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DAJJAL di Negeri Samirah...dia mengaku sebagai tuhan

2017-02-27T07:49:00.002-08:00

DAJJAL .... di Negeri Samirah

Negeri Samirah adalah negeri kecil di Palestin yang nanti akan menjadi sebuah negara besar. Bahkan menjadi ibu kota kerajaan Bani lsrail warisan Nabi Sulaiman. Ini berdasarkan masa kelahiran Nabi Musa, kira-kira satu abad sebelumnya.

Seorang lelaki dan seorang perempuan keturunan Yahudza, setelah 31 tahun berkahwin, lahirlah seorang anak yang paling membahayakan kedua orang tuanya, sebagaimana yang digambarkan oleh Nabi Muhammad s.a.w. kedua matanya tidur tetapi hatinya tetap terjaga.’

Keluarga Dajjal, ayah, ibu dan abang-abangnya adalah penyembah berhala. DuIu, mereka menyembah sebuah berhala berbentuk seperti lembu betina. Sebenarnya berhala itu bukan sekadar patung Iembu betina, ia adalah syaitan durjana yang menyerupai dirinya seperti patung lembu betina. itu. Mereka menyembelih binatang untuk dikorbankan kepada berhala.

Yang sebenarnya dipersembahkan kepada syaitan, berserta minuman arak yang dihulurkan setiap hari. Disamping itu mereka juga suka melakukan penghambaan atau persembahan dan ketaatan.
Setiap pagi mereka lihat sisa-sisa dan apa yang mereka korbankan di tempat itu. Sangka mereka, itu adalah sebagai tanda bahawa Tuhan mereka merestui apa yang mereka Iakukan. Permintaan kedua-dua orang tua Dajjal ialah agar mereka diberi anak lelaki. Akhirnya Allah s.w.t. pun menjadikan kehamilan keatas seorang wanita yang yang dilahirkan dari perbuatan zina antara mahram dengan seorang suami yang juga dilahirkan dan hasil perzinaan antara mahram.

Sementara itu syaitan pun turut ikut masuk ke saluran kencing IeIaki penyembah berhala setiap kaIi dia menggauli isterinya. Jadi Syaitan pun turut mencampuiri isteri penyembah berhala itu bersama-sama suaminya. Bertemulah sperma dan ovum dari unsur manusia dengan unsur syahwat yang penuh kedengkian dari jin, sebagaimana yang ditakdirkan oleh Allah.

(Dalam buku lhdzaru aI-Maslkh adDajjaI menyatakan Dajjal lahir dari hasil hubungan ketika ibunya sedang menstruasi, IaIu terjadilah kehamilan sebagai pengaruh perbuatan Syaitan)

Pada malam yang sangat menakutkan, diiringi hembusan angin, ribut salji dan hujan lebat, pasangan suami isteri itu mendengar suara dari patung lembu betina liar yang memberitahu bahawa dia telah meredhai kedua-duanya. Bahkan, katanya dia memerintahkan malaikat untuk mengurniakan kepada mereka seorang anak. Tetapi jika kedua-duanya tidak memperbanyakkan ketaatan dan penyembahan berhala serta tidak banyak menumpahkan darah korban, maka dia akan menggantikan anak lelaki itu dengan anak perempuan.

Apalagi, kedua-duanya pun sujud dan bersimpuh depan patung itu dengan penuh setia sambil menyatakan mereka mahukan sangat anak Ielaki. Patung syaitan itu menyuruh mereka menyembelih seekor Iembu betina gemuk dan besar. Kemudian menyuruh diletakkan sembelihan itu di hadapan patung, dan selepas itu mereka berdua dilarang untuk masuk ke tempat itu sepanjang malam.

Apa yang berlaku sebenarnya syaitan telah mempermainkan mereka berdua untuk melakukan apa saja menurut kehendak dan kemahuan Syaitan.

Syaitan dapat melihat apa yang tidak boleh dilihat oleh manusia biasa. Sebab jin boleh melihat apa yang ada dalam jasad manusia, sama seperti melihat manusia melihat filem X-Ray, sehinggakan dia dapat melihat kandungan perempuan itu sejak awal Iagi. Namun begitu syaitan tidak tahu apa yang akan terjadi, Syaitlan tidak tahu apakah anak itu perempuan atau lelakit tetapi dia tahu betapa besar kemahuan pasangan itu dengan kelahiran anak lelaki.

Perempuan itu pun melahirkan anak Ielaki tetapi anak yang baru lahir itu cacat kedua-dua belah matanya sejak lahir. Bayi itu suka tidur malam dan siang serta amat jarang bangun untuk menghisap air susu ibunya yang berbadan besar.

lmam Ahmad meriwayalkan dalam Musnad, iaitu sebagaimana sabda Rasulullah mengenai keluarga Dajjal.

“Ayahnya tinggi, gemuk dan hidungnya seperti paruh burung. Sedangkan ibunya fardhakhiyyah, iaitu banyak daging dan berbadan gemuk. Kedua tangannya panjang dan kedua teleknya pun besar. Oleh kerana anaknya tidak disusui oleh ibunya susu, Ia bahkan dapat mengakibatkan keracunan yang berakhir dengan kematian. Jadi anak Ielaki itu sejak awal memang telah mendatangkan sial kepada ibunya.

Paling anehnya, anak lelaki itu bertahun-lahun duduk diam dan hanya bergerak beberapa kali, sehinggakan orang tuanya menyangka dia lumpuh atau pun Tuhan mereka sudah murka. Maka mereka pun menyajikan berbagai jenis sajian sebagai tanda taat tetapi anak lelaki itu tetap seperti itu juga, tidak ada sebarang perubahan.

Selama empat tahun sebelumnya dia belum pernah berjalan. Padahal orang tuanya telah memberikan air susu kambing serta berusaha untuk menggerak-gerakkan kedudukan anaknya. Anaknya itu hanya minum seteguk dua sahaja, kemudian terus tidur. Melihatkan anaknya dalam keadaan seperti itu, orangnya tidak pernah merasa tenang. Hatinya sentiasa tertanya-tanya apakah anaknya masih hidup. Mereka sering melelakkan tangan atau melekapkan telinga pada dada anaknya itu. Di dapati anaknya masih hidup.

Sebagaimana kala Rasulullah s.a.w.. “Kedua matanya tidur, tetapi hati tetap terjaga.”

Pada satu malam tiba-tiba anaknya itu bergerak bangun, sementara orang tuanya sedang tidur. Dia cuba merangkak kemudian berdiri untuk berjalan dengan kedua kakinya. Kemudian dia berjalan perlahan-lahan tanpa diketahui oleh kedua orang tuanya, seakan-akan ada roh lain yang menyusup ke dalam rohnya sambil memberitahu dan membantunya untuk berdiri dan berjalan. Sudah tentulah roh lain itu ialah Jin Syaitan (Jinni Mutasyaithan). Kedua-dua mata anak Ielaki itu cacat dan dia telah dirasuk oleh syaitan yang bersemayam dalam patung lembu. Syaitan itu memimpin kanak-kanak itu menghala ke patung Iembu betina. Kemudian dia ditinggalkan tidur di sisi patung tersebut.

Apabila ayahnya bangun dia terus mendapatkan anaknya yang tertidur dipangkuan tuhan-tuhan patung lembu betina itu. Ayahnya cuba mencari apakah makna peristlwa yang terjadi itu telapi tidak berjaya menafsirkannya. Lalu ayahnya itu tadi pun memanggil jiran-jiran tetapi jiran tidak mempercayai dengan peristwia itu, mereka menuduh ayahnya sendiri yang membawa anaknya itu dan meletakkannya dipangkuan tuhan-tuhan tersebut. Jiran-jiran itu tahu anaknya itu lumpuh dan hanya boleh duduk sahaja.

Walaubagaimana pun berita mengenai hal itu tetap tersebar. Bagi sesetengah orang yang mempercayainya datang berduyun-duyun ke rumahnya untuk melihat dari dekat akan kejadian aneh yang terjadi kepada budak lelaki itu. Dalam masa yang sama ada yang cuba mencari berkaitan dari budak itu. Namun, hakim-hakim yang ada di kawasan itu berasa tidak senang hati untuk menerima kebenaran kejadian itu dengan begitu saja. LaIu mereka pun membawa ayah anak itu ke hadapan hakim besar di kota yang kemudian memaksa ayahnya memberitahu apakah sebenarnya yang terjadi.

Ayah menceritakan perkara sebenar telapi hakim-hakim tidak mahu menerima kenyataannya, laIu ayahnya itu diperintah masuk penjara dan didera. Ketika di dalam penjara dia dipaksa membuat kenyataan bahawa tidak ada sesiapa yang harus dipatuhi kecuali hakim agung yang menguasai negeri tersebut.

Setelah puas kena seksa maka dia pun terpaksa mengaku dan membuat pengumunan di hadapan hakim dan penduduk negeri bahawa tiada tuhan selain hakim dan bahawa tidak ada yang dapat memberi pertoIongan atau mendatangkan bencana selain hakim. Dengan pengakuan yang dia buat itu maka dia pun dikeluarkan dari penjara tetapi anaknya itu terpaksa dijaga di dalam istana dengan penuh perhatian dan tidak dibenarkan keluar dari istana hakim.

Berita tentang keajaiban anak lelaki itu semakin tersebar luas sehinggakan heboh dan peristiwa itu disebut sebagai A’jubah as Samirah yang bermakna (Keajaiban Samirah) Hakim amat marah dengan peristiwa itu, dia tidak mahu menerima kenyataannya. Menurut hakim lagi, anak lelaki yang ajaib itu sebenarnya telah dirasuk syaitan. Berita itu pun disebar luas ke seluruh pelusuk dunia.

Hakim tidak berdiam diri, dia pergi mencari dukun untuk mengeIuarkan syaitan dari badan budak itu. Hampir semua tempat ke pelusuk negeri dan benua dicarinya bomoh, dukun serta tukang sihir untuk mengeluarkan rasukan syaitan dari anak lelaki itu. Kerana menurut hakim syaitan itu akan menggoncangkan singgahsana atau ‘Arsy Tuhan.

Apabila berita itu tersebar, suasana masyarakat pun menjadi kacau bilau dan kelam kabut. Tiba-tiba ada seorang yang berpura-pura sebagai ahli falsafah dari Samirah pun membuat pengumuman. Anak itu memang betul-betul keturunan Samiri. Dua huruf ra dan ha’ (dua huruf terakhir dari kata Samirah) Dulu Ia membawa makna satu negeri iaitu negeri Syam kerana Sam bin Nuh as., adalah pendiri gerakan Samirah setelah terjadinya banjir besar.

Ketika Sam masih kecil, dia tidak banyak bergerak sehingga datang malaikat yang kemudian mengajarnya bagaimana cara menggerakkan kedua-dua kakinya. Anak itu adalah cucu dari Syam.” Tetapi tidak ada seorang pun yang mahu percaya dengan kata-kata ahli falsafah itu. Sebaliknya dia pula dituduh orang gila.

Hakim pula telah memberi arahan supaya kenyataan ahli falsafah itu tidak diperbualkan lagi oleh sesiapa pun. Barangsiapa yang cuba hendak bercakap tentang hal itu akan dihukum.

Hakim pun membuat pengumunan anak itu diberi gelaran as-Samiri kerana berdasarkan negeri kelahirannya dan bukannya sebab-sebab lain.

Ayah budak lelaki (Dajjal) itu pula kemudiannya mati kerana terlalu menderita, kematiannya itu dipanggil adz-dzabhah ash-shadriyyal aImutakarrarah yang bermakna (tekanan batin berlanjutan). Ayahnya mati kerana watak anaknya itu sangat ganjil.

Anak ajaib itu pun ditinggalkan dalam penjagaan dan pemeliharaan hakim diistananya. Setahun kemudian, iai itu ketika berumur Iima tahun, anak itu pun mula berupaya bangun dan tidurnya, setelah bangun dia cuba berbual-bual dengan orang-orang di sekeliling istana itu, tetapi perbualannya tengagap-gagap dan terputus-putus.

Orang-orang istana pun cuba hendak mengubati penyakit buta di matanya tetapi doktor-doktor istana membuat kesimpulan bahawa penyakit atau cacat itu tidak akan dapat disembuhkan secara perubatan biasa kerana cacat itu nampaknya diciptakan oleh Yang Maha Kuasa.

Sebulan kemudian, ketika penduduk negeri itu sedang nyenyak tidur, tiba-tiba datang peringatan dari Tuhan. Peringatan dari Tuhan itu datang kerana penduduk negeri itu melakukan zina dan homoseksual, sebagai orang-orang Sadum dan Amurah. Siksaan yang Tuhan turunkan itu secara tiba-tiba tanpa diduga sama sekali.

Allah telah memerintahkan malaikat Jibril untuk memasukkan penduduk negeri itu ke dalam bumi, sama seperti yang dilakukan kepada penduduk Sadum dan Amurah. Yang terselamat tinggal hanyalah seorang anak kecil (Dajjal) yang berada di istana itu. Jibril telah ditugaskan membawa anak itu ke suatu pulau yang terletak di suatu lautan luas yang disebut Laut Yaman. Laut ini mempunyai peranan penting di masa akan datang. (Dari Laut Yaman inilah nanti terbentang jalan yang akan dilalui seorang saleh yang mempunyai peranan penting dalam memerangi Dajjal.

Anak lelaki itu tinggal seorang diri di pulau itu. Dia sentiasa dijaga, diawasi serta diberi makan dan minum oleh malaikat itu tadi. Anak itu kembali seperti biasa, iaitu banyak tidur dan sedikit bergerak. Sementara itu Jibril kembali menghancurkan negeri yang penuh dengan kemaksiatan itu dan menebalikkan negeri itu sehinggakan bahagian atas negeri itu menjadi bawah. Maka selesailah seksaan Allah ke atas orang-orang kafir itu.

Kemudian Jibril kembali membawa makanan untuk anak itu dari rezeki Allah dan demi menjalankan perintah Allah tanpa sebarang persoalan. Allah menyayangi anak itu dan berfirman kepada Jibril,”Hai Jibril, anak itu adalah hambaKu. Tetapi di akhir zaman dia mengaku sebagai tuhan yang disembah di muka bumi. Aku akan mengutus orang yang akan menyiksanya dengan seksaan yang pedih dan akan membunuhnya pada suatu masa tertentu yang tidak akan diingkari oleh hambaKu. Orang tersebut adalah seorang nabi yang diutus pada suatu masa dan dia menjadi wali, tanpa wahyu pada menjelang akhir zaman.

(Riwayat ini didapati dari seorang alim di negeri Yaman. Dia dikenali dengan nama Haidar bin Anif Billah Abdullah bin Salem bin Syari. Dia mempunyai banyak manuskrip mengerikan yang menurut katanya telah berusia ratusan tahun. Bahkan ada skripnya yang mempunyai asal-usul sejak 700 tahun sebelum Masehi.

0rang alim ini masih hidup dan berusia 110 tahun. Dia sendiri tidak mahu hidup di kota moden. Segenap hidupnya dihabiskan dikhemah-khemah di padang pasir sahara bersama-sama empat orang isterinya. Isteri-isterinya jauh Iebih muda dari dia, iaitu sekitar dua puluh hingga tiga puluh tahun. Dia masih kelihatan gagah. Ketika ditanya kepadanya tentang rahsia kegagahannya, die menjawab bahawa dia tidak pernah meninggalkan sembahyang malam, tidak pernah meninggalkan sembahyang dan waktu yang ditentukan dan jarang memakan daging dan garam.
Makanan yang paling banyak dimakannya iaiah madu, kurma, susu dan air putih.)

