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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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An act of history
Pedestrians look at a live sculpture performed by Hungarian pantomime artists on the historical Chain Bridge over the River Danube in Budapest, Hungary, on Sunday. The act was to commemorate the 1956 anti-communist uprising. The day of the 1956 revolution became a national holiday in Hungary after the fall of Communism. -- AP

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Borderless disease
Migrating pelicans from Europe sit in the water after arriving in the Hula Lake conservation area in northern Israel on Sunday. Israel and Jordan agreed on Sunday to limited cooperation to combat the possible spread of bird flu. Neither Jordan nor Israel have reported any cases of bird flu, but both nations fear migratory birds could carry the virus into the region. -- AP

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Water wall
A huge wave lashes Havana's Malecon seafront on Sunday as Hurricane Wilma batters the west side of the island, from where more than half a million people were evacuated. Reinvigorated after a deadly strike on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, Hurricane Wilma roared towards Florida, where storm-weary US authorities ordered widespread evacuations. -- AFP

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Reuters - Sun Oct 23, 2:17 PM ET
A model presents an outfit by Greek designer Daphne Valente during the annual Greek Fashion Week show in Athens October 23, 2005. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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AP - Wed Oct 26, 5:39 PM ET
Four planes from the US Thunderbirds Acrobatic team perform over Guatemala City International Aiport during an air show, Wednesday, Oct 26, 2005. The Thunderbirds will travel to El Salvador and Puerto Rico, as part of a Latin America tour. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:06 PM ET
Flight of the pigeons : Pigeons fly over the roof of a house at a slum area in Jakarta. (AFP/Bay Ismoyo)

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AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:08 PM ET
Chicken mask : A model wearing a chicken mask presents a creation from the spring-summer 2006 collection of the Russian designer Alena Akhmadulina during the fashion week in Moscow. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)

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AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:08 PM ET
Chicken face : A model wearing a chicken mask presents a creation from the spring-summer 2006 collection of the Russian designer Alena Akhmadulina during the fashion week in Moscow. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)

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AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:09 PM ET
George W. Bush : US President George W. Bush gestures as he addresses the Economic Club of Washingon, DC.(AFP/Jim Watson)

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AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:11 PM ET
He shoots, he scores! : AC Milan striker Alberto Gilardino (L) celebrates after scoring against Empoli, during their Italian serie A football match in Empoli. Milan won 3-1. (AFP/Carlo Baroncini)

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AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:16 PM ET
Paganini's violin : Fifteen-year-old music student Mari Lee plays a violin previously owned by Nicolo Paganini (1782-1840), one of the world's greatest virtuoso violinists of all time, at Sotheby's auction house in London. (AFP/Adrian Dennis)

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AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:32 PM ET
Traditional fire : Local people watch the big fire in Cetateni village (140 km northwest from Bucharest). Peasants from south sub-Carpathians areas celebrate St.Dumitru's eve by making a big fire in a crossroad of the village. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)

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AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:34 PM ET
St.Dumitru's eve : A young man adds firtree branches to a tree full of used tyres to be burned in a big fire in Cetateni village (140 km northwest from Bucharest). Peasants from south sub-Carpathians areas celebrate St.Dumitru's eve by making a big fire in a crossroad of the village. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)

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AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:38 PM ET
Nature's wrath : A wave breaks against Havana's Malecon (seafront), damaged after the battering of Huricane Wilma last weekend. (AFP/Adalberto Roque)

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AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:40 PM ET
Exhibit in Rome : A visitor looks at photographs of French artist Francois-Michel Barnier during an exhibition at Villa Medici in Rome. (AFP/Giulio Napolitano)

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AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:41 PM ET
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends a conference in Tehran entitled 'The World without Zionism' : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends a conference in Tehran entitled 'The World without Zionism.' Ahmadinejad openly called for Israel to be 'wiped off the map' adding that 'The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.'(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)

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AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:43 PM ET
Outside the conference : Indian police officers stand on guard outside a stall during the Bangalore IT.IN 2005 in Bangalore. The Bangalore IT.IN is the premier annual event organised by the state government to promote the Information Technology (IT) industry and to attract global investment in the state. (AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar)

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Reuters - Mon Oct 24,11:15 AM ET
People dry their laundry on the bank of the River Gomti in Lucknow. The cost of airing your dirty laundry in public is about to go up. It is not only the motorist who has been socked in the wallet by soaring energy prices -- people who use Laundromats will also feel like they have been taken to the cleaners this winter. (Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters)

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AFP - Mon Oct 24, 2:55 PM ET
Costas Dasios(R), a restaurant owner in the western Greek port of Patras with the help of his employees makes the world's largest kebab for the Guinness Book of Records(AFP/Dimitris Dimitriou)

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Reuters - Tue Oct 25,11:40 AM ET
Star Wars creator George Lucas (2nd-R) poses with Storm Troopers, characters in the Star Wars movies, during a gala held to celebrate the 'Star Wars: Where Science Meets the Imagination' exhibition at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts October 22, 2005. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters)

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