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Cuban poet and essayist and President of the Casa de las Americas Roberto Fernandez Retamar speaks about a petition signed by some 600 writers from Cuba and around the world requesting the liberation of 5 imprisoned spies being kept in US jails, Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. (AP Photo/Jorge Rey)Boys play Thursday in a part of the wreckage of the TANS Peru airliner that crashed Tuesday in Pucallpa, Peru. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, seen here on August 28. Zimbabwe's parliament approved a bill that stops white farmers from legally challenging land grabs, curtails the travel rights of those deemed anti-government and disenfranchises people without full citizenship.(AFP/File)Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, right, gestures while U.S. rev. Jesse Jackson prepares to start a news conference at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)Revellers swim in tomato pulp during the annual 'Tomatina' (tomato fight) in the Mediterranean village of Bunyol, near Valencia, in Spain August 31, 2005. The biggest tomato fight of the world takes place when the town erupts in a fiery blaze of tomato hurling on the last Wednesday of every August. (Albert Gea/Reuters)A man uses a paper box to cover his head in Taipei. Hundreds of villagers were evacuated from a mountainous area as Typhoon Talim pounded eastern Taiwan with powerful winds and torrential rains.(AFP/Sam Yeh)Chief U.N. investigator Detlev Mehlis gestures during a meeting in the Justice Ministry, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. The commander of the Presidential Guards, three former security chiefs and a former legislator are suspects in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said Tuesday. The detentions were the police's first major move since Hariri's death. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)Surinamese Satish Kalpoe, 18, front, gets in a car to go to court in Oranjestad, Aruba, Friday, Aug. 26, 2005. Two Surinamese brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, who had been detained and released in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway were arrested again Friday based on new evidence, officials said. The brothers were detained on suspicion of involvement, with unidentified 'other people,' in premeditated murder and rape, the prosecutor's office said. Person to the right is unidentified. (AP Photo/Farrah Boekhoudt)Egypt's largest opposition group will not compete in the country's first contested presidential election, but the officially banned Muslim Brotherhood has its eyes trained on the upcoming parliamentary polls, said Brotherhood leader Mohammed Mehdi Akef, pictured(AFP/File)Former Israeli Prime Minister and current parliament member Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to journalists during a visit to the West Bank settlement of Maaleh Adumim in the outskirts of Jerusalem  Wednesday Aug. 31, 2005.  Netanyahu blasted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday for withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, formally opening his campaign to unseat him with an appeal to hardline members of their governing Likud Party.(AP Photo/Baz Ratner)Australian Defence Force members arrive aboard the HMAS Kanimbla. A government-funded think tank has debunked the boast that Australia 'punches above its weight' on the world stage through its participation in US-led initiatives like the war in Iraq and multinational peacekeeping operations(AFP/HO/File)New South Wales (NSW) opposition leader John Brogden announces his resignation at a press conference in Sydney. Brogden, 36, who quit as New South Wales state opposition Liberal Party leader on Monday, was found unconscious in a back room of his office late on Tuesday night with self-inflicted stab wounds, local media reported.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)Australia's 'ruthless' media and 'give-no-quarter' politicians have blamed each other for the apparent suicide attempt by a disgraced political leader, John Brogden (R)(AFP/Greg Wood)Administration lawmakers raise their hands as they meet during a break in impeachment hearings against Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo at Congress in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005. Opposition lawmakers boycotted a committee hearing on the impeachment case against Arroyo and will focus on gathering the signatures needed to send the case to the Senate for trial. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, the Deputy Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, left,...Gov. Ernie Fletcher and his wife, Glenna, are followed by attorneys Jim Neal in red tie, and Kent Westberry in green tie, after appearing before a special grand jury looking into the hiring practices of his administration Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, in Frankfort, Ky. On Monday Fletcher issuued a blanket pardon for anyone who might be charged in the investigation with the exception of himself. