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Traffic is seen bumper to bumper in the South Korean capital, ...

(AFP) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:53:00 GMT

(AFP) - Traffic is seen bumper to bumper in the South Korean capital, Seoul. A 68-year-old woman in the country has passed the written test for her driving licence after 950 attempts. Photo:/AFP

Spectators look down from building terraces as confettie falls ...

(The Canadian Press) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:06:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Spectators look down from building terraces as confettie falls during a ticker-tape parade along Broadway celebrating the New York Yankees 27th World Series championship on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, in New York. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Julie Jacobson

Representative Mike Pence speaks during a news conference at ...

(AFP) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:20:00 GMT

(AFP) - Representative Mike Pence speaks during a news conference at the US Capitol in November 5. US President Barack Obama's Democratic allies got an unlikely vote of confidence Saturday, as Pence prematurely declared defeat in the fight over remaking US health care. Photo:Kris Connor/AFP

File picture shows a butcher behind his counter in London. A ...

(AFP) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:44:00 GMT

(AFP) - File picture shows a butcher behind his counter in London. A butcher who received a medal from Queen Elizabeth II kept his trusty pen tucked behind his ear throughout the ceremony, newspapers reported Saturday. Photo:Sinead Lynch/AFP

An elephant that escaped from the Family Fun Circus at the Garfield ...

(The Canadian Press) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:36:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - An elephant that escaped from the Family Fun Circus at the Garfield County Fairgrounds after being spooked caused a vehicle accident Wednesday night, Nov. 4, 2009 as it ran along North the U.S. 81 bypass in Enid, Okla. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Enid News & Eagle, Billy Hefton)

Paris's Louvre museum on Thursday launched an application giving ...

(AFP) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:38:00 GMT

(AFP) - Paris's Louvre museum on Thursday launched an application giving Apple iPhone and iPod touch users access to its collections including Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, seen here. Photo:Jean-Pierre Muller/AFP

An angry man threw a boot at former Australian prime minister ...

(AFP) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:06:00 GMT

(AFP) - An angry man threw a boot at former Australian prime minister John Howard, seen here in 2007, during a debate at Cambridge University. Photo:Greg Wood/AFP

China's Ambassador to the United Kingdom Fu Ying, seen here ...

(AFP) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:06:00 GMT

(AFP) - China's Ambassador to the United Kingdom Fu Ying, seen here in 2008, revealed she is a fan of hit TV talent show 'The X Factor' -- even though some of her embassy colleagues have complained about living near the show's contestants. Photo:Ian Walton/AFP

Condoms are displayed at an international 'family-planning' ...

(AFP) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:06:00 GMT

(AFP) - Condoms are displayed at an international 'family-planning' expo in Beijing in April 2009. A Chinese collector of Olympic memorabilia will put some of his mementos on the auction block later this month, including a batch of 5,000 condoms given to competitors at the 2008 Beijing Games. Photo:/AFP

A boy plays cricket in 2008. A 12-year-old has scored 439 runs ...

(AFP) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:06:00 GMT

(AFP) - A boy plays cricket in 2008. A 12-year-old has scored 439 runs in a school cricket tournament in Mumbai that was used as a launch pad for the career of current Indian superstar Sachin Tendulkar, local media reported on Thursday. Photo:Shah Marai/AFP

Palestinian souvenir shop owner Tareq Abu Daia shows an embroidery ...

(AFP) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:15:00 GMT

(AFP) - Palestinian souvenir shop owner Tareq Abu Daia shows an embroidery scarf bearing the name of South African judgeRichard Goldstone on sale at his store in Gaza City. The UN General Assembly is scheduled to discuss the controversial UN Goldstone report on Israel?s 22-day war against Palestinian militants in Gaza. Photo:Marco Longari/AFP

Professor Hanoch Gutfreund from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

(AFP) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:26:00 GMT

(AFP) - Professor Hanoch Gutfreund from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem lectures commuters on a morning train from the suburban community of Modiin to Tel Aviv on 'Einstein's love letters.' Photo:Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP

A French chef who is a favourite of President Nicolas Sarkozy ...

