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Indonesia Sumatran Tiger
A Sumatran tiger with a badly injured leg is seen inside a cage, after it was caught in a villagers’ snare, as it waits for medical treatment at the Natural Resources Conservation Agency in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009. There are an estimated 250 Sumatran tigers left in the wild, compared to about 1,000 in the 1970s due to poaching and habitat loss, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

 

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Russia Kremlin Guards
Kremlin guards parade during a ceremony of the Changing of the Guard, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009. The uniforms worn were designed to resemble Russian military uniforms used at the time of Czar Nicholas II in 1907-1913.

 

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Japan Fleet Review
Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) destroyer Kurama leads other escort vessels during a fleet review off Sagami, south of Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009

 

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Coast Guard Heavy Surf
A United States Coast Guard rescue boat battles the surf off Mantauk Point in New York, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2009. A Coast Guard commander tells Newsday that Chief Petty Officer James Weber put his boats and crews in a dangerous situation during the August storm. Weber has been relieved of command after photos turned up on the Internet of two rescue boats training in heavy surf generated by Hurricane Bill.

 

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Mideast Lebanon UN
Lebanese soldiers disembark from a boat during a training exercise in the southern coastal town of Naqoura, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. A joint amphibious exercise conducted by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon and the Lebanese armed forces was carried to test command and control procedures, train forces and check equipment used for basic amphibious operations.

 

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Britain india
Indian President Pratibha Patil arrives at the Royal suite at Heathrow Airport, London ahead of her State Visit to the United Kingdom, Monday Oct. 26, 2009. The President of India, will pay a State Visit to the United Kingdom from Tuesday Oct. 27 to Thursday Oct. 29 2009. The President will stay at Windsor Castle as a guest of the Queen. President Pratibha Patil, is the first woman to serve in the office, and was sworn in on July 25, 2007.

 

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Japan Warship Collision
In this photo taken on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009, Japanese navy destroyer JS Kurama sails during a fleet review off Sagami, south of Tokyo, Japan. Defense officials said the destroyer JS Kurama collided with a South Korean container ship Tuesday night, Oct. 27, 2009 in the Kanmon Strait near the southern main island of Kyushu.

 

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Moon Rocket Test
People stand on top of the Rotating Service Structure as the sun sets on the Ares I-X rocket Monday, Oct. 26, 2009, at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B in Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA plans a sub-orbital test flight of the rocket early Tuesday morning.

 

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US China Military
In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, and Xu Caihou, vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, listen to national anthems during a welcome ceremony held at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. It was a rare visit to the Pentagon by a top Chinese general.

 

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Boeing 787 Plant
FILE - In this June 10, 2008 file photo, workers begin adding the infrastructure to a piece of fuselage at a now Boeing-operated facility in North Charleston, S.C. Boeing says it will open a second assembly line for its 787 jetliner at the South Carolina facility, expanding beyond its longtime manufacturing base in Washington state.

 

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Moon Rocket Launch
People pack Kennedy Point Park in Titusville, Fla. Wednesday morning Oct. 28, 2009 to watch the test launch of NASA’s 327 foot Ares I-X rocket as it lights up the sky after liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center

 

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Afghanistan Copper Mine
This April 2007 photo provided by James Yeager shows a delegation from the state-owned Chinese company, China Metallurgical Group Corporation, visiting the site of a copper mine in Aynak, a former al-Qaida stronghold southeast of Kabul, Afghanistan. The mounds behind the group, called ”outcrops”, signal the large quantity of copper that lies below. Yeager says a handful of Afghan officials dominated a secretive selection process that gave MCC improbably high marks over firms from the U.S., Canada and other countries, to develop a mine to tap one of the world’s largest unexploited copper reserves.

 

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Moon Rocket Test
A cone of moisture surrounds part of the Ares I-X rocket during lift off Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, on a sub-orbital test flight from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

 

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Mideast Israel Germany Drone
FILE - In this March 7, 2007 file photo, an Israeli army Heron unmanned drone aircraft, used for surveillance missions, flies during a display at the Palmahim Air Force Base, Israel. Israel Aerospace Industries said Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009 that it will supply unmanned spy planes to Germany that will see action in Afghanistan early next year.

 

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Earns General Dynamics
FILE - In this July 12, 2009 file image provided by the US Navy shows the littoral combat ship Independence (LCS 2) underway during builder’s trials. General Dynamics says third-quarter earnings sank nearly 10 percent hurt by weak demand for business jets, but sales in its defense-related segments grew allowing the military contractor to boost its profit outlook for the year

 

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Pakistan
A Pakistani police officer makes his through wreckage after an explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday Oct. 28, 2009. A car bomb has torn through a market place in northwestern Pakistan, hours after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in the country.

 

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Missile Defense Test
In this image provided by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency shows a Standard Missile - 3 (SM-3) being launched from the Japanese destroyer JS Myoko during a joint missile defense intercept test, with the Missile Defense Agency, in the Pacific Missile Range. The Japanese navy ship intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile in a test off Hawaii, the U.S. and Japanese militaries said Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009.

 

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Hawaii Volcano Trail
This Oct. 25, 2009 photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory shows surface flows advancing on the Kalapana access road, west of the viewing area trailhead in Hawaii. Civil Defense officials on the Big Island believe the trailhead of the Kalapana viewing area is safe from a tongue of lava from erupting Kilauea volcano. Janet Babb, a geologist and spokeswoman at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said Wednesday Oct. 28, 2009 that the flow front near the trailhead had stagnated.

 

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France ariane
In this photo provided by the ESA (European Space Agency) the Ariane 5 rocket, seen, at its launching pad in Kourou, French Guiana, Wednesday Oct. 28, 2009. The flight, expected Thursday night Oct .29, 2009, will carry a new customer’s satellite, Thor 6 for Telenor Satellite Broadcasting AS, along with SES World Skies’NSS-12, which will provide direct-to-home television broadcast services for Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia.

 

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Hong Kong US
The aircraft carrier USS George Washington anchors in the Hong Kong water Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. The aircraft carrier is in a Hong Kong harbor after a week-long joint military exercise with South Korea. USS George Washington Commanding Officer David Lausman said the carrier plans to stay in Hong Kong for several days.