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A Palestinian boy rides a horse in front of concrete wall separating the West Bank village of Abu Dis from East Jerusalem January 16, 2004. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
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Porto's players Brazilian midfielder Deco, defender Jorge Costas, forward Paulo Ferreira, goalie Vitor Baia, Brazilian forward Derlei and defender Ricardo Carvalho (LtoR) celebrate their 3-0 victory in the UEFA Champions league Cup final against Monaco at the Arena AufSchalke stadium in the western German city of Gelsenkirchen May 26, 2004. REUTERS/Thomas Bohlen
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A Russian police officer carries a released baby from the school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya (news - web sites), September 2, 2004. An armed gang, holding hundreds of people hostage in a Russian school, on Thursday freed four infants and at least two women. REUTERS/Viktor Korotayev
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Dutch Iranian immigrant Mehdy Kavousi protests against proposed new asylum laws in Zaandijk, the Netherlands with his lips sewn together in this February 11, 2004 file photo. The Dutch lower house of parliament on February 17, 2004, approved plans to expel up to 26,000 failed asylum seekers, a move that would be unprecedented in Europe. REUTERS/Paul Vreeker REUTERS
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger joins other governors in looking toward President George W. Bush as he delivers a speech to Republican governors and party supporters at the annual National Governors Association meeting in Washington, February 23, 2004. Bush, whose public approval ratings have slumped to new lows amid a barrage of Democratic attacks, used tonight's speech as a springboard into the political campaign arena, taking on his Democratic challengers and offering his vision of the future. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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A Palestinian refugee woman wearing a prayer dress looks out from her home at the al-Hussein refugee camp in Amman March 8, 2004. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji
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A wounded man is led to an ambulance after a bomb explosion at a hotel in central Baghdad March 17, 2004. A powerful blast ripped through a Baghdad hotel and neighboring houses killing several people and sending flames and smoke into the night sky in the center of the city. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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Pat Brown from Fermont, West Virginia, dressed in combat gear, wipes away tears as he stands at Omaha Beach, June 2, 2004 while paying tribute to family members who took part in the Allied D-Day landings in Normany. REUTERS/Yves Herman REUTERS
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Britain's four-time Olympic champion Matthew Pinsent (L) is comforted by teammate James Cracknell (R) and Ed Coode (C) during the medals ceremony after the men's fours final at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games August 21, 2004. Pinsent won his fourth gold medal as Britain won with a time of six minutes 06.98 seconds. REUTERS/Kin Cheung
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Chief Rabbi of France Joseph Sitruk (R), is helped by an unidentified member of the Jewish community as he enters the Jewish cemetery of Herrlisheim, May 6, 2004, near a sign desecrated with the slogan 'Jews out'. Some 127 graves desecrated by vandals with Nazi swastikas and anti-semitic slogans written in German were found last April in this graveyard. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler
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An Israeli border policeman fires teargas canister during a protest by Palestinians against the construction of the controversial Israeli security barrier in the West Bank village of Az-Zawiya June 20, 2004. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
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Elderly Hungarian women wearing traditional costume, fill their ballot papers at a polling station in Veresegyhaza, 30km east of Budapest, during European Parliamentary elections June 13, 2004. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh
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Ukrainian sunbathers stand in the sun on a crisp, frosty winter day in Kiev, February 22, 2004. REUTERS/Str
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Real Madrid soccer star David Beckham and his wife Victora leave a ski chalet in Courchevel in the French Alps, April 7, 2004. REUTERS/Robert Pratta
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Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechay Vanunu, flashes a victory sign as he is freed from Shikma jail in Ashkelon after serving an 18-year prison term for revealing secrets that exposed Israel as one of the world's top atomic powers April 21, 2004. REUTERS/ Nir Elias
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Coffins of U.S. military personnel are offloaded at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware in this undated photo. The U.S. Air Force, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, released to Web site http://www.thememoryhole.org on April 14 more than 300 photographs showing the remains of U.S. service members returning home. The Pentagon tightly restricts publication of photographs of coffins with the remains of U.S. troops and has forbidden journalists from taking pictures at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, the first stop for the bodies of troops being sent home. REUTERS/U.S. Air Force/www.thememoryhole.org FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS
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Indonesian Muslim boys hold their sarongs up to let in cool air as they recover from circumcision in East Jakarta on March 25, 2004. A candidate in the June legislative election provided the funds for the mass circumcision and new clothes for more than 60 underprivileged boys. REUTERS/Beawiharta
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British Army troops are covered in flames from a petrol bomb thrown during a violent protest by job seekers, who say they were promised employment in the security services, in the southern Iraq city of Basra March 22, 2004. REUTERS/Atef Hassan
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Livestock officials dressed in bird flu protective gear during a demonstration for a new method of culling poultry by using carbon dioxide gas at a farm in Ayutthaya, 80 km (50 miles) north of Bangkok, August 19, 2004. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang
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Tampa Bay Lightning Brad Richards holds up the Stanley Cup after they defeated the Calgary Flames 2-1 to win the NHL championship in Tampa June 7, 2004. Richards won the Conn Smythe award as the MVP for the series. REUTERS/Shaun Best
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Suspected African illegal immigrants are seated aboard a Spanish Civil Guard after being intercepted off the coast of Fuerteventura in Spain's Canary Islands early February 10, 2004. REUTERS/Carlos Guevara
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An Iraqi Shi'ite supporter of cleric Moqtada Al Sadr celebrates near a burning U.S. Army truck in the Shuala neighborhood of Baghdad April 5, 2004. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz
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Protesters scuffle with police blocking their march toward U.S. embassy in Seoul. Protesters scuffle with police blocking their march toward the U.S. Embassy in Seoul August 15, 2004, during a rally marking 59 years of independence from Japan's colonization. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won
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An ill child, effected by flooding, lies at a hospital in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on August 8, 2004. REUTERS/Mohammed Shahidullah
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Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator John Kerry kite surfs off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts July 20, 2004. REUTERS/Brian Snyder US ELECTION
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An Afghan security guard plays with a dog on a hill overlooking Kabul on September 27, 2004. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan
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Alicja Fiodorow from Poland prepares for the start of Women's 200m-T46 Final during the 12th Paralympic Games in Athens September 27, 2004. REUTERS/John Kolesidis
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Pit crew worker Patrick Shafer, a front tire changer for the number 27 Kleenex/Winn Dixie Pontiac goes flying as the car makes a pit stop during running of the Hershey's Kisses 300 at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida February 14, 2004. Shafer suffered minor injuries and returned to the pit after receiving first aid. REUTERS/Doug Murray
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Greece players led by Traianos Dellas (C) celebrate with the cup after winning the Euro 2004 soccer final in Lisbon July 4, 2004. Greece defeated host Portugal 1-0. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
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Smarty Jones with jockey Stewart Elliot aboard wins at the 130th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky May 1, 2004. REUTERS/John Gress
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An Iraqi detainee gestures toward U.S. soldiers through bars of his cell at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad May 17, 2004. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
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Palestinians throw stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes after a protest of Israeli and Palestinians against the construction of Israel's controversial security barrier in the West Bank town of A-Ram June 26, 2004. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause
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A member of the Ukranian synchronized swimming team performs its free routine during an Olympic Games qualification tournament at the Olympic Aquatic Center of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex (OAKA) April 17, 2004. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
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U.S. Democratic Senator presidential candidate John Kerry peeks from behind the curtain as he is introduced to address a town hall meeting at the University of South Carolina in Columbia January 30, 2004. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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Overall leader and five-time winner of the Tour de France cycling classic, U.S. Postal Service rider Lance Armstrong of the United States raises six fingers to signify six consecutive Tour de France wins at the start of the 20th and final stage of the Tour from Montereau to Paris, July 25, 2004. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard REUTERS
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Iraq's deposed dictator Saddam Hussein appears before an Iraqi tribunal in Iraq July 1, 2004. He refused to recognize its authority and said the 'real criminal' was President Bush. REUTERS/Ho
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U.S. director Michael Moore (C) waves to the crowd as he holds the Palme d'Or for his documentary film 'Fahrenheit 9/11' as Jury President Quentin Tarantino (C Top) applauds with members of the jury during a special red carpet arrival at the 57th Cannes Film Festival, May 23, 2004. Seen on top row, from L-R: Kathleen Turner, Jerry Schatzberg, Emmanuelle Beart, Cannes Film Festival President Gilles Jacob, Tarantino, Edwidge Danticat, Benoit Poelvoorde, and Tilda Swinton. REUTERS/John Schults