Pulau yang didiami oleh anak itu dikenali dengan nama jazirah atstsu ‘ban ar-rahib we ad-dabbah al-halba yang bermakna pulau ular yang mengerikan dan haiwan berbulu tebal. Sebab menurut cerita tentang pulau itu, setiap orang yang hampir dan singgah di pulau itu pasti akan mati disengat oleh ular yang panjangnya beratus-ratus meter.
Sementara haiwan berbulu tebal itu mempunyai lidah yang dapat bercakap-cakap dengan berbagai-bagai bahasa di muka bumi ini dan Ia menguasai pulau itu. UIar itu adalah penjaganya dan buta matanya. Haiwan itulah yang mengarahkannya.

Pulau itu sebenarnya kecil seperti sekumpulan batu yang membentuk satu petak bumi yang penuh dengan berbagai mata air yang segar airnya serta dikelilingi pokok-pokok rendang yang saling berjalin. Pulau itu juga dipenuhi dengan sumber-sumber yang berfaedah seperli berbagai-bagai jenis bunga, tumbuh-tumbuhan, pokok-pokok epal berwarna kuning berbentuk aneh seperti kepala jin yang nampak indah dan tersusun rapi bukan seperti kepala syaitan yang hodoh.

lklim pulau itu memang selamanya sejuk dan selalu turun hujan.

Pulau itu terletak di Lautan Hindi dekat dengan negeri Yaman. Pulau yang didiami oleh anak ajaib itu nampak jauh dan terpisah dari pulau-pulau yang jumlahnya banyak. Bahkan dari jauh pulau itu nampak seperti sebuah bintang yang terlepas dari gugusan bintang lain, atau bagai sebuah bulan yang terlepas dari edarannya yang penuh dengan planet-planet lain. Ia menjadi sesuatu yang asing dan ganjil kenana ia telah ditentukan oleh Yang Maha Kuasa.

Walaupun anak itu dikunjungi dan diawasi oleh Jibril siang dan malam, namun anak itu tidak tahu. Kerana sebagai manusia biasa dia tidak dapat melihat malaikat Jibril itu, kecualilah dengan perkenan Allah s.w.t. Disamping itu anak itu pula asyik tidur seperti penghuni gua.

Pada satu hari ketika umur anak itu telah mencapai lapan tahun, kedua-dua matanya mula terbuka diiringi dengan kesedaran hatinya. Sesudah itu, dia tidak lagi banyak tidur. Dia hanya tidur sekejap sahaja. Pada mulanya, setiap kali terjaga dari tidur dia akan mendapatkan makanan dan minuman segar yang berada di sisinya, sehingga habis makanan dan minuman itu, dia kembali tidur semula. Diwaktu ini, dia sudah mampu berdiri, bergerak, dan berfikir.

Malah dia mampu menangkap ikan dalam air dengan petunjuk bisikan suara yang terdengar dengan jelas di telinganya dan dia boleh faham maksud seruan itu dengan jelas.

“Buatlah seperti begini supaya kami menjadi begini,” kala bisikan malaikat Jibril kepada anak itu.

Anak kecil itu pun berjalan-jalan mengelilingi sekilar pulau yang dia tinggal itu, dia rasa kagum dan terasing serta sentiasa berwaspada. Dia berjalan sambil bersembunyi dengan penuh hati-hati.

Pulau itu dipenuhi dengan berbagai jenis burung dan binatang.Tidak ada satu binatang buas dan ganas di pulau itu selain dari beberapa ekor ular yang merayap dari Iautan yang menuju ke sana.

Satu hari ketika sedang merayau-rayau itu dia dikejutkan oleh seekor binatang yang sangat besar, berbulu tebal dan mempunyai dua mata yang menonjol seperti mata lembu. Tiba-tiba binatang itu bercakap dengan bahasa yang dia boleh faham.

Binatang itu berkata,” Engkau adalah seorang anak yang diselamatkan oleh Allah dari gempa bumi yang dahsyat ketika negeri Samirah dilanda malapetaka. Engkau dibawa oleh malaikat Jibril ke sini. Malaikat itulah yang menjaga makan dan minum engkau. Oleh itu janganlah engkau mengkhianati janji mu dengan Allah. Sebab pada hati setiap anak Adam telah tertanam ketaatan kepada Allah dan beriman kepada Nya selama mereka masih berada dalam fitrah kesuciannya. Kerananya engkau menjadi Muslim dan Mukim yang yakin dan taat kepada Tuhan Pencipta alam ini. Dialah Tuhan yang Maha Esa.”

Kemudian binatang besar itu pun memberi isyarat kepadanya supaya mengikutnya ke arah sebuah batu. Di batu itu tertera tulisan dalam bahasa Arab. Binatang itu mengajarnya huruf demi huruf dan dia pun mengikutnya. Kemudian binatang itu pun memberi isyarat kepadanya untuk mengikutnya kepada berbagai permukaan batu lagi. Di batu-batu itu tertulis kata-kata:

Batu pertama: La ilaha illallah (Tiada luhan selain Allah)

Batu kedua: “Allahu Wahid La Syarika lahu (Allah Maha Esa, tidak ada sekutu bagiNya)

Batu ketiga: “Engkau dijaga dan diurus oleh Jibril. OIeh itu janganlah kamu mengkhianati janjimu dengan Allah.”

Batu keempat: “Hanya engkau saja di pulau ini.”

Batu kelima: “Makanlah den nikmatilah makanan dari rezeki Allah ini yang sesuai dengan keperluan dan kehendakmu. Tidurlah sesukamu. Sembahlah Allah dalam berbagai keadaanmu dengan tasbih-tasbih keesaan kepada Nya, yakni solat yang diwajibkan kepadamu. Allahlah raja, Allahlah Maha Esa. Dia tidak berayah dan tidak pula mempunyai anak. Allah lah Tuhan yang Maha Besar. Allah lah yang Maha Agung. Dan Allah lah yang Maha Raja.”

Batu Keenam: “Jadilah engkau anak masa kini, wahai anak kecil. Janganlah engkau menjadi anak masa lalu di pulau ini pada zaman apa pun.”

Batu Ketujuh: “Tidak ada kitab bagimu kecuali apa yang dibawa kepadamu oleh seorang Nabi terakhir, Nabi Muhammad s.a.w. yang datang menjelang akhir zaman. Jika engkau beriman kepadanya maka engkau adalah manusia masa depan yang beriman dan mempunyai keyakinan kepada Allah. Tetapi jika engkau engkar kepadaNya maka engkau adalah manusia depan yang dijanjikan akan mendapat seksaan Allah. Sesungguhnya engkau berada di antara dua nabi yang berserah diri kepada Allah dan sebenarnya semua nabi berserah kepada Allah.

Jika engkau beriman dan yakin kepada apa yang kami imani dan yakini, maka Allah akan memudahkan kamu untuk mengimani penutup para nabi yang terdahulu dan pengganti nabi yang telah wafat. Dia bernama Muhammad Al Amin. Dia akan lahir sebagai Nabi dan Rasul di tengeh-tengah kaum yang buta huruf. Dia berhijrah ke tempat yang banyak ditumbuhi pokok kurma dan yang banyak mata air dan perigi dengan tanah yang subur.

Jika engkau mendustakan nabi yang mendahului Muhammad maka Allah akan menutup hatimu dengan tabir kain yang hitam. Hatimu menjadi hitam terkena sedikit warna putih dan condong kepada keburukan bagaikan kendi yang penuh dengan lumpur di atas cermin terang. Akibatnya, hatimu tidak dapat melihat cahaya dan akalmu hanya melihat dirimu sendiri saja seperti lblis. Semoga Iaknat Allah ditimpakan atasnya, yang mendiami Segitiga Bermuda yang lama itu dan engkau pun menjadi teman karibnya. Betapa buruk seseorang yang ditemani makhluk terkutuk dan dijauhkan dari rahmat Allah s.w.t. yang dibiarkan saja sampai suatu masa di suatu negeri, iaitu di suatu lautan yang penuh hembusan angin kelak ketika Allah tidak lagi menyayangi orang-orang yang terusir dari rahmat Nya.

Jadilah engkau, wahai anak istimewa yang dijagai dan dibimbing malaikat agung sebagai Mukmin yang mempercayai kewujudan Allah dan malaikatNya, serta RasulNya. Jika tidak, engkau berada di dalam bahaya dan dimasukkan kedalam penjara seribu tahun lamanya. Yang memperingatkan mu dan menggembirakanmu di dalam penjara adalah seorang Arab Mekah yang mendustakan Nabi yang jujur itu. Tempat hijrahnya adalah tanah-tanah subur yang banyak ditumbuhi pokok kurma. Engkau akan berjasa pada hari ketika tiba musimnya memetik kurma di negeri tempat diisra’ dan dimi’rajkan Nabi dari bangsa Arab itu. Ada banyak air melimpah yang mengalir dan meresap ke dalam tanah di dataran tinggi dan di tanah Thabaniyyah. Haram atas dirimu memasuki kota Mekah yang dimuliakan Allah, Tuhan semesta alam.

Engkau tidak boleh memasuki tanah mana pun yang subur kecuali tanah Uhud. Uhud adalah gunung yang mencintai Allah dan Allah pun mencintainya. Engkau juga tidak boleh masuk negeri Quds tempat isra’ dan mi’raj, Nabi yang paling akhir. Ini adalah ilmu Allah untukmu yang ditulis oleh Jibril, pembawa wahyu (amin al wahi) dan dia meninggalkan tulisan ini untukmu, disamping batu beser berupa cincin dari Jibril utusan Allah Tuhan semesta alam!’

Anak itu kemudian melihat di tepi batu besar ketujuh yang paling besar di antara batu-batu besar lainnya yang menjadi batu tulis. Di situ, dia terjumpa sepotong batu yang indah warnanya. Tanah berwarna seperti dakwah emas berkilat yang digunakan Jibril untuk menulis. Pada potongan batu itu tendapat peringatan Allah s.w.t. yang berbunyi. “Dan tidaklah Kami menyeksa sehingga Kami mengutus seorang rasul (Al Isra 17:15)

lni adalah sebuah tanda dan isyarat bahawa tanah tersebut bukan berasal dari pulau itu bahkan tanah itu bukan dari bumi manapun. Hanya Allah saja yang lebih mengetahui. Dakwat itu berbaki kira-kira sebanyak sebelah tapak tangan anak itu. Meskipun begitu ukurannya tidak sama walau dengan tiga tapak tangan lelaki biasa kita.

Haiwan besar itu mula menerangkan makna tulisan itu dan diberitahu juga bahawa anak itu diberi kebebasan untuk memiIih haluan masa depannya. Apakah di masa akan datang dia mahu menjadi orang baik atau orang jahat. Jika dia menjadi orang baik, maka dia akan menjadi seorang lelaki biasa dan raja yang beruntung. Tetapi jika dia memilih menjadi orang jahat, maka dia akan menjadi seorang yang mengaku AKU SEBAGAI TUHAN yang berkuasa dengan kerajaan atau kekuasaan atas alam jin kafir dan syaitan dan mereka adalah makhluk ciptaan Allah. Dia akan menjadi raja yang menguasai alam manusia, sedang engkau termasuk salah satu di antara mereka. Dia akan memerintah tetapi hanya menjadi raja dalam waktu yang singkat sahaja.

Apa akan terjadi kesudahannya hanya Allah saja yang tahu sebab segala sesuatu itu ditentukan olehnya. Dan tidak ada yang mengetahui kesudahan segala sesuatu kecuali Allah s.w.t.

Seterusnya anak itu bertanya kepada binatang besar itu.

“Kalau begitu siapakah engkau sebenarnya? Apakah motif yang mendorongmu datang ke sini? Dan siapakah yang mengajarmu bercakap dan menjelaskan sehingga engkau mampu bercakap seperti manusia?” Binatang itu menjawab.”Aku memang seekor binatang yang diciptakan dan diperintahkan untuk berbuat demikian dan sentiasa berada di sini bersamamu. Jibril, malaikat itu akan membawamu dari hutan di penghujung dunia nanti.

Hanya engkau saja satu-satunya orang hidup dari suatu keturunan subur yang telah hancur. Aku juga bertugas menjaga dan memeliharamu ketika Jibril tidak ada. Aku diperintahkan untuk tinggal di pulau ini bersamamu sehingga engkau menentukan pilihan hidupmu.

Ajalku di sini bersama dengan keluarnya engkau menuju pilihanmu.” Binatang itu memberitahu bahawa ia diperintah untuk bercakap memberitahunya. Kemudian setelah itu Ia akan diam membisu dan hanya mengeluarkan suara binatang sebagaimana lazimnya. Dia tidak akan bencakap untuk kali kedua kecuali jika masa keluarnya anak itu dari pulau tersebut sewaktu akhir zaman hampir dekat.

Mungkin pada masa di antara itu, hanya terpulang kepada Allah untuk menentukannya. Mungkin aku mampu bercakap denganmu lagi.Sesuatu yang ghaib tidak dapat diketahui oleh semua makhlukh. Ketahuilah bahawa apa yang dikatakan sekarang ini adalah wasiat-wasiat dari malaikata Jibril itu.

Selepas itu lidah binatang itu pun terdiam dan kembali seperti binatang semula. Ia bernama Jassasah yang bererti terus menerus memerhati untuk mencari maklumat dan memberitahukannya kepada anak itu...

DAJJAL - Berada di negeri jiran-jirannya

2017-02-27T06:44:00.000-08:00

DAJJAL BERADA DI NEGERI---- Jiran-jirannya (bab2)

Penduduk-penduduk di situ terbahagi kepada dua golongan, ada yang percaya dengan Dajjal, sementara sebahagiannya pula menolak keluar ajaran Dajjal itu. Apabila Dajjal dapati ada golongan yang ragu-ragu dengannya, maka dia pun belayar melarikan diri. Dia tidak tahu kemana hendak dituju, hanya mengikutarah tiupan angin. Tahu-tahu saja dia sudah sampai di England, Ireland, Scotland dan kemudian ke Perancis. Dajjal berkenalan dengan penduduk negeri yang dia pergi itu sambil mengenal tentang keadaan alam di situ.

Tetapi dia rasa tempat-tempat itu semua masih tidak begitu sesuai baginya untuk dibuat tempat tinggal. Dia pun buat keputusan balik semula ke Amerika Selatan dengan bahtera besarnya. Semasa dalam perjalanan balik itu dia berlabuh di pantai sebuah pulau yang bernama Puerto Rico. Dia tengok penduduk di situ lebih serius dan ikhlas daripada penduduk kepulauan Bermuda dalam acara menyembah syaitan.

Dia pun bertanya tentang rahsia penyembahan penduduk kawasan itu dan bertanya bagaimana ajaran itu tersebar sehinggakan para penganut di situ mempunyai keyakinan yang kuat. Dajjal diberitahu, Pada satu masa dahulu, di zaman nenek moyang mereka, ada seseorang lelaki yang berbadan besar menjelma dalam bentuk cahaya terang seperti api kepada penduduk pulau itu iaitu tepat pada sebelum matahari terbenam di atas gunung dan menyeru memberitahu.'Aku adalah tuhanmu. Jika kamu semua tidak sujud kepada aku, maka aku akan gegarkan bumi ini.

Oleh kerana rasa takut, maka mereka pun sujud. Dajjal bertanya: "Apakah sekarang ini boleh nampak orang itu?" Mereka menjawab," Setiap tahun orang itu akan muncul satu atau dua kali di atas gunung yang nenek moyang kami panggil Gunung Terbit. la dipanggil Gunung Terbit kerana Syaitan Agung, tuhan kami menerbitkan cahaya di atas gunung itu. Dajjal pun berjanji dengan ketua-ketua penduduk di situ yang dia akan datang semula untuk menghadiri perayaan tahunan agama ini. Mereka tidak halang kalau Dajjal mahu datang tetapi harus ikut cara dan doanya.