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)londonPolice arrest a protester attempting to reach the Forbes Global CEO Conference being held in the Sydney Opera House(AFP/Torsten Blackwood)People react during a demonstration after a fire tore through a rundown Paris apartment  building where African immigrants lived, killing seven people including three children, Tuesday Aug. 30, 2005. The latest fire comes just days after a deadly blaze killed 17  Africans in the French capital. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)Firemen are at work in a Paris street on the site where a fire swept through a building housing African immigrants in central Paris late on August 29, 2005. The political fall-out from two fatal house fires in Paris in recent days intensified as left and right traded accusations over responsibility for the blazes, in which 24 African immigrants died.(AFP/BSPP-BIRP/File/Julien Pichot)IraqFrance Telecom logo. France Telecom has announced a planned capital increase of three billion euros (3.7 billion dollars) that it said would be used to help finance its acquisition of Spanish mobile telephone operator Amena.(AFP/File/Jean-Loup Gautreau)Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (L) listens to Steve Forbes during a news conference in Sydney August 30, 2005. (David Gray/Reuters)Ambulances drive among the pilgrims along the bridge over the Tigris river in Baghdad, Wednesday, Aug. 31,  2005.  A railing collapsed Wednesday on a bridge packed with Shiite worshippers marching in a religious procession, sending crowds tumbling into the Tigris River. At least 640 people died, including women and children, a senior police official said.  (AP Photo / Hadi Mizban)Venus Williams, left, Serena Williams and singer Brandy, right, arrive at WTA Glam Slam party in New York on Friday, Aug. 26, 2005. (Fashion Wire Daily/Grant Lamos IV)When Prince Charles remarried partner Camilla Parker-Bowles in April, seen here, mugs, towels, key-rings and postcards of Princess Diana outsold any of the new royal nuptials(AFP/POOL/File)Shiite pilgrims react as they walk past piles of shoes and debris at the bridge leading to the shrine in the Baghdad's Kazimiyah district, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005.  Panic engulfed thousands of Shiites marching across a bridge in a religious procession after rumors spread that a suicide bomber was about to attack, triggering a stampede that killed at least 648 people. It was the single biggest confirmed loss of life in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)Pictures of a smiling Kylie Minogue, seen here in February 2005, were splashed across the British tabloids after the pop star was spotted strolling with her boyfriend in Paris where she is being treated for breast cancer(AFP/File/Max Nash)Aritist Alicia Keys poses during arrivals for the MTV Video Music Awards in Miami August 28, 2005. 'MTV Unplugged' will return after a three-year break on September 23 with a performance by Keys. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)ET on Yahoo!Model walks down the runway for the Colleen Quen Spring '06 collection presentation during San Francisco Fashion Week on Friday, Aug. 26, 2005. (Fashion Wire Daily/Kent William Albin)Singer Gwen Stefani poses for photographers as she arrives on the white carpet of the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)Australian singer Kylie Minogue attends the charity premiere of the movie 'The Magic Roundabout' in London in this Sunday Jan 30, 2005 file photo.  Minogue's Australian tour promoter denies that the singer, who underwent breast cancer surgery in May, will perform at next year's Commonwealth Games in her home town of Melbourne.   'Any suggestions or inferences that Kylie is to appear in any part of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne are completely erroneous and misleading,' Michael Gudinski said in a statement posted Tuesday on the Web site of the star's Australian tour promoter, The Frontier Touring Company.     (AP Photo/John D McHugh, FILE)Mary Badham, 52, talks about her experiences working in the 1962 movie, 'To Kill A Mockingbird,' at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Richmond, Va., August 22, 2005. At age 9, Badham starred as Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch opposite Gregory Peck in the film about the Depression-era South.  (AP Photo/Steve Helber)Dr. Dorothy Height, President of the National Council of Negro Woman, looks at several new stamps that are dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement's most enduring milestones on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, in Washington.  The United States Postal Service dedicated 10 stamps commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Movement. