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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/File - Sun Aug 7, 4:54 PM ET
Young Polish rest and play on a beach on the Vistula river bank in the heart of Warsaw, 02 August 2005. For years, the inhabitants of Warsaw have shunned the Vistula River, which cuts through the heart of the Polish capital as it winds its way from its source in southern Poland to the Baltic Sea.(AFP/File/Wojtek Radwanski)

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AFP/File - Sun Aug 7, 5:00 PM ET
A golfer shoots a drive at the Quijorna Golf Club, an 'ecological ground', with an irrigated surface ten to twenty times less important than an ordinary ground. Playing a round of golf in Spain with the country suffering its worst drought in 60 years may appear rather a luxury, but for some the shortage of water means settling for a green not so green.(AFP/File/Philippe Desmazes)

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AFP/File - Sun Aug 7, 5:18 PM ET
A couple admire the cityskyline from Kuala Lumpur City Centre park. Malaysian Muslim men are allowed four wives under Islamic law, but a survey has found that the majority are satisfied with just one spouse, a report said.(AFP/File/Jimin Lai)

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AFP/File - Sun Aug 7, 6:43 PM ET
A twin-engine De Havilland Otter seaplane flies low over Corfu island during a flight from the northwestern town of Ioannina. Run by Greek-Canadian operator AirSea Lines, the seaplane service that begun operation last month revives a mode of transport that had been extinct in Greece since the Second World War.(AFP/File/Aris Messinis)

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AFP/File - Sun Aug 7, 6:53 PM ET
Indian men engage in a animated conversation as they sit on the promenade of the city's famous Marine Drive in Mumbai. Families in horse-drawn carriages with radios blaring take joyrides on roads lining Mumbai's beaches and couples promenade along the seashore arm-in-arm. Things are returning to normal in Mumbai days after the worst-recorded monsoon deluges killed at least 438 people, turned streets into rivers, and left carcasses of buffaloes and cows floating in the water.(AFP/File/Indranil Mukherjee)

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AFP - Sun Aug 7, 6:59 PM ET
An Acehnese family rides a pedicab showing a placard during a peace march in Banda Aceh, as part of their support for a peace pact to be signed between the Indonesian government and the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM). The pact, to be signed on 15 August in the Finnish capital Helsinki, will end 29 years of fighting between troops and rebels which has claimed 15,000 lives since 1976.(AFP/Muhammad Marwan)

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AFP - Sun Aug 7, 6:59 PM ET
Musicians hit traditional Acehese drums during a peace march in Banda Aceh, as part of their support for a peace pact to be signed between the Indonesian government and the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) 15 August. More than 1,000 people including musicians, activists, civic leaders and politicians were to set off later on a musical caravan to show support for the peace pact, to be signed 15 August in the Finnish capital Helsinki -- ending 29 years of fighting between troops and rebels which has claimed 15,000 lives since 1976.(AFP/Hiyawata )

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AFP/File - Sun Aug 7, 7:01 PM ET
Iraqi policemen demonstrate their abilities during a training course in the holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad. Iraqi security forces now number some 176,000, but the US military admits many are just raw recruits who require time before they can fight alone and allow US-led troops to pull out of the war-torn country.(AFP/File/Qassem Zein)

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AFP/File - Mon Aug 8, 1:42 AM ET
The second atomic bomb dropped by the US on Japan explodes over Nagasaki. With witnesses to the world's only nuclear attacks rapidly passing away, Japan faces the tough task of how to preserve memories of the unthinkable horror for a younger and often disinterested generation(AFP/File)

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AFP - Mon Aug 8, 1:42 AM ET
A grandfather holds his grandson in his arms and prays for victims of the atomic bombs dropped by the US on Japan. Thousands of aged survivors of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are dying each year taking with them their memories of the unthinkable horror, which for many born in a completely reconstructed Japan is already history(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

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Reuters - Mon Aug 8, 8:47 AM ET
In what promises to be the most political Edinburgh Fringe for decades, the world's largest and most anarchic arts festival is set to tackle terrorism head on after the London bombings. People fix candles during a vigil for victims killed by the London bombings in Edinburgh in this July 7, 2005 file photo. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)

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AFP/KEYSTONE/File - Mon Aug 8, 9:51 AM ET
The Castelgrande in Bellinzona, Switzerland. Switzerland, the birthplace of direct democracy, also has an aristocratic side, boasting more than a thousand castles(AFP/KEYSTONE/File)

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AFP - Mon Aug 8,10:03 AM ET
A Tibetan horseman displays his equestrian skills as he picks white scarfs off the ground during a fiercely contested race. The Horse Racing Festival, originally an ancient Tibetan harvest festival, is celebrated in large parts of the Himalayan region, showing that despite 50 years of Chinese rule parts of Tibet's cultural identity remain(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)

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AFP - Mon Aug 8,10:03 AM ET
A Tibetan horseman(L) waits beside his horse ahead of a test of riding skills in Tsara township during the annual horse racing festival(AFP/Frederic Brown)

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AFP/File - Mon Aug 8,10:10 AM ET
Scouts at the 2002 World Jamboree. Some 10,000 boy scouts and girl guides from Europe and around the world were gathering near London on Sunday for a 12-day jamboree that has been dubbed 'Eurojam' by its organisers(AFP/File/Pornchai Kitiwongsakul)

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Reuters - Mon Aug 8,10:32 AM ET
The Edinburgh festival cavalcade makes its way past the city's castle along Princess street August 5, 2001. The cavalcade, which marks the start of the Edinburgh festival, was watched by several thousand people who lined the streets. Comedians from around the world have descended on the festival believing they have what it takes to make humour truly international. (Jeff J Mitchell/Reuters)

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Reuters - Mon Aug 8,10:49 AM ET
A museum worker holds a Barbie doll clad in a handmade outfit of a Taiwan aboriginal tribe at the Taishan Township Doll Museum on the outskirts of Taipei. July 12, 2005. Since it opened last year, the museum in the township which is known more for its manufacturing plants and car repair shops than tourism has drawn more than 30,000 visitors. Picture taken on July 12, 2005. (Richard Chung/Reuters)

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AFP/DDP/File - Mon Aug 8,11:39 AM ET
A lone sunbather at a German beach resort. A lawyer in Cologne has sprung to the defence of British holidaymakers fed up with Germans using towels to bag all the best sun loungers at European resorts(AFP/DDP/File)

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AFP - Sun Aug 7, 7:38 PM ET
Pond of pelicans : A group of rosy pelicans swim in a pond at the New Delhi Zoological Park in New Delhi. (AFP/Manan Vatsyayana)

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AFP - Sun Aug 7, 7:13 PM ET
Landing in the sand : Bronze medalist Anna Pyatykh of Russia competes during the women's triple jump finals at the 10th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Helsinki. (AFP/Adrian Dennis)

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