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Animal Tracks

  Find a shady pooch, an albino raccoon and more eye candy for animal lovers

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U.S., world, and environment
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Storm lashes Philippines

  See images of the effects of Typhoon Fengshen after its wind and rains unleashed landsides and flashfloods.

Image: Mississippi River flood in Clarksville
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Shelly Bailes, Ellen Pontac
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Mississippi River Towns Brace For Major Flooding
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Big Brown, with jockey Desormeaux, crosses finish line to win 133rd running of Preakness Stakes in Maryland
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
People walk past a parking area during a transport strike in Carregado
Jose Manuel Ribeiro / Reuters
Image: Members of an unknown Amazon Basin tribe
Reuters
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China - Sichuan - Juyuan - Earthquake - Memorial Service
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Image: South African police at the scene of a burning shack outside Johannesburg
Jerome Delay / AP
Image: Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Tony Gutierrez / AP
Edward Kennedy Shaking Hands
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Entertainment photos

Celebrity, music, movie, TV and fashion
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The week in celebrity sightings

  Sienna and Keira hit the red carpet, Cameron Diaz puckers up, Bono gets in your face, and more.

CARLIN
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Image: Amy Winehouse
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Eddie Vedder
Mark Humphrey / AP
Torn Curtain
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Image: Jon Stewart
Splashnews
Image: Ellen Page
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June 01 2008
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Image: Sydney Pollack
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Image: David Cook, Paula Abdul, David Archuleta
Chris Pizzello / AP
KRISTI YAMAGUCHI, MARK BALLAS
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E! Entertainment
The 43rd Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards - Arrivals
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Sports photos

Big matchups, sports stars and history
Image: Russia's Pavlyuchenko collides with Sweden's Hansson
Miro Kuzmanovic / Reuters
Week in Sports Pictures

  A Celtics shower, jet racing, Tiger’s drama and more

Image: Tiger Woods & Rocco Mediate
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Exercise rider Michelle Nevin and a groom walk Triple Crown hopeful Big Brown in the paddock before the 140th running of the Belmont Stakes horse race at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York
Eric Thayer / Reuters
Image: Doc Rivers
Elise Amendola / AP
Big Brown, with jockey Desormeaux, crosses finish line to win 133rd running of Preakness Stakes in Maryland
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Image: Wings' Lidstrom lifts the Stanley Cup after his team defeated the Penguins in Game 6 of the NHL Stanley Cup hockey final in Pittsburgh
Shaun Best / Reuters
Danica Patrick
Tom Strickland / AP
Jockey Kent Desormeaux aboard Big Brown rides to a win on the134th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs in Louisville
John Gress / Reuters
Image: Trevor Immelman
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Darrell Arthur, Robert Dozier
Mark Humphrey / AP
Shawn Taggart, Joey Dorsey, James Keefe
Mark Humphrey / AP
Royals Tigers Baseball
Paul Sancya / AP
Memphis forward Taggart and Texas guard Mason battle for loose ball in NCAA men's South Regional finals basketball game in Houston
Jessica Rinaldi / Reuters
Image: Dante Cunningham, Sasha Kaun
Michael Conroy / AP

Travel photos

U.S. and worldwide destinations
Image: Socotra, Yemen
Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
Socotra's treasures

  The Socotra islands face the challenge of how to conserve its unique species of plants and animals while opening up to tourism and improving life for its 50,000 human inhabitants.

Cherry Blossoms Usher In Spring In Washington
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Grand Canyon
Peter Essick
File photo of a visitor taking a picture near the Taj Mahal in the northern Indian city of Agra
Ahmad Masood / Reuters
2008 Beijing Olympics - Construction
Michael Reynolds / Corbis
HALF DOME YOSEMITE
Robert F. Bukaty / AP
Jim Mcknight / AP
Opera House and Harbour Bridge - Sydney, Australia
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USA - New Orleans - Mardi Gras 2006
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Point of Arches at Shi-Shi Beach
Kevin Schafer / Corbis
Green Sea Turtle Swimming
Ralph A. Clevenger / Corbis
Climber Abseiling Down Table Mountain
Henrik Trygg / Corbis
Image: American Airlines passengers
Carlos Barria / Reuters

Technology and science photos

Space, technology, gadgets and science
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Month in Space: Liftoffs and landings

  See highlights from the shuttle Discovery’s flight, the Phoenix Mars Lander mission and much more in June’s roundup of cosmic pictures.

Image: Members of an unknown Amazon Basin tribe
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Image: Stonehenge
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Image: Nebula
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Image: Limestone sequence
John "Doug" Powell
Image: A humanoid robot, designed to make human-like facial expressions in response to English and Japanese words.
David Guttenfelder / AP
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Image: "Doomsday" vault in Norway
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Image: SpaceShipTwo
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Image: Sanyo's Xacti E1
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Through the years

  A photographic look back at Bill Gates’ illustrious career at Microsoft, from his arrest photo in 1977 to his last CES keynote with guitarist Slash.

Obama Holds Final Primary Night Event In St. Paul
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Big Brown, with jockey Desormeaux, crosses finish line to win 133rd running of Preakness Stakes in Maryland
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Image: A 1964 Chevrolet Impala "Gypsy Rose" lowrider
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Image: BMW concept CS
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Image: D-REX Dinosaur from Mattel.
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An Iranian technician works at the Balal
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