Summary: Recent rises in the price of energy and food cause the most anxiety among the general public. Not only are food prices higher, but surpluses are disappearing.
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| Churchill Downs personnel try to hold down Eight Belles after the filly collapsed with two broken front ankles. Seven minutes after the end of the race, the Kentucky Derby's second-place finisher was euthanized. |
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| Joined by their 6-month-old son Naythan, Marine Pfc. Vedran Drljo hugged his wife, Sheri, at San Diego Naval Base before he boarded the amphibious assault ship Peleliu for deployment to an undisclosed location yesterday. About 5,500 sailors and Marines departed with a convoy led by the Peleliu and comprising the amphibious ships Pearl Harbor and Dubuque, the cruiser Cape St. George and the destroyers Halsey and Benfold. |
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| A man identified as the then 16-year-old Josef Fritzl in the park of the Hellbrunn Residence near Salzburg, Austria |
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| A poster of missing girl Madeleine McCann is displayed on the church door of Praia da Luz beach resort in the southern Portuguese province of Algarve August 7, 2007. European ministers backed an EU-wide alert system for missing children ahead of the bloc's first talks on the plan on Tuesday in Lisbon. |
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| Indian farmers prepare a bundle of wheat crop |
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| A man holds a portrait of the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in Sofia, Bulgaria |
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| Exposed: An array of the ghoulish gifts on sale at the Guantanamo Bay 'resort' catering for American sunseekers. Note the slogan on the child's tee-shirt: "Future Behavior Modification Instructor" - is that a joke, or a threat? |
The lawyer for US vice-president Dick Cheney claimed [Monday] that the Congress lacks any authority to examine his behaviour on the job.
The exception claimed by Cheney's counsel came in response to requests from congressional Democrats that David Addington, the vice-president's chief of staff, testify about his involvement in the approval of interrogation tactics used at Guantanamo Bay.
Ruling out voluntary cooperation by Addington, Cheney lawyer Kathryn Wheelbarger said Cheney's conduct is "not within the [congressional] committee's power of inquiry".
"Congress lacks the constitutional power to regulate by law what a vice-president communicates in the performance of the vice president's official duties, or what a vice president recommends that a president communicate," Wheelbarger wrote to senior aides on Capitol Hill.
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| An Iraqi man battles with a web of wires to try and reconnect the electricity to his home |
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| A Northwest Airlines jet and a Delta Airlines jet taxi past each other at the Minneapolis St.Paul International Airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota April 14, 2008. |
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| Market shoppers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, one of the countries that is experiencing acute food shortages and rising costs |
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| The colossal squid, which weighs half a tonne, is thought to be the largest ever recovered intact |
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| Poachers hold a pair of harvested elephant tusks (top) on April 27, 2008. To claim the tusks, which are carved into ivory goods, poachers will butcher an elephant and leave the rest of its body to rot, as seen in an image of a slaughtered elephant (bottom) taken on April 20, 2008.
At least 17 elephants have been found butchered for their tusks since mid-April in Democratic Republic of the Congo's Virunga National Park, wildlife groups announced. |
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| People walk past fallen trees on a street in Myanmar's biggest city Yangon on May 3, 2008 in this picture distributed by China's official Xinhua News Agency.
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| Dead bark beetles are displayed next to a penny in the Wyatt Williams's lab at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho, in this Aug. 24,2006, file photo. As bark beetles ravage millions of trees across the West, U.S. Forest Service officials in Colorado and Wyoming have closed some popular campgrounds out of concern the infested trees will come crashing down on visitors. |
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| A sea lion swims along the Columbia River, past Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife investigators on Sunday, May 4, 2008 at Bonneville Dam, just east of Portland, Ore. The deaths of six sea lions are under investigation after the bodies of the federally protected animals were found in open traps on the Columbia River and appeared to have been shot.
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| South Korean police officers search for missing persons near Daecheon Beach in Boryeong, South Korea. At least nine people were killed and 14 others injured Sunday after being swept away by a sudden large wave that crashed over a breakwater, South Korea's Coast Guard said. |
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| Police wear masks to protect them from ash, in Chaiten, located some 1220 km (760 miles) south of Santiago May 3, 2008. |
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| The greater dwarf cloud rat (Carpomys melanurus) was rediscovered in April, 2008 -- 112 years after the first and only time it had ever been seen by scientists. Cloud rats are one of the most spectacular cases of adaptive radiation by mammals anywhere in the world, with at least 15 species ranging in size from 2.6 kg to 15 grams, all living only in the Philippines. |