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Chilean miners honored in ceremony, football game (AP)

October 25th, 2010

Chilean miner Jorge Galleguillos (R), one of the 33 recently rescued from the San Jose mine, is shown back at the mine for a Mass on October 17, 2010. Thirteen survivors, accompanied by partners and children, took part in a private ceremony after visiting the tent city where relatives refused to give up hope, waiting anxiously for 10 long weeks for their safe return.(AFP/Claudio Santana)AP - Thirty-three miners rescued after more than two months trapped underground were given a heroes’ welcome at the national palace Monday by President Sebastian Pinera, who embraced the men…

Brand, Perry wed at traditional ceremony in India (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

British actor-comedian Russell Brand smiles at a group of tourists passing by at the Ranthambore National Park in Ranthambore, India, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. Russell Brand's friend and a bodyguard assaulted four news photographers, including one from The Associated Press, when they were taking pictures of the British comedian Friday in an Indian tiger reserve before his wedding to Katy Perry, the photographers said. The photographers had been following about 330 feet (100 meters) behind two jeeps, one carrying Brand, a woman who was not Perry, a man and two children, and the second carrying the bodyguard and another man later described by police as Brand's friend and wedding guest. (AP Photo)AP - British comedian Russell Brand and American pop singer Katy Perry were married Saturday in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony at a luxury resort in a tiger reserve in…

Car bombs kill 8, mar Nigeria 50th ceremony (AP)

October 1st, 2010

An unidentified man wearing a face mask stands in front of the shells of burnt cars after a car bomb exploded in Abuja, Nigeria, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. Two car bombs blew up on Friday as Nigeria celebrated its 50th independence anniversary, killing a number of people in an unprecedented attack on the capital by suspected militants from the country's oil region. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)AP - Two car bombs exploded Friday as Nigeria celebrated its 50th independence anniversary, killing at least eight people in an unprecedented attack on the nation’s capital by militants from…

Explosions kill at least 7 near Nigeria ceremony (AP)

October 1st, 2010

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan (centre) inspects a guard of honour during a presidential fleet review to mark Nigeria's 50th independence anniversary at the Naval Western Command in Lagos on September 29. Explosions rocked an area near Nigeria's independence celebrations on Friday and killed at least seven people following threats from oil militants, witnesses and a police source said.(AFP/File/Utuk Bassey)AP - Two car bombs blew up on Friday as Nigeria celebrated its 50th independence anniversary, killing at least seven people in an unprecedented attack on the capital by suspected…

Explosion hurts 3 near ceremony in Nigeria capital (AP)

October 1st, 2010

AP - Two car bombs have exploded in Nigeria’s capital as the country marks its 50th independence anniversary.

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Japan PM shuns shrine, apologizes at WWII ceremony (AP)

August 15th, 2010

Visitors in Japanese Imperial army and navy uniforms enter Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead, including convicted war criminals, during a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Tokyo, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)AP - Japan’s new liberal prime minister shunned a visit to a shrine that has outraged Asian neighbors for honoring war criminals, breaking from past governments’ tradition and instead apologizing…

Polish leader buried in ceremony of patriotism (AP)

April 18th, 2010

Polish guard of honor escorts the coffins of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria Kaczynska during a funeral procession walk through Krakow, Poland, Sunday, April 18, 2010.The presidential couple lost their lives in a plane crash in Smolensk, Russia. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)AP - Tens of thousands of Poles bade farewell to President Lech Kaczynski on Sunday at a state funeral filled with pomp, pride and an outpouring of patriotism that his…

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