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Monday, September 7, 2009

Business Week in Pics


US skier Matt Carss competes in the South American Freeskiing Championships in La Parva, 3,800 meters above sea level, some 70 km East from Santiago on September 04, 2009. AFP


A man adjusts TV screens from the exhibition stand at the Internationale Funkaustellung (IFA) consumer electronics fair in Berlin, September 2, 2009. REUTERS


Israeli actress Ronit Elkabetz arrives for the screening of the movie 'The time traveller's wife' directed by US Robert Schwentke, on the first day of the 35th American Film Festival, in Deauville, northwestern Franc

Labrador Retrievers are the most popular breed among US dog owners, according to a ranking from the American Kennel Club.


An aerial view of an unnamed Indonesian island in Riau province, October 6, 2007. Many of Indonesia's islands may be swallowed up by the sea as a result of rising sea levels.


Dubai launches next week the first metro network in the Arab Gulf region but it remains to be seen whether motorists in the congested city state, where petrol is subsidised, will be won over. 


German premier car maker Audi launched its latest sports utility vehicle (SUV) Audi Q7, which will be available with three engine variants.

Communist activists hold placards during a protest against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting in New Delhi September


Michael Jackson's casket rests during the funeral service held at Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California September 3, 2009. Jackson was buried on Thursday, more than two months after he died of a drug overdose, marking the last stop for a superstar who spent most of his 50 years in the public gaze.


Picture of the new Citroen DS3 taken on September 3, 2009 in Nice, southern france, during its official presentation. 


Rescue workers search the rubble following an earthquake in Cikangkareng, South Cianjur, West Java province


The Winton Train is pictured at London's Liverpool Street Station on September 4, 2009, the train carried Jewish children from former Czechoslovakia evacuated at the begining of World War II on The Winton Train, so named after Sir Nicholas who made the evacuation by train possible. Seventy years ago, Englishman Nicholas Winton saved 669 children from almost certain death by arranging their stay in Britain, then negotiating their departure with the Nazis, a mission many had thought impossible. An exact copy of the 1939 journey will take some of the rescued children on the Winton train to London via Germany and the Netherlands on a four-day journey to meet the 100-year-old Sir Winton in London. 


An image by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows possible inverted meanders in Filled Channel West of Ladon Valles (ESP_014100_1600) on Mars recorded during the month of April through early August 2009.


The quadruple bypass cheese burger is displayed at Heart Attack Grill in Chandler, Arizona. Increasingly vocal calls for taxes on sugary drinks and junk food are fueling a behind- the-scenes battle that public health officials say is reminiscent of America's war on cigarettes. 

A woman looks at the Cartier Crocodile necklace, made in 1975, at a preview of the 'Cartier Treasures - King of Jewellers, Jewellers to Kings' exhibition inside the Forbidden City in Beijing September 3, 2009. The exhibition, which showcases 346 pieces from the Cartier Collection, will run 


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