(AFP) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:12:00 GMT

(AFP) - A French chef who is a favourite of President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday was out cooking for the masses. Eric Frechon, the 3-star chef of the restaurant Bristol gave free cooking lessons in the Paris metro station of Miromesnil. He was part of a three day program run by the transport system. He chose the plebein carrot, as one of his main ingredients. Duration: 01:07 Photo:/AFP

Hotel Bristol's Eric Frechon cooks for members of the public ...

(AFP) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:12:00 GMT

(AFP) - Hotel Bristol's Eric Frechon cooks for members of the public on the Paris underground. The chefs cooked up a treat for a crowd of commuters in a bid to prove haute cuisine can be cheap and simple. Photo:Thomas Coex/AFP

A view of Marilyn Monroe's crypt in the Westwood Memorial Park ...

(AFP) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:54:00 GMT

(AFP) - A view of Marilyn Monroe's crypt in the Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California. A legion of male admirers found her irresistible before her death but Marilyn Monroe has not been able to exert the same kind of pull in the afterlife. Photo:Gabriel Bouys/AFP

Members of the hardline Al Shabaab Islamist rebel group sit ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:02:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Members of the hardline Al Shabaab Islamist rebel group sit on a pick-up during a demonstration in Mogadishu, October 30, 2009. REUTERS/Omar Faruk

A man tries out the new iPhone 3GS on the first day it is being ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A man tries out the new iPhone 3GS on the first day it is being sold in Spain at the company's store in downtown Madrid June 19, 2009. REUTERS/Susana Vera

A man exercises at a fitness center in 2008. A man who wore ...

(AFP) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:18:00 GMT

(AFP) - A man exercises at a fitness center in 2008. A man who wore women's clothing to use his dead wife's gym membership has appeared in a Hong Kong court, a report said Tuesday. Photo:Fabrice Coffrini/AFP

Governor Benigno Fitial of the Northern Mariana Islands, pictured ...

(AFP) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:10:00 GMT

(AFP) - Governor Benigno Fitial of the Northern Mariana Islands, pictured in January 2009, is driving himself after his chauffeur-bodyguard pleaded guilty to dealing drugs from the official car. Photo:/AFP

A crashed car in France in July 2009. A seven-year-old Australian ...

(AFP) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:10:00 GMT

(AFP) - A crashed car in France in July 2009. A seven-year-old Australian boy 'redefined the word lucky' Tuesday when he managed to escape from an out-of-control car moments before it plunged off a cliff, police said. Photo:/AFP

Yeoman Warder Moira Cameron, the first female Beefeater starts ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:43:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Yeoman Warder Moira Cameron, the first female Beefeater starts work at the Tower of London September 3, 2007. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

In this photo dated Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009, Poland's President ...

(The Canadian Press) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:02:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - In this photo dated Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009, Poland's President Lech Kaczynski looks at the fountain pen which would not write, during a ceremony of Poland signing the European Union reform treaty. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Czarek Sokolowski)

The crypt of Marilyn Monroe is pictured at the Pierce Brothers ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:34:00 GMT

(Reuters) - The crypt of Marilyn Monroe is pictured at the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park cemetery in Westwood, California August 17, 2009. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

Maldives' cabinet met underwater on October 17 to draw attention ...

(AFP) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:12:00 GMT

(AFP) - Maldives' cabinet met underwater on October 17 to draw attention to the dangers of global warming for the island nation. Nepal is to hold a cabinet meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the impact of global warming on the Himalayas ahead of next month's climate change talks in Copenhagen, a minister has said. Photo:Ho/AFP

The view from Everest Base Camp towards the summit of Mount ...

(AFP) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:12:00 GMT

(AFP) - The view from Everest Base Camp towards the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal. Nepal is to hold a cabinet meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the impact of global warming on the Himalayas ahead of next month's climate change talks in Copenhagen, a minister has said. Photo:Str/AFP

A hippopotamus swims in a pond. The latest export from the land ...

(AFP) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:57:00 GMT

(AFP) - A hippopotamus swims in a pond. The latest export from the land of milk and honey is a grass-chomping mammal that hangs out in rivers and lakes and is apparently hard to sedate. Photo:Henning Kaiser/AFP

File photo shows a TV screen in a taxi in Seoul. A South Korean ...

