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last SG · 2005-07-13T23:59:44+00:00

i like these, they look so ben ben and cute cute

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AFP - Fri Aug 5,12:52 PM ET
Bush fire : A fireman tries to contains a bush fire as it threatens nearby houses in Aurons, southern france. (AFP/Patrick Valasseris)

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Remembering Hiroshima
Greenpeace members fly dove-shaped balloons at Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park on Friday as the environmental group marked 60 years after the nuclear blast here. -- AFP

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Matsa menace
Typhoon Matsa lashed Taiwan on Friday with torrential rains and strong winds that forced financial markets, offices and schools to close. -- AFP

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Sitting pretty
A row of sofas are laid out to dry outside a shop in Beijing on Friday in the aftermath of China's summer floods. The devastating floods killed 764 people and left 191 others missing. -- AFP

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Reuters - Thu Aug 4, 1:00 PM ET
A keeper at the Cikananga Animal Rescue Center feeds a Southern Cassowary in the sanctuary, Sukabumi, West Java, July 5, 2005. More than 1300 protected animals are kept in the rescue shelter run by a non-governmental group trying to reduce Indonesia's rampant illegal trade in wildlife, and to help these caged animals regain their natural instincts to allow their return to the wild. Picture taken July 5, 2005. (Supri/Reuters)

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Reuters - Thu Aug 4, 2:41 PM ET
A Vietnamese animal health worker vaccinates chickens in Giao Chau commune, in Vietnam's northern province of Nam Dinh, August 4, 2005. Vietnam has begun to vaccinate 210 million poultry as part of an all-out effort to eradicate the deadly bird flu virus which has killed 42 people in the country, half of them since December. (Kham/Reuters)

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Reuters - Thu Aug 4, 2:45 PM ET
Hurricane Ivan, which caused a swathe of destruction across the Caribbean last September before crashing into the U.S. Gulf coast, generated ocean waves more than 90 feet high. Part of a highway is submerged in Alabama after Hurricane Ivan swept through the area September 16, 2004. (Joe Skipper/Reuters)

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Reuters - Thu Aug 4, 3:54 PM ET
Want your own personal genome sequenced? Researchers said they had found a faster and cheaper way to do it that would cost only about $2.2 million. George Church and colleagues at Harvard Medical School hope eventually to reduce the cost further to $1,000 per genome -- the entire DNA code of a person, plant or other organism. (PRNewsFoto/Reuters)

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AP - Thu Aug 4, 6:03 PM ET
**FILE PHOTO** A bulldozer rides along Malecon Avenue searching for debris left by the winds of the fringes of Hurricane Ivan as a wave crashes along the street in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Sept. 9, 2004. (AP Photo/Miguel Gomez)

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Reuters - Thu Aug 4, 9:02 AM ET
Thunderstorms form a backdrop as the Space Shuttle Discovery's remote manipulator system (RMS) robotic arm extends itself at International Space, August 2, 2005. (Nasa/Reuters)

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AFP/File - Thu Aug 4,10:35 PM ET
Indonesian activists protesting in Jakarta display pictures of people affected by polution they believe was caused by Newmont. The US mining giant goes on trial in a high-profile legal battle over charges its Indonesian unit dumped toxic waste and polluted a bay near its mine(AFP/File/Adek Berry)

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AFP/File - Fri Aug 5, 2:33 AM ET
Computer experts in US technology mecca Silicon Valley have used 21st century science to virtually revive a two-century-old Egyptian mummy. Picture shows an open coffin and a mummy at an excavation south of Cairo(AFP/File)

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AFP - Fri Aug 5, 4:54 AM ET
A woman braves strong winds in Keelung, Taiwan. Storm-weary China was bracing for Typhoon Matsa, expected to batter coastal areas near the country's largest city Shanghai just weeks after Typhoon Haitong left 17 people dead(AFP/Sam Yeh)

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AFP - Fri Aug 5, 7:25 AM ET
People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers help residents to evacuate the city of Wenling in China's Zhejiang province as Typhoon Matsa bears down on China's east coast, August 5, 2005. Nearly 600,000 people were evacuated as China braced for Typhoon Matsa, expected to batter coastal areas near its largest city Shanghai just weeks after Typhoon Haitong left 17 people dead.(AFP)

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AFP - Fri Aug 5, 7:41 AM ET
Villagers try to extinguish a wildfire in Fonte de Oleiro, close to Leiria, 140 Km north of Lisbon, August 4, 2005. More than 3,000 firefighters battled 18 major blazes which raged across Portugal, forcing the closure of the parched nation's busiest highway for the second consecutive day, emergency services said.(AFP/Francisco Leong)

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AFP/File - Fri Aug 5, 8:00 AM ET
Medicine to treat malaria, diarrhea and a host of parasitic diseases are unloaded from a French cargo plane at Niamey, Niger, July 30, 2005. The United Nations' food aid agency urged donors not to forget hard-hit countries in Africa's Sahel region, saying they face similar hunger crises to the one in neighbouring Niger.(AFP/File/Stephane De Sakutin)

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AFP - Fri Aug 5, 8:09 AM ET
Indian slumdwellers gather around a man as he distributes food supplies at a privately run distribution centre in the Kranti Nagar District of Mumbai, August 4, 2005, after floodwaters subsided and the threat of disease remains. Villages in western and southern India were evacuated with at least 222,000 people moved to higher ground as waters released from near-bursting dams flooded vast rural tracts, officials said.(AFP/Sebastian D'Souza)

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AFP/File - Fri Aug 5,10:12 AM ET
Three golden eagles and various other animals in the French Alps have been killed by poison recently, apparently victims of an illegal culling campaign by farmers against wolves (pictured), four environmental organisations said in a joint statement.(AFP/File/Pascal Guyot)

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AFP/File - Fri Aug 5,10:54 AM ET
A tiger yawns in Ranthambore National Park, India. A panel set up in March to seek ways to protect India's vanishing tigers unveiled its recommendations and advised that villagers in areas inhabited by the big cats must be prepared to step aside.(AFP/File/Aditya Singh)

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AFP - Fri Aug 5, 2:45 PM ET
A man carries buckets of water as he tries to fight a wildfire in Albergaria-dos Doze, 150 Km north of Lisbon. Portugal called in the army to help hundreds of stretched firefighters battle 22 major blazes which raged across the country.(AFP/Francisco Leong)

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