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Girls Aloud's Sarah Harding and Nicola Roberts pose for a photograph during a book signing for their new book 'Dreams That Glitter' at Waterstones Piccadilly on October 9, 2008 in London, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
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Iraqis carry the coffin of Iraqi parliament member Salen al-Ugaili during his funeral on October 9, 2008 in the Sadr city district in Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Ugaili, who was a moderate member of parliament from the Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's block, was killed on October 9, 2008 when a bomb exploded near his car in the Sadr city district east of Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo by Wathiq Khuzaie/ Getty Images)
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Gold nuggets are displayed at the Perth Mint, in Perth, Australia, on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Gold fell for the first time this week in London as investors sought to raise cash on speculation that a coordinated cut in lending rates by central banks will fail to restrain interbank borrowing costs. Photographer: Ron D'Raine/Bloomberg News
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Firefighters, center, work on a large fire caused by a gas explosion in Santander, northern Spain early Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. No deaths or injuries were reported. (AP Photo/Esteban Cobo, EFE)
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A South Korean investor watches an electronic stock board at the Korea Stock Exchange in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index rose 0.64 percent, or 8.2 point, to close at 1,294.89. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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An Afghan beggar asks for alms as an Afghan man passes by in an underpass in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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In this photo supplied by World Food Programme, (WFP) food is distributed in Musita, Gokwe South, Midlands Province, Zimbabwe, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2008. The U.N. food aid agency found Zimbabweans reduced to eating wild fruits when it was able to reach the countryside after months of being blocked by the government, the agency said Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008 appealing for more donations to fight hunger in the southern African country. (AP Photo/Richard Lee-WFP, HO)
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Pakistani police officers hold their weapons at the site of an explosion in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. An explosives-laden vehicle blew up an anti-terrorist squad building and wounded at least four people Thursday in a police complex in Pakistan's capital just moments after a man delivered sweets to the facility, officials said. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Preparations for launching Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spaceship that will carry a new crew to the international space station are under way in an assembly shop at the Russian leased Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. The rocket is scheduled to blast off on Sunday, Oct. 12. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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Partially clothed protesters seen with taped on banderillas, a decorated barbed dart, lay in front of the European Parliament in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. The activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) were protesting against EU tax payers money being used to organize Bullfights in Spain. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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Emergency response services inspect the site of an explosion in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. An explosives-laden vehicle blew up an anti-terrorist squad building and wounded at least four people Thursday in a police complex in Pakistan's capital just moments after a man delivered sweets to the facility, officials said. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti )
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Kyrgyzstan's President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, center, and Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev, right, review a honor guard during the official welcoming ceremony at the Presidential palace, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. The Russian President has arrived in Kyrgyzstan on an official visit. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Russia's Vera Zvonareva drinks a water as she plays with Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a mass to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Pope Pius XII, in St.Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. The pontiff has given a push to possible sainthood for Pope Pius XII, as he defended the World War II pontiff Thursday from accusations that he did little to spare Jews from the Holocaust. Benedict contends his predecessor acted silently to save as many Jews as possible and expressed hope that efforts aimed at his beatification would proceed "smoothly." Beatification is the last formal step before sainthood. Some writers and Jewish leaders others have accused Pius of not doing enough to try to stop the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews died. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks to the media during a press conference at Ledra checkpoint in the U.N. buffer zone in the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Tutu along with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and former Algerian Foreign Minister Lakhdar Brahimi, unseen, arrived to the island to lend their support to talks to reunify the war-divided island. They lauded Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat for their expressed commitment to seek a settlement to the decades-old dispute. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
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Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki returns a shot to Russia's Nadia Petrova at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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A man walks through the City of London, Thursday Oct. 9, 2008. Bonuses at London's banks will plunge nearly 60 percent this year, a leading economic consultancy predicted Thursday, as Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown said irresponsible bankers must be punished. Brown said he's angry at the risky behavior of some of those in the financial sector and vowed to put an end to the era of huge bonuses for executives. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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A wax model of US actor Zac Efron stands at centre as cheerleaders from British dance troupe 'Storm', from left, Louise Brewe, Larissa Sturgeon, Trish Possollo and Sophie Hanks, pose for photographs with the wax model, as Zac Efron is unveiled at Madame Tussauds waxworks museum in London, Thursday Oct. 9, 2008. The waxwork represents Efron's character as basketball team captain Troy Bolton, in the recently released movie 'High School Musical 3: Senior Year'. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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An exiled Tibetan carries an effigy of Chinese President Hu Jintao who is depicted as the Hindu mythological evil king Ravana, to be burnt to mark the Indian festival Dussehra, in Dharmsala, India, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Hindus celebrate Dussehra by burning effigies of Ravana, symbolising the victory of good over evil. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)
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Workers make last preparations for opening of 'The Grace Kelly Years, Princess of Monaco' exhibition in Moscow, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. The exhibition draws on a collection of the Princess's personal belongings. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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Officers of Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program (SOCP) try to grab Jhon, an 11-year-old orangutan, who clings to his cage to be released into the wild at a quarantine station in Sibolangit, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Orangutan populations in Indonesia's Borneo and Sumatra island are facing severe threats from habitat loss, illegal logging, fires and poaching. (AP Photo)
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In this photo provided by the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano newspaper, Pope Benedict XVI, fourth from the bottom of the stairs at left, makes his way to a crypt below the main alter in St. Peter's Basilica, to pray before Pope Pius XII tomb, after a mass to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the late pontiff, at the Vatican Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Benedict XVI has given a push to possible sainthood for Pope Pius XII, as he defended the World War II pontiff Thursday from accusations that he did little to spare Jews from the Holocaust. Benedict contends his predecessor acted silently to save as many Jews as possible and expressed hope that efforts aimed at his beatification would proceed "smoothly." Beatification is the last formal step before sainthood. Some writers and Jewish leaders others have accused Pius of not doing enough to try to stop the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews died. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, HO) **
