Sunday, October 4, 2009

Picks Of The Day

Bollywood actresses Mughda Godse and Priyanka Chopra

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Bollywood actresses Mughda Godse (L) and Priyanka Chopra smile during the music launch ceremony of their forthcoming movie 'Jail' at a multiplex in Mumbai October 3, 2009. The movie is directed by Madhur Bhandarkar and is scheduled to be released on November 6. Picture taken October 3, 2009. (Reuters)

A lone makeshift stall in Padang, Indonesia

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A lone makeshift stall stands in front of what used to be a market now ruined by the earthquake on October 4, 2009 in Padang, Indonesia.(AP)

Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova

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Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova looks at the ball as she plays against Zheng Jie of China during the China Open Tennis Tournament in Beijing, China. (AP)

Decommissioned Australian naval warship HMAS Canberra

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Decommissioned Australian naval warship HMAS Canberra is scuttled in an area of Bass Strait inhabited by about 46 other wrecks, known as the Ship's Graveyard, some 100 kilometres south-west of Melbourne. The 138 metre guided-missile frigate acquired by the state of Victoria in 2006 will now become a much sought-after dive site 30 metres below the surface. About 16 charges located in the ship's hull were detonated creating a soft popping noise and a puff of grey smoke before water flowed through pre-made holes in the ship, sinking it in about two minutes. (AFP)

A pagoda in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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Cambodian Buddhist monk enters the pagoda under cloudy weather in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (AP)

Singer Whitney Houston

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Singer Whitney Houston looks on on the German TV game show 'Wetten Dass' (Bet it...?) in Freiburg October 3, 2009. Wetten Dass is one of the most popular Saturday night programmes in Germany. (Reuters)

Promoting awareness for the world march for peace and non-violence

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Attendees form the word 'peace' to promote awareness for the world march for peace and non-violence, on Bondi Beach in Sydney on October 4, 2009. The world march, organised in various countries over a period of 90 days, will be asking for the end of wars, the dismantling of nuclear weapons and for an end to all forms of violence. (AFP)

A replica of the world's best preserved wooly mammoth

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A replica of the world's best preserved wooly mammoth - a 40,000 year old baby named Lyuba who was discovered in Siberia in 2007 - is displayed for the media in a fossil storage room at Chicago's Field Museum on September 30. The Field Museum will be the first in North America to display Lyuba body, which is currently undergoing analysis in Russia, in an exhibit which opens on March 5. (AFP)

Three cheers for tango!

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Couples dance the tango on the street at Boedo neighborhood in Buenos Aires, on October 3, 2009. The United Nations declared the tango tradition of Argentina and Uruguay a world cultural treasure, adding its sultry dance steps and melancholy song lyrics to UNESCO's heritage list. (AFP)

Goodwill Ambassador

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In this photo released by united nations high commissioner for refugees(UNHCR), UNHCR's Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie plays with Nourelhuda, 5, left, on her visit to her family house in Damascus, Syria, on Friday Oct, 2, 2009. (AP)

Lighting Experience Display

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People visit the 'L.E.D.' (Lighting Experience Dis-play) on the Saint Louis bridge over the River Seine as part of the Paris annual round-the-clock culture festival 'Nuit blanche' (White Night) on October 3, 2009. The White Night 2009 is expected to draw at least a million people into the streets to enjoy dusk-til-dawn access to music and modern art venues across the capital. (AFP)

Dalai Lama

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The Dalai Lama presents a scarf to a young follower at the start of his lecture on Oct. 3, 2009 at the Bell Center in Montreal. (AP)

Nascar Series

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Joey Logano, driver of the #20 Game Stop/Our House Party Toyota, crosses the start/finish line to take the checkered flag and win the NASCAR Nationwide Series Kansas Lottery 300 at the Kansas Speedway on October 3, 2009 in Kansas City, Kansas.(AFP)

Incredible Dog Challenge

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Rally, a Pyrenean Shepherd performs with Angela Ewtushik of Ontario, Canada during the Freestyle Flying Disc event at the Incredible Dog Challenge at Purina Farms in Gray Summit, Missouri on October 3, 2009. (REUTERS)

Havana's Malecon sea front

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Cubans are silhouetted as they watch the sunset at Havana's Malecon sea front on October 3, 2009. (REUTERS)

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