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Photos from left to right: A model wears a garment from Australian designer Lisa Ho at the start of Sydney's fashion wee.. Winner Tamera Marie Szijarto is crowned Miss Philippines 2004 in Manila. Szijarto will also compete for Miss Earth in Manila later this year.
Photos #1 & #2: Diva Caroline Nin, the millennium's perfect new face of a French cabaret diva.
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Photos from left to right: The 33-year-old Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia is demolished to make way for parking space, as the Phillies and Eagles have built their own arenas on the same site. A man walks past graffiti supporting the armed Basque separatist group ETA in the Basque town of Gernika, Spain.
Photos from left to right: An Iraqi man is baptised on the bank of Baghdad's Tigris river during a Sunday service by members of the Mandean Christian sect, who take John the Baptist as their saviour. Boeing handout image shows a Delta II rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The rocket is carrying the 50th US Air Force Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite, which will replace an 11-year-old satellite nearing the end of its useful life.
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Photos from left to right: A Chinese boy shows off his skills with a long spear during a contest in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou. A Palestinian boy tends his herd of sheep and goats next to the controversial Israeli security barrier separating the West Bank town of Qalqilya from Israel.
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US rock singer Chrissi Hynde holds a
banner during demonstration in front of a Kentucky Fried Chicken KFC
restaurant in Bangkok. An opponent to Chavez's government throws
stones with a slingshot during a demonstration in Caracas.
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Photos from left to right: Oscars line up on stage during rehearsals for the Academy Awards. British soccer player David Beckham walks in front of his new personal adidas logo during its presentation at the headquarter of German sportswear company adidas in the southern German town of Herzogenaurach.
Photos from left to right: Olympic gold medalist Stacy Dragila clears 4.7 metres, 15 feet and five inches to win the women's pole vault in the 2004 USA Indoor Championships for Track and Field. Danielle Riley Keough, grandaughter of the late Elvis Presley, wears Dolce and Gabbana during Milan's fashion week.
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Photos from left to right: A Vietnamese farmer examines chicken eggs in Hatay province, 16km west of Hanoi. A man lies dead in the entrance to a local school in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Angry mobs rampaged through the capital after President Jean Bertrand Aristide fled the country.
Photos from left to right: South Koreans wave flags in Seoul as they celebrate the 85th anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement against Japanese rule. Seven-year-old Salaj Mohammed Kasim weeps during a police raid on an embroidery workshop in Bombay. Over 90 child labourers were rescued in India's financial hub while working in the embroidery workshop, police said.
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