Dajjal bertanya." apakah doanya?" Para penyembah syaitan itu pun memberitahu tentang doa dan syaratnya. Dajjal setuju. Mereka mengucapkan,

"Wahai tuhan kami. Wahai cahaya wujud dan pembawa obor cahaya kepada seluruh makhluk. Aku hadapkan jiwaku kepadamu dengan keimanan, kecintaan dan penyucian. Engkaulah kebaikan dan inti kebaikan. Oleh sebab itu, aku berjanji kepada mu untuk menjadi hambamu yang taat dan mencintaimu dan musuh dewa kejahatan. Engkaulah roh kebenaran. Engkaulah, wahai Iblis, cahaya keabadian.

Engkaulah wahai Iblis cahaya keabadian. Engkau nampak kepada kami, sebab itu kami membenci tuhan yang tersembunyi dan hidup dalam kegelapan. Kerana itu aku akan membenci kegelapan dan mengubahnya jadi api dan cahaya, Maka lakukanlah padaku apa yang dapat memuliakan namamu. Wahai tuhan kami Iblis yang agung, terimalah doa dan ketundukanku, sinari jalanku dengan keindahanmu yang memancarkan sinar dan keti' • mendekat hari terakhirku. Engkau mendapatiku sebagai pemberani dan tenang ketika menghadapi kematian dan kesempurnaan persiapan untuk pindah ke haribaanmu dalam api keabadian. Amin."

Dajjal setuju dengan mereka dan cara mereka. Padahal dia menyembunyikan sesuatu hasrat dalam diri dia sendiri.

Hari perayaan yang dia nanti-nantikan telah tiba. Dajjal menghadir kan diri di upacara kemunculan Syaitan kaum itu. Tetapi peliknya, syaitan yang mengaku tuhan itu tidak datang pada hari upacara Syaitan. Setelah menanti selama dua hari, para penyembahnya menganggap Syaitan sedang sebok menguruskan alam ini sebab itu tidak muncul. Tiba-tiba pada hari ketiga syaitan memunculkan diri kepada mereka di atas gunung dalam kegelapan, Badannya seakan-akan menyala dan mengeluarkan cahaya.

Dia menyeru mereka sujud. Para penyembahnya pun sujud, hanya seorang sahaja yang tidak sujud. Siapa lagi kalau tidak Dajjal. Sebabnya Dajjal tidak sujud kerana yang menjelma atas gunung itu ialah Dajjal yang menampakkan diri menggantikan Iblis.

Dajjal mengambil kesempatan itu kerana dia lihat sudah dua hari syaitan tidak muncul. Lalu dia pun menyapu badannya dengan minyak fosfor dan dipermainkannya api. Dia berkata kepada para penyembah/Tanda keredhaanku ke Dajjal sentiasa mencari peluang untuk menyesatkan orang kononnya dia Tuhan atau paling tidak pun dia mengaku dia anak tuhan.......sehingga dia sanggup buat perjanjian dengan Iblis atas kamu ialah adanya seorang yang akan hidup di tengah-tengah kamu semua.

Dia adalah putraku. Aku mengutusnya kepada kamu semua dan seluruh alam. Dia adalah raja kamu dan anak tuhan.Dia akan menjaga dan memelihara kamu. Jika dia memerintahkan sesuatu, taatilah. Jika dia melarang sesuatu, janganlah membantahnya. Jika dia meminta sesuatu, berikanlah. Jika dia memberi kepada kamu semua, maka sujudlah kepadanya.

Dia adalah dari aku dan aku adalah darinya. Kami adalah seperti matahari dan cahayanya. Tanda ketuhanannya ialah kedua matanya aneh. Barangsiapa memandang kedua matanya, maka dia akan mendapatkan syurga dan keredhaan."

Kemudian dia menghilang dan mereka pun tertanya-tanya, siapakah gerangan orang yang dimaksudkan. Para penyembah pun mula tercari-cari orang asing utusan tuhan itu. Akhirnya mereka terjumpa Dajjal sedang tidur di bawah pokok di tengah hutan. Mereka mengejutkan dia. Dia pun bangun. Kemudian mereka sujud di hadapannya serta memohon keredhaan. Dia pun berkata kepada mereka,"Berdirilah! Ayah aku tuhan yang agung, telah mengampuni segala dosa kamu semua. Mulai hari ini, lakukanlah apa saja yang kamu mahu. Barangsiapa melakukan dosa, maka hendaklah dia datang kepada aku dan mengaku kesalahannya di hadapanku. Aku akan meminta ampun baginya kepada ayahku. Ayahku tidak akan menolak doa dan permintaanku." Dajjal sudah senang hati. Tetapi dia tidak pernah puas. Dia mula berangan dan mengatur perkara lain pula. Dia ingin menguasai seluruh negeri yang pernah dia singgahi dan lalui dulu. Di sinilah permulaan rancangannya itu.

Penduduk kota pun mula menunjukkan ketaatan dan menyembah ketika berada di hadapannya. Mereka memberi apa saja yang diminta. Dajjal meminta mereka membuatkan sebuah bahtera besar. Mereka bersetuju dan Dajjal sendiriyang membuat reka bentuknya yang menyerupai pesawat terbang Fir'aun. Mereka pun membuatnya. Dengan perahu besar itu dia ingin mengelilingi dunia. Dajjal menyenangkan hati para penyembah dengan menyatakan dia akan menjadikan seluruh alam tunduk dan hormat kepada pulau itu dan semuanya akan menjadi kerajaannya. Dan ibu kota kepada kerajaan seluruh muka bumi ini ialah pulau itu.

Dengan pembantu-pembantu yang hebat dan pengawal-pengawal yang kuat-kuat belaka, dia pun belayar menuju ke Amerika Utara. Perjalanannya ini berlaku pada awal abad ke 8 M (Abad ke 2 Hijrah).

Mula-mula sekali dia memasuki Amerika Syarikat melalui Florida, iaitu di pantai Miami. Ketika itu belum ada Florida dan belum ada pantai Miami. Bersama-sama para-pengawal, dia berhenti di pantai luas itu dan berkata kepada pengawalnya 'Akan aku jadikan tanah ini milikku."

Tetapi apabila Dajjal masuk ke padang Sahara, dia terjumpa dengan beberapa buah gua dan rumah-rumah batu yang besar. Dia bertemu dengan beberapa orang kaum yang hampir telanjang dan digelar Karmas atau Harmas, iaitu para penyembang Harmas, salah satu nama Iblis kerana dia memang suka berbohong. Mereka adalah para penyembah si pendusta. Tetapi makna Harmas itu dipesongkan harmas menjadi makna rabb atau assay d al-musaithir "tuhan yang berkuasa"

Body Painting Day 2016 New York City ... 15th World Bodypainting Festival

2016-08-07T03:22:00.002-07:00

Body Painting

Summer Weather

The Death Of Marilyn Monroe - Conspiracy Theories. August 4th 1962

2016-08-06T09:14:00.000-07:00

Marilyn Monroe's Brentwood House Marilyn Monroe's Brentwood Hacienda 1962 House Tour of Marilyn Monroe and Hollywood Collector Greg Schreiner

ISIS = Israeli Secret Intelligence Service

2016-01-26T05:25:00.000-08:00

ITALY-AUTO-BUSINESS-EARNINGS-DIVIDEND-FIAT

2014-04-26T17:03:00.001-07:00

KENYA TRAIN CRASH

People grow frustrated at the slow pace of rescue operation as they gather next to an overturned freight train that crashed into homes built along the railway track in Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, 22 December 2013. A freight train heading to Uganda derailed and crashed into homes as it was passing through one of the biggest slums in Africa, injuring several people. Several people are feared trapped underneath the wreckage, the Kenya Red Cross says. Workers are trying to straighten the railway track to make a way for a heavy machinery to come and haul an overturned train cars

City Ballet Art Installation

A Patron of the New York City Ballet walks along a massive photograph on linoleum flooring featuring over 80 dancers arranged in an array of poses at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in New York. The work of French-born artist JR, winner of the 2011 TED Prize and known for his large-scale photography projects, was made by staging a photo shoot of the artists lying down pushing and pulling on a white crinkled paper. It’ll remain in place through March 2.

Stem Cells

This undated image made available by the journal Nature shows a mouse embryo formed with specially-treated cells from a newborn mouse that had been transformed into stem cells. Researchers in Boston and Japan say they created stem cells from various tissues of newborn mice. If the same technique works for humans, it may provide a new way to grow tissue for treating illnesses like diabetes and Parkinson's disease. The report was published online on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 in the journal Nature.

Great Lakes Asian Carp

South Sudan Displaced

In this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, displaced South Sudanese women queue for water at the United Nations base where they have sought shelter in Malakal, South Sudan. South Sudanese who have sought safety at a United Nations base in an area that has suffered some of the country’s worst violence since mid-December feel it is too dangerous to return to their homes, despite a truce between the warring factions, highlighting the danger of renewed violence as both sides trade blame for sporadic violations of a ceasefire agreement signed last week in neighboring Ethiopia

Winter Weather Alabama

Traffic is at a standstill on Interstate 65 northbound as officials work to clear abandoned vehicles Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 in Hoover, Ala. Overnight, the South saw fatal crashes and hundreds of fender-benders. Jackknifed 18-wheelers littered Interstate 65 in central Alabama. Ice shut down bridges on Florida's panhandle and the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, one of the world's longest spans, in Louisiana. Some commuters pleaded for help via cellphones while still holed up in their cars, while others trudged miles home, abandoning their vehicles outright.

INDONESIA-MISS UNIVERSE-BEAUTY PAGEANT

This picture taken in Jakarta on January 29, 2014 shows Miss Universe Maria Gabriela Isler from Venezuela (back-L) talking to Miss Indonesia 2013 Wulandari Herman (back-R) as Miss Indonesia 2014 Elvira Devinamira (front-R) from East Java and first runner-up Elfin Pertiwi (front-L) from South Sumatera wait for the jury to announce the winner during a grand final of the Miss Indonesia 2014 beauty contest in Jakarta. Elvira Devinamira of East Java was crowned as Miss Indonesia 2014 and will compete in Miss Universe 2014.

INDONESIA-MISS UNIVERSE-BEAUTY PAGEANT

CHINA-LIFESTYLE-LUNAR-NEW YEAR-TRAVEL

This picture taken on January 25, 2014 shows a Chinese family arriving on a motorcycle at a pitstop in Wuzhou, Guangxi province, as they join thousands shunning public transport to head home on the highways during the world's largest migration. China's 245 million migrant workers -- twice the entire population of Japan -- generally have to travel home to their families on jam-packed trains or buses for the Lunar New Year, but this year more than 600,000 are expected to ride home on their own motorcycles, according to state-run media, making gruelling journeys of several hundred kilometres for the country's biggest festival..

Turkey Central Bank Rates

Myanmar Danmark Crown Princess

Denmark’s crown Princess Mary, right, watches a Buddhist woman making rice noodles during a visit to a Buddhist resettlement village in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar, Sunday, Jan 12’ 2014. Crown Princess Mary, accompanied by Denmark’s minister for development cooperation Rasmus Helveg Petersen, visited camps for internally displaced Muslims and relocation sites of the Buddhists, who become displaced following sectarian violence since 2012, concluding a three-day visit to Myanmar

PORTUGAL-ACCIDENT-HAZING-FILES

A file picture taken on December 17, 2013 shows people looking at the waves following the disappearance of university students who were swept away by a huge wave, on a beach in Meco, near Sesimbra. The circumstances surrounding the death of six university students who were swept away by a wave during the night on December 15 remain unclear but the tragedy has provoked a heated debate about academic hazing following the ongoing investigation that hints the students may have taken part in a rite of passage ceremony. Former Portuguese president Mario Soares in an opinion piece published on January 28, 2014 called for a ban on university hazing.

HONG KONG-GAY-GIGI-FILES

(FILES) This file picture taken in Macau on September 4, 2011 shows Gigi Chao (R), the daughter of Hong Kong tycoon Cecil Chao Sze-tsung with her partner. The lesbian daughter of a Hong Kong tycoon, who offered more than 100 million USD to find her a male suitor, has issued a heartfelt open letter on January 29, 2014 urging him to accept her sexuality. In the letter, which starts "Dear Daddy", socialite Gigi Chao asked her father Cecil to treat her partner Sean Eav as "a normal, dignified human being" -- the pair have been together for nine years and are reported to have married in 2012 in France.

PHILIPPINES CYBERSEX CRIME

Arrested Filipino teens, suspected of engaging in a cybersex racket, are seen inside the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) office in Manila, Philippines, 29 January 2013. Lured by easy money, fancy clothes and the latest gadgets, more and more young Filipinos are falling prey to syndicates operating cybersex dens that cater to clients mostly outside the Philippines. With nearly 30 percent of Filipinos living on less than one US dollar a day, poverty is a key reason why Filipinos are easily recruited by cybersex syndicates who operate clandestinely inside homes or internet cafes.

US-CALIFORNIA-DROUGHT-DRIES-UP-BAY-AREA-RESERVOIRS

Low water levels are visible at the Almaden Reservoir on January 28, 2014 in San Jose, California. Now in its third straight year of drought conditions, California is experiencing its driest year on record, dating back 119 years, and reservoirs throughout the state have low water levels. Santa Clara County reservoirs are at 3 percent of capacity or lower. California Gov. Jerry Brown officially declared a drought emergency to speed up assistance to local governments, streamline water transfers and potentially ease environmental protection requirements for dam releases

School Shooting Hawaii

Students leave Roosevelt High School after a school shooting on campus, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Honolulu. A 17-year-old student was shot by police in a counselor's office after he pulled a knife and cut one of the officers. The student was taken to a local hospital. State Department of Education spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said the boy showed up Tuesday morning at the school and officials there recognized him as a runaway who was not registered for classes, and called police. Maj. Richard Robinson, commander of the Honolulu Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division, said the boy lunged at officers who arrived at the public high school near downtown Honolulu and tried to take him into custody

SPAIN-CARNIVAL-ZUBIETA

Giffords Gun Initiatives

Devyn Hembry leans on his Bushmaster rifle as he waits to get in line to enter a Washington state House panel hearing Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Olympia, Wash. Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who survived a 2011 shooting, testified before the panel considering an initiative to expand firearm background checks in the state, telling lawmakers that "the nation is counting on you." With her husband, retired NASA space shuttle commander Mark Kelly sitting next to her, Giffords spoke slowly and briefly to the panel that was taking public testimony on Initiative 594

Gay Marriage Utah Protests

Married couple Chris Johnson, left, and David Tuma, hug each other during a rally outside the Utah State Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Salt Lake City. Opponents and supporters of gay marriage held twin rallies at the Capitol on Tuesday. More than 1,000 gay couples rushed to get married when a federal judge overturned Utah's constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in late December 2013. In early January the U.S. Supreme Court granted Utah's request for an emergency halt to the weddings.

SCIENCE-ASTRONOMY-SPACE

This handout artist's impression released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on January 15, 2014 shows one of the three newly discovered planets in the star cluster Messier 67. In this cluster the stars are all about the same age and composition as the Sun. This makes it a perfect laboratory to study how many planets form in such a crowded environment. Very few planets in clusters are known and this one has the additional distinction of orbiting a solar twin — a star that is almost identical to the Sun in all respects.

TURKEY-SYRIA-CONFLICT

Syrian refugees walk among tents at Karkamis' refugee camp on January 16, 2014 near the town of Gaziantep, south of Turkey. Two weeks of battles between Syrian rebels and jihadists have killed at least 1,069 people, mostly fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday. Among the dead, not all of whom were identified, were 608 Islamist and moderate rebels, 312 jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and 130 civilians, the Britain-based group said.