(AFP) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:33:00 GMT

(AFP) - File photo shows a TV screen in a taxi in Seoul. A South Korean court has rejected an attempt to prosecute Seoul taxi drivers for one of their scariest habits -- watching television while driving. Photo:Jung Yeon-Je/AFP

A Hong Kong firm has launched a series of television commercials ...

(AFP) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:31:00 GMT

(AFP) - A Hong Kong firm has launched a series of television commercials offering personal loans in exchange for ladies' luxury handbags. Yes Lady Finance will pay cash-strapped socialites up to 70% of the bag's value with 28% annualised interest, according to South China Morning Post. Photo:Pierre Verdy/AFP

Chef Matthew Mitnitsky cheers after breaking the world record ...

(The Canadian Press) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:03:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Chef Matthew Mitnitsky cheers after breaking the world record for the largest meatball in Concord, N.H., Sunday, Nov. 1,2009.(THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Jim Cole)

An Aymara native throws petals on to a 'natita' skull during ...

(AFP) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:01:00 GMT

(AFP) - An Aymara native throws petals on to a 'natita' skull during a traditional indigenous ritual in La Paz in 2006. Bolivia's Catholic church has called on the faithful to stop using human skulls at special Mass celebrations, a practice they link to occult powers. Photo:Aizar Raldes/AFP

Vicenza player Michele Ferri , pictured in 2002, was twice ordered ...

(AFP) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:44:00 GMT

(AFP) - Vicenza player Michele Ferri , pictured in 2002, was twice ordered from the field by the referee during his team's Serie B match away to Modena on Saturday but still finished the game. Photo:/AFP

Consumers flock to a McDonald's fast-food reastaurant in Reykjavik. ...

(AFP) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:32:00 GMT

(AFP) - Consumers flock to a McDonald's fast-food reastaurant in Reykjavik. Noisy crowds, long queues, and traffic jams plunged McDonald's restaurants in Iceland into a state of siege Saturday, as the chain served its final burgers on the island. Photo:Halldor Kolbeins/AFP

Actor George Clooney, seen here on October 17, is listed as ...

(AFP) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:40:00 GMT

(AFP) - Actor George Clooney, seen here on October 17, is listed as having been cleared through the White House gates. Clooney visited the administration in February to lobby for more action on Darfur. Photo:Tiziana Fabi/AFP

US President Barack Obama seen here in the Diplomatic Reception ...

(AFP) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:40:00 GMT

(AFP) - US President Barack Obama seen here in the Diplomatic Reception room at the White House in Washington, DC. Famous names, and others, were thrown up in an exercise in government transparency Friday, when the Obama administration released the first 500 names on a list of the 100,000 people cleared to visit the White House every year. Photo:Jewel Samad/AFP

A US military officer who fled Vietnam as a boy and was picked ...

(AFP) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:24:00 GMT

(AFP) - A US military officer who fled Vietnam as a boy and was picked up by an American ship will soon visit the country in command of a destroyer, the US Navy said on Friday. Photo:/AFP

Ashley and Darrin Lindeman, stand with their daughter, Lacee, ...

(CP) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:45:03 GMT

(CP) - Ashley and Darrin Lindeman, stand with their daughter, Lacee, 2, behind a decomposing Halloween pumpkin on the front porch railing at their home in Delphos, Ohio. The Lindemans carved and displayed the pumpkin 17 days ago. (AP Photo/The Lima News, Kelli Cardinal)

A Guiness World Records judge measures the world biggest tiramisu ...

(AFP) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:02:00 GMT

(AFP) - A Guiness World Records judge measures the world biggest tiramisu during the third edition of a chocolate and taste fair in Villeurbanne, near Lyon. Chefs rustled up the world's biggest tiramisu at a food festival in France on Friday, whipping buckets full of eggs, cream, sugar and cocoa into a tonne of the finger-licking Italian treat. Photo:Philippe Merle/AFP

A traffic jam at a north Hollywood intersection in a file photo. ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:47:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A traffic jam at a north Hollywood intersection in a file photo. REUTERS/Gene Blevins

In this Monday, Oct. 20, 2009 file photo, the motorized La-Z-Boy ...

