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Rodney King Found Dead At His Home
FILE – This April 13, 2012 photo shows Rodney King posing for a portrait in Los Angeles. King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation’s history, has died, his publicist said…
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Fly High to Catch Frisbee
A dog catches a frisbee during the Flydogs Extreme Distance Frisbee European Championships held in Budapest, Hungary, June 16, 2012. <Xinhua/Attila Volgyi> news@theasian.asia
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Himalayas, The World’s Highest Garbage Dump
Photo taken on May 22, 2010 shows cleaners collecting wastes at the Sagarmatha (Mt. Qomolangma) National Park in Nepal. Since human beings first conquered Mt. Qomolangma, the world’s highest mountain, people have expressed concern about its environment as lots of human wastes, climbing gears and other rubbish were discarded on…
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Suu Kyi: “Nobel Peace Prize shattered my isolation”
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, holds her speech during the Peace Nobel Prize lecture at the city hall in Oslo, Saturday, June 16, 2012. Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Nobel peace prize laureate, formally accepts the prize that thrust her into the global limelight two decades…
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Stunt Man Walks Over Niagara Falls on Tightrope
Nik Wallenda walks over Niagara Falls on a tightrope in Niagara Falls, Ontario, on Friday, June 15, 2012. Wallenda has finished his attempt to become the first person to walk on a tightrope 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of roaring Niagara Falls. The seventh-generation member of the famed Flying…
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OPEC Tug of War
In this file photo of Friday, July 17, 2009, an Iraqi worker operates valves at the Nahran Omar oil refinery near the city of Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq’s rapidly expanding oil production is likely to complicate OPEC’s efforts to influence world prices as the…
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Shite Pilgrims Flock to Commemorate Saint’s Death
Shiite pilgrims gather at the Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine during the annual commemoration of the saint’s death in the Shiite district of Kazimiyah, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, June 15, 2012. <AP/Newsis> news@theasian.asia
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