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AFP - Mon Nov 7, 7:01 PM ET
Blazing bus : Firemen try to put out a burning bus at the entrance of 'Le Mirail', a neighbourhood of Toulouse, France. (AFP/Lionel Bonaventure)

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AFP - Mon Nov 7, 7:03 PM ET
Fowl checkpoint : An inspector in protective gear watches for vehicles suspected of carrying fowl at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Beijing. (AFP/Pater Parks)

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AFP - Mon Nov 7, 7:41 PM ET
The dreaded red : V. Guimaraes Medeiros (R) receives a red card from referee Paulo Costa (L) as Medeiros made a tackle on Academica's striker and match scorer Marcel (down,L), during their Portuguese Premier League football match at the Estadio Cidade de Coimbra, in Coimbra 200 km north of Lisbon. (AFP/Nicolas Asfouri)

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Pirates off the coast of Somalia wave and smile as they attack a luxury cruise liner at the weekend, in a picture taken by a British passenger.

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Buddhist monks in Colombo, Sri Lanka, pray for Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse, a candidate in the presidential elections.

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Piles of burned-out cars near Strasbourg, France, are reminders of continuing violence in a string of French cities. The country is to impose curfews in an effort to quell unrest.

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British adventurer Jason Lewis, 37, who has returned to the northern hemisphere after six years. Mr Lewis began a 27,000-mile journey from London 11 years ago.

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A duck splashes in a pond in the Serbian capital Belgrade.

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Hindu pilgrims perform religious rituals on the banks of the Ganges river at Allahabad, India, to mark the Chhat festival.

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Indonesian troops on parade. The country is looking for new sources of military hardware to bypass a US arms embargo.

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AP - Mon Nov 7, 4:42 PM ET
A torched bus lays across a street of Toulouse after youths set it alight late Monday, Nov. 7, 2005 as France's worst civil unrest in decades entered a 12th night. Rioters in this southern city set fire to a bus after sundown and then pelting police with gasoline bombs and rocks. (AP Photo/Remy Gabalda)

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AP - Tue Nov 8, 6:16 AM ET
Charred cars destroyed in recent violence are piled up in a dumping ground in Grigny, south of Paris, Tuesday Nov.8, 2005. Writing on cars, indicates the place and the date the cars were burnt. French Cabinet ministers met Tuesday to authorize curfews aimed at stopping rioters after the country's worst civil unrest in decades raged for a 12th night. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

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AFP/File - Thu Nov 3, 3:31 AM ET
Pedestrians are reflected in a government-sponsored anti-terrorism poster in Sydney. The Australian Senate rushed through anti-terror laws as Prime Minister John Howard denied his warning about a credible threat of attack was a diversion from the government's political problems(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)

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AFP - Tue Nov 8,10:41 AM ET
People walking by vehicles that were burnt in the Les Moulins neighborhood near Nice's International Airport. The French government has authorised sweeping emergency powers, including curfews, to tackle the country's worst urban unrest since the 1968 student revolts after a twelfth straight night of violence.(AFP/Jacques Munch)

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AP - Mon Nov 7, 9:23 PM ET
Firefighters extinguish a fire in a burning car in Gentilly, south of Paris, early Tuesday, Nov.8, 2005. French President Jacques Chirac promised arrest, trials and punishment Sunday for those sowing 'violence or fear' across France. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

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P - Mon Nov 7,10:32 PM ET
This 2005 photo provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. 1st Class James F. Hayes, 48, of Barstow, Calif. who was killed Friday, Nov. 4, 2005, near Taji, Iraq when his Humvee hit a roadside bomb while on patrol, the Army said. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)

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AFP/File - Mon Nov 7, 1:49 AM ET
Two women sunbathe while a life guard walks along Manly Beach in Sydney. The common painkiller aspirin, already found to be effective in reducing the risk of heart disease, may also help lower the incidence of skin cancer, Australian researchers said(AFP/File/Rob Elliot)

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AP - Mon Nov 7, 4:28 PM ET
Keaven Diaz, the nephew of U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Ramon Acevedo Aponte, rests his hands on the flag-draped casket containing the body of his uncle, during his wake, in Penuelas, southern Puerto Rico, Monday, Nov. 7, 2005. Acevedo Aponte, age 51, and another soldier were killed when a bomb exploded near their humvee in Rustamiyah, Iraq, the Department of Defense said. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Reuters - Mon Nov 7, 2:48 PM ET
A car burns near a residential building in Strasbourg's northern suburb of Cronenbourg November 7, 2005. Rioters shot at police and torched more than 1,400 cars in the worst violence since unrest erupted in France's poor suburbs 11 days ago, and a man beaten by a youth became the first fatality on Monday. (Vincent Kessler/Reuters)

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AP - Mon Nov 7, 4:28 PM ET
A dogtag bearing the name of U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Ramon Acevedo Aponte hangs from his flag-draped casket, during a wake, in Penuelas, southern Puerto Rico, Monday, Nov. 7, 2005. Acevedo Aponte, age 51, and another soldier were killed when a bomb exploded near their humvee in Rustamiyah, Iraq, the Department of Defense said. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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