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People looks at the effects of the weather, with ice-covered cars, ice covered lines of lights and ice covered trees aon the bank of Lake Geneva near Versoix, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 28, 2005. Strong winds forced the water to splash over the shoreline, creating bizarre ice-sculptures. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)
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Iraqi Army forces step up security in Baghdad prior to Sunday's national election January 29, 2005. A suicide car bomb exploded on Saturday outside a polling station in the Iraqi town of Khanaqin northeast of Baghdad, an election commission official in the province said. (Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters) (Click for Large Photo)
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Sat Jan 29, 3:51 AM ET - (Reuters)
An Iraqi boy runs past a car just as it explodes in front of a school scheduled to be used as a voting center in Baghdad, January 28, 2005. Iraq clamped tough security measures across the country, sealing land borders and curbing travel to foil insurgents bent on wrecking Sunday's election, but a car bomb killed four people in Baghdad. (Ali Jasim/Reuters) (Click for Large Photo)
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Sat Jan 29, 3:51 AM ET - (Reuters)
Victor Barbish and his daughter Gina are pictured in a bank vault in Laguna Beach, Calif., in 1980 with the Pearl of Allah in this photo released by Victor Barbish. Legend has it the so-called Pearl of Allah was created as a symbol of peace 2,500 years ago in ancient China. To Victor Barbish, the 14-pound gem has been nothing but a headache. (AP Photo/Barbish family) (Click for Large Photo)
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Sat Jan 29, 3:20 AM ET - (AP)

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Iraqi Army forces step up security in Baghdad prior to Sunday's national election January 29, 2005. A suicide car bomb exploded on Saturday outside a polling station in the Iraqi town of Khanaqin northeast of Baghdad, an election commission official in the province said. Photo by Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters (Click for Large Photo)
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Sat Jan 29, 3:52 AM ET - (Reuters)
Iraqi Army forces step up security in Baghdad prior to Sunday's national election January 29, 2005. A suicide car bomb exploded on Saturday outside a polling station in the Iraqi town of Khanaqin northeast of Baghdad, an election commission official in the province said. (Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters) (Click for Large Photo)
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Sat Jan 29, 3:44 AM ET - (Reuters)
An Iraqi boy runs past a car just as it explodes in front of a school scheduled to be used as a voting center in Baghdad, January 28, 2005. Iraq clamped tough security measures across the country, sealing land borders and curbing travel to foil insurgents bent on wrecking Sunday's election, but a car bomb killed four people in Baghdad. (Ali Jasim/Reuters) (Click for Large Photo)
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Sat Jan 29, 3:51 AM ET - (Reuters)

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An Iraqi family living in Iran queue to cast their vote at a polling station in Tehran January 29, 2005. Weary of wars, Iraqis queuing to vote on a bright Saturday morning in Tehran mostly agreed it was time to go home, hoping their votes would help unravel decades of discrimination against the Shi'ite Muslim majority. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (Click for Large Photo)
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Sat Jan 29, 3:58 AM ET - (Reuters)
An Iraqi woman living in Iran takes a look at a list of the Iraqis candidates at a polling station in Tehran January 29, 2005. Weary of wars, Iraqis queuing to vote on a bright Saturday morning in Tehran mostly agreed it was time to go home, hoping their votes would help unravel decades of discrimination against the Shi'ite Muslim majority. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (Click for Large Photo)
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Sat Jan 29, 3:53 AM ET - (Reuters)
Iraqi Army forces step up security in Baghdad prior to Sunday's national election January 29, 2005. A suicide car bomb exploded on Saturday outside a polling station in the Iraqi town of Khanaqin northeast of Baghdad, an election commission official in the province said. Photo by Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters (Click for Large Photo)
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Serena Williams, of the U.S., seventh seed, lunges for a forehand return during her women's singles final victory over compatriot Lindsay Davenport, top seed, at the Australian Open on Rod Laver Arena at Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2005. Williams won the match, 2-6, 6-3, 6-0. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft) (Click for Large Photo)
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Serena Williams, of the U.S., seventh seed, holds the trophy following her women's singles final victory over compatriot Lindsay Davenport, top seed, at the Australian Open on Rod Laver Arena at Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2005. Williams won the match, 2-6, 6-3, 6-0. (AP Photo/Steve Holland) (Click for Large Photo)
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Australian Open tennis champion and seventh seed Serena Williams of the U.S. rides a water taxi on Melbourne's Yarra River January 29, 2005. Williams has her sights set on regaining the number one world ranking after staging a miraculaous comeback to beat Lindsay Davenport 2-6 6-3 6-0 on Saturday for her second Australian Open title in three years. REUTERS/Stuart Milligan (Click for Large Photo)
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Sat Jan 29, 3:45 AM ET - (Reuters)