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U.S. President George W. Bush negotiates his umbrella in the wind during a rainstorm after stepping off Marine One at Andrews Air Force Base, in Maryland, June 1, 2004. REUTERS/Larry Downing REUTERS
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Actress Charlize Theron from South Africa arrives for the 76th annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, February 29, 2004. REUTERS/Shaun Best
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Spiritual leader and founder of the Islamic movement Hamas Sheikh Ahmed Yassin listen to Imam at al Mojamah mosque during Friday prayer in Gaza January 9,2004. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
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Thirteenth seed Maria Sharapova of Russia raises the trophy after defeating top seed Serena Williams of the U.S. in their final match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, July 3, 2004. Seventeen-year-old Sharapova won the match, which was her first Wimbledon and Grand Slam singles title, 6-1 6-4. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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European Ryder Cup golfers Darren Clarke from Northern Ireland and Ian Poulter (R) from England celebrate with fans after they won the Ryder Cup against the U.S. at the 35th Ryder Cup Matches in Bloomfield, Michigan September 19, 2004. Europe defeated the U.S. 18 1/2 to 9 1/2 to win the cup. REUTERS/Mike Blake
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Iran's Hossein Reza Zadeh lifts during the men's +105 kg weightlifting event at the Athens 2004 Olympics Games August 25, 2004. REUTERS/Andrea Comas
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China's Liu Xiang celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the men's 110 metres hurdle final ahead of France's Ladji Doucoure at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games August 27, 2004. China's Liu Xiang won gold in a time of 12.91 seconds ahead of Terrence Trammel of the U.S. and Cuba's Anier Garcia. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn
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Diver dives from 6m springboard during a free training session in the Olympic aquatic centre in Athens August 5, 2004, eight days before of start of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. REUTERS/Marcelo Del Pozo
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Senegalese children run as locusts spread in the capital Dakar September 1, 2004. REUTERS/Pierre Holtz
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Rescuers carry a wounded man from the rubble of a building demolished by a bomb in the centre of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad June 14, 2004. A suicide car bomber blew himself up on a busy Baghdad street as a convoy of foreigners in civilian cars drove past, partly demolishing a nearby building, police at the scene said. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber PP04100072
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U.S. President George W. Bush is chased by a cicada as he walks up the steps to Air Force One outside of Washington at Andrews Air Force Base, May 25, 2004. The nation's capital was swamped with the once every seventeen-year appearance of the cicadas. REUTERS/Larry Downing
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Racegoers await the start of the first race at Royal Ascot, June 15, 2004. The-five day society and sporting event is a highlight of the British social calendar, with Queen Elizabeth attending most days. REUTERS/Peter Macdiarmid
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Palestinian protester lies on the ground as Israeli border police try to arrest him during a demonstration against the construction of Israel's controversial security barrier in the West Bank village of Biddu April 7, 2004. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
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Gangacharan Rajput, a Congress party worker, threatens to shoot himself if Sonia Gandhi backed out of becoming India's prime minister, outside the party's headquarters in New Delhi May 18, 2004. Police later disarmed the man. Italian-born Gandhi sought on Tuesday to back out from leading the country in a bid to end debate over her foreign birth and bring more allies into the new government, party officials said. REUTERS/Kamal Kishore
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Top seed Roger Federer of Switzerland drops to his knees as he celebrates victory over second seed Andy Roddick of the U.S. in their men's singles final match on Centre Court at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, July 4, 2004. Federer retained his Wimbledon title with a riveting 4-6 7-5 7-6 6-4 victory over Roddick in the men's final on Sunday. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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A Haitian suspected of being a multiple assassin for exiled president Jean Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas party is detained in Petit Goave, Haiti some 50 kilometers south of Port-au-Prince March 3, 2004, three days after the departure of Aristide who sought temporary refuge in the Central African Republic. The man was detained by armed citizens of Petit Goave who proceeded to stone him and then burn him alive. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar
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Socialist Party (PSOE) leader and Prime Ministerial candidate Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero greets supporters at the end of an electoral rally at headquarters of ONCE (Spain's National Organization for the Blind) in Madrid March 10, 2004. Spain will be holding general elections on March 14 with Zapatero and Popular Party (PP) Secretary General Mariano Rajoy as the two main contenders. REUTERS/Susana Vera REUTERS
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Hong Kong singer-actor Nicholas Tse (R) and a cousin of the late canto-pop diva Anita Mui carry a portrait of Mui during her funeral in Hong Kong January 12, 2004. More than a thousand sobbing fans waited for hours outside Hong Kong's main funeral home on Monday to say goodbye to Anita Mui, one of Asia's best loved Cantopop stars whose deep voice ruled local airwaves for years. Mui, the self-styled Asian Madonna, died of cervical cancer on December 30, aged 40. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
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SpaceShipOne pilot Michael Melvill waves from an open window as the launch plane WhiteKnight heads down the runway with SpaceShipOne attached as it begins the historic flight of the world's first privately funded rocket plane beyond Earth's atmosphere at the Mojave Airport in California June 21, 2004. SpaceShipOne, designed by legendary aerospace designer Burt Rutan and funded by billionaire Paul Allen, will fly to a height of 62 miles officially making test pilot Michael Melvill an astronaut. REUTERS/Mike Blake
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A Saudi rescue worker inspects a government building wrecked after a car bomb rocked the Saudi capital of Riyadh, April 21, 2004. A suicide car bomber destroyed a Saudi security forces building in the capital, killing a senior officer and at least nine other people. REUTERS/Sultan al-Fahd PP04100072
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A young muslim girl has two French flags and a headband which reads ' Fraternity' on her headscarf as she march among about 3,000 Sikhs from across Europe protesting on a Paris boulevard to defend their traditional headgear against a looming French ban on religious symbols in state schools, January 31, 2004. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
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Britain's Kelly Holmes celebrates as she crosses the finish line to win gold in the women's 800 meters final at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games August 23, 2004. Britain's Kelly Holmes won the gold medal in a time of one minute 56.38 seconds ahead of Morocco's Hasna Benhassi and Slovenia's Jolanda Ceplak. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
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Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher of Germany celebrates as he wins the French Formula One Grand Prix at the Magny Cours circuit July 4, 2004. Michael Schumacher won ahead Spanish Fernando Alonso and Brazilian Rubens Barrichello who took the third place. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau
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Britain's Paula Radcliffe cries in a vehicle after retiring from the women's Marathon in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games August 22, 2004. Big pre-race favorite Radcliffe failed to finish, breaking down in tears as she slipped back into fourth after just over two hours' running. The Briton tried to re-start but then slumped down by the side of the road, sobbing. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
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Palestinian medics carry four children with the youngest being six month old (R), who were wounded after an Israeli tank fired a shell while they were sleeping at their home, in Beit Lahiya town north of Gaza Strip October 6, 2004. Israeli tanks shelled a town in the northern Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, killing three Palestinians and wounding 10 children in their houses, witnesses and medics said. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem REUTERS
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Standing at his desk in the Oval Office, President George W. Bush receives a phone call from Democratic nominee John Kerry , in which the Senator conceded defeat in the 2004 presidential election, November 3, 2004. Kerry's concession squashed prospects of a lengthy legal challenge and endless ballot counting in Ohio, where the election had been too close to call and delayed the final outcome for hours. EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/Eric Draper/The White House/Handout
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai is seen talking on the phone in Nyeri; 160 Km east of Kenya's capital Nairobi soon after she was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize October 8, 2004. She is the first African woman to win such an award for aiding the continent's poor with a campaign to plant millions of trees to slow down deforestation. 'Peace on earth depends on our ability to secure our living environment', the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Ole Danbolt Mjoes said in announcing the winner. He praised her 'contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace'. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya REUTERS
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A man carries a boy who was injured in a school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya, September 3, 2004. Up to 100 bodies were seen lying in a Russian school gymnasium after troops stormed the building to end a two-day siege, a British ITV News reporter said on Friday, after Russian soldiers battled Chechen separatists to end the two-day-old school siege as naked children ran out screaming amid explosions and machinegun fire. REUTERS/Eduard Kornienko REUTERS
