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Undercover police crack down on vice By Wang Huazhong and Zhang Yan Updated: 2010-09-13 08:25 BEIJING - Undercover investigations in the past month led to a three-day operation for Beijing police to clean up prostitution, drugs and gambling activities in the city. The operation ends on...

Australian lawyer smokes pages of Bible and Koran, asking 'Which is best?' An Australian lawyer, Alex Stewart, has smoked pages torn from the Koran and the Bible, posting the video on YouTube just days after an American Pastor's threat to burn the Muslim holy book...

Woman Opens Fire On Factory Co-Workers 12:45pm Friday September 10, 2010...

Pakistani flood survivors struggle for relief food at the roadside distribution in Khangarh village. -- PHOTO: AFP Sweden's Therese Alshammar competes during the women's 100m butterfly semifinal at the European Swimming Championships in Budapest. -- PHOTO: AFP A group of demonstrators...

A woman lays down begonia blossoms for the famous Brussels Flower Carpet, on the Grand Place in Brussels. The carpet is made of some 700,000 begonia flowers and its theme is the Belgian presidency of the European Union. -- PHOTO: AFP Planes and helicopters are seen at the Latin American...

Palestinians walk under coloured lights as they go to the first evening prayers at the al-Aqsa mosque at Jerusalem's old city Damascus Gate after breaking the fast on the first day of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan. -- PHOTO: AFP A Pakistani boy displaced by floods carries waters to...

Body technician Bree Sarver demonstrates the pixie tangerine and pomegranate treatment on Andrea Olsonat the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa in Ojai, Calif. -- PHOTO: AP A Chinese woman cries among the rubble as rescuers take a break after the massive landslide in Zhouqu, northwest China's Gansu...

In a picture released by Japanese animal theme park Adventure World and received through Jiji Press, shows the giant panda, Rauhin, holding babies after giving birth to twins at the park in Shirahama. -- PHOTO: AFP French milk farmers hold a banner reading 'Intermediaries, you make your...

Thai people do mass aerobic exercise at National Stadium in Bangkok to celebrate Thailand's Queen Sirikit's 78th birthday. -- PHOTO: AP A Yemeni boy tries to sell a box of tissues to a driver in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. A study carried out in 2010 by the US-based aid group CHF...

Residents evacuating through flood waters dodge an army truck carrying relief supplies for flood victims in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district in Punjab province. -- PHOTO: REUTERS People mourn for their family members killed in the landslides in Zhouqu county, in north-western China's...

Baby birds wait to be fed by their mother in their nest outside an house in Madrid, near Santa Fe, New Mexico. -- PHOTO: AFP Palestinians walk under coloured lights as they go to the first evening prayers at the al-Aqsa mosque at Jerusalem's old city Damascus Gate after breaking the fast...

3D Road Safety Measure Sparks Controversy 11:45am Thursday September 09, 2010...

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Re: Twitpics from space : Astronaut sends pictures back to Earth via his Twitter acco He says: "The Cupola, attached to the nadir side of the Space Station, gives a panoramic view of our beautiful planet. Fyodor [Yurchikhin] took this picture from the window of the Russian Docking...

Re: Twitpics from space : Astronaut sends pictures back to Earth via his Twitter acco He says: "At the southern end of South America lies the jewel of Patagonia. The awe-inspiring beauty of rugged mountains, massive glaciers, fjords, and the open sea collide in a breathtaking display. I...

Re: Twitpics from space : Astronaut sends pictures back to Earth via his Twitter acco He says: "A breath-taking masterpiece being painted in the sky over the South Pole. The Southern Lights" Another photo of an aurora from space "It is the season for viewing Polar Mesospheric Clouds...

Re: Twitpics from space : Astronaut sends pictures back to Earth via his Twitter acco He says: "View of the Corinthian Channel in Greece, just west of Athens. A relatively new man made channel in an ancient land. The channel connects the Gulf of Corinth to the Aegean Sea" He says: "A...

Re: Twitpics from space : Astronaut sends pictures back to Earth via his Twitter acco He says: "The beauty of Italy, on a clear summer night, stretching out into the Mediterranean Sea. You can see many of the beautiful islands lit up and adorning the coastline including Capri, Sicily, and...

Re: Twitpics from space : Astronaut sends pictures back to Earth via his Twitter acco "Beautiful reflection of sunlight on the eastern Mediterranean Sea. No borders or conflict visible from space... just breath-taking beauty like this view of the island of Cyprus" He says: "Another...

Twitpics from space: astronaut sends pictures back to Earth via his Twitter account, Astro_Wheels Millions of people use Twitpic to tweet photos to their Twitter followers. But few of these pictures are as spectacular as those uploaded to the site by Douglas H. Wheelock, who goes by...