Global Gay Rights

FILE - An activist with multicolored paint on her face and matching umbrella particiaptes a protest demanding equality for LGBTIQ (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning) people in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia on Friday, May 31, 2012. In heavily Muslim Indonesia, gay sex is not criminalized, and many young, urban Indonesians are relatively tolerant of homosexuality, but most citizens consider it unacceptable. "Gay people are still living in fear," said King Oey, chairman of the country's main gay-rights group

Natural Disaster Declaration-Drought

In this April 2, 2013 file photo, Davis Nixon, left, and Jose Ponce, walk on the dry shores of Minnequa Lake in Pueblo, Colo. Federal officials have designated portions of 11 drought-ridden western and central states as primary natural disaster areas, highlighting the financial strain the lack of rain is likely to bring to farmers in those regions. The announcement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Jan. 16, 2014, included counties in Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Kansas, Texas, Utah, Arkansas, Hawaii, Idaho, Oklahoma and California.

Fort Unburied Skeletons

FILE - In this 1993 file photo, skeletons uncovered during a 1950s archaeological excavation are among the 10 skeletons of French and Indian War soldiers displayed in the cemetery at Fort William Henry in Lake George, N.Y. The skeletons were once thought to have been reburied in a 1993 ceremony. The fort’s owners and the two anthropologists who studied the skeletons revealed in 2012 that only three skeletons were actually re-interred in 1993. The 15 mostly complete skeletons likely will be returned to the fort "before the end of the summer," fort spokeswoman Melodie Viele wrote in an email

SUDAN-SSUDAN-UNREST-REFUGEE

SPACE-US-CHANDRA-HAND OF GOD

This NASA image obtained January 10, 2014 shows a cloud of material ejected from a star that exploded. NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has imaged the structure in high-energy X-rays for the first time, shown in blue. Lower-energy X-ray light previously detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is shown in green and red. Nicknamed the "Hand of God," this object is called a pulsar wind nebula. It's powered by the leftover, dense core of a star that blew up in a supernova explosion. The stellar corpse, called PSR B1509-58, or B1509 for short, is a pulsar: it rapidly spins around, seven times per second, firing out a particle wind into the material around it -- material that was ejected in the star's explosion. These particles are interacting with magnetic fields around the material, causing it to glow with X-rays. The result is a cloud that, in previous images, looked like an open hand. The pulsar itself can't be seen in this picture, but is located near the bright white spot.One of the big mysteries of this object is whether the pulsar particles are interacting with the material in a specific way to make it look like a hand, or if the material is in fact shaped like a hand. NuSTAR's view is providing new clues to the puzzle. The hand actually shrinks in the NuSTAR image, looking more like a fist, as indicated by the blue color. The northern region, where the fingers are located, shrinks more than the southern part, where a jet lies, implying the two areas are physically different. In this image, X-ray light seen by Chandra with energy ranges of 0.5 to 2 kiloelectron volts (keV) and 2 to 4 keV is shown in red and green, respectively, while X-ray light detected by NuSTAR in the higher-energy range of 7 to 25 keV is blue.

SPACE-US-MARS-ROVER-TRACKS

This NASA image obtained January 10, 2014 shows two parallel tracks left by the wheels of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as it crosses rugged ground in this portion of a December 11, 2013, observation by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The rover itself does not appear in this part of the HiRISE observation. Curiosity has been on the move. By the time this image was taken, it had driven about 2.86 miles (4.61 kilometers) since its August 2012 landing in Gale Crater. This enhanced color image shows where the rover zigzagged to avoid steep slopes and other obstacles on its route toward its long-term destination on the lower slopes of Mount Sharp. Curiosity is progressing from a bright dust-covered area to a region with a darker surface, where windblown sand scours the surface relatively free of dust. For scale, the two parallel lines of the wheel tracks are about 10 feet (3 meters) apart

SUDAN-UNREST-REFUGEES

Mideast Israel Boycott Hits Home

In this Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 photo, Palestinian farmers cut onions at a field belong to Jewish settlers, just outside the West Bank Jordan valley Jewish settlement of Tomer. For Israeli farmers in the West Bank's Jordan Valley, an international campaign to boycott settlement products has turned almost overnight from a distant nuisance into a harsh economic reality. The export-driven income of growers in the valley's 21 settlements dropped by 15 percent, or $29 million dollars, last year because Western European supermarket chains trying to avoid political entanglements largely stopped buying the valley's grapes, dates and sweet peppers.

Mideast Israel Boycott Hits Home

In this Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 photo, cutting tools placed on the ground while Palestinian farmers take their morning break at an onions field belong to Jewish settlers, just outside the west bank Jordan valley Jewish settlement of Tomer. For Israeli farmers in the West Bank's Jordan Valley, an international campaign to boycott settlement products has turned almost overnight from a distant nuisance into a harsh economic reality. The export-driven income of growers in the valley's 21 settlements dropped by 15 percent, or $29 million dollars, last year because Western European supermarket chains trying to avoid political entanglements largely stopped buying the valley's grapes, dates and sweet peppers.

Chemical Spill

This Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 photo shows a stretch of the Elk River in Charleston, W.Va. The White House has issued a federal disaster declaration in West Virginia, where a chemical spill that may have contaminated tap water has led officials to tell at least 300,000 people not to bathe, brush their teeth or wash their clothes. The West Virginia National Guard planned to distribute bottled drinking water to emergency services agencies in the nine affected counties. About 100,000 water customers, or 300,000 people total, were affected, state officials said

Britain HMS Illustrious

Royal Navy helicopter carrier HMS Illustrious - which played a major part in the typhoon relief effort in the Philippines in November – returns home to Portsmouth, England, Friday, Jan. 10, 2014. The 23,000-tonne ship was operating in the Gulf when she was diverted to the Philippines to relieve Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring, which was among the first ships on scene to offer aid. As part of the UK government’s response to the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, Illustrious and her 950 crew spent three weeks delivering emergency UK aid supplies and repairing key services and broken infrastructure. Armed Forces Minister Mark Francois, who welcomed the ship back to her home port, said: “HMS Illustrious played a vital role in getting critical aid supplies and medics to the worst hit areas of the Philippines, including some of the most hard to reach islands. Her crew, their families and friends have dealt admirably with unplanned separation over Christmas and the New Year to make that happen. Britain can be proud of the part she and all those who operated from her have played, vividly demonstrating the UK’s ability to extend positive influence around the globe. I am delighted to have been able to visit on her return to her base port of Portsmouth and to personally thank those involved.”

GERMANY HAMBURG FLASHMOB

Participants of a flashmob throw pillows and feathers on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg, Germany, 10 January 2014. A few hundred people took part in the pillow fight on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg to protest against the 'danger zone' set up by the police in which police officers are allowed to stop and search people for no specific reason. The danger zone comes was established by police in consequence to recent clashes between police and left-wing activists over the evicition of Rote Flora cultural centre

Haiti Building Safety

In this Dec. 25, 2013 photo, carpet vendors use the open space of an earthquake damaged building to cut carpet for a client near their shop in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Four years later after the 7.0-magnitude quake, construction practices in the Caribbean country have improved overall, with better materials being used for many larger projects. But construction of smaller commercial buildings and homes is more haphazard, in large part because most people in the impoverished nation don’t have the money to do things by the book.

INDIA NEW TERMINAL T2 INAUGRATATION

Niagara Falls Winter

The area surrounding Niagara Falls, N.Y., is coated in a layer of ice in Niagara Falls State Park on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. Niagara Falls hasn't frozen over, but it has become an icy spectacle, thanks to a blast of arctic wind and cold that blew around and froze the mist on surfaces and landscaping. Despite the urban legends, Niagara Falls doesn't freeze solid in the winter, tourism officials say. A section of the American Falls, one of three waterfalls that make up the natural attraction, has frozen. The Niagara River rapids and larger Horseshoe Falls continue to flow unimpeded.

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JANUARY 10: Workers are viewed in a tunnel underneath Manhattan at the Second Avenue Subway project site on January 10, 2014 in New York City. New York City's long awaited Second Avenue Subway line, which will extend the route of the Q train into the Upper East Side, has been delayed since plans were first proposed in the 1920s and 1940s. Building the subway line has involved digging 8.5 miles of new tunnel from 125th Street in Harlem south to Hanover Square, which is located in Manhattan's Financial District. The total cost of the project is expected to top $17 billion and is scheduled to open for service in December 2016

APTOPIX Niagara Falls Winter

Freezing water sprays from Niagara Falls coats the landscape at Niagara Falls State Park on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 in Niagara Falls, N.Y. Niagara Falls hasn't frozen over, but it has become an icy spectacle, thanks to a blast of arctic wind and cold that blew around and froze the mist on surfaces and landscaping. Despite the urban legends, Niagara Falls doesn't freeze solid in the winter, tourism officials say. A section of the American Falls, one of three waterfalls that make up the natural attraction, has frozen. The Niagara River rapids and larger Horseshoe Falls continue to flow unimpeded.

Florida Keys Soldier Ride

In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, U.S. Army Sgt. Wade Mitcheltree, right, and about 50 other wounded veterans of wars pedal their way across the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys Friday, Jan. 10, 2014, near Marathon, Fla. Mitcheltree lost his forearm and much of his right leg in Afghanistan in 2012. About 50 injured vets and their supporters are participating in the trip down segments of the Florida Keys Overseas Highway during Soldier Ride. The event is staged by the Wounded Warrior Project to help restore injured soldiers' physical and emotional well-being. It concludes in Key West Sunday, Jan. 12.

CHILE MINING

Coloured smoke is seen at the copper mine El Teniente, located in the hillside of the Andes in the commune of Machali, Cachapoal Province, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region, Chile, 10 January 2014. The National Copper Corporation of Chile (CODELCO) celebrated its first year of work in an open area of the mine, after 108 years of underground mining. El Teniente, considered the biggest underground mine in the world, stopped subterranean explorations one year ago with around 3,000-kilometer of excavated tunnels

SPACE WITCH HEAD NEBULA

An undated handout photo released by NASA on 01 November 2013 shows the Witch Head nebula, named after its resemblance to the profile of a wicked witch. The photo was captured by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Astronomers say the billowy clouds of the nebula, where baby stars are brewing, are being lit up by massive stars. Dust in the cloud is being hit with starlight, causing it to glow with infrared light, which was picked up by WISE's detectors. The Witch Head nebula is estimated to be hundreds of light-years away in the Orion constellation, just off the famous hunter's knee. WISE was recently ‘awakened’ to hunt for asteroids in a program called NEOWISE. The reactivation came after the spacecraft was put into hibernation in 2011, when it completed two full scans of the sky, as planned.

USA NEW YORK HALLOWEEN PARADE

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INDONESIA ELECTIONS

Indonesian Baduy tribe women wait for their turn to cast their ballots during the parliamentary elections at a polling station in Kanekes village, Lebak, Banten province, Indonesia, 09 April 2014. Polls opened on 09 April in Indonesia's parliamentary elections amid expectations of an opposition victory. Twelve national political parties and three local parties in Aceh province are contesting the elections, the fourth since Indonesia embraced democracy following the fall of dictator Suharto in 1998.

SUDAN-UNREST

Fishermen gather on the banks of the Sobat river in Nasir on April 14, 2014. Conflict in South Sudan has triggered a serious risk of famine that will kill up to 50,000 children within months if immediate action is not taken, the UN has warned. The African country has experienced high levels of malnutrition since it gained independence in 2011, UNICEF said, and conditions have worsened since ethnic conflict broke out between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and supporters of his former deputy Riek Machar

UKRAINE-RUSSIA-POLITICS-CRISIS-ART

Artist Olga Oleynik, 25, poses for a photograph in her "anti-cafe" in Kiev on March 26, 2014, where her painting of a "naked" Viktor Yanukovych is exposed. First he was stripped of his presidency, then his lavish mansion and opulent tastes were laid bare, and now ousted Ukraine leader Viktor Yanukovych has been exposed even further, in an infamous nude painting on display in central Kiev. A burly and grim Yanukovych slouches in an unflattering position, with no detail left to the imagination, in the painting called "The Naked King" which swept to accidental fame during the revolution that forced him to flee the country in February.

DARUL HANA

USA TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS

A handhout image provided by Titan Aerospace/Google on 15 April 2014 shows a solar-powered Titan Aerospace drone. Technology giant Google fired a salvo 15 April against Facebook in their duel to providing internet service from the air to less-developed regions of the world, saying it has acquired Titan Aerospace, according to The Wall Street Journal. Titan's drones are reportedly able to remain aloft at an altitude of 19,000 metres for five years, using solar power. The drone looks like a glider and has a wingspan of 50 metres, according to photos published 15 April. The technology is expected to be ready by 2015.

SPACE-HUBBLE-BLUE TADPOLE

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image released April 14, 2014 shows what appears to be a bright blue tadpole swimming through the blackness of space. Known as IRAS 20324+4057, but dubbed "the Tadpole," this clump of gas and dust has given birth to a bright, "protostar," one of the earliest steps in building a star. There are actually multiple protostars within this tadpole's 'head," but the glowing yellow one in this image is the most luminous and massive. When this protostar has gathered together enough mass from its surroundings, it will eventually emerge as a fully-fledged young star. The intense blue glow is caused by nearby stars firing ultraviolet radiation at IRAS 20324+4057, which also sculpts its tail into a long, wiggly shape. In total, this clump spans roughly a light-year from head to tail-tip, and contains gas weighing almost four times the mass of the sun.

Australia Britain Royals

Lana Del Rey performs at the 2014 Coachella Music and Arts Festival

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Italy-Furniture Show

In this Wednesday, April 9, 2014 file photo, outside furniture by Dutch design factory Mal is displayed at the Milan Design Fair, in Milan, Italy. The sprawling Milan Furniture Show, which closes Sunday, April 13, 2014, is the largest and most prestigious in the world, capitalizing on Italian excellence in furniture design and craftsmanship. The weeklong happening, which spills out into Milan venues with numerous side events, is also increasingly the launching pad for high-level collaborations among the fashion, architecture, technological and design worlds.

CHILE-VALPARAISO-FIRE

A helicopter works after some fire focuses reactivated, in Valparaiso, Chile, on April 13, 2014. More than 10,000 people were evacuated as an army of firefighters battled a killer blaze that --on the eve-- tore through parts of Chile's historic port of Valparaiso and left at least 11 people dead. The fire, which started in woodland Saturday, gutted 500 homes as flames advanced on the city of 270,000, famed for its UNESCO-listed center with cobblestone streets and brightly painted wooden homes

CHILE-VALPARAISO-FIRE

Firefighters work in the area the fire reactivated in Valparaiso, Chile, on April 13, 2014. More than 10,000 people were evacuated as an army of firefighters battled a killer blaze that --on the eve-- tore through parts of Chile's historic port of Valparaiso and left at least 11 people dead. The fire, which started in woodland Saturday, gutted 500 homes as flames advanced on the city of 270,000, famed for its UNESCO-listed center with cobblestone streets and brightly painted wooden homes.

Actress Shailene Woodle

Paraguay's National Farmers Federation

the 10th annual Buenos Aires Tattoo Show

'No Pants Subway Ride' in Brussels, Belgium, 12 January 2014

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KENYA TRAIN CRASH

City Ballet Art Installation

Stem Cells

Great Lakes Asian Carp

South Sudan Displaced

Winter Weather Alabama

INDONESIA-MISS UNIVERSE-BEAUTY PAGEANT

This picture taken in Jakarta on January 29, 2014 shows Miss Universe Maria Gabriela Isler from Venezuela (back-L) talking to Miss Indonesia 2013 Wulandari Herman (back-R) as Miss Indonesia 2014 Elvira Devinamira (front-R) from East Java and first runner-up Elfin Pertiwi (front-L) from South Sumatera wait for the jury to announce the winner during a grand final of the Miss Indonesia 2014 beauty contest in Jakarta. Elvira Devinamira of East Java was crowned as Miss Indonesia 2014 and will compete in Miss Universe 2014.

