (Royal Society/Handout/Reuters)

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Reuters - Wed Sep 28, 4:25 AM ET
Japanese researcher Dr Tsunemi Kubodera points to where a giant squid takes a bait of the common squid, as he shows on his laptop photographs taken for the first time of the eight-metre (26-foot) Architeuthis in the wild, at the National Science Museum in Tokyo September 28, 2005. The images, taken in the deep sea at 900 meters (about 3,000 ft) off Japan's Ogasawara islands September 30, 2004, are appearing in the journal Proceedings B of the Royal Society this week. (Eriko Sugita/Reuters)

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Reuters - Wed Sep 28, 3:12 PM ET
Police patrol storm damaged neighborhoods in the city of New Orleans September 24, 2005. (Charles W. Luzier/Reuters)

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AFP/File - Wed Sep 28, 4:55 PM ET
A elephant is pictured in the Shimba hills park in the coastal area of Kwale. The Kenyan Wildlife Service suspended the relocation of elephants from an overcrowded coastal reserve to a more spacious park to monitor their resettlement and to avoid bad weather, officials said.(AFP/File/Simon Maina)

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AFP - Thu Sep 29, 1:53 AM ET
Crosses decorated with Mardi Gras beads are a memorial to residents of the Ninth Ward, according to local artist Jeffery Holmes. The Louisiana governor pleaded with US lawmakers to speed up aid to rebuild her state which has suffered devastating damage from two hurricanes in less than a month.(AFP/Robyn Beck)

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AFP - Thu Sep 29, 1:53 AM ET
Brenner Ledet, 10, and neighbor Kelsey Thibodeaux (R) watch as a swamp buggy (a floating excavator) makes it was down the street towards the levee, on a flooded street in Chauvin, Louisiana, some 80 miles south of New Orleans. The swamp buggy was going to the levee to help repair the numerous breaks caused by Hurricane Rita. Resents of Chauvin and other parts of Bayou Country feel they have been largely ignored by federal authorities, charging all resources have been directed towards New Orleans.(AFP/Robyn Beck)

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AFP - Thu Sep 29, 1:53 AM ET
Terrebonne Parish Sherrif's Deputy W.M. Suggs unloads water as residents from flooded areas wait in line to pick up supplies, in Montegut, Louisiana, some 80 miles south of New Orleans. Residents of Montegut, Chavin and other parts of Bayou Country in southern Louisiana feel their emergency needs have been largely ignored by federal authorities.(AFP/Robyn Beck)

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AFP/File - Thu Sep 29, 8:41 AM ET
A saltwater crocodile appears well camouflaged as it waits beneath the surface at the Currumbin Wildlife Santuary. Australia's aggressive saltwater crocodiles apparently claimed their third human victim in two months when a diver was found dead.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)

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AFP - Thu Sep 29, 8:44 AM ET
Two Vietnamese farmers walk along a damaged sea dyke at the coastal Hai Thinh commune. Northern Vietnam was reeling from the aftermath of Typhoon Damrey which triggered landslides and flooding that left at least 57 people dead and caused widespread destruction.(AFP)

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AP - Wed Sep 28, 2:41 PM ET
A 2 1/2-week-old baby aardvark sniffs the lens of a television camera Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005, at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo. The first aardvark to be born at the Omaha, Neb., zoo, is now on display. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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Indonesia fuel protests

Thousands of Indonesians are protesting against a government plan to slash fuel subsidies.

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Indonesia fuel protests

They say Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, popularly known as SBY, is mishandling the economy.

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