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Kayne West performs his single 'Gold Digger' at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards in Miami August 28, 2005. West has filed a lawsuit to stop a Chicago DJ releasing master tapes the rapper recorded as a teenager in 1995. (Mike Blake/Reuters)Bob Dylan's back pages will open wide in the next month as a torrent of retrospective product precedes the PBS premiere of Martin Scorsese's documentary about the celebrated and heretofore inscrutable singer-songwriter. In this photo, Dylan performs at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, in this May 5, 2004 file photo. (Robert Galbraith/Files/Reuters)David Newell, left, who plays Mr. McFeely in 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,' jokes around with Eli Slavkin,7, right, during the first presentation of Fred Roger's Memorial Scholarship in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005.  The scholarship was established by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to honor Fred Rodgers, the creator and long-time host of Mister Rogers Neighborhood.  Michelle Lyn Banta, graduate student of UCLA School of Film was the first recipient.  (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Eva Longoria attends Diddy's 'The One And Only Official After Party' in Miami on Sunday, August 28, 2005. (Fashion Wire Daily/Tobi Arnold)This promotional photo provided by Warner Bros. Pictures shows actors, from left, Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, Daniel Radcliff as Harry Potter and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger in a scene from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, slated for release in fall 2005. (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, Murray Close)David Diaz looks at the area where he and his brother used to live in the Sadler Apartments on the waterfront in Biloxi, Mississippi, August 29, 2005. The pile of rubble and empty foundations are what is left of 30 or more apartments and more than 100 of the St. Charles Condominiums. Hurricane Katrina ripped into the U.S. Gulf Coast on Monday, stranding people on rooftops as it pummeled the historic jazz city New Orleans with 100 mph (160 kph) winds and swamped Mississippi resort towns and lowlands with a crushing surge of seawater. (Mark Wallheiser/Reuters)Don't expect Paul McCartney to slow down when he's 64. Just one year shy of the milestone he once immortalized in song, McCartney is gearing up for the release of his 20th album of his post-Beatles career and a major U.S. tour. The album, 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard,' arrives September 13 from Capitol Records in the United States and from EMI worldwide. McCartney's US Tour, as he calls it, opens September 16 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami. In this file photo Paul McCartney is pictured while he performs at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, London, July 2, 2005. (Stephen Hird/Reuters)Kayne West (L) and Jamie Foxx (R) perform their single 'Gold Digger' at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards in Miami August 28, 2005. (Mike Blake/Reuters)People gather to place flowers at the gates of Kensington Palace in central London in memory of Britain's Diana, Princess of Wales who died in a car crash in Paris 8 years before, Wednesday Aug 31, 2005. (AP Photo/Jane Mingay)'A Marxist Perspective on 'Darkness on the Edge of Town'' and 'The Boss and the Bible' are among the academic papers to be presented when a New Jersey university hosts an academic symposium devoted entirely to Bruce Springsteen. Shown here, Springsteen inducts Irish rock group U2 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York March 14, 2005. (Mike Segar/Reuters)In this undated promotional photo released by Bravo network, actors David Deluise and Daniella Monet appear in a scene from 'Sperm Donor,' a finalist in Bravo's sitcompetition, 'Situation: Comedy,' which, since its premiere in July, has tracked the development of rival comedies from raw script to finished 15-minute production. (AP Photo/ Bravo, Dean Hendler)This promotional photo provided by Warner Bros. Pictures shows actors, from left, Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, Daniel Radcliff as Harry Potter and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger in a scene from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, slated for release in fall 2005. (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, Murray Close)A workman nails a red carpet in front of the Cinema Palace where the 62nd Venice Film Festival will take place, in Venice, northern Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. The festival opens Aug.31, 2005 until Sept. 10, 2005. The golden winged lions in the background at left are the symbol of the festival's prize. (AP Photo/Luigi Costantini)David Newell, left, who plays Mr. McFeely in 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,' jokes around with Eli Slavkin,7, right, during the first presentation of Fred Roger's Memorial Scholarship in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005.  The scholarship was established by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to honor Fred Rodgers, the creator and long-time host of Mister Rogers Neighborhood.  