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Turkey Central Bank Rates

Myanmar Danmark Crown Princess

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PHILIPPINES CYBERSEX CRIME

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School Shooting Hawaii

SPAIN-CARNIVAL-ZUBIETA

Giffords Gun Initiatives

Gay Marriage Utah Protests

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TURKEY-SYRIA-CONFLICT

Global Gay Rights

Natural Disaster Declaration-Drought

Fort Unburied Skeletons

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SPACE-US-MARS-ROVER-TRACKS

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Mideast Israel Boycott Hits Home

Chemical Spill

Britain HMS Illustrious

GERMANY HAMBURG FLASHMOB

Haiti Building Safety

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Niagara Falls Winter

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APTOPIX Niagara Falls Winter

Florida Keys Soldier Ride

CHILE MINING

SPACE WITCH HEAD NEBULA

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Argentina Agrochemicals

In this April 1, 2013 photo, Aixa Cano, 5, who has hairy moles all over her body that doctors can't explain, sits on a stoop outside her home in Avia Terai, in Chaco province, Argentina. Although it’s nearly impossible to prove, doctors say Aixa’s birth defect may be linked to agrochemicals. In Chaco, children are four times more likely to be born with devastating birth defects since biotechnology dramatically expanded farming in Argentina. Chemicals routinely contaminate homes, classrooms and drinking water.

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Russia Putins Cranes

FILE - In this Wednesday Sept. 5, 2012 file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin flies in a motorized hang glider alongside two Siberian white cranes, on the Yamal Peninsula, in Russia. One of the Siberian cranes that President Vladimir Putin helped teach to fly south last year lost its flock along the way but has been found and brought to Moscow. Putin took part in a flight as part of a program devised by environmentalists to lead the endangered cranes, which were raised in captivity, on their migration to Asia. The crane, called Raven, will spend the winter in a wildlife reserve

TURKEY-SYRIA-CONFLICT-REFUGEES

Syrian refugees, who flock by dozens in Turkey each day, fleeing the civil war in their country, stand on October 4, 2013 at a makeshift camp in Ankara, where they arrived three months ago. In the central public Dikmen valley park in front of the eyes of local authorities, they build a shanty town. There are here some 250 refugees from Aleppo (northern syria) and among them 80 children. Saying that they live in very poor conditions, the Syrian refuges collect paper from garbage to try and make ends meet. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad today warned Turkey it will "pay dearly" for supporting rebels fighting to overthrow his regime, in an interview broadcast Friday on Turkish television

TURKEY-SYRIA-CONFLICT-REFUGEES

Children of Syrian refugees, who flock by dozens in Turkey each day, fleeing the civil war in their country, sit on October 4, 2013 at a makeshift camp in Ankara, where they arrived three months ago. In the central public Dikmen valley park in front of the eyes of local authorities, they build a shanty town. There are here some 250 refugees from Aleppo (northern syria) and among them 80 children. Saying that they live in very poor conditions, the Syrian refuges collect paper from garbage to try and make ends meet. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad today warned Turkey it will "pay dearly" for supporting rebels fighting to overthrow his regime, in an interview broadcast Friday on Turkish television.

Ancient Rocks Toppled

Venezuela Guyana Ship Detained

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2013 file photo, a Venezuelan Coast Guard boat floats next to the survey ship Teknik Perdana docked near the shore of Margarita Island, Venezuela. Diplomats met a week after Venezuela detained the ship chartered by U.S.-based Anadarko Petroleum as it conducted exploration activities in disputed waters. The governments of Venezuela and Guyana said Friday, Oct. 18 they have agreed to more talks on a border dispute that prompted the Venezuelan navy to detain a ship

Nigeria Killings

FILE - In this file picture dated Friday, April. 19, 2013 and provided by Amnesty International, bodies of civilians detained by Nigerian security forces as alleged members or associates of Boko haram terrorist network deposited by soldiers outside Sani Abacha Teaching Hospital morgue in Damaturu. Shedding stark light on Nigeria's escalating war with Islamic militants, mortuary records from a single Nigerian hospital show the number of detainees who died in military custody more than tripled in June, the first month of a state of emergency in the troubled northeast region.

BART Strike

With the BART transit system on strike, traffic is backed up for blocks on Battery Street leading to an artery of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge during the evening commute Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, in San Francisco. San Francisco Bay Area rapid transit workers are on strike for the second time since July, scrambling the morning commute for hundreds of thousands of workers who were up before dawn to clog highways, swarm buses and shiver on ferry decks as they found alternative ways to the office. About 400,000 riders take BART every weekday on the nation's fifth-largest commuter rail system

Actress Kirsten Vangsness

Kate Beckinsale, Lily Mo Sheen, Len Wiseman arrive at Elyse Walker

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Switzerland Russian Royals Auction

An employee of the Hotel des Ventes auction house holds a photograph portraying the familie of Tsar Alexander III , at the Hotel des Ventes auction house in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. From the 10th to 13th December 2013, the auction house will put on sale exceptional objects from the Russian royal and imperial collections, mostly collections of the Romanov family. The last tsars of Russia will be particularly highlighted in this sale. Objects owned by Prince Romanov, Prince Yussupov, King Boris III of Bulgaria, King Faruk of Egypt will be presented.

NIGERIA-POLITICS-RELIGION-ISLAM-SOCIAL

Sharia enforcers called Hisbah destroy thousands of bottles of beer outside northern Nigeria's largest city of Kano on November 27, 2013. The Hisbah destroyed over 240,000 bottles of beer along with over 8,000 litres of local brew called "Burukutu" at a ceremony attended by Hisbah chiefs and government officials as part of sharia enforcement. Kano has banned the sales and consumption of alcohol since 2001 when it reintroduced strict sharia Islamic law in the predominantly muslim state

FASHION-JAPAN-TRIUMPH

India Elephant Festival

In this Monday, Nov. 25, 2013 photo, elephants run a race at the elephant fair in Sonepur, India. Hoping there is something for everyone at this year's Sonepur Mela, organizers admit they are struggling to revive one of India's largest livestock markets now sapped of its main attraction by a ban on elephant sales. In decades past, the festival drew hundreds of elephants, and hundreds of thousands of people hoping to watch the animals revered in India as an Earthly incarnation of the Hindu god Ganesh bath in the river or do tricks for a crowd.

INDONESIA SINABUNG VOLCANO

Mount Sinabung spews volcanic ash as seen from Brastagi, Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia, 28 November 2013. Indonesian authorities have told residents near erupting Mount Sinabung to evacuate their homes as the Sumatran volcano continued to shoot hot gas into the air. The National Disaster Management Agency ordered residents of 17 villages in Karo district in North Sumatra province to leave and seek refuge in shelters. The vulcanology office raised the alert to the highest level after it erupted nine times.

India Elephant Festival

In this Monday, Nov. 25, 2013 photo, dancing girls perform at the elephant fair in Sonepur, India. Hoping there is something for everyone at this year's Sonepur Mela, organizers admit they are struggling to revive one of India's largest livestock markets now sapped of its main attraction by a ban on elephant sales. "The mela is back to its old glamour," said Rahul, a local government official who goes by one name, running down attractions that include an exotic bird market, traditional folk music concerts, hundreds of street-food stalls and eight caged stages featuring writhing girls in heavy makeup and sparkly spandex.

Severe Weather Missing Keepsakes

In this November 2013 family photo provided by Annmarie Klein, the Klein family poses in front of the fireplace mantle at their Washington, Ill., home after it was destroyed by a Nov. 17 tornado. From left are Logan Klein, 13; Brady Klein, 11; Morgan Klein, 11; Annmarie Klein, 41; Griffin Klein, 2; Eric Klein, 44; and Owen Klein, 5. Annmarie Klein is asking for the public’s help in locating three cards swept away by the twister, each of which Klein’s brother, Paul McLaughlin, personalized with a note before his 2005 death from colon cancer. McLaughlin had entrusted Klein to give the cards to his children someday.

PHILIPPINES TYPHOON AFTERMATH

Filipino typhoon victims queue for food relief distribution in the typhoon devastated city of Tacloban, Leyte province, Philippines, 28 November 2013. The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines has increased to 5,500, with 1,757 people still missing, the national disaster relief agency said 27 November. Authorities fear the number of fatalities will increase since emergency workers were retrieving more bodies as they cleared debris. More than 3.5 million people were displaced by the typhoon, which slammed into the eastern Philippines with record winds of more than 300 kilometres per hour on 08 November. The disaster relief agency said more than 26,000 people were injured, while more than 1 million homes were destroyed.

SPACE-US-NIGHT

This handout imageprovided by NASA on November 26, 2013 shows a night view of the US. Thanksgiving, November 28, is a time for family, for feasting, and for gratitude in the United States. It is also a time when the nation’s transportation network is clogged with travelers. According to the American Automobile Association, an estimated 43.4 million Americans will travel 50 miles (80 kilometers) or more during Thanksgiving week, with the average round trip being 600 miles (1,000 kilometers). More than 90 percent of them will use cars or trucks, while the rest will ride planes or trains. The imprint of that transportation web becomes easier to see at night. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite acquired two nighttime images early on October 1, 2013, for this natural-light, mosaic view (top) of the continental United States.

BRITAIN KING RICHARD III BONES

(FILES) An undated photo released by the University of Leicester in England 4 February 2013 showing the skeleton remains of English king Richard III who was killed at the Bottle of Bosworth Field in 1485 following the confirmation by the university's archaeologists at a press conference in Leicester, central England. The legal battle over where the remains of Richard III should be buried has been adjourned by the High Court in London 26 November. A judicial review will decide on the outcome of the dispute between the cities of Leicester and York on the burial site.

SAUDI ARABIA FOREIGN WORKERS

A photo made available on 26 November 2013 shows a Saudi police officer standing next to foreign workers, who had been illegally staying in the Kingdom, before being deported, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 20 November 2013. Media reports on 13 November 2013 state Saudi authorities have detained more than 20,000 foreign migrant workers in the holy city of Mecca since a nationwide clampdown started. Saudi authorities began their sweep after the end of a seven-month amnesty for foreign migrants whose work permits had expired or who were not working for their official sponsors.

SAUDI ARABIA FOREIGN WORKERS

A photo made available on 26 November 2013 shows foreign workers, who had been illegally staying in Saudi Arabia, waiting before being deported, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 20 November 2013. Media reports on 13 November 2013 state Saudi authorities have detained more than 20,000 foreign migrant workers in the holy city of Mecca since a nationwide clampdown started. Saudi authorities began their sweep after the end of a seven-month amnesty for foreign migrants whose work permits had expired or who were not working for their official sponsors.

Afghanistan

Afghan Army soldiers pray during a break in exercise at a training facility in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013. The Afghan National Security Forces depend exclusively on billions of dollars in funding from the United States and its allies, money that is now at risk following President Hamid Karzai’s decision to defer signing a security agreement until after the April elections. The US wants the deal signed by the end of the year so that it can plan for a residual force after 2014, when all foreign combat forces leave. If the deal is not signed, billions in funding for the army and police may dry up.

LEBANON SYRIA REFUGEE CAMP

Eight-year-old Syrian refugee, Baraa (R), takes photos by a disposable camera for a child inside a tent at the Syrian refugee camp in Ketermaya village, near Sidon, southern Lebanon, 26 November 2013. The camp hosts a majority of Syrian refugees from Aleppo and al Ghouta in Rural Damascus all living in makeshift shelters. A group of 'Lahza 2' Project (moment in Arabic) visited the refugees in the camp as part of the project carried in cooperation with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). The project focuses on children between the age of seven and 12 to let them take photos to illustrate their life as they see through their cameras.

Colonial Psalm Book Auction

This April 2013 file photo provided by Sotheby's and taken in New York shows what the auction house describes as "the world’s most valuable book," the Bay Psalm Book, which is the first book ever printed in what is now the United States. Sotheby’s, offering it Tuesday evening, Nov. 26, 2013 with a presale estimate of $15 million to $30 million, says it could set an auction record for any printed book. The book was published in Cambridge, Mass., by the Puritan leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It came just 20 years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.

CINEMA-ECONOMY-CULTURE

SPAIN-US-CINEMA-ECONOMY-CULTURE

Australian actor Chris Hemsworth (R) poses with fans in Playa de Santiago, on the Spanish Canary island of La Gomera on November 23, 2013, during the shooting of the film "In the heart of the sea" by US director Ron Howard. With its outrigger canoes and sailing whaler anchored off the coast, a Hollywood blockbuster started shooting more than three months ago in the small port of Playa de Santiago, where the few bars and restaurants are now always full thanks to the production. A godsend, welcomed in this region of Spain battered by the crisis and an unemployment rate reaching 35.1%

SPAIN-US-CINEMA-ECONOMY-CULTURE

A picture taken on November 23, 2013 shows the film crew working on a ship during the shooting of the film "In the heart of the sea" by US director Ron Howard near Playa de Santiago, on the Spanish Canary island of La Gomera. With its outrigger canoes and sailing whaler anchored off the coast, a Hollywood blockbuster started shooting more than three months ago in the small port of Playa de Santiago, where the few bars and restaurants are now always full thanks to the production. A godsend, welcomed in this region of Spain battered by the crisis and an unemployment rate reaching 35.1%.

Bahamas Haitian Migrants

This image taken from video made available by the U.S. Coast Guard shows a group of Haitian migrants sitting on the hull of a capsized sailboat near Staniel Cay, Bahamas, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013. Bahamian authorities have confirmed that at least 20 people died when the boat flipped over near Staniel Cay. Interviews with migrants suggest the toll could reach about 30 people. The overloaded sailboat apparently struck a reef and capsized near tiny Harvey Cay, west of Staniel Cay in the Exumas.

actress Jennifer Love Hewitt

In this July 13, 2013 photo, actress Jennifer Love Hewitt attends Old Navy & Disney's "Mickey Through The Decades" Collection Celebration at Walt Disney Studios, in Burbank, Calif. Hewitt and her “The Client List” co-star Brian Hallisay are the proud parents of a baby girl. Hewitt’s publicist Sarah Fuller released the news in an email statement saying, the couple is “thrilled.”Autumn James Hallisay was born Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013

SPACE WITCH HEAD NEBULA

PHILIPPINES FEATURE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD

Filipino informal settlers are seen living on top of graves at Manila's North Cemetery, Philippines, 30 October 2013. The 54-hectare North cemetery is home to 3,000 estimated families who share the space with city's dead, and a key source of livelihood. Some people may earn as little as 10 pesos (0.25 dollar) per month to look after a tomb, but residents are grateful for regular work. More than 1 million people are buried in the North Cemetery, including former presidents, national artists and movie stars, and at least 100 burials are held every week.