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US movie star Sharon Stone listens participants during the workshop 'Women and the world in 2020' at the World Economic Forum in Davos.(AFP/Eric Feferberg) (Click for Large Photo)
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Jack Nicholson, left, and Chris Rock watch the New Jersey Nets play the Los Angeles Lakers, Friday night, Jan. 28, 2005, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) (Click for Large Photo)
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Howling Wolf performs in front of a crowd during the House of Blues concert Friday, Jan. 28, 2005 at Lincoln Center in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) (Click for Large Photo)
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Sat Jan 29,12:58 AM ET - (AP)

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French activist Regine Bandler best known as Gigi is dressed up as Uncle Sam during a protest in front of Monsanto offices in Porto Alegre, Brazil against genetically modified foods.(AFP/Vanderlei Almeida) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28, 3:08 PM ET - (AFP)
Dutch activist Paul Nicholson(L) protest in front of Monsanto offices in Porto Alegre, Brazil against genetically modified foods.(AFP/Jefferson Bernardes) (Click for Large Photo)
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Greenpeace activists protest in front of Monsanto offices in Porto Alegre, Brazil against genetically modified foods.(AFP/Vanderlei Almeida) (Click for Large Photo)
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A model presents a creation by British designer John Galliano during the ready-to-wear Autumn-Winter 2005-2006 collections shows in Paris(AFP/Francois Guillot) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28, 5:28 PM ET - (AFP)
A model presents a creation by Japanese designer Issey Miyake during the ready-to-wear Autumn-Winter 2005-2006 collections shows in Paris(AFP/Francois Guillot) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28, 5:28 PM ET - (AFP)
Iraqi children attend Friday noon prayer in the holy city of Najaf. A banner that reads 'Elections' is seen hanging inside the mosque.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28, 3:43 PM ET - (AFP)

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Guarding the square : Two Russian policemen guard the desolate Red Square with St. Basil Cathedral in the background, as heavy snowfall hit the Russian capital. (AFP/Denis Sinyakov) (Click for Large Photo)
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Thu Jan 27, 5:10 PM ET - (AFP)
Baby bears : Two little polar bears born at the zoo in Rostock, northern Germany, are presented to the public. (AFP/DDP/Danny Gohlke) (Click for Large Photo)
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U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, center, is flanked by his wife Lynne, right, and Israel's President Moshe Katsav, left, as leaders from 30 countries gather to remember the victims of the Holocaust on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops in Oswiecim, southern Poland on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2005. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski) (Click for Large Photo)
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Thu Jan 27,10:26 AM ET - (AP)

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A worker adjusts to a Sanyo sign at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada earlier this month. The Japanese company has asked its employees to buy its own products in a drive to narrow its losses.(AFP Files) (Click for Large Photo)
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Sat Jan 29, 2:01 AM ET - (AFP Files)
Chinese vice President Zeng Qinghong is greeted by his Venezuelan counterpart Jose Vicente Rangel. Zeng is on a three-day visit to Venezuela to sign bilateral agreements.(AFP/Andrew Alvarez) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28,11:26 PM ET - (AFP)
Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange buy and sell shares of Gillette stock, January 28, 2005. Procter and Gamble Co. said it would buy Gillette Co. in a deal worth $57 billion, uniting two of the world's largest makers of household goods ranging from Pampers diapers to Duracell batteries. (Mel Nudelman/New York Stock Exchange/Reuters ) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28, 7:44 PM ET - (Reuters)

