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Thailand US Air Show
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds flight demonstration team flies over Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. The Thunderbirds will perform their aerobatic formations and solo flying stunts in specially-marked jets during an air show Saturday

 

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India Army
In this handout photo provided by the Indian Presidential Palace, President Pratibha Patil, wearing sari, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir state Omar Abdullah, third right standing, and Indian Army chief Gen. Deepak Kapoor, forth right standing, visit the surveillance unit of the Indian Army near the Line of Control, the de facto frontier separating Indian and Pakistani territory in Kashmir, in Rajouri, India, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009.

 

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Iraq nobel obama reax

Members of Iraq’s black community celebrate in Basra, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. After U.S. President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.

 

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India President
In this handout photo provided by the Indian Presidential Palace, President Pratibha Patil, left, felicitates Ruksana, center, for her bravery in killing a militant on Sept. 27, 2009, to protect her family, in Rajouri, India, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. Ruksana’s brother Ejaz Ahmed is seen on right.

 

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Fleet Week
Sean Tucker flies his Oracle Challenger bi-plane inverted over US Marine Corps Major Nathan Miller, flying F/A-18 Blue Angel #5 Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009, over San Francisco Bay. The U. S. Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron Blue Angels and Tucker are preparing for two air shows this weekend for Fleet Week San Francisco 2009 festivities, which celebrate the area’s long naval history.

 

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Germany Airbus 380
The first Airbus A380 manufactured for the German Airline Lufthansa approaches the Airbus facility in Hamburg, northern Germany, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009.

 

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India Airforce
An Indian Air Force (IAF) IL-76 aircraft mounted with an AWAC (Airborne Warning and Control System), right, and a Sukhoi SU 30 MKI fly past at the IAF Day Parade in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. The IAF is celebrating its 77th anniversary Thursday.

 

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Belgium Anheuser InBev
In this Feb. 27, 2006 photo provided by SeaWorld, a killer whale and worker perform at SeaWorld in San Diego. Anheuser-Busch InBev SA, the world’s largest brewer, on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009 said that it will raise $2.7 billion from selling its U.S. theme parks to the Blackstone Group. (AP Photo

 

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Saturn Giant Ring
This artist’s rendering released by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Tuesday Oct. 6, 2009 shows the biggest but never-before-seen ring around Saturn, spotted by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The inset shows an enlarged image of Saturn, as seen by the W.M. Keck Observatory at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, in infrared light. The bulk of the ring material starts about six million kilometers (3.7 million miles) away from the planet and extends outward roughly another 12 million kilometers (7.4 million miles). The newly found ring is so huge it would take 1 billion Earths to fill it, JPL said.

 

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Winning Pumpkin
Jackson Township resident Christy Harp shows off her world-record 1,725-pound Atlantic giant pumpkin on in Jackson Township, Ohio. Harp took first place at the Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers annual weigh-off Saturday in Canfield. She won $2,500 and could claim the world title. Contest organizers say the entry topped the 1,689-pound record-holder grown in 2007 by Joe Jutras of North Scituate, R.I.

 

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New Zealand Unseasonal Snow
Sheep walk over snow covered farmland near Taupo in New Zealand Monday, Oct. 5, 2009 after heavy snow falls. A freak snow storm and the bad weather, which is highly irregular at this time of year, has left hundreds of people stranded and unable to return to their homes in New Zealand’s central North Island.

 

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Moon Rocket
The Ares I-X rocket, shown in in High Bay 3 of Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building is being prepared for this week’s Launch Vehicle Readiness Test in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, Oct. 5, 2009. The test, which is a combined electrical and mechanical check out of the Ares I-X vehicle, marks the next step in preparing the rocket for rollout to the launch pad on Oct. 19.The rocket is scheduled to launch on Oct. 27.

 

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India Flooding
In this Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009, photograph released by Andhra Pradesh state government, flood affected areas of Andhra Pradesh state, India, are seen. The floods have submerged entire villages, snapped transport and communication links and raised fears of disease spreading in relief camps crowded with people forced from their homes.

 

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Germany Lego Tower World Record
Men stand on a crane beside the reportedly highest Lego tower in the world in front of the Church of Our Lady in Munich, southern Germany, on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. According to the organizers the tower has a height of 29,97 meters and was built with 550,000 pieces in the last four days.

 

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romania cat beauty contest
A Sphinx cat is held back by its owner while a judge examines the cat during an international feline beauty contest in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009.

 

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Kazakhstan Soyuz Landing
This image provided by NASA shows the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft as it lands with Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, Flight Engineer Michael Barratt, and Canadian spaceflight participant Guy Laliberte near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberte who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft. (AP Photo

 

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China Submarine
Two men on a wooden boat row past a retired conventionally-powered submarine on its way to a port in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province Saturday Oct. 10, 2009. The submarine is expected to be used for educational purposes at a military academy.

 

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Iraq Weapons
U.S. Army soldiers and Iraqi security forces stand next to weapons seized by Iraqi security forces during recent security operations west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009.

 

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India Missile Test
In this Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009 file photograph, Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel march past short-range Prithvi ballistic missile at the IAF Day Parade in New Delhi, India. India successfully test fired two nuclear-capable Prithvi-II surface-to-surface missiles at Chandipur in Orissa state.

 

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Cyprus army exercise

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2006 file photo a military attack helicopter fires missiles during the Greek Cypriot National Guard exercise ”Nikiforos” in Kalo Horio at the firing range near coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus. Officials say annual military exercises that Cyprus and Turkey separately hold on the divided island have been called off to avoid tensions during ongoing reunification talks. The Greek Cypriot ”Nikiforos” land, sea and air maneuvers are conducted in late October, immediately followed by the joint Turkish and Turkish Cypriot ”Toros” exercise.