(The Canadian Press) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:30:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - In this Monday, Oct. 20, 2009 file photo, the motorized La-Z-Boy chair driven by Dennis Anderson of Proctor when he hit a parked vehicle in August of 2008 is seen. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Proctor Police Department via Duluth News Trubune, File)

People shop for Halloween costumes at store in Washington on ...

(AFP) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:28:00 GMT

(AFP) - People shop for Halloween costumes at store in Washington on October 12. An off-duty police officer faced criminal charges and possible suspension after pointing his service revolver at an actor playing a zombie at a Halloween-themed haunted house, officials said Thursday. Photo:Jewel Samad/AFP

Policemen are reflected in a car window in July 2009, in Italy. ...

(AFP) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:03:00 GMT

(AFP) - Policemen are reflected in a car window in July 2009, in Italy. Local authorities of Swiss border town Chiasso, called Thursday on inhabitants to help police sniff out spies on Swiss territory, two days after Italian police raided several Swiss banks. Photo:Mario Laporta/AFP

Members of GPIN conduct an excersise on the Rhone near Lyon ...

(AFP) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:47:00 GMT

(AFP) - Members of GPIN conduct an excersise on the Rhone near Lyon on October 10. A young Albanian has been jailed for stealing a boat in the inland French city of Lyon and embarking on a bid to sail it down the Rhone and through the Mediterranean and Atlantic to England. Photo:Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP

Cans on display in a grocery store in 2006. Bulgarian police ...

(AFP) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:13:00 GMT

(AFP) - Cans on display in a grocery store in 2006. Bulgarian police in the central city of Plovdiv have seized just over 50 kilogrammes (110 pounds) of heroin, hidden in cans of sauerkraut, prosecutors said Thursday. Photo:Tim Boyle/AFP

The Aseman Airlines Boeing plane in 2008. A worried Iranian ...

(AFP) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:13:00 GMT

(AFP) - The Aseman Airlines Boeing plane in 2008. A worried Iranian airline pilot from the Aseman Airlines air company asked passengers to start praying after his plane was hit by a technical glitch early on Thursday, highlighting once again the notorious record of Tehran's aircraft. Photo:Marwan Naamani/AFP

Nick Smith (L) gives British Prince Andrew (R) a maori greeting ...

(AFP) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:10:00 GMT

(AFP) - Nick Smith (L) gives British Prince Andrew (R) a maori greeting in 2005. A New Zealand artist has sculpted the head of the government's environment minister, Smith, out of cow dung in a conservation protest. The artist said Thursday he was upset about plans to dam a local river and the pollution of waterways by effluent from dairy farms. Photo:Dean Treml/AFP

Map of Somalia. A man claiming to be 112 has married a 17-year-old ...

(AFP) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:10:00 GMT

(AFP) - Map of Somalia. A man claiming to be 112 has married a 17-year-old at a ceremony in central Somalia, his sixth wedding in total but his first in three quarters of a century. Photo:/AFP

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (pictured) raised ...

(AFP) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:19:00 GMT

(AFP) - California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (pictured) raised more than a few eyebrows with the wording of a recent letter to a political opponent announcing his intention to veto financing for a San Francisco waterfront project. Read vertically, the first letter of each line spelt an obscene two-word insult, the first word beginning with 'F' and the second word being 'You.' Photo:David Mcnew/AFP

This photo provided by the Bensalem Police Department shows ...

(The Canadian Press) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:40:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - This photo provided by the Bensalem Police Department shows Susan Finkelstein. Police in the Philadelphia suburb say they've arrested Finkelstein for allegedly offering sex for World Series tickets. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Bensalem Police Department)

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick ...

(The Canadian Press) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:17:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Israeli waitress Lin Tabachnik (L) reads the coffee grounds ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:26:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Israeli waitress Lin Tabachnik (L) reads the coffee grounds of customer Asaf Mor at a coffee shop in Tel Aviv October 27, 2009. The recently launched service, provided free of charge with a cup of coffee, is part of a campaign to boost the coffee chain's sales in the highly competitive Israeli market. REUTERS/Amir Cohen