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Jeffrey Lee Parson, 19, walks out of a U.S. federal courthouse in Seattle following his sentencing in the the Blaster Internet worm case, Friday, Jan. 28, 2005. A federal judge took pity on the Minnesota teen, sentencing to him just a year and a half in prison for unleashing a variant of the Blaster Internet worm that crippled nearly 50,000 computers in the summer of 2003. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28, 5:50 PM ET - (AP)
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City. US stocks tumbled as the year's biggest merger and better-than-expected results from Microsoft were overshadowed by a weak report on the US economy and caution ahead of the Iraqi elections(AFP/Getty Images/File/Stephen Chernin) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28, 5:36 PM ET - (AFP/Getty Images/File)
Jeffrey Lee Parson, right, walks out of a U.S. federal courthouse in Seattle with his lawyers Carol Koeller, left, and Nancy Tenney following his sentencing in the the Blaster Internet worm case, Friday, Jan. 28, 2005. A federal judge took pity on the Minnesota teen, sentencing to him just a year and a half in prison for unleashing a variant of the Blaster Internet worm that crippled more than 48,000 computers in the summer of 2003. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28, 5:29 PM ET - (AP)

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Marcel Tremblay at his home Friday evening. (CP PHOTO/Jonathan Hayward) (Click for Large Photo)
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Sat Jan 29, 1:36 AM ET - (Canadian Press)
Marcel Tremblay at his home this Friday evening. (CP PHOTO/Jonathan Hayward) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28,11:21 PM ET - (Canadian Press)
A 10-year-old Vietnamese girl who tested positive for bird flu is treated at Ho Chi Minh-City's Pediatric Hospital No. 1. Another girl, 13, became the country's 11th victim of the disease in the past month.(AFP Files) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28,10:34 PM ET - (AFP Files)

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Shopping carts at Britian's biggest supermarket chain. Shoppers at one British supermarket were astonished to find a pony alongside them browsing the shelves, a report said.(AFP/File) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28, 7:44 PM ET - (AFP/File)
Britain's finance minister Gordon Brown said public pressure for action on global poverty could not be be ignored.(AFP/Pierre Verdy) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28, 2:14 PM ET - (AFP)
A shooting star streaks across the sky during a meteor shower. Residents of the area near Madrid airport reported seeing a ball of fire explode and disintregrate in skies over the Spanish capital overnight, security services said.(AFP/NASA/File) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28,10:47 AM ET - (AFP/NASA/File)

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US President George W. Bush disembarks Marine One on 27 January 2004. The US Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a 1.7 billion dollar contract to built the next fleet of the presidential helicopters(AFP/Leslie E. Kossoff) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28, 6:48 PM ET - (AFP)
Marine One carrying US President George W. Bush and two decoy helicopters approach the White House 07 January 2005(AFP/Brendan Smialowski) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28, 6:48 PM ET - (AFP)
Amid black overcoats and hats world leaders wore for a sombre ceremony at Auschwitz death camp, 27 January 2005, US Vice President Dick Cheney's green, furry-collared parka and knit ski cap drew harsh criticism from a US newspaper(AFP/File/Dimitar Dilkoff) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28, 6:17 PM ET - (AFP/File)

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First voters : A group of Iraqis hold their index fingers aloft showing the dye to acknowledge they've placed a vote during the Iraq out-of-country voting at Wembley exhibition centre in London. (AFP/Adrian Dennis) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28, 5:08 PM ET - (AFP)
Carnival : A person wearing a mask poses in San Marco square in Venice at the start of its famous carnival. (AFP/Alberto Pizzoli) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28, 4:36 PM ET - (AFP)
Into the finals : Lleyton Hewitt of Australia celebrates his victory over Andy Roddick of the US in their men's singles semifinal match at the 2005 Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. (AFP/Greg Wood) (Click for Large Photo)
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Fri Jan 28, 4:51 PM ET - (AFP)