FILE BRAZIL OGX BANCRUPTCY

An aerial view of Itaguai Port (L) located in the city of Itaguai, 80 km from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 01 July 2010, and the area (C) where Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista, who was considered by Forbes to be the richest man in Brazil and the eighth in the world, launched the beginning of work for the construction of the 'Superpuerto Sudeste', a private sea terminal in which about one billion US dollars were planned to be invested. Batista's oil company OGX filed for bancruptcy protection in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 30 October 2013 in the largest corporate default in Latin American history

AUSTRALIA-SCIENCE-ANIMAL-DOLPHIN

This undated picture released by Guido J. Parra of Flinders University on October 31, 2013 shows Australian humpback dolphins swimming off the coast of northern Australia. Researchers have identified a new humpback dolphin species off northern Australia, using genetic mapping to single out an animal not previously known to science. A global team led by the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society made the discovery after examining almost 200 dead dolphins and tissue specimens from live animals across the four Atlantic, Indian and Indo-Pacific ocean areas where humpbacks are known to live

US-ENTERTAINMENT-RING CARD

Ring card girl Vanessa Ratnavich reacts after winning one of three spots during a event at Mendez Boxing NY on October 22, 2013, as MSG Sports teams-up with Wilhelmina Models to find ring card girls for the November 2, 2013 Middleweight Championship bout between Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin and Curtis Stevens at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. The model competition will feature 10 Wilhelmina Models competing for three ring card girl positions for this nationally televised world championship bout

AUSTRALIA NSW BUSHFIRES

Contestants of Miss T Brasil 2013

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KENYA TEA AGRICULTURE

Tear pluckers work in the tea farm near Kerugoya, on the foot of Mount Kenya in central Kenya, 21 October 2013. According to figures released in September 2013 by Kenya Tea Development Agency ( KTDA), the tea prices at the Mombasa auction saw a significant decrease during the months of July, August and September 2013 due to have dropped significantly during the months of July, August and September 2013, 'due to over supply of tea in the market, a volatile political environment in some of the key export markets like Egypt and Syria and a depreciating currency in Pakistan'. Tea is one of the top foreign currency earners in Kenya

Lady Gaga

MEXICO HURRICANE RAYMOND

Britain UNICEF Halloween Ball

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SPACE WITCH HEAD NEBULA

PHILIPPINES FEATURE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD

FILE BRAZIL OGX BANCRUPTCY

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US-ENTERTAINMENT-RING CARD

AUSTRALIA NSW BUSHFIRES

Contestants of Miss T Brasil 2013

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KENYA TEA AGRICULTURE

Lady Gaga

The Moving Families Forward Gala

BRAZIL TRANSGENDER BEAUTY PAGEANT

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Miss Universe

the Miss Universe Organization Roxana Andrei, Miss Romania 2013, gets her make-up done by Elena Yakovleva during registration and fittings on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 in Moscow. Andrei will be in the Miss Universe competition in Moscow on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013.

RUSSIA MISS UNIVERSE 2013

US-ENTERTAINMENT-RING CARD

Ring card girls pose during an event at Mendez Boxing NY on October 22, 2013, as MSG Sports teams-up with Wilhelmina Models to find ring card girls for the November 2, 2013 Middleweight Championship bout between Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin and Curtis Stevens at The Theater at Madison Square Garden.

US-ENTERTAINMENT-RING CARD

Superstorm Superlatives

AUSTRALIA NSW BUSHFIRES

A large plume of smoke comes from the Mt. Victoria bushfire burning west of Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, Australia, 23 October 2013. High winds are fanning the fire which is currently still within containment lines. Residents were urged to flee fires burning for a week in the Blue Mountains with a combined perimeter of 1,600 kilometres. The forest blazes 70 kilometres west of Sydney have destroyed more than 200 houses and blackened more than 110,000 hectares.

Contestants of Miss T Brasil 2013

BRAZIL-TRANSGENDER-BEAUTY-PAGEANT

KENYA TEA AGRICULTURE

Lady Gaga

PAKISTAN-QUAKE-ISLAND

This photograph taken on September 25, 2013, shows Pakistani residents as they gather on an island that appeared some two kilometres off the coastline of Gwadar after an earthquake. A small island of mud and rock created by the huge earthquake that hit southwest Pakistan has fascinated locals but experts -- who found methane gas rising from it -- say it is unlikely to last long. The 7.7-magnitude quake struck on September 24, in Baluchistan's remote Awaran district, killing at least 271 people and affecting hundreds of thousands

PAKISTAN-QUAKE-ISLAND

This photograph taken on September 25, 2013, shows Pakistani residents as they arrive by boat to an island that appeared some two kilometres off the coastline at Gwadar after an earthquake. A small island of mud and rock created by the huge earthquake that hit southwest Pakistan has fascinated locals but experts -- who found methane gas rising from it -- say it is unlikely to last long. The 7.7-magnitude quake struck on September 24, in Baluchistan's remote Awaran district, killing at least 271 people and affecting hundreds of thousands

Pets Petting Zoos

In this Monday Sept. 2, 2013 photo Jacqueline Solis, 2, from Burbank, Calif., plays with the sheep at the Fairview Farms petting zoo at the Los Angeles County Fair, in Pomona Calif. There are all kinds of newspaper ads and websites describing gentle farm animals available to help toddlers celebrate birthdays, teenagers mark graduations and couples observe anniversaries. The crew at the Fairview Farms try to make the visit to the petting zoo a positive one because a bad experience can last a lifetime.

Japan Hiroshima And Fukushima

In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 photo, a group of children walk in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome, a landmark of the aftermath of the 1945 atomic bombing in Hiroshima, western Japan. The bombing killed some 140,000 people - some instantly, others within months. Three days later, the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 70,000 people shortly before the end of World War II. Those categorized by the government as sick from the Hiroshima bombing’s radiation still number more than 200,000

Japan Hiroshima And Fukushima

FILE - In this July 16, 2011 file photo, vines grow across the road next to an abandoned car near the town of Naraha, inside the 20-kilometer (12-mile) exclusion zone around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, in northeastern Japan. Like the bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima Aug. 6, 1945, the March 2011 Fukushima disaster unleashed radiation that will affect the region’s health for decades. Hiroshima medical experts, the world’s most renowned on radiation-related sicknesses, are being called on for advice on how the meltdowns may have harmed people who lived near the power plant along the northeastern coast of Japan. No one is known to have died from the Fukushima radiation, but the plant’s three nuclear meltdowns will take decades to clean up and it is impossible to know what the health toll will ultimately be. Only recently has the government acknowledged that much more radioactive water is leaking into the sea than it had previously believed.

MISS WORLD

In this photograph taken on September 24, 2013, Miss Philippines Megan Young (C) walks on the catwalk during the fashion show of Miss World contestants at a convention center in Nusa Dua, in Indonesia's resort island of Bali. Young was selected as one of the top 10 in the modeling event, automatically entering the top 15 in the finals on September 28, 2013. The Miss World final takes place on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday after weeks of protests from Muslim hardliners and warnings that extremists could attack the pagean

INDONESIA-LIFESTYLE-RELIGION-MISS WORLD

In this photograph taken released by the Miss World on September 26, 2013, Miss World contestants who were selected as top 10 in the fashion show pose during the event at the convention center in Nusa Dua, in Indonesia's resort island of Bali on September 24, 2013. The top 10 in the modeling event, automatically enters the top 15 in the finals on September 28, 2013. The top 10 seen in the front row from left Miss Ukraine, Anna Zaiachkivska; Miss Brazil, Sancler Frantz Konzen; Miss France, Marine Lorpheline; Miss Cyprus, Kristy Marie Agapioy; Miss Italy, Sarah Baderna, Miss United States, Olivia Jordan; Miss England, Kirsty Heslewood; Miss Cameroon, Denise Valerie Ayena; Miss Philippines, Megan Young and Miss South Sudan, Modong Manuela Mogga, The Miss World final takes place on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday after weeks of protests from Muslim hardliners and warnings that extremists could attack the pageant

INDONESIA-LIFESTYLE-RELIGION-MISS WORLD

In this photograph taken released by the Miss World on September 26, 2013, Miss World contestants who were selected as top 10 in the fashion show pose during the event at the convention center in Nusa Dua, in Indonesia's resort island of Bali on September 24, 2013. The top 10 in the modeling event, automatically enters the top 15 in the finals on September 28, 2013. The top 10 seen in the front row from left, Miss Philippines, Megan Young; Miss South Sudan, Modong Manuela Mogga; Miss England, Kirsty Heslewood; Miss United States, Olivia Jordan; Miss Cyprus, Kristy Marie Agapioy; Miss Italy, Sarah Baderna; Miss France, Marine Lorphelin; Miss Brazil, Sancler Frantz Konzen, Miss Cameroon , Denise Valerie Ayena and Miss Ukranie Anna Zaiachkivska.The Miss World final takes place on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday after weeks of protests from Muslim hardliners and warnings that extremists could attack the pageant.

Space Station

In this image provided by NASA-TV the New Expedition 37 crew members, foreground from left: Mike Hopkins, Sergey Ryazanskiy and Oleg Kotov, were welcomed aboard the International Space Station Thursday Sept. 26, 2013 at 12:34 a.m. EDT. Their Soyuz spacecraft docked to the space station on Wed. at 10:45 p.m. EDT, four orbits after launch at 4:58 p.m. from Kazakhstan. The new residents were greeted by Expedition 37 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, rear center and Flight Engineers Karen Nyberg, left, and Luca Parmitano.

NIGERIA-AGRICULTURE-TRADITION

Palm wine tapper Anthony Ozioko tries to untie the rope after alighting from a 50-foot palm tree to tap palm wine at Eha-Alumona town, Nsukka district of southeastern Nigeria on August 8, 2013. Nigerians have been drinking the sap from Raffia trees, a species of palm, since long before the country existed. Palm wine was once the region's main social drink, an almost mandatory offer at events like weddings and concerts.The proliferation of beer and foreign liquor have in part curbed the demand for the more traditional drink.

INDONESIA WORLD SCHOOL MILK DAY

Indonesian pupils drink milk as schoolchildren celebrate World School Milk Day 2013 in Jakarta, Indonesia, 25 September 2013. World School Milk Day, celebrated annually in September, has grown to become an annual celebration in more than 40 countries around the world. In 2011 milk consumption in Indonesia reached 12.85 liters per capita per year which is fewer than in some other Asian countries such as in Malaysia with 50.9 liters per capita per year, Thailand 33.7 liters per year, Singapore 44.5 liters per years, India 47.1 liters per year, Vietnam 14.3 liters per year, the Philippines 13.7 liters per year a statistics from the FAO

Kenya Mall Attack

Mary Italo, center right, grieves with other relatives for her son Thomas Abayo Italo, 33, who was killed in the Westgate Mall attack, as they wait to receive his body at the mortuary in Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. Thomas was an accountant and the breadwinner of the family who helped look after Mary who is sick, according to relatives. Kenyan authorities prepared for the gruesome task of recovering dozens more victims than initially feared after the country's president declared an end Tuesday to the four-day siege of a Nairobi mall by al-Qaida-linked terrorists.

Syria Aid Distribution Woes

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2013, file photo, Syrian refugees wait for food aid at Kawergost refugee camp in Irbil, Iraq. Around 34,000 Syrians, the vast majority of them Kurds, have fled the region over a five-day stretch and crossed the border to the self-ruled Kurdish region of northern Iraq. As the Syrian crisis rages and debate heats up over Syria's chemical weapons, U.S. officials are fighting a quieter battle: The delivery of nearly $1.3 billion in assistance in a war zone so chaotic that ambulances are used as target practice and aid is halted by armed men at random checkpoints.

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Japan Typhoon Wipha wreaks devastation on island south of Tokyo
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Brazil: Transvestites compete for Miss Brazil 2013 crown
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Raymond sa Mexico, pinaghahan

Hurricane Raymond prompts evacuation in western Mexico
A closer look at Pakistan's earthquake island

Argentina Agrochemicals

Germany Battle Of Nations

Russia Putins Cranes

TURKEY-SYRIA-CONFLICT-REFUGEES

Ancient Rocks Toppled

Venezuela Guyana Ship Detained

Nigeria Killings

BART Strike

Philippines Rebel Standoff

Villagers board a truck to take them to an evacuation center after authorities ordered a forced evacuation of their village as a standoff between the government troopers and Muslim rebels, who have taken scores of hostages and used them as human shields, continues for the fifth straight day Friday Sept. 13, 2013 at Zamboanga city in southern Philippines. The troops have surrounded the Moro National Liberation Front guerrillas with their hostages in four coastal villages since the crisis erupted Monday

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PAKISTAN-QUAKE-ISLAND

Pets Petting Zoos

Japan Hiroshima And Fukushima

MISS WORLD

INDONESIA-LIFESTYLE-RELIGION-MISS WORLD

In this photograph taken released by the Miss World on September 26, 2013, Miss World contestants who were selected as top 10 in the fashion show pose during the event at the convention center in Nusa Dua, in Indonesia's resort island of Bali on September 24, 2013. The top 10 in the modeling event, automatically enters the top 15 in the finals on September 28, 2013. The top 10 seen in the front row from left, Miss Philippines, Megan Young; Miss South Sudan, Modong Manuela Mogga; Miss England, Kirsty Heslewood; Miss United States, Olivia Jordan; Miss Cyprus, Kristy Marie Agapioy; Miss Italy, Sarah Baderna; Miss France, Marine Lorphelin; Miss Brazil, Sancler Frantz Konzen, Miss Cameroon , Denise Valerie Ayena and Miss Ukranie Anna Zaiachkivska.The Miss World final takes place on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday after weeks of protests from Muslim hardliners and warnings that extremists could attack the pageant.

Space Station

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Philippines Rebel Standoff

INDIA KASHMIR PROTEST

Indian police women watch as members of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), march during a protest in Sringar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 13 September 2013. The PDP, the pro-India main opposition party in Indian Kashmir, staged a protest rally demanding the removal of troops from civilian areas, the revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (ADSPA) and punishment to the paramilitary troopers responsible for alleged killing of five civilians in Shopian. The protest march was led by PDP president, Mehabboba Mufti and her party legislators.

Mideast Syria

In this Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian government solider aims his weapon during clashes with Free Syrian Army fighters, not pictured, in Maaloula village, northeast of the capital Damascus, Syria. Heavy fighting between Syrian government troops and rebels flared again on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 in the ancient, predominantly Christian village of Maaloula. Troops are trying to flush out rebel units, including two that are linked to al-Qaida, from the hilltop enclave which they broke into last week.

Philippines Rebel Standoff

Residents who abandon their homes, carry their belongings as about 200 Muslim rebels, enraged by a broken peace deal with the Philippine government, held scores of hostages as human shields Tuesday Sept. 10, 2013 in a standoff with government forces for the second day at the southern port city of Zamboanga, in southern Philippines. More battle-ready troops and police were flown to the southern port city in a bid to end the crisis. The troops have surrounded the Moro National Liberation Front guerrillas with their hostages in four coastal villages since the crisis erupted Monday

Molasses Spill

Various kinds of dead marine life collected by employees from the PENCO Pacific Environmental Corporation can been seen in this barrel on the dock fronting the La Mariana Sailing Club in Keehi Lagoon Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, in Honolulu. A pipe maintained by Matson Navigation Co. at pier 52 cracked and leaked about 233,000 gallons of molasses into the harbor. The molasses spill is being blamed for the killing of marine life at Keehi Lagoon which is located near the Honolulu Harbor. The cracked pipe has been repaired and the molasses leak stopped.

Honduras Indian Lands

Bingham Canyon Mine Evacuation

This April 11, 2013, file photo, shows the Kennecott Utah Copper Bingham Canyon Mine after a landslide in Bingham Canyon, Utah. Officials say 75-100 workers at Kennecott Utah Cooper's Bingham Canyon Mine have been relocated after movement was detected in same area of a massive landslide this spring. Kennecott spokesman Kyle Bennett says about 400 feet of material moved a few hundred feet about 6 p.m. Wednesday. Bennett says an excavator operator raised the alarm, and the company evacuated the mine as a precaution. He says nobody was injured. The mine was the site of a huge slide in April that involved 165 million tons of earth and caused major disruptions in mine operations. Bennett says workers were moved from the lower pit area where the small slide happened and are working elsewhere Thursday. He said inspectors were expected to examine the stability of the area

Travel Myanmar Saving Old Rangoon

In this photo taken on June 1, 2012, pedestrians cross a road near old colonial buildings in downtown Yangon, Myanmar. There's nowhere else in Asia like it any more: Yangon's cityscape is filled with colonial buildings and colorful multiethnic communities, bypassed by the rapid modernization that's bulldozed the past elsewhere. Now, as Myanmar opens its long-closed doors to the outside world, including tourists, an effort is under way to preserve Yangon's architecture and atmosphere from development and decay

Travel Trip San Francisco Movies

In this photo taken Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, a sailboat makes its way past Alcatraz Island in San Francisco. San Francisco has a long history as a favorite site for filmmakers and the movie buffs who want to see the spots where their favorite scenes took place, from Fort Point under the Golden Gate Bridge where Jimmy Stewart saved Kim Novak in "Vertigo" to the steps of City Hall, where Sean Penn gave an impassioned speech in "Milk," to Alcatraz, stage for Clint Eastwood and many others.