Michelle Lyn Banta, graduate student of UCLA School of Film was the first recipient.  (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Bruce Lee is shown in a scene from the 1973 film, 'Enter the Dragon,'  completed shortly before the martial arts stars' death of brain edema in 1973. China has honored movie stars Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-Fat in a commemorative stamp collection marking 100 years of Chinese cinema.   (AP Photo/HO, FILE)ET on Yahoo!Singer Kelly Clarkson performs at the MTV Video Music Awards in Miami August 28, 2005....2006 BMWActor Steve Carell, star of NBC's 'The Office,' poses for a portrait Tuesday, March 15, 2005, in downtown Los Angeles. In the series adapted from the BBC hit, Carell plays a cringe-inducing boss, adept at little except the inappropriate, who is regional manager of a paper supply company in suburban Scranton, Pa. (AP Photo/Stefano Paltera)A worker makes the finishing touches on the Cinema Palace at the Venice Film Festival in Venice, August 30, 2005. The 62nd Venice Film Festival opens on Wednesday, bringing 11 days of showbiz parties and glamour to the lagoon city. For the first time, security has also been at the forefront for organisers, as the festival, in the wake of the London bombings, obliges its visitors to go through security checks for the first time. (Alessia Pierdomenico/Reuters)londonpop candyChief U.N. investigator Detlev Mehlis gestures during a meeting in the Justice Ministry, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. The commander of the Presidential Guards, three former security chiefs and a former legislator are suspects in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said Tuesday. The detentions were the police's first major move since Hariri's death. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)Ten years of using a mobile phone results in no increased risk of a tumour in the nerve connecting the ear to the brain, researchers said on Tuesday. But amid public concern about a possible link, the scientists who conducted the largest study so far on the subject said they could not rule out a higher risk over a longer period. (FILE/Eric Gaillard/Reuters)Members of a rescue team help evacuate people trapped in their flooded homes in New Orleans, La. - Reuters photoRoaring demand for flash memory chips, popular in hot-selling music players and digital cameras, will accelerate later this year, but prices will stay weak as industry leader Samsung holds prices down. A flash memory player is displayed in Tokyo, March 9 2005. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)The Malaysian city of Ipoh is creating a giant wireless 'hotspot' that will enable residents to surf the Internet anywhere in the city centre, a report said.(WiFi)Eva LongoriaThis image provided by the U.S. Postal Service shows a 37-cent postage honoring the late world-class tennis player Arthur Ashe. The Postal Service will conduct a first-day-of-issue stamp dedication ceremony under the shadows of the stadium bearing his name, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2005 at the U.S. Open in New York. The ceremony will take place as part of Arthur Ashe Kids Day festivities kicking off the 2005 U.S. Open. The stamp will be available nationwide at Post Offices and Philatelic Centers, Aug. 28. (AP Photo/U.S. Postal Service)Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, left, shares a laugh with World War II Navy WAVE veteran Darlene Farrell, right, from Coronado, Calif, at the V-J Day commemoration ceremonies at the Naval Station North Island in Coronado, Calif. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Pool)President Bush shakes hands with Navy sailors after finishing his speech at Naval Base Coronado during his visit to Coronado, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. (AP Photo/Hayne Palmour IV, Pool)Aritist Alicia Keys poses during arrivals for the MTV Video Music Awards in Miami August 28, 2005. 'MTV Unplugged' will return after a three-year break on September 23 with a performance by Keys. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)ImageMissouri state auditor Claire McCaskill, center, smiles as she announces her candidacy for U.S. Senate, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, next to her husband, Joe Shepard, left, and her mother Betty Ann McCaskill, in front of the feed mill where her father used to work in Houston, Mo.  (AP Photo/L.G. Patterson)President of Kosovo Ibrahim Rugova listens to journalists questions during a news conference after the first direct talks between Serbian and Kosovo Albanian leaders since a 1999 war in Vienna in this October 14, 2003 file photo. Rugova, the ethnic Albanian pro-independence leader currently undergoing medical tests at a U.S. Military hospital in Germany, is 'seriously ill', a senior foreign diplomat said on August 31, 2005. The 61-year-old president was flown to the Landstuhl military hospital in western Germany on Saturday after aides said his health had deteriorated following a bout of flu. (Leonhard Foeger/Files/Reuters)France Telecom logo. France Telecom has announced a planned capital increase of three billion euros (3.7 billion dollars) that it said would be used to help finance its acquisition of Spanish mobile telephone operator Amena.