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1U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates shakes hands
with a reporter before a television interview in
Baghdad, Iraq.
2Barack Obama works on the speech that we would
deliver after his strong showing on Super Tuesday
in February.
3 Investor Warren Buffett checks his watch while
waiting for members of the media at the Berkshire
Hathaway annual shareholders' conference.
4Pope Benedict XVI arrives for a general audience
on St. Peter's Square in November.
5A Pakistani lawyer runs away from tear gas fired
by police officers during a protest in front of
the residence of the country's deposed chief
justice, Iftikhar Mahmood Chaudhry.
6 The face of CBS anchor Katie Couric appears on
television monitors set up at the Democratic
National Convention in August.
7Actors playing the horror icon Chucky are
unleashed in New York City to celebrate the
release of Child's Play, Chucky's 20th Birthday
Edition on DVD.
8 Technicians gather around the re-entry module
holding three Chinese astronauts after its return
from space. During their mission, the astronauts
carried out China's first-ever spacewalk.
9His holiness the Dalai Lama prostrates himself
before a statue of Buddha at his residence in
Dharamsala, India.
10Athletes competing in the men's road cycling
event race past Tiananmen Square on the first day
of the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
11Barack Obama is joined by his wife Michelle and
aide Valerie Jarrett, among others, as he makes
his way to a victory speech St. Paul, Minnesota.
The speech would be his first after clinching his
party's nomination in June.
12John and Cindy McCain, joined by Florida Governor
Charlie Crist (in the yellow shirt) get a tour of
Everglades Safari Park in June.
13Congolese government forces stand guard along a
road in the eastern Congo during renewed fighting
in November.
14A video of departing President George W. Bush
plays at the Republican National Convention in
St. Paul, Minnesota.
15Laid off from his job at Wachovia Bank in March,
Gregory Gochtovtt, 40, of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, decided to enlist in the National
Guard. He shipped out to Iraq in December.
16A drunk Russian soldier emerges from a building
in a village near Tskhinvali, the capital of
South Ossetia, during fighting in August.
17A tire burns atop a truck used as a makeshift
roadblock in Kisumu, Kenya, after the town had
been cleared of ethnic Kikuyus by armed mobs in
January.
18Siamoy, an Afghan woman from remote Badakhshan
province in Afghanistan, feeds her one-month old
baby. The remote, mountain region has the highest
maternity mortality rate in the world.
19Teresa Jeffs, 16, a daughter of Fundamentalist
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
founder Warren Jeffs, shows off some of her best
trampoline moves. In April, Texas authorities
raided the Yearning for Zion Ranch, home to
several hundred members of the FLDS, on the basis
of a phone "tip" that suggested that some of the
children living on the compound were the victims
of sexual abuse..
20Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dons 3-D
glasses to watch a program about an Iranian
rocket during a visit to Iran's space control
center in Tehran.
21Cardboard cutouts of John McCain and his running
mate Sarah Palin stand near the press section of
the Straight Talk Air campaign plane.
22Hillary Clinton departs a campaign event in
Nashua, New Hampshire.
23Not to be outdone by two aides who each did a
pair of pull-ups, Obama does three before
stepping out to address a crowd at the University
of Montana.
24A young supporter of the GOP ticket arrives at a
campaign event on Halloween Day dressed as
vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
25Cindy McCain waits while her husband works goes
over a speech in a hotel room in Dallas.
26Barack Obama works the phones during a campaign
stop in Providence, Rhode Island.
27Obama and his wife Michelle depart the stage in
Grant Park after winning the Presidential
election on November 4, 2008.
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