THAILAND MEKONG GIANT CATFISH

A handout photo released by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on 28 July 2010 shows a Giant Mekong Catfish caught by Thai fishermen at Chiang Khong city along the Mekong River, Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand, on 01 May 2005. The Mekong giant catfish, Pangasianodon gigas or pla buek (huge fish) in Thai, can grow up to three metres long and weigh up to 300 kilograms. It is known to migrate hundreds of kilometres from the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia to spawn near Chiang Khong, northern Thailand, passing through Xayaburi province, in northern Laos, on the way. While Laos's and its Thai partners decision to build the Xayaburi hydro-power dam on the Mekong River are proceeding with the dam's construction, to be completed in 2019, is bad news for the normal sex life of the giant catfish, one of the world's largest freshwater fish. In the Mekong, its numbers have declined by 90 percent over the past 50 years, due mainly to overfishing, according to Zeb Hogan, a large fish expert at the University of Nevada, USA, who has done extensive research and field studies on the giant catfish. The governments of Cambodia and Vietnam, which lie downstream of Xayaburi, have called for an indefinite postponement of the 3.5 billion US dollar dam, the first to be built on the Lower Mekong, until thorough studies have been conducted on the project's potential impact on fish migration and sediment flows in the river

USA CALIFORNIA ANIMALS BROWN PELICAN

A picture available 12 September 2013 shows a brown pelican diving for food as thousands gathered along the coast to follow a school of fish in Santa Monica Bay near Pacific Palisades, California, USA, 10 September 2013. The Brown Pelican which was threatened by DDT insecticide in the 1970ties is protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and is now no longer threaten. It is only one of three pelicans species found in the Western Hemisphere and can be found from South American to Canada

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Syria Aid Distribution Woes

VIETNAM SHIPBUILDING VINASHIN

A man walks past a scale model of a ship displayed at an office of Vietnam's state-owned shipbuilder Vinashin group, in Hanoi, Vietnam, 23 September 2013. Loss-making shipbuilder Vinashin announced it would cut about 14,000 jobs during its restructuring plans to escape from financial collapse, media reports said.

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Turkey Syria

Syrian refugees have their passport checked by a custom officer, left, at the Turkish Cilvegozu gate border with Syria, Friday, Aug. 30, 2013. United Nations experts are investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria as the United States and allies prepare for the possibility of a punitive strike against President Bashar Assad's regime, blamed by the Syrian opposition for the attack. The international aid group Doctors Without Borders says at least 355 people were killed in the Aug. 21 attack.

South Korea Rebellion Plot

South Korean conservative activists tear an effigy symbolizing members of the leftist minor opposition Unified Progressive Party(UUP) during a rally demanding the National Intelligence Service to conduct a through investigation into UPP members who threatened national security in front of the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 30, 2013. South Korea's spy agency arrested three members of the small opposition party Wednesday for allegedly plotting an insurgency to overthrow the government with their party colleagues, party officials said. The letters at banner read " Arrest UUP members".

Mideast Iraq Syria Crisis

Brazil End of the VW Van

n this Sept. 13, 2013 photo, a Volkswagen van is used as a makeshift food truck selling pasta dishes, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In Brazil the VW van is known as the "Kombi," an abbreviation for the German "Kombinationsfahrzeug" that loosely translates as "cargo-passenger van." It’s used in Brazil by the postal service to haul mail, by the army to transport soldiers, and by morticians to carry corpses. It serves as a school bus for kids, operates as a group taxi, and delivers construction materials to work sites, but VW says production will end Dec. 31.

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2013-08-30T01:26:00.002-07:00

US-ENVIRONMENT-OFFBEAT-SCIENCE-FILES

Photo dated December 19, 2008 shows Hannah the Mermaid in the Mermaid Lagoon exhibit at Sydney Aquarium. The United States government on July 3, 2012 has assured citizens that much like zombies, mermaids probably do not exist. "Mermaids -- those half-human, half-fish sirens of the sea -- are legendary sea creatures," read one online statement from the National Ocean Service (NOS), generally charged with responding to "climate change and natural hazards such as hurricanes and tsunamis. "No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found," the post added. The NOS reportedly received letters inquiring about the existence of the sea maidens after the Discovery Channel's Animal Planet network broadcast "Mermaids: The Body Found" in May.

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CHINA HONG KONG ENDANGERED SEAHORSES

Dried seahorses are seen in a Chinese medicine shop in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, China, 29 August 2013. Apart from their use as a supposed aphrodisiac and cure for male impotence, the seahorse is commonly found in traditional Chinese medicine as an unproven cure for kidney problems, memory loss, inflammation, antenatal ailments, arthritis and breast cancer. Due to the massive growth and industrialisation of China, coupled with modern fishing techniques, dried seahorses are now widely available in supermarkets and pharmacies right across China, including Hong Kong. This has led to a depletion of sea horses from China’s territorial waters, which in turn has meant that the species is now mostly imported to China from Vietnam, the Philippines, India and Africa. Scientists estimate that tens of millions of seahorses are killed each year for Chinese aphrodisiacs, and also warn that unless the species gains protection at international level, the seahorse looks set to head towards extinction. Attempts to commercially farm seahorses have so far proved unsuccessful.

JAPAN AGRICULTURE

INDIA ECONOMY

India Gold Markets

An Indian goldsmith makes jewelry in Gauhati, India,Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. Gold prices were a tad softer Thursday after racing up to three-month highs on the back of worries over Syria. Gold often garners support through its status as a safe investment at a time of geopolitical uncertainty. India's rupee, already under pressure from the country's deteriorating economic and financial situation, closed at 66.55 against the dollar Thursday after a record low of 68.85 per dollar on Wednesday.

ITALY-DAVINCI-CULTURE-SCIENCE-ART-EXHIBITION

A woman looks at a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, on August 29, 2013 in Venice. Fifty-two drawings by Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci are going on show in Venice from Thursday, including the famous but rarely-seen Vitruvian Man charting the ideal proportions of the human body. The show in the city's Galleria dell'Academia displays works from the museum's own archives as well as from the collections of the British Royal Family, the Ashmolean Museum, the British Museum and the Louvre.

Belgium Horseback Shrimp Fishing

Third generation traditional shrimp fisherman Xavier Vandillemont, left, pulls his net as he leads a group of fisherman into the North Sea in the town of Oostduinkerke, Belgium on Thursday Aug. 29, 2013. The centuries old tradition of shrimp fishing combines the power of both horse and man to harvest the Belgian Grey Shrimp. The folklore continues to stay alive in the seaside town of Oostduinkerke as it is the only place in Europe where the trade of horseback shrimp fishing is still practiced.

INDIA-ANIMAL-SNAKE-RESCUE

Asha Foundation Animal Shelter and Hospital founder and coordinator Harmesh Bhatt poses with a rescued wine snake and its young at the shelter in the village of Hathijan, some 20 kms from Ahmedabad, on August 29, 2013. The rescued animals which include 18 cobras, four juvenile pythons, a wine snake with its six young offspring, six rat snakes, twelve sand boas and nine scorpions, were rescued from snake charmers invoking Schedule 1 of the Wildlife Protection Act during the Janmashtami fair in Sanand town. The reptiles will eventually be released into the wild

Dog In Trash

Italy Venice Film Festival A street in Palermo Photo Call

From left, actor Carmine Maringola, actress Elena Cotta, Sicilian director Emma Dante and actress Alba Rohrwacher pose for photographers during a photo call for the film A street in Palermo at the 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival held from Aug. 28 through Sept. 7, in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. Italian director Emma Dante says her debut film "A Street in Palermo," a modern-day Sicilian twist on a Western duel, is a story of gridlock which "shows where we are today." "A Street in Palermo," which premiered Thursday, is among 20 films competing for the Golden Lion

Mideast Iran Syria Chemical Quandary

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 26, 2007 file photo, Iranian Sanjan Salimzadegan, who lost her right leg during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, shows her artificial leg, as she weeps at the grave of her children who were killed during a chemical attack in July 22 of 1988 at the Zardeh village, Iran. For more than a generation, Iranian newspapers regularly post notices: Another veteran of the 1980s' war with Iraq has died of complications from exposure to chemical weapons from Saddam Hussein's arsenal. The claims now that Iran's Syrian allies used similar battlefield tactics, including possibly unleashing sarin gas, forced Tehran's leaders into perhaps their most difficult juncture of the nearly 30-month Syrian civil war: How much to stick by Bashar Assad if the Western allegations are backed by U.N. inspection teams.

Central African Republic Violence

GREECE-SYRIA-CONFLICT-DEMO

A man with a dog rides his motorcycle past the US embassy in Athens during a rally against NATO countries' potential military action in Syria and against Greek involvment, in Athens on August 29, 2013. President Bashar al-Assad vowed today to defend Syria from attack as Washington and London laid out their case for punitive military strikes against Damascus over suspected poisonous gas attacks. Hundreds of people including children were reportedly killed when poisonous gas was unleashed on the outskirts of Damascus on August 21. If confirmed, it would be the deadliest use of chemical weapons since Saddam Hussein gassed Iraqi Kurds in 1988.

PORTUGAL-FIRE-ENVIRONMENT

Locals try to extinguish a wildfire in Caramulo, central Portugal on August 29, 2013. Five Portuguese mountain villages were evacuated overnight as forest fires intensified in the country's north and centre, officials said today. As many as 1,400 firefighters were dispatched Thursday to tackle the blaze in the mountains and another raging further north in the national park of Alvao, where 2,000 hectares (4,900 acres) of pine forest have already been destroyed, according to the local mayor.

COLOMBIA-FARMERS-STRIKE-MARCH

Demonstrators with body paintings march in support of Colombian farmers protesting in demand of government subsidies and greater access to land, in Bogota on August 29, 2013. Backed by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country's largest leftist guerrilla group, farmworkers called the open-ended protest to demand government subsidies for certain agricultural products, and lower prices for inputs like seed and fertilizer. Protesters also are seeking guarantees on access to land, special land preserves for poor farmers, policies in support of traditional miners, improved delivery of health care and potable water in rural areas.

JAPAN-NUCLEAR-ACCIDENT-ENVIRONMENT-SURFING

Japan-disaster-nuclear-environment-surf,FEATURE by Patrice Novotny Schoolgirls play on Toyoma Beach, some 50 kilometres south of the broken Fukushima nuclear power plant, in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture, on August 24, 2013. Around 300 tonnes of toxic water had seeped out of the vast tanks storing highly radioactive water at the plant -- one of around 1,000 on the site -- by the time anyone noticed, and some of it may have made its way through drainage ditches and into the Pacific Ocean.

AUSTRALIA-INDIA-TOURISM-DREAMLINER-AVIATION

Air India’s inaugural flight from New Delhi to Sydney receiveS a water salute after landing in Sydney on August 30, 2013. The Dreamliner (Boeing 787) jet arrived in Australia for the first time, courtesy of Air India which resumed direct services to the country after a 16-year absence. The carrier is hoping to take advantage of what it called the "untapped potential" in the Australian market. Air India's country manager Ravi Bodade told reporters he was confident of regularly filling the daily services that also go via Melbourne on the 256-seat Boeing 787-880 Dreamliner planes.

PHILIPPINES U.S. DEFENSE CHUCK HAGEL VISIT

Filipino protesters holding placards lay down during a rally against the visit of US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel outside the US embassy, in Manila, Philippines, 30 August 2013. The protesters condemned the visit of Hagel in Manila following the US pledge to increase presence of American troops in the country. The negotiations between the two countries comes more than two decades after US air and naval bases were shut down in the Philippines and amid territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea.

POLAND-ARTS-THEATRE--MIME

Ukraine's Quartet De.Kru perform at the 13th Inernational Mime Art Festival in Warsaw, Poland on August 29, 2013. The week-long international showcase in Warsaw, whose 13th edition ends Saturday, "is the only festival that really does mime," said veteran German performer Alexander Neander.

VIETNAM MEGA MALL

People gather near an artificial fish pond inside Vincom Mega Mall Royal City, which has supposedly the biggest underground trading and recreation complex in Southeast Asia and was opened on 26 July, in Hanoi, Vietnam, 29 July 2013. The complex, which has a total area of 230,000 square meters including 600 outlets in the shopping center, indoor water park, and the first inside ice-skating rink in Vietnam, is owned by Vingroup of Pham Nhat Vuong, the first Vietnamese billionaire who's fortune has been estimated at 1.5 billion US dollars.

Mideast Talks Analysis

In this Dec. 14, 2007 file photo, a Palestinian man argues with an Israeli soldier during a demonstration against Israel's separation barrier at the village of Bilin, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The U.S. on Sunday, July 28, 2013 announced the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian talks following years of stalemate, after Israel's Cabinet agreed to release 104 Palestinian prisoners convicted of deadly attacks. The return to direct contacts between the sides gave U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry his first concrete achievement after months of shuttle diplomacy

USA FEATURE PACKAGE IOWA COUNTY FAIRS

CAMBODIA ELECTIONS

Cambodians view pieces of damaged police cars on a street where angry voters set the cars on fire near a polling station in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 29 July 2013. Cambodian voters angry that they could not find their names on the voters list overturned a police car and set it on fire in Phnom Penh on 28 July. Police reportedly fired several shots into the air at the polling station in the capital's Stung Meanchey district. This month, two audits of the voters list revealed that more than one million people might have been disenfranchised

Italy Bus Plunges

Coffins are lined up near the wreckage of a bus following a crash near Avellino, southern Italy, early Monday, July 29, 2013. A tour bus filled with Italians returning home after an excursion plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy on Sunday night after it had smashed into several cars that were slowed by heavy traffic, killing at least 37 people, said police and rescuers. Flashing signs near Avellino, outside Naples, had warned of slowed traffic ahead along a stretch of the A16 autostrada, a major highway crossing southern Italy, before the crash occurred, said highway police and officials, speaking on state radio early Monday. They said the bus driver, for reasons not yet determined, appeared to have lost control of his vehicle

Mideast Egypt

An Egyptian protester wears an Arabic scarf reading, "Morsi leave" during a protest in front of the Ministry of Defense, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, June 26, 2013. In abstract terms, protests planned for Sunday, June 30, 2013 aiming to force out Egypt’s Islamist president violate a basic principle of democracy: If an election has been held, all must respect the results, otherwise it’s political chaos. Supporters of President Mohammed Morsi have been angrily making that argument for days. Those behind the protests insist he lost the legitimacy of that election victory by power grabs and missteps

USA ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN EXHIBITION

So the World May Hear Awards

Jordin Sparks and Jason Derulo.. at the MTV Video Music Awards

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2013-08-20T08:35:00.002-07:00

Britain Christmas Toys

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PHILIPPINES FLOODS

A passenger jeep going through a flooded main road of Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) in Pasay City, south of Manila, Philippines, 20 August 2013. Seven people were killed and more than 130,000 displaced in floods that crippled the Philippine capital for the second day , disaster relief officials said. More than half of Manila was flooded, with the murky waters reaching as high as 2 metres in some areas, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. Schools, government offices, the stock exchange and some businesses were closed as floods made many roads impassable, including streets in the financial district of Makati City. More than half a million people were affected by the bad weather in Manila and northern provinces that have been affected by torrential monsoon rains since the weekend.