(AFP/File/Jean-Loup Gautreau)President Bush waves as he leaves Air Force One with his wife Laura after returning to Central Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Bush plans to cut short his vacation and return to Washington Wednesday, two days earlier than planned, to help monitor federal efforts to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina, the White House said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jerry Larson)Creative Technology chairman and chief executive Sim Wong Hoo, seen here in 2003. Creative Technology has secured a US patent for a key interface used in portable MP3 players including arch rival Apple's iPod.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)In this image provided by the US Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Scott D. Rady, 34, of Tampa, Fla., pulls a pregnant woman from her flooded apartment, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, in New Orleans.  The Coast Guard rescued 11 survivors from the apartment building Tuesday, after Hurricane Katrina passed through  the area on Monday.  (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class NyxoLyno Cangemi)Imagehurricane coverageContrary to expectations, camera phones are spurring U.S. consumers to buy digital cameras, according to a study released Monday by research firm IDC. Mobile phones equipped with tiny cameras are seen as less of a threat to replace digital cameras as camera prices fall, IDC said in its Mobile Imaging Survey. In fact the report said new phones help to introduce users to digital photography, which uses no film and allow pictures to be e-mailed. New camera phones are displayed in Tokyo. (Issei Kato/Reuters)Photo HighlightPresident Bush shakes hands with Navy sailors after finishing his speech at Naval Base Coronado during his visit to Coronado, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. (AP Photo/Hayne Palmour IV, Pool) Floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover a portion of New Orleans, La., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, a day after Katrina passed through the city. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) huffington postU.S. President George W. Bush waves after speaking during a ceremony to commemorate the 60th...A New Orleans police officer  holds a shoot gun as he tries to keep people away from a drug store in a flooded area of downtown New Orleans, Tuesday, Aug. 30,  2005. Numerous other nearby stores were previously looted.  (AP Photo/Eric Gay) Rooftops and bare foundations sit surrounded by the debris of damaged and destroyed homes and businesses, in Biloxi, Miss., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, following Hurricane Katrina's landfall along the Gulf Coast on Monday. Across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, more than 1 million residents remained without electricity, some without clean drinking water, Tuesday. In devastated Biloxi, Miss., areas that were not underwater were littered with tree trunks, downed power lines and chunks of broken concrete.Some buildings were flattened. (AP Photo/John David Mercer, Pool)A milk cow eats grain at a farm in the United States. The battle against mad-cow disease and its human equivalent may soon be transformed by a new tool designed to detect the treacherous prion protein in the blood, scientists hope.(AFP/File/Don Emmert)The official US poverty rate increased in 2004 for the fourth straight year as overall incomes held generally steady, the Census Bureau reported(Department of Commerce)Marcus Eriksen, left, and Rafael Niboa pick up crosses that lined Prairie Chapel road leading to President Bush's Ranch in Crawford, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Cindy Sheehan's supporters are breaking camp and beginning to tour the country. (AP Photo/LM Otero)A boat sits on a house damaged by Hurricane Katrina Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005 in Slidell, La. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)Steve Norton changes the gas prices on a sign in front of a Getty gas station in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005. Norton says prices have gone up 14 cents in the last two days at his station. (AP Photo/Coke Whitworth)A trader in the natural gas pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange gestures during... In this image provided by the US Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Scott D. Rady, 34, of Tampa, Fla., pulls a pregnant woman from her flooded apartment, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, in New Orleans.  The Coast Guard rescued 11 survivors from the apartment building Tuesday, after Hurricane Katrina passed through  the area on Monday.  (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class NyxoLyno Cangemi)
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