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A man is rescued from the rubble after a bomb explosion at Mount Lebanon hotel in central Baghdad March 17, 2004. The blast on Wednesday evening was probably caused by a car bomb and killed at least 25 people, with at least 45 wounded, U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Peter Jones said at the scene. REUTERS/Ammar Awad REUTERS
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England's David Beckham reacts during their Group B Euro 2004 soccer match against France at the Luz Stadium in Lisbon, June 13, 2004. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
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Flowers, notes, and photos of Christopher Reeve and wife Dana and a Superman doll mark the Hollywood Walk of Fame star of 'Superman' actor Christopher Reeve in Hollywood October 11, 2004. Reeve died in a New York hospital of heart failure October 10, 2004, his publicist said on October 11, 2004. Reeve, 52, went into a coma on October 9, when he suffered a heart attack during treatment for an infected pressure wound and died in the afternoon October 10. Reeve was paralyzed when he fell from a horse in 1995. REUTERS/Fred Prouser
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U.S. President George W. Bush and Democratic presidential nominee Senator John Kerry turn away from each other after their second debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in this October 8, 2004 file photo.The White House rivals face a frantic sprint to the finish, hunting for votes in fewer than 10 battleground states that hold the key to a win on Tuesday. REUTERS/Jim Bourg US ELECTION
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Terry Fry sits in front of his home which was devistated by hurricane Charlie in Port Charlotte, Florida, August 14, 2004. Fry protects his home with a twelve guage shotgun and a sign to scare off looters. REUTERS/Marc Serota
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An Iranian asylum seeker known only as Hassan screams in pain after setting himself on fire outside the UNHCR office in Kuala Lumpur, January 27, 2004. Hassan torched himself on Tuesday after failing to obtain political asylum and was due to be sent back. Hassan survived the self immolation and was sent to the hospital for treatment. MALAYSIA OUT REUTERS
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An artist from the Canadian circus 'Cirque du Soleil' kisses Pope John Paul II's hand during his weekly audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican November 10, 2004. The Pope has today splits his audience in two parts, starting from St. Peter's Basilica for the faithful speaking English root language and continuing in Paul VI hall for the rest of the world. REUTERS/Max Rossi REUTERS
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ATTENTION EDITORS; VISUALS COVERAGE OF SCENES OF DEATH AND INJURY. A woman grieves over the body of her child killed when Russian troops stormed a school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya , September 3, 2004. Russian soldiers battled Chechen separatists on Friday to end a two-day-old school siege as naked children ran out screaming amid explosions and machinegun fire. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin REUTERS
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Twenty-year-old Chris Paulette walks along a five foot in diameter oak tree that split his house in half as Tropical Storm Jeanne passed through Tallahassee, Florida in the early morning hours of September 27, 2004. Paulette was pulled from his bed under the wood and insulation that buried him in his bedroom inside the window at right by roommates. REUTERS/Mark Wallheiser
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Brazilian firemen try in vain to save a humpback whale that became stranded on Jurujuba beach, in the Rio de Janeiro suburb of Niteroi, August 10, 2004. The whale died after the firemen failed for the third straight day to tow the whale off the beach. Rio's famous Sugar Loaf mountain can be seen in the background at right. REUTERS/Bruno Domingos REUTERS
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A Ukrainian woman places carnations into the shields of anti-riot policemen standing outside the presidential office in Kiev, November 24, 2004. Ukraine's authorities raised the stakes in a face-off with their liberal opposition on Wednesday as they prepared to announce results of a disputed election that are likely to infuriate thousands of protesters in the streets. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
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A Sudanese girl is embraced by her sister at Abushouk camp near El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, November 23, 2004. Fresh fighting around the town of Tawilla on Tuesday drove people from their villages, with some arriving at Abushouk camp, which is home to more than 45,000 people who have fled violence in western Sudan's troubled Darfur region. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly REUTERS
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Homes in Sunset Lakes are in the path of flames and smoke of a giant brush fire in Miramar, Florida, March 18, 2004. The huge fire has been burning out of control since Sunday with well over 100 acres gone, and the fire is now dangerously close to several thousand homes. REUTERS/Marc Serota
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Palestinian security officers protect the coffin late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, inside Arafat's compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, November 12, 2004. Yasser Arafat was buried on Friday in a chaotic scene of grief and gunfire at the compound where he spent his final years encircled by the Israeli army and powerless to realise his dream of a Palestinian state. REUTERS/Oleg Popov
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Could this thread contain copy righted material? It looks very much so, and if so, it can give John trouble.
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Post by Plato »