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USA LEISURE

A photo made available 21 July 2013 shows Stephen Terry (L) as he gives judges another look with four other finalists during the last round of the 'Papa' Hemingway Look-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West, Florida, USA, 20 July 2013. Terry, 56, beat 125 other contestants to win the competition. It was the Palm Harbor, Florida, USA software developer's seventh try at the competition staged during Key West's annual Hemingway Days festival that ends 21 July. Ernest 'Papa' Hemingway, a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author known for such books at 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' and 'A Farwell to Arms,' lived in Key West in the 1930s

THAILAND TRANSPORT TRAIN MARKET

This picture taken on June 25, 2013 shows a train passing through a food market in Maeklong, some 60 kilometers south-west of Bangkok. Several times a day, shopkeepers swiftly pack up their food stalls and pull back their canopies to let the trains pass. Once the trains have rumbled through, the crates of vegetables, fish and eggs, are heaved back into their position along the tracks and shoppers return to the tracks they use as a path through the market. Every day hundreds of tourists armed with cameras flock to the picturesque Maeklong market to witness the well-oiled routine.

INDIA CURRENCY

An Indian employee shows US and Indian currencies at his office in Mumbai, India, 27 June 2013. The Indian rupee fell to a record low of 60.73 against the dollar on 26 June, pushed by demand for the greenback from domestic importers, withdrawal of funds by foreign investors and a slump in several Asian currencies. The rupee has depreciated by about 10 per cent between April and June, with a previous record low of 59.98 against the dollar on June 20. Analysts said the Indian currency was likely to weaken further and may hit 61 against the dollar soon. According to reports, the rupee recovered from its all-time lows by rising 32 paise to 60.40 against the dollar in early trade.

INDIA TEEJ FESTIVAL

Indian women perform Gidha, the fold dance from the state of Punab as a girl swings as they take part in Teej festival celebrations at Majitha village, some 20 kms from Amritsar, India, 21 July 2013. Teej festival is celebrated during the Saawan month which falls in July-August. Girls wearing colourful traditional Punjabi clothes and jewellery perform Gidha the folk dance of Punjab during the celebrations and dedicate the folk songs to their husbands or to-be-husbands. Special folk songs are sung to symbolize the true love and sacrifical nature of Punjabi girls for their love. The Teej celebrations begin from the third day of Saawan month which is the fifth Hindu month beginning from Chaitra.

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An activist wearing orangutan mask displays a sticker during a World Orangutan Day campaign rally in Banda Aceh, northern Sumatra island, on August 20, 2013. From 1992-2000, the population of the Sumatran orangutan declined by more than 50 percent and only an estimated 7,000 animals are left in the wild, while the Bornean orangutan population fell nearly 43 percent in the past decade and estimates place their population at about 45,000 animals, according to World Orangutan Day organization.

CHINA POLITICS CORRUPTION BO

This photo taken on August 9, 2013 shows the sweeping views of Chongqing's high-rise city centre and a cable car across the Yangste River. In a plot worthy of a spy novel, the downfall of high-flying Chinese politician Bo Xilai began when a British businessman was found dead in a hilltop hotel room in this metropolis of over 25 million people and now Bo, once one of China's highest-flying politicians, will find himself in a criminal dock on August 22 on trial for bribery and abuse of power in the country's highest-profile prosecution in decades

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World Series of Beach Volleyball Finals

2013-07-29T02:42:00.003-07:00

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the exhibit 'Sacred legacy: First Works from Vatican and Italian Museums

2013-07-11T08:15:00.000-07:00

Firefighters Killed

This photo combination made with undated family photos provided via the City of Prescott, Ariz. shows the 19 firefighters killed battling an out-of-control wildfire in Yarnell, Ariz., on June 30, 2013. Top row, from left: Andrew Sterling Ashcraft, Robert Caldwell, Travis Carter, Dustin James DeFord, Chris Mackenzie, Eric Shane Marsh, and Grant Quinn McKee. Second row, from left: Sean Misner, Scott Daniel Norris, Wade Scott Parker, John Joseph Percin Jr., Anthony Michael Rose, Jesse James Steed, and Joe Thurston. Bottom row, from left: Travis Turbyfill, William Howard "Billy" Warneke, Clayton Thomas Whitted, Kevin Woyjeck, and Garret Zuppiger.

Back to School-Bedtimes

FILE- In this Aug. 25, 2006 file photo, Whitehall Elementary School children, including safety patrol fifth graders wearing orange vests, walk back into school as the 8 a.m. bell and start of a school day nears, in Anderson, S.C. Getting children up early for the first day of school after they’ve slept late all summer causes their bodies naturally to rebel. As they drag through the first weeks of school exhausted, that lack of sleep affects their ability to learn and to remember, and may even erode their ability to handle their emotions, experts say

US-HUNDREDS-FLEE-GROWING-MOUNT-CHARLESTON-FIRE

JULY 08: Smoke from the Carpenter 1 fire in the Spring Mountains range billows behind hotel-casinos on the Las Vegas Strip on July 8, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. More than 15,000 acres have burned since lightning sparked the blaze in Carpenter Canyon on the Pahrump, Nevada side of Mount Charleston on July 1. More than 750 firefighters are battling the wildfire which crested the peak of Mount Charleston on Thursday, prompting the evacuation of 520 people as it began descending the east side of the mountain, about 35 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The fire is 15% contained and fire officials estimate that they won't have it fully contained until July 19.

PHILIPPINES ECONOMY CHARCOAL

Filipino workers transport sacks of charcoal to sell at a makeshift charcoal factory in a slum area in Tondo, Manila, Philippines, 08 July 2013. Around 360 of 400 families living in Vitas, Tondo, known as Manila's charcoal factory, turned jobless when they were relocated in a province north of Manila after a private company took ownership of the land. These families exposed themselves to the hazardous environment of heat, fumes, dust, stench, flies and mosquitoes for decades to earn their living collecting wood and burning them into charcoal. The 15-year-old charcoal-making industry produces 6,000 sacks of charcoal monthly. Charcoal makers earn an average of 140 dollars (109 euros) per month.

Forest Hills Revival

In this Tuesday, July 2, 2013 photo, pictures of tennis champions line the walls at the West Side Tennis Club in the Queens section of New York. The Beatles. The Rolling Stones. Frank Sinatra. Jimi Hendrix. Bob Dylan. They’ve all held court at the more than century-old West Side Tennis Club in Queens’ Forest Hills neighborhood - for six decades the site of the U.S. Open Tennis Championships. Plans are now in the works for the grassy lawn to come alive again with the sound of music, starting with a concert featuring the British band Mumford & Sons, to be followed by a lineup of world-class musicians.

MEXICO-LIFESTYLE-MUSIC-MARIACHI-WOMEN

Text Keywords DateImported – Mon, 8. July 2013 1:56 PM MEXICO-LIFESTYLE-MUSIC-MARIACHI-WOMEN TO GO WITH Lifestyle-Mexico-music-mariachi-women,FEATURE BY CAROLA SOLE In this picture taken on June 1, 2013 Mexican traditional mariachi musician Isabel Aguilar poses with her group during an interview with AFP at Garibaldi Square in Mexico City. With her hair tied back, large hoop earrings and high heels, Isabel Aguilar stood confidently in front of her five fellow mariachi musicians, all men, and sang to a mostly male crowd in a Mexico City square

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Singapore Tourism

A diver is dwarfed in a giant aquarium on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 in Singapore at the Marine Life Park at Resorts World Sentosa, one of the city-state's newest tourist attractions which opened late 2012. The Marine Life Park now offers certified divers a chance to participate in an "Open Ocean Dive" for a fee, to explore the 18.2 million litre Open Ocean habitat which is home to manta rays, sharks and other marine life species in a bid to attract more tourists, as well educate the public about marine wildlife and its conservation efforts in the process

AFGHANISTAN CONFLICTS INSURGENTS ATTACK

Afghan journalists film the body of a Taliban militant at the scene after a gunbattle with Taliban militants who had targeted Kabul International Airport adjacent to a NATO compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, 10 June 2013. Seven Taliban insurgents were killed early morning during a battle with troops at Kabul international airport. Domestic and international flights were suspended for about four hours. An airport official said the runway was 'slightly damaged'. No causalities among civilians or troops had been reported yet

CHINA ART STONE CARVING

A picture made available on 04 July of Chinese students working during a sculpture class in a carving school in Quyang county of Baoding city, Hebei Province, China 03 July 2013. Quyang county is known as the 'Hometown of Chinese stone carving' with a long history dating back to the Han and Tang dynasties. Rich in marble, the county has produced many famous stone carving artisans known for their vivid and delicate works of Buddhist statues, folk figures and animals. More than 10,000 people are actively engaged in the stone carving industry in the county currently

Firefighters Killed Town Mourns

Mexico Volcano

2013-07-08T19:30:00.002-07:00

Firefighters Killed

Back to School-Bedtimes

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JANE FONDA-CEREMONY

Jane Fonda does aerobic moves during her Handprint/Footprint Ceremony during the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival at TCL Chinese Theatre on April 27, 2013 in Los Angeles. Fonda is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou. She has won two Academy Awards, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and received several other movie awards and nominations during more than 50 years as an actress. After 15 years of retirement, she returned to film in 2005 with Monster-in-Law, followed by Georgia Rule two years later. She also produced and starred in over 20 exercise videos released between 1982 and 1995, and once again in 2010

SPACE-US-ASTRONOMY

This artist's concept provided by NASA April 18, 2013, depicts NASA's Kepler misssion's smallest habitable zone planet. Seen in the foreground is Kepler-62f, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler than the sun, located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. Kepler-62f orbits it's host star every 267 days and is roughly 40 percent larger than Earth in size. The size of Kepler-62f is known, but its mass and composition are not. However, based on previous exoplanet discoveries of similar size that are rocky, scientists are able to determine its mass by association. Much like our solar system, Kepler-62 is home to two habitable zone worlds. The small shining object seen to the right of Kepler-62f is Kepler-62e. Orbiting on the inner edge of the habitable zone, Kepler-62e is roughly 60 percent larger than Earth.

PAKISTAN-UNREST-VOTE-BLAST

Pakistani mourners react after seeing the bodies of their dead relatives outside a hospital following a bomb explosion in Karachi on May 11, 2013. A Taliban bomb attack targeting an election candidate killed at least 11 people and wounded 36 others in Pakistan's financial hub of Karachi as polls got under way, a doctor said. The bomb targeted a candidate seeking election to the Sindh provincial assembly for the Awami National Party (ANP), the main secular party for ethnic Pashtuns, police said

PAKISTAN ELECTIONS VIOLENCE

PAKISTAN ELECTIONS

Taiwan Forgotten War

TV-American Idol-Judges Drama

In this Jan. 8, 2013 photo, from left, Mariah Carey, Keith Urban and Nicki Minaj from "American Idol" attend the Fox Winter TCA Tour at the Langham Huntington Hotel, in Pasadena, Calif. "American Idol" returns Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, for season 12. All is not well in the once peaceful land of "American Idol," despite a shake-up at the beginning of this season that was supposed to rejuvenate the aging Fox talent competition. Instead, the behind-the-scenes-and-sometimes-in-front-of-the-scenes drama continues to cast a shadow over the series, right up to the Thursday, May 16, 2013, coronation of its 12th season champion.

FILE GERMANY CO2 LEVELS

(FILE) A single wind turbine turns in front of the cooling towers of the brown coal power plant operated by Vattenfall AG in Jaenschwalde, Germany, 22 November 2011. US government scientists who monitor carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from Hawaii said on 10 May 2013 that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is the highest it has been in millions of years. The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has steadily risen from 317 parts per million in 1958, when measurements began, to 400, according to the CO2 monitoring programme at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Scientists believe the last time CO2 levels were at the 400 parts per million level was two to four million years ago.

Philippines Volcano

SOMALIA-UNREST-AID-FAMINE-FILES

CAMBODIA-VIETNAM-THAILAND-BANGLADESH-TEXTILE-LABOUR

This photo taken on March 22, 2013 shows Cambodian workers standing on a truck travelling in the outskirts of Phnom Penh. From factory fires to slave labour, the growth of mass manufacturing in South East Asia has not been problem-free, but having shed its "sweatshop" reputation, the region could have lessons for Bangladesh. In Cambodia, where the garment industry developed in the 1990s, avoiding the "sweatshop" label was a conscious strategy, with the country embracing an ILO Better Factories programme -- which union leaders say has only been minimally effective

GERMANY OPERA

A picture made available on 02 May 2013 shows (L-R) Austrian soprano Sandra Tattning (as Freia), Finish baritone Tuomas Pursio (as Wotan) and Swedish mezzo-soprano Karin Lovelius (Fricka) performing during a rehearsal of Richard Wagner's 'Das Rheingold' (The Rhine Gold) at the Opera in Leipzig, Germany, 30 April 2013. The opera production of Rheingold, the first of four operas that constitute Wagner's 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' (The Ring of the Nibelung), will premiere on 04 May, on the occasion of the Wagner Jubilee Year 2013.

PHILIPPINES-HEALTH-TOBACCO-TAX

PAKISTAN ELECTIONS

A picture made available on 02 May 2013 shows supporters of Imran Khan, International cricketer- turned politician and leader of the opposition political party Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice), wait for Khan's speech during an election campaign in Loralai, in restive Balochistan province, Pakistan, 01 May 2013. Pakistani Army has been deployed in nine out of thirty districts in sparsely populated Balochistan province where Baloch rebels fighting for provincial autonomy have been targeting election candidates. Violence has escalated as the country moves closer to historic elections, which are hoped to bring a peaceful democratic transition in the troubled country for the first time. Pakistani general elections are scheduled on 11 May.

Germany Weather

Mexico Volcano

2013-07-08T19:30:00.000-07:00

Firefighters Killed

Back to School-Bedtimes

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the 35th Bali Art Festival in Denpasar

2013-07-04T15:49:00.004-07:00

AFGHANISTAN CONFLICTS INSURGENTS ATTACK

CHINA ART STONE CARVING

Firefighters Killed Town Mourns

Japan Daily life

Text Keywords DateImported – Thu, 4. July 2013 2:40 PM Japan Daily life A woman strolls beneath colorful streamers decorated the main entrance to a garden to celebrate Tanabata, or Japan's star festival, in Tokyo Thursday, July 4, 2013. According to legend, deities Orihime (Vega) and her lover Hikoboshi (Altair), separated by the Milky Way, are allowed to meet only once a year on July 7. In Japan people celebrate the festival by writing wishes on strips of paper and hanging them under bamboo trees

Adik Maisarah

DAJJAL di Negeri Samirah...dia mengaku sebagai tuhan

DAJJAL - Berada di negeri jiran-jirannya

Body Painting Day 2016 New York City ... 15th World Bodypainting Festival

Essence Music Festival Day 3

the 500 million yen summer Jumbo Lottery in Tokyo

Volvo Million Miler

singer Nelly Furtado performs

Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

GERMANY CINEMA

Serbia Mammoth Field

ART-CULTURE

15th World Bodypainting Festival in Poertschach

Big Ang Premiere

7th parade of diversity

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A homeless boy sleeps

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The Death Of Marilyn Monroe - Conspiracy Theories. August 4th 1962

ISIS = Israeli Secret Intelligence Service

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SWITZERLAND TRADITION

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India Hindu Festival

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