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Joan Roma of Spain has won Monday's eighth stage of the Dakar Rally in the car category, while Stephane Peterhansel finished fourth, to keep the overall lead, two days after a stage was canceled because of a snowed-in Andes pass. his is the fourth consecutive year the race is being held in South America. It had been run in Europe and Africa until the 2008 race was canceled because of fears of terrorism. The rally moved to South America the next year. he past three years the race consisted of loop courses from Buenos Aires to Chile and back to Buenos Aires. This year the race began in Argentina, passes through Chile and finishes in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 15. Spain's biker Marc Coma checks his KTM during the eighth stage of the 2012 Argentina-Chile-Peru Dakar Rally at the Atacama desert between Copiapo and Antofagasta in Chile, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012. Poland's Rafal Sonik races his Yamaha quad in the fourth stage of the 2012 Argentina-Chile-Peru Dakar Rally between San Juan and Chilecito, Argentina, Wednesday Jan. 4, 2012. Hummer driver Robby Gordon and co-driver Johnny Campbell, both of the U.S., compete in the third stage of the 2012 Argentina-Chile-Peru Dakar Rally between San Rafael and San Juan, Argentina. |
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From an Indian baker preparing vermicelli, to weddings in China, here is a look at daily life in other nations as seen through the eyes of photographers who work for the Associated Press. An elderly Nepalese man smokes as he sits in front of a closed shop which has writings made during the recently concluded Dashain festival at Bhaktapur, outskirts of Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Oct.10, 2011. People believe making these writings in front of their shops and homes brings good luck. People enjoy thermal water in the ruins of the ancient baths at Tiermas while covering their bodies with mud in Yesa, northern Spain, Saturday Oct.1, 2011. A man carries ducks he bought at a roadside market in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2011. |
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From the titans of high technology to teenagers armed with iPads, millions of people around the world mourned digital-gadget genius Steve Jobs as a man whose wizardry transformed their lives in big ways and small. Google, Sony, Samsung, Microsoft -- corporate giants that have all been bruised in dustups with Jobs' baby, the technology prodigy Apple -- put their rivalries aside Thursday to remember the man behind the iconic products that define his generation: the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad. Fans for whom the Apple brand became a near-religion grasped for comparisons to history's great innovators, as well as its celebrities, to honor the man they credit with putting thousands of songs and the Internet in their pockets. In this Jan. 15, 2008, file photo, Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up the new MacBook Air after giving the keynote address at the Apple MacWorld Conference in San Francisco. A message is written on the window of the Apple Store in Santa Monica, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. |
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The mayor of Munich tapped the first keg to kick off the 178th traditional German folk festival Oktoberfest last Saturday. More than six million guests from around the world are expected to descend on the beer tents of Munich to celebrate Oktoberfest which runs until Oct. 3.Last year's visitors consumed some 7.1 million 2-pint (1-liter) mugs of beer. German authorities have increased the security around the fairgrounds this year, although they say no concrete threat exists. A waitress serves ten full large mugs of Spaten beer at the opening of the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011. The 178th edition of the world's biggest beer festival, which is expected to attract around six million visitors, runs until October 3. Young people lift up their beer steins after the official opening of the famous Bavarian "Oktoberfest" beer festival in a beer tent in Munich, southern Germany, on Saturday, Sept.17, 2011. A young woman poses with a beer mug in the Hofbraeuhaus-tent after the opening of the famous Bavarian "Oktoberfest" beer festival in a beer tent in Munich, southern Germany, on Saturday, Sept.17, 2011. |
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Muslims around the world are observing the holy month of Ramadan which runs this year from Aug. 1 to Aug. 30. During Ramadan, observant Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and having sex from dawn to dusk. An Indian Muslim prays after breaking the Ramadan fast at the Jama Masjid in New Delhi, India, Friday, Aug. 5, 2011. Muslims around the world are marking the holy fasting month of Ramadan, where the devout fast from dawn until dusk. Students attend an afternoon prayer at an Islamic boarding school in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011. An Indonesian Muslim man reads the Quran during the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadhan at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Aug. 1, 2011. |