An amazing set images.....what a world we live in
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Very biased, though.
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On 2004-12-11 06:58, Immanuel wrote:
Very biased, though.
What is missing, or what makes it biased ? Am very interested to know...

( Edit: And yes all these images are copyright and would definitely break all web publishing copyright agreements I'm familar with to show them here. Adding an attribution is definitely not sufficient. On the other hand Reuters probably wouldn't care that much... )

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Bias: A very high focus on terrorism and war and then some sport. Maybe do a count of how many pictures are from Israel/Palestine. Then compare it to how many people live there. How much of the former USSR was covered? Beslan (because it was related to terrorism)! How much of South America was covered? China? India?

I wouldn't call the a picture of 2004. I would call this a picture of political chrises in 2004 (of which the West related to).

Did you count how many politicians where mentioned how many times ... and from what part of the world they come?

Now if you want to show where people actually do kill eachother, then look inside USA. Americans kill far more americans, than all other nations combined. Or go to the streets and the highways. Car accidents are a mayor cause of death too. Why where no alcoholics shown? Many of those people live a humble life. If you want to show pain, why didn't we see any pictures from mental clinics? If you want to show love ... wait a minutte ... we don't want to show too much love (it apears)!

Most of the stuff shown didn't reflect "my" world anyway. It reflected, what the media tells me is my world, but really to be honnest ... terrorism is much less my world, than a lot of the things I mentioned above. The US election shure is "my" world, because USA are everywhere, and has an important place in world politics. B.t.w. China got a new leader this year. Didn't see anything about that.

What happened to hunger? What happened to AIDS? More than 30 million people have AIDS. What abour poor people? Is it 1 billion people living for less than a dollar or so a day?

Really, interesting and highly relevant to the people involved as those pictures are, they do sum up to be a vrey biased picture of the world in 2004.
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I don't think Bingo tried to assemble the definitive history of 2004 in images, He has posted a number of images that I suppose caught his eye for some reason - who says his choice of images has to reflect your view of the world ?

Yes, they may tend to portrait a set of conflicts more than others, so what ? If I want to see images of other conflicts or themes there are plenty of places to go...

Just my dime
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Immanuel, you should look at the pictures again, cuz like almost 1 in 4 I would say relate to poor/suffering people :razz:. If those people trying to push the whale back into the sea isn't love, then I don't know what is.

And you probably didn't hear about the new leader in China, since in China they don't make a huge media circus out of it :razz:. Probably a bit of a circus still, it's politics after all :razz:.

But yeah, being a *Reuters* picture of the year 2004 thing, it might be a bit westerned-biased :razz:. All pictures are biased anyway, I thought that was the whole point in fact, the ability to share perspectives/points of view/etc.

Also you make a great point in that sometimes, you have to wonder what's going behind our backs, that we don't hear on the news.

Anyway my fav picture is definitely the Cirque du Soleil clown + Pope one. It's great!
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On 2004-12-11 16:02, Stubbe wrote:
I don't think Bingo tried to assemble the definitive history of 2004 in images, He has posted a number of images that I suppose caught his eye for some reason - who says his choice of images has to reflect your view of the world ?

Yes, they may tend to portrait a set of conflicts more than others, so what ? If I want to see images of other conflicts or themes there are plenty of places to go...

Just my dime
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Ok, I may have misunderstood the purpose and background of the thread. I somehow asumed, that it was some kind of copy/pase-ish thing from a Reuter's summing up 2004 article. I stand corrected.
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And I asked Immanuel what he thought was missing and he told us.

Personally I would have liked to see a few space shots: Mars & Saturn. They were real achievements of humanity.
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Well, get 'em in here then ! :wink:

Haven't got a clue on the copyright issue, but clearly marking the source as Bingo does, can not hurt... ?
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Marking the source is good, but in no way covers their legal use. Reuters hit companies for very large sums of money for the right to reprint their pics as hardcopy or to use them online. But as I said, they probably don't care too much about use on 'small websites' :wink: they have too much else to police.
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Thank god - there are always "critcal" journalists who do that just for da money.
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and respect the life of the victims etc.
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Thanks Bingo
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i think those pictures are very political, biased, and reflect some of what makes those last years extreme.

as an israeli, i am a bit offended that only suffering palestinians are shown, and israeli army opressing them. why not show some bombing victims from the israeli side and some palestinian terorists cought in action?

i am a peace loving person but i must say that these pictures have generated negative feelings in me that do not relate to empathy or good will, but more of provocation that got even a non political person (or shall i say infra political) react to them.

i dont welcome extreme views in any direction not to the right and not to the left. its the extreme sides who make the wars happen and fight for principals.

to me, its both side's fault, in iraq, the middle east and russia. too bad those pictures have shown only one side of each struggle. where i live reality is not divided into black or white, and not to bad guys or good guys. i live in the gray zone. where things are more complex than they seem on tv.

besides, it seems strange to me that after all this forum has been through, political provocations are still happening here.

please dont take it personaly. the pictures have just created an emotional reaction i wanted to share.

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How on Earth is the synchronized swimmer doing that?! :???:

*baffled*

That's my fave pic of the bunch.
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On 2004-12-15 20:06, ReD_MuZe wrote:
i think those pictures are very political, biased, and reflect some of what makes those last years extreme.

as an israeli, i am a bit offended that only suffering palestinians are shown, and israeli army opressing them. why not show some bombing victims from the israeli side and some palestinian terorists cought in action?

i am a peace loving person but i must say that these pictures have generated negative feelings in me that do not relate to empathy or good will, but more of provocation that got even a non political person (or shall i say infra political) react to them.

i dont welcome extreme views in any direction not to the right and not to the left. its the extreme sides who make the wars happen and fight for principals.

to me, its both side's fault, in iraq, the middle east and russia. too bad those pictures have shown only one side of each struggle. where i live reality is not divided into black or white, and not to bad guys or good guys. i live in the gray zone. where things are more complex than they seem on tv.

besides, it seems strange to me that after all this forum has been through, political provocations are still happening here.

please dont take it personaly. the pictures have just created an emotional reaction i wanted to share.

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News media should have the function of opening our minds. As you just (kind of) explained they do, however, often just help os keeping a narrow mind. It has been a long time since I last heard a word from a person "in the zone", who has the capacity to see the conflict as two-sided. Unfortunately we (in Denmark, anyhow) see too many extremists ... from both sides. I have often thought how strange it is, that some people up here feel capable of taking a stance. All we "know" is filtered information consisting of lies, truth and speculations ... and how to judge?
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On 2004-12-16 04:53, Counterparts wrote:
How on Earth is the synchronized swimmer doing that?! :???:
Prunes :grin:
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