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Paul Sereno and the elephant-sized Nigersaurus taqueti in Washington

Explorer and paleontologist Paul Sereno introduces a new, 110-million-year-old dinosaur at the National Geographic Society in the US.

Buildings demolished in Kaixian County, Chongqing Municipality, China

A block of buildings is demolished in Chongqing, China, to clear land that will be submerged by the Three Gorges dam next year.

Saint Lazare station in Paris, France

A woman makes a dangerous dash across the tracks in a Paris railway station as a strike by French transport workers continues to hobble transport.

A Japanese boy at Yunessun hot springs resort in Hakone, west of Tokyo

A boy bathes in Beaujolais Nouveau at a hot springs resort in Japan. The young French wine is released on the third Thursday of November every year.

Gen George Casey in Congress

US Army Chief of Staff General George Casey testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the state of the United States Army.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko lays a wreath at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.

Russian poet and novelist Yevgeny Yevtushenko lays a wreath in memory of six million Jewish Holocaust victims at a museum in Jerusalem.

South Korea plays Poland at the FIVB volleyball World Cup in Kimaki, Japan

South Korea's Han Yoo-mi (left) spikes the ball past Polish blocker Magdalena Sliwa during the Women's World Cup 2007 volleyball tournament.

Reinhard Wurz breaks the beer stein-carrying record at a Sydney, Australia pub

An Australian man breaks the world record for carrying the most beer steins. Reinhard Wurz carried 20 one-litre steins 40 metres - a new Guinness record.





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