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Hindu women play with colored powder to celebrate Durga Puja festival in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
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A lone anti-government demonstrator sleeps atop a pile of donated water Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008, near Government House in Bangkok, Thailand. Anti-government demonstrators have vowed to avenge those killed and injured in clashes earlier this week with police. The Police insisted they used only tear gas in Tuesday's clashes. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
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Swiss player Gelson Fernandes heads the ball during a training session of Switzerland?s national soccer team in Freienbach, Switzerland, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Switzerland will face Latvia in a group 2 World Cup qualifying soccer match on Saturday, Oct. 11, at the AFG Arena in St. Gallen, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Keystone, Alessandro Della Bella)
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A cow grazes in a field overlooking a training session of Switzerland?s national soccer team in Freienbach, Switzerland, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Switzerland will face Latvia in a World Cup group 2 qualifying soccer match on Saturday, Oct. 11, at the AFG Arena in St. Gallen, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Keystone, Alessandro Della Bella)
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An Afghan woman begs for money with her daughter in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Gael Monfils of France grimaces during his match against Radek Stepanek from the Czech Republicat the BA tennis trophy in Vienna, on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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An idol of Hindu Goddess Durga is immersed into a river in Siliguri, India, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. The four day Hindu festival of Durga Puja ended with the immersion of idols Thursday. (AP Photo/Tarun Das)
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Israelis walk in the middle of an empty street during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur in Jerusalem, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Yom Kippur, or 'Day of Atonement,' is the holiest of Jewish holidays when observant Jews atone for the sins of the past year and the nation comes to almost a complete standstill. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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Relatives mourn for Iraqi lawmaker Saleh al-Auqaeili , loyal to anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, outside his home in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Officials say Thursday's explosion occurred as Saleh al-Auqaeili's car passed about 200 yards (meters) away from an Iraqi army checkpoint in a heavily secured area near Baghdad's main Shiite district of Sadr City. (AP Photo / Hadi Mizban)
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Argentina's goalkeeper Juan Pablo Carrizo practices during a training session in Buenos Aires, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Argentina will face Uruguay in a World Cup 2010 qualifying soccer match in Buenos Aires on Oct. 11. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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Kenny Pens, 4, inspects an Owl butterfly, found in Central and South America, during the press preview of "The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter" at the American Museum of Natural History Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008 in New York. The eleventh annual exhibit opens to the public Oct. 11, and runs through May 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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The Philadelphia Phillies mascot the Phillie Phanatic is seen near City Hall in Philadelphia, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. The Phillies play the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the National League championship series on Thursday evening. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Dozens of special shaped balloons prepare to lift off as part of the special shapes rodeo at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. More than 600 balloons registered for this year's nine-day event. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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Miami Heat's Yakhouba Diawara, right, tries to stop New Jersey Nets Vince Carter during the first quarter of an NBA basketball preseason game Thursday Oct. 9, 2008 in Paris. Miami Heat's Shawn Marion is in the background. (AP Photo / Michel Euler)
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Jennifer Jones poses for a photograph in front of one of the homes in Brad Pitt's Make It Right rebuilding project in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. The Make It Right program calls for 150 homes to be built where levees broke after Hurricane Katrina, letting loose floodwaters that pushed homes off their foundations. This home was holding an open house and Jones was welcoming guests to the party. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
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Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Jonny Gomes pretends to swing a pick-axe during an American League championship series baseball practice Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008, in St. Petersburg, Fla. The Boston Red Sox take on the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 1 on Friday. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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John Riegger hits from a bunker on the 17th hole during the first round of the Texas Open golf tournament, in San Antonio, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Boeing Co. machinists and supporters look on during a rally Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008, outside a Boeing administration building in Seattle. The day hasn't been announced, but Boeing and the striking Machinists union have agreed to resume negotiations in hope of ending the strike, now over a month old The union is demanding better job security, Boeing says it needs flexibility. The strike has idled 27,000 workers, mostly in the Puget Sound region and also in Portland and Wichita. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Iraqis gather in front of Iraqi parliament member Salen al-Ugaili's house during al-Ugaili funeral on October 9, 2008 in the Sadr city district in Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Ugaili, who was a moderate member of parliament from the Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's block, was killed on October 9, 2008 when a bomb exploded near his car in the Sadr city district east of Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo by Wathiq Khuzaie/ Getty Images)
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A broker on ICAP's dealing floor calls for prices on October 9, 2008 in London, England. Share prices are up on the day as markets react to the interest rate cut. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
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Police officers scour the grounds of the city's police headquarters for evidence after a suspected suicide bombing on October 9, 2008, Islamabad, Pakistan. At least eight people were reported injured in the blast after the attacker reportedly detonated inside a building of the anti-terrorist squad at the capitol's main headquarters. (Photo by Warrick Page/ Getty Images)
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A sculpture of the demon god Pazuzu is installed in two parts on the riif of the Institiute of Contemporary Art (ICA) on October 9, 2008 in London. The sculpture forms part of the Suillakku exhibition featuring the work of Italian artist Roberto Cuoghi. The work, in the Lower Gallery at the ICA, takes the form of a huge sound installation in which the artist took an imaginary journey back in time to the sixth century BC to the Mesopotamia of the ancient Assyrians. In this aural landscape visitors to the gallery will be surrounded by the voices of hundreds of people. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
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Zhou Yingkun, newly crowned as the Miss Earth 2008 China, poses during the Miss Earth 2008 Green Environmental Protection Chinese Region pageant final on October 9, 2008 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
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