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BRITAIN Red Arrows
Flight Lieutenant Kirsty Moore poses in front of a Hawk aircraft at the Royal Air Force base at Scampton, England, Thursday Nov. 12, 2009, after being named as the first female pilot to serve with the Red Arrows, the RAF’s aerobatic team. Earlier in her air force career, Moore, 31, served as a Qualified Flying Instructor, teaching students to fly the advanced fast jet trainer, before flying the Tornado GR 4 on operations in Iraq.

 

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Britain Guinness Record
Manjit Singh grimaces as he pulls a double decker London bus for some 21.2 meters by his hair, to set a new Guinness world record, in London, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. Singh was one of an estimated 200,000 people around the world will come together and attempt a wide range of records in celebration of the fifth annual Guinness World Records Day

 

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Bosnia exercise
Bosnia’s special police force exercise a hostage situtation in central Sarajevo,on Thursday, Nov. 12. 2009. Policemen train for potential terrorist attack involving a hostage-taking scenario.

 

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Afghanistan Germany
German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, center, enters a military plane in Kabul to head to Mazar-e-Sharif at the military airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. Guttenberg said his country is committed to its mission in Afghanistan, where it has more than 4,000 troops, but that Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s new administration must outline a clear plan for the future.

 

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India Dalai Lama
Buddhist devotees wait at the helipad to get a glimpse of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama who leaves after a series of public teachings at Tawang, in northeastern Indian state Arunachal Pradesh, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. The exiled spiritual leader’s trip to the remote Himalayan region of Arunachal Pradesh, the subject of a long-running border dispute between India and China, has increased already high tensions between the regional rivals.

 

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Mideast Israel Brazil
FILE - In this March 7, 2007 file photo the Israeli army’s Heron unmanned drone aircraft for surveillance missions flies during a display at the Palmahim Air Force Base in Israel. Israel has signed a $350 million, multiyear deal to supply dozens of unmanned aircraft to the Brazilian national police force, a defense official said Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009.

 

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South Korea Koreas Naval Clash
A visitor walks next to diagrams of North Korea’s missiles on display at a unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. North Korea threatened South Korea on Thursday after their first naval skirmish in seven years as Seoul expressed confidence it can deter any retaliation from its communist neighbor

 

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2009 November 14

What's 93 million miles away and still hurts your eyes when you look at it? The answer is not the Denver International Airport, known to some travelers as DIA. But DIA does appear in dramatic silhouette in the foreground of this telephoto image. The view looks east toward the airport terminal's characteristic multi-peaked roof and the rising October Sun. The roof's appearance suggests the snow-capped peaks of the region's Rocky Mountains to the west. As winter approaches for denizens of Denver and the northern hemisphere in general, the rising Sun will continue to move south (image right) in the coming days. Of course, the Sun is 93 million miles away ...

 

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Spitfire Lake Reflection Franklin County, New York

 

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South Korea Koreas Naval Clash
A visitor stands next to South Korea’s Hawk missiles at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. North Korea warned Friday that it will mercilessly defend itself in disputed waters where a bloody naval clash took place this week, stoking further tensions in the region ahead of a visit to Seoul by President Barack Obama.

 

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Sea Launch Boeing
FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2007 file photo released by Sea Launch, the Odyssey and the accompanying ship Sea Launch Commander sail from a site on the equator. Sea Launch Co.’s president says he expects Boeing to drop all or most of its ownership of the bankrupt satellite-launching business.

 

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Space Shuttle
Two workers walk away after inspecting the top of the external tank on the space shuttle Atlantis Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis and its six member crew are preparing for Monday’s planned launch on an 11 day mission to the international space station.

 

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Pakistan
A Pakistani police officer stands alert behind a bunker on a checkpoint at the site of Saturday’s suicide car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. Militants staged a wave of attacks in northwestern Pakistani in recent weeks in retaliation for an army offensive launched last month in the tribal area of South Waziristan, where al-Qaida and Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding.

 

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China Air Force
J-10 jet fighters perform in formation to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force in Beijing, China, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. The aerobatic show was postponed until today due to weather conditions in the last few days.

 

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Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

 

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Iran Guards in the Media
FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008 file photo, Iranian Revolutionary Guards members march during a parade ceremony, marking the 28th anniversary of the onset of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran. Sometime early next year, a new voice is expected to join Iran’s state-sanctioned media blitz: a full-service news agency with video, photos and print - run by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

 

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Space Shuttle
Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, Nov. 16, 2009.

 

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A view over the lake in Phnom Penh-cambodia

 

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The dizzy heights

The dizzy heights

In Ladakh, where the landscape has infinite variety, the journey becomes the destination.

The snowfield at the Khardung la.

The road to Pangong Tso.

The Siachen memorial at Base Camp.

The Indus soon after Lamayuru on the Kargil-Leh road.

An aerial view of the Greater Himalayan Range.

A view of the Nubra valley from Hundar village.

The Thikse gompa.

Post 43. This Indian Army post faces a Pakistani post a few hundred metres away

Leh town as seen from the Khardung la.

The Mesmerising Pangong lake.

 

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A homeless boy holds biscuits that he received as alms as he takes shelter from rain in front of a fast food shop in Mumbai.