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Associated Press photojournalist David Goldman produced a compelling body of work in July covering U.S. troops in Afghanistan. From a mountain-top outpost called The Shrine to the a combat outpost called Pirtle King, his images show dramatic action as well as the quieter moments of life while deployed in the Helmand and Kunar provinces. U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Kurtis Langstraat, 20, of Loughlin, Nev., with the 7th Engineer Support Battalion based in Camp Pendleton, Calif., reacts after receiving mail packages from his Mom and Grandfather Friday, July 15, 2011 at Combat Out Post Shir Ghazay in Helmand province, Afghanistan. It was the second time in three months the Marines have been able to receive mail. The U.S. Army's Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Cassidy, 36, of Dothan, Ala., left, and U.S Air Force's Capt. Andrew Hunter, 31, of Charlestown, S.C., right, catch some rest aboard a military transport flight Monday, July 11, 2011 out of Forward Operating Base Fenty in Kunar province, Afghanistan. U.S. Marine Sgt. Ron Jojola, 29, of Fontana, Calif., with the HMH-461 squadron out of the Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., hangs a new American flag inside a CH-53E helicopter before taking off from Bastion Air Field. |
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Britain began flooding London's streets with 16,000 police officers Tuesday, tripling their presence as the nation feared its worst rioting in a generation would stretch into a fourth night. The violence has turned buildings into burnt out carcasses, triggered massive looting and spread to other U.K. cities. Police said they were working full-tilt, but found themselves under attack -- from rioters roaming the streets, from a scared and worried public, and from politicians whose cost-cutting is squeezing police numbers ahead of next year's Olympic Games. London's Metropolitan Police force vowed an unprecedented operation to stop more rioting, flooding the streets Tuesday with 16,000 officers over the next 24 hours, nearly three times Monday's total. Although the riots started Saturday with a protest over a police shooting, they have morphed into a general lawlessness that police have struggled to halt with ordinary tactics. The riots and looting caused heartache for Londoners whose businesses and homes were torched or looted, and a crisis for police and politicians already staggering from a spluttering economy and a scandal over illegal phone hacking by a tabloid newspaper that has dragged in senior politicians and police. London residents wait to be allowed through a police cordon to help council workers with the clear up after the rioting that took place the previous night outside Clapham Junction railway station in Battersea, London, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011. Britons swept up, patched up and feared further violence Tuesday, demanding police do more to protect them after three nights of rioting left trails of looted stores, wrecked cars and burned buildings across London and several other cities. An employee of a looted shop cleans up debris in the aftermath of riots in the Clapham area of London Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011. London mayor Boris Johnson, front center, walks away after addressing local residents waiting to be allowed through a police cordon to help council workers with the clear up at after the rioting that took place the previous night outside Clapham Junction railway station in Battersea, London, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011. |
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New unrest erupted on north London's streets late Sunday, a day after rioting and looting in a deprived area amid community anger over a fatal police shooting. Police deployed extra officers on London's streets to prevent a repeat of Saturday's violence in north London's Tottenham area, which appeared to be quiet Sunday night. But disturbances broke out in Enfield, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) north of Tottenham. TV footage showed riot and mounted police patrolling the streets, and there were also images of smashed shop windows, and police with dogs detaining at least one man. A peaceful protest against the killing of a 29-year-old man in Tottenham degenerated into a Saturday night rampage, with rioters torching a double-decker bus, destroying patrol cars and trashing a shopping mall in the nearby Wood Green district. A burnt out carpet store building on Tottenham High road after the Tottenham riots in London on Aug. 7, 2011. The violence began over the killing of Mark Duggan, who was riding in a cab when he was killed Thursday. Police had stopped the cab in an attempted arrest, and shots were fired. Fire rages through a building in Tottenham, north London early Sunday Aug. 7, 2011, as trouble flared after members of the community took to the streets to protest over the alleged police shooting which killed a local man last Thursday. Youths throw bricks at police Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011 during unrest